Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1950: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 545, Resolved, that the House of Representatives Does Not Favor the Reorganization Plan Numbered 7 of 1950 Transmitted to the Congress by the President on March 13, 1950United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 107 pages |
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... years ago one of our Presidents attempted to remove a member of the Fed- eral Trade Commission and the courts overruled him . I presume the same procedures and principles of law would apply in the REORGANIZATION PLAN NO . 7 OF 1950 19.
... years ago one of our Presidents attempted to remove a member of the Fed- eral Trade Commission and the courts overruled him . I presume the same procedures and principles of law would apply in the REORGANIZATION PLAN NO . 7 OF 1950 19.
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... courts , which , he said , " are within convenient reach of the people and with whose methods of procedure they are familiar . ” 1 When the act was passed in 1887 , the Commission form was adopted . To a certain extent the Commission ...
... courts , which , he said , " are within convenient reach of the people and with whose methods of procedure they are familiar . ” 1 When the act was passed in 1887 , the Commission form was adopted . To a certain extent the Commission ...
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... court and entitled to the same consideration . 5 The Commission is an independent regulatory agency performing quasi - legislative , quasi - judicial , as well as certain incidental admin- istrative functions . Most of its duties are ...
... court and entitled to the same consideration . 5 The Commission is an independent regulatory agency performing quasi - legislative , quasi - judicial , as well as certain incidental admin- istrative functions . Most of its duties are ...
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... Court upon a matter before it as to suggest how the Commission should decide a case , 12 in later years there have been in spite of the Commission's secure legal status as an independent agency attempts to bring political influence to ...
... Court upon a matter before it as to suggest how the Commission should decide a case , 12 in later years there have been in spite of the Commission's secure legal status as an independent agency attempts to bring political influence to ...
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... courts . The CHAIRMAN . That is true of every law that we have passed . Mr. GIBSON . So there is accountability to the judicial department . The CHAIRMAN . That is true of every law we pass here and true of every act of the President ...
... courts . The CHAIRMAN . That is true of every law that we have passed . Mr. GIBSON . So there is accountability to the judicial department . The CHAIRMAN . That is true of every law we pass here and true of every act of the President ...
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Page 99 - Roosevelt addressed a letter to the commissioner asking for his resignation, on the ground "that the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection," but disclaiming any reflection upon the commissioner personally or upon his services.
Page 56 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation, subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 49 - The authority of Congress, in creating quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies, to require them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control, cannot well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime.
Page 82 - Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp.
Page 49 - The Commission is to be nonpartisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law.