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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... assigned to the Commission . With 11 members it was possible to divide the work among various Commis- sioners in such a way that one or more of them had primary responsi- bility for a designated portion of it and to become experts in ...
... assigned to the Commission . With 11 members it was possible to divide the work among various Commis- sioners in such a way that one or more of them had primary responsi- bility for a designated portion of it and to become experts in ...
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... assigned to the Chairman and to his length of office from the beginning of the Commission in 1887 ; that in 1910 it unanimously adopted a policy of annual rota- tion of the chairmanship as grave weaknesses had developed in the system of ...
... assigned to the Chairman and to his length of office from the beginning of the Commission in 1887 ; that in 1910 it unanimously adopted a policy of annual rota- tion of the chairmanship as grave weaknesses had developed in the system of ...
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... assigned to the Chairman and to his length of term . Initially the term was indefinite , and it continued so until the resignation in 1910 of Chairman Knapp as a member of the Commission to become a judge of the United States Commerce ...
... assigned to the Chairman and to his length of term . Initially the term was indefinite , and it continued so until the resignation in 1910 of Chairman Knapp as a member of the Commission to become a judge of the United States Commerce ...
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... assigned or delegated to him : 1. He shall be the executive head of the Commission . 2. It shall be his duty and responsibility to see that the work of the Com- mission is promptly and efficiently dispatched . To accomplish this purpose ...
... assigned or delegated to him : 1. He shall be the executive head of the Commission . 2. It shall be his duty and responsibility to see that the work of the Com- mission is promptly and efficiently dispatched . To accomplish this purpose ...
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... assigned bureau . Plan 7 would make the Chairman responsible for all of the bureaus . The practitioners ' association does not believe that a Chairman could possibly assume all of the adminis- trative duties now being performed by 11 ...
... assigned bureau . Plan 7 would make the Chairman responsible for all of the bureaus . The practitioners ' association does not believe that a Chairman could possibly assume all of the adminis- trative duties now being performed by 11 ...
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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.