Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

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Page 1 - 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, memorandums, papers, and documents as it deems necessary.
Page 50 - 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 530 - Exchange is supported jointly by the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Science Foundation, the Veterans' Administration, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the Smithsonian Institution which also acts as the contracting agency.
Page 537 - Director of the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President.
Page 50 - (c) The members of the Commission from private life shall each receive $50 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested In the Commission, plus reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.
Page 1 - ... otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as the Commission or such subcommittee or member may deem advisable.
Page 51 - 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 2 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business in the departments, bureaus, agencies, boards, commissions, offices, independent establishments, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the Government by — "'(1) recommending methods and procedures for reducing expenditures to the lowest amount consistent with the efficient performance of essential services, activities, and functions...
Page 668 - Mr. Chairman, let me say it is a pleasure for me to have this opportunity to appear before this subcommittee and Senator Mundt whom I have had the very distinct honor of serving on another committee.
Page 50 - Commission shall have the power to appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title, relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates.

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