Advisory Committees: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations

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Page 122 - Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed at this point in the RECORD an article published in today's Washington Post, under the headline "Two Hospitals Raise Room Rates.
Page 11 - advisory committee" means any committee, board, commission, council, conference, panel, task force, or other similar group, or any subcommittee or other subgroup thereof...
Page 10 - NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows : SECTION 1.
Page 26 - Comments should address: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the...
Page 27 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Page 9 - The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (HR 6161) to amend the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes...
Page 22 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Page 11 - Register, to be in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on that agency by law.
Page 11 - SEC. 4. Unless specifically authorized by law to the contrary, no committee shall be utilized for functions not solely advisory, and determinations of action to be taken with respect to matters upon which an advisory committee advises or recommends shall be made solely by officers or employees of the Government.
Page 90 - The doctrine of regulation and legislation by "master minds," in whose judgment and will, all the people may gladly and quietly acquiesce, has been too glaringly apparent at Washington during these last ten years. Were it possible to find "master minds" so unselfish, so willing to decide unhesitatingly against their own personal interests or private prejudices; men almost godlike in their ability to hold the scales of Justice with an even hand, such a government might be to the interest of the country,...

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