Reorganization of the Executive Departments: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Government Organization, Congress of the United States, Appointed Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 4, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, Having Under Consideration Senate Document No. 8, the Message of the President Transmitting the Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management in the Government of the United States. February 16, 17, 18, 24; March 8, 9, 11, 19, 29, 31, and April 1, 27, and 29, 1937Considers (65) S. 3771, (72) H.R. 11267, (72) H.R. 13520, (73) H.R. 2820, (74) H.R. 12624. |
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Page 21 - ADMINISTRATION SECTION 201. (a) There is established in the executive branch of the Government an organization to be known as the Civil Service Administration (hereinafter referred to as the "Administration"), at the head of which shall be a Civil Service Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator"), who shall be appointed by the President,
Page 34 - Board shall be designated by the President as Chairman, and one shall be designated by the President as Vice Chairman, and shall act as Chairman in the absence of the Chairman or in the event of a vacancy in that office. SKC. 413.
Page 33 - There shall be at the seat of Government an executive department to be known as the Department of Social Welfare, and a Secretary of Social Welfare, who shall be the head thereof, and shall be appointed by the President, by
Page 34 - The Secretary of Public Works shall annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to the Congress, giving an account of all money received and expended by him and his department and describing the - work done by the department. He shall also from time to time make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to
Page 156 - the provisions of this title, and in effect at the time of the transfer or consolidation, shall continue in effect to the same extent as if such transfer or consolidation had not occurred, until modified, superseded, or repealed. (b) No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any
Page 156 - executive agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of any transfer of authority, powers, and duties from one officer or
Page 400 - The board of directors of the Corporation shall determine and prescribe the manner in which its obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and paid." The above provisions of the law appear to eliminate an accounting to the General Accounting Office.
Page 161 - answer that. It starts in this fashion: The title was "An act authorizing the President to coordinate and to consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government." That is the title of the act. Then it gives the enacting clause:
Page 295 - General shall render, his decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them, which decision, when rendered, shall govern the General Accounting Office in passing upon the account containing said disbursement.
Page 153 - officers to consulates to perform duties under quarantine laws. Act of June 18, 1910 (36 Stat. 556, sec. 16) : "The several departments and bureaus of the Government shall detail from time' to time such officials and employees" to the Commission to investigate railroad stocks and bonds "as