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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... authority in the chairman of the board rather than have it spread all over the map under subordinates . Mr. CONN . I will try to cover those features , particularly the latter statement . Mr. HOFFMAN . May I ask him a question there ...
... authority in the chairman of the board rather than have it spread all over the map under subordinates . Mr. CONN . I will try to cover those features , particularly the latter statement . Mr. HOFFMAN . May I ask him a question there ...
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... authority to the head of the particular organization and then a redelegation of that authority back . Mr. CONN . I think I will cover those in the balance of my state- ment . Mr. HOFFMAN . While you are right there , may I ask you one ...
... authority to the head of the particular organization and then a redelegation of that authority back . Mr. CONN . I think I will cover those in the balance of my state- ment . Mr. HOFFMAN . While you are right there , may I ask you one ...
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... authority in the Chairman of the Maritime Commission was a mistake ? Mr. CONN . I do not know as to that . The concentration of authority for administrative purposes in the chairman of any of these Government bureaus depends entirely ...
... authority in the Chairman of the Maritime Commission was a mistake ? Mr. CONN . I do not know as to that . The concentration of authority for administrative purposes in the chairman of any of these Government bureaus depends entirely ...
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... authority of the Commission being centralized . I understand they have the power to do it themselves if they want to now , without this . Mr. BOLLING . But they have to come together and consider each one of these subjects . Mr. CONN ...
... authority of the Commission being centralized . I understand they have the power to do it themselves if they want to now , without this . Mr. BOLLING . But they have to come together and consider each one of these subjects . Mr. CONN ...
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... authority in many respects than the other 10 members of the Com- mission . The Congress certainly intended this very important Commission to be a completely nonpartisan and nonpolitical body . The term of 7 years was deliberately chosen ...
... authority in many respects than the other 10 members of the Com- mission . The Congress certainly intended this very important Commission to be a completely nonpartisan and nonpolitical body . The term of 7 years was deliberately chosen ...
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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.