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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... practices , that you are opposing this . Mr. CONN . We are opposing it for the reason that we want to see the whole regulatory and promotional picture of transportation re- solved inside the framework of a national policy that will meet ...
... practices , that you are opposing this . Mr. CONN . We are opposing it for the reason that we want to see the whole regulatory and promotional picture of transportation re- solved inside the framework of a national policy that will meet ...
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... practice of the 11 Commissioners . There is no provision in the law about that . Mr. CHAIRMAN . Whichever man happens to be the Chairman , he is a man selected by the President , is he not ? Mr. LYON . All 11 of them are , so that would ...
... practice of the 11 Commissioners . There is no provision in the law about that . Mr. CHAIRMAN . Whichever man happens to be the Chairman , he is a man selected by the President , is he not ? Mr. LYON . All 11 of them are , so that would ...
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... practice before it in its integrity , in its fixed practice of deciding a case on the facts submitted at a public hearing with an impartial weighing of those facts and with a final decision reached within the framework of the law . If ...
... practice before it in its integrity , in its fixed practice of deciding a case on the facts submitted at a public hearing with an impartial weighing of those facts and with a final decision reached within the framework of the law . If ...
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... practice the chairman is elected annually , each member serving for 1 year in rotation . Dif- ferent methods have been pursued occasionally in the past , such as a 3 - year term and the election of one man for the remainder of his term ...
... practice the chairman is elected annually , each member serving for 1 year in rotation . Dif- ferent methods have been pursued occasionally in the past , such as a 3 - year term and the election of one man for the remainder of his term ...
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... practice impose any concrete limitation susceptible of enforcement . The right to revise budget estimates is of limited significance in view of the fact that the estimates are mere requests for money which may or may not be approved by ...
... practice impose any concrete limitation susceptible of enforcement . The right to revise budget estimates is of limited significance in view of the fact that the estimates are mere requests for money which may or may not be approved by ...
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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.