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... present system of the election of a President and Vice President is not in the best interests of the Nation and should no further be maintained . Thus , Congress must start to weed out the distressing system that can be the catch basin ...
... present system of the election of a President and Vice President is not in the best interests of the Nation and should no further be maintained . Thus , Congress must start to weed out the distressing system that can be the catch basin ...
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... present electoral system . Alternative reform plans such as the proportional method , the district method or the automatic electoral . vote plan may meet some of the present deficiencies , but each one would continue the risk of ...
... present electoral system . Alternative reform plans such as the proportional method , the district method or the automatic electoral . vote plan may meet some of the present deficiencies , but each one would continue the risk of ...
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... present system . The CHAIRMAN . Let us review this briefly . Your bill , or resolution , is for the popular election concept . Yet your bill provides that a candi- date for the Presidency and Vice - Presidency has only to obtain 40 per ...
... present system . The CHAIRMAN . Let us review this briefly . Your bill , or resolution , is for the popular election concept . Yet your bill provides that a candi- date for the Presidency and Vice - Presidency has only to obtain 40 per ...
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... present system didn't discourage splinter parties . Witness what hap- pened with Wallace . I don't think it would . I don't think it would encourage splinter parties . We only allow , permit 40 percent . I think that would have a ...
... present system didn't discourage splinter parties . Witness what hap- pened with Wallace . I don't think it would . I don't think it would encourage splinter parties . We only allow , permit 40 percent . I think that would have a ...
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... present time . My two main objections - and I think the two main objections that the committee found - were this matter that the elector could break faith with the people who elected him or who chose him back in his district and vote ...
... present time . My two main objections - and I think the two main objections that the committee found - were this matter that the elector could break faith with the people who elected him or who chose him back in his district and vote ...
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Page 243 - Reports provided for under this subsection shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, if the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, is not in session.
Page 279 - If the committee determines that evidence or testimony at an investigative hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, it shall — (1) receive such evidence or testimony in executive session...
Page 407 - ... without regard to political affiliations and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office...
Page 280 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress...
Page 230 - To influence, directly or indirectly, the passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States.
Page 230 - Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee, and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original selection. The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members.
Page 233 - Professional staff members authorized by this subsection shall be appointed on a permanent basis, without regard to political affiliation, and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of their respective positions.
Page 1 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 213 - ... the filing by any such committee of any supplemental report upon any measure or matter which may be required for the correction of any technical error in a previous report made by that committee upon that measure or matter.
Page 428 - ... or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, to procure such printing and binding, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable.