National Priorities and the Budgetary Process: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government of ..., 93-1, April 25, 26, and 27, 19731974 - 153 pages |
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Page 40 - State and the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs...
Page 108 - Chairman, and supply it for the record. [The following information was subsequently supplied for the record :] FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION Fiscal year: 1972...
Page 138 - It seems to me that what you are saying is that the Administrator under the provisions of the proposed act is given a tremendous amount of power.
Page 72 - The use rate for patents held by large firms, indeed, was not significantly larger than the 49-percent use rate for inventions made by independent inventors.* This fact is indeed striking, since independents often have to go into business for themselves before they can use their ideas. An entirely different study, conducted at the Harvard Business School, of very large firms exclusively, and covering all patents held by the firms surveyed, found...
Page 97 - Congress shall have the power — "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Page 85 - Senate, or duly authorized subcommittees thereof, are authorized and directed to meet jointly at the beginning of each regular session of Congress and after study and consultation, giving due consideration to the budget recommendations of the President, report to their respective Houses a legislative budget for the ensuing fiscal year, including the estimated over-all Federal receipts and expenditures for such year.
Page 6 - The views expressed are my own and are not necessarily those of the officers, trustees, or other staff members of the Brookings Institution.
Page 92 - ... at the end of this year or at the beginning of next year in Havana. This will attempt to put the entire network of Communist guerrilla armies under Chinese Communist — Cuban direction in Havana and using the line of communication of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. In this article which gives a tremendous number of names and information about the activities...
Page 78 - The present institutional arrangements in many cases appear to make it impossible to decide between competing priorities with the result spending is made available for many programs where the preference might have been to make choices and also spending reductions. The fact that no legislative committee has the responsibility to decide whether or not total outlays are appropriate in view of the current situation appears to be responsible for much of the problem. Perhaps still more critical for the...
Page 11 - That concludes my testimony, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you. Chairman PATMAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary. (Secretary Barr's prepared statement follows) : PREPARED STATEMENT OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY JOSEPH W. BARR Mr. Chairman and Members of the Joint Economic Committee, I appreciate the opportunity to meet with this distinguished Committee. I think it extremely important that the members have the economic rationale for the financial plan President Johnson has recommended to the Congress...