To Create a Commission on Noxious and Obscene Matters and Materials, Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Education, 89-1, H.R. 7465, September 1, 2, 8, and 14, 19651965 - 143 pages |
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Page 3 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 2 - Service of an individual as a member of the Commission or employment of an individual by the Commission as an attorney or expert in any business or professional field, on a part-time or full-time basis, with or without compensation, shall not be considered as service or employment bringing such individual within the provisions of sections 281, 283, 284, 434, or 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, or section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 USC 99).
Page 4 - House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and. documents, as it deems necessary.
Page 41 - American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 4 - POWERS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 10. (a) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS. — The Commission or, on the authorization, of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and places, administer such oaths, and require, by...
Page 4 - The provisions of sections 102 to 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes (USC, title 2, sees. 192-194), shall apply in the case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this section.
Page 5 - ... (4) to recommend such legislative, administrative, or other advisable and appropriate action as the Commission deems necessary to regulate effectively the flow of such traffic, without in any way interfering with constitutional rights.
Page 2 - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the...
Page 4 - The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon request made by the chairman...
Page 130 - It follows that material dealing with sex in a manner that advocates ideas ... or that has literary or scientific or artistic value or any other form of social importance, may not be branded as obscenity and denied the constitutional protection. Nor may the constitutional status of the material be made to turn on a "weighing" of its social importance against its prurient appeal, for a work cannot be proscribed unless it is "utterly...