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... responsibility of Congress . Such an inquiry might be conducted by a regular standing com- mittee or by a special committee of Congress . Regular standing committees , however , are subject to the disadvantage of having a full load to ...
... responsibility of Congress . Such an inquiry might be conducted by a regular standing com- mittee or by a special committee of Congress . Regular standing committees , however , are subject to the disadvantage of having a full load to ...
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... responsibility goes one way and management responsibility goes the other way . Now , in the Navy they are making some studies , under Secretary Forrestal's direction , of this question of management and fiscal responsibility . I would ...
... responsibility goes one way and management responsibility goes the other way . Now , in the Navy they are making some studies , under Secretary Forrestal's direction , of this question of management and fiscal responsibility . I would ...
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... responsibility on to many people , and many people will not feel the direct individual and personal respon- sibility in the same way as a director who had one sole responsibility . If you want to broaden that , put the others in an ...
... responsibility on to many people , and many people will not feel the direct individual and personal respon- sibility in the same way as a director who had one sole responsibility . If you want to broaden that , put the others in an ...
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... responsibility . We arranged our schedules and got the recom- mended appropriations and amounts together , and just as we were about to adopt the program , in a conference report if you please , after it had gone through both Houses ...
... responsibility . We arranged our schedules and got the recom- mended appropriations and amounts together , and just as we were about to adopt the program , in a conference report if you please , after it had gone through both Houses ...
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... responsibility must be placed in some individual or in some agency or you are just going to have what we are witnessing today - that is , men and women laid off , a forced vacation without pay , because they have already expended the ...
... responsibility must be placed in some individual or in some agency or you are just going to have what we are witnessing today - that is , men and women laid off , a forced vacation without pay , because they have already expended the ...
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Accounting Office action agency appointed apportionment Appropriations Committee audit authority basis Brookings Institution Budget Bureau Byrd CHAIRMAN Civil Service Commission on Organization COMMISSION SEC committee of Congress Committees on Expenditures Comptroller General's confidential continuing course curtailing deficiency duplication effective enacted estimates executive agencies executive branch Executive Departments Federal field fiscal functions and activities funds going Government hearings HENRY CABOT LODGE House investigation LAWTON legislation legislative reorganization act Maritime Commission matter ment methods mittee Navy operation organizational studies Pay Act perform personnel present President's proposed purpose question recom recommendations record Reorganization Act responsibility Robert Heller royal commission Senator Aiken Senator FERGUSON interposing Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator HOEY Senator LODGE Senator O'CONOR Senator ROBERTSON Senator THYE specific spoils system staff statement submitted supervision survey Taft commission thing tion understand undertake veterans
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Page 4 - Commission, may conduct hearings. (f) Members of Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress ; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 5 - POWERS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 10. (a) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS. — The Commission or, on the authorization of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and places...
Page 3 - ... (2) eliminating duplication and overlapping of services, activities, and functions; (3) consolidating services, activities, and functions of a similar nature; (4) abolishing services, activities, and functions not necessary to the efficient conduct of government...
Page 4 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 4 - The Commission shall have power to appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, in accordance with the provisions of the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
Page 59 - The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish...
Page 4 - Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 5 - ... from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or Vice Chairman.
Page 4 - The members from private life shall each receive $100 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, plus reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.
Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 1 . It is hereby declared to be the policy of...