Data on Distribution of Wealth in the United States: Hearings Before the Task Force on Distributive Impacts of Budget and Economic Policies of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, September 26 and 29, 1977

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Page 76 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law...
Page 96 - Stat. 443), shall apply with respect to any individual who specifically claims such privilege. (c) No department, agency, or official exercising any functions under this act shall publish or disclose information obtained hereunder which is deemed confidential or with reference to which a request for confidential treatment is made by the person furnishing such information unless the head of such department or agency determines that the withholding thereof is contrary to the national interest.
Page 76 - ... any income return, or to permit any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law...
Page 82 - Copies of census reports which have been so retained shall be immune from legal process, and shall not, without the consent of the individual or establishment concerned, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
Page 100 - ... (B) The Commission shall include in its examination a study of — (i) whether a person engaged in interstate commerce who maintains a mailing list should be required to remove an individual's name and address from such list upon request of that individual...
Page 89 - Welfare by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, or of any file, record, report, or other paper, or any information, obtained at any time by the Secretary or by any officer or employee of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the course of discharging the duties of the Secretary under this...
Page 86 - Act shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. No publication shall be made by the Census Office whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual can be identified, nor shall the Director of the Census permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Census Office to examine the individual reports.
Page 79 - ... Security Administration, which has relied on applying a broad secretarial discretion to identify matters which should be "specifically exempted from disclosure by statute." Exemption (4) deals primarily with business records. Case law was developed to bring under this exemption that information which would result in significant competitive injury to a company or the disclosure of which would impair the Government's ability to obtain the necessary information in the future. Exemption (6) deals...
Page 78 - (2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency; "(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld...
Page 81 - ... (2) make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual under this title can be identified; or (3) permit anyone other than the sworn officers and employees of the Department or Bureau or agency thereof to examine the individual reports.

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