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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... independent status with the director and the assistant directors free with their special qualifications to direct activities to the end that the utmost improvement in locomotive safety would prevail . It is clear to us that it would be ...
... independent status with the director and the assistant directors free with their special qualifications to direct activities to the end that the utmost improvement in locomotive safety would prevail . It is clear to us that it would be ...
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... independent status , quasi independent . It is in the Commission for housekeeping purposes , we may say . But the experts who run that Bureau , as I pointed out before , they are so important that they are appointed by the President ...
... independent status , quasi independent . It is in the Commission for housekeeping purposes , we may say . But the experts who run that Bureau , as I pointed out before , they are so important that they are appointed by the President ...
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... independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here I believe it was plan No. 6 - asked that he be included under the Secretary of Labor , that his functions and ...
... independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here I believe it was plan No. 6 - asked that he be included under the Secretary of Labor , that his functions and ...
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... independent agency that would go in there and determine safety rules for take - off and that sort of thing ? Mr. LYON . I suppose there is , but it is not under the ICC and not related to the work I have done all my life , so I just do ...
... independent agency that would go in there and determine safety rules for take - off and that sort of thing ? Mr. LYON . I suppose there is , but it is not under the ICC and not related to the work I have done all my life , so I just do ...
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... independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to run it . The Commission has no policy about it . The policy is set up by Congress and this Bureau of Locomotive ...
... independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to run it . The Commission has no policy about it . The policy is set up by Congress and this Bureau of Locomotive ...
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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.