Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1948: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, Second Session

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Page 151 - ... (2) eliminating duplication and overlapping of services, activities, and functions; (3) consolidating services, activities, and functions of a similar nature; (4) abolishing services, activities, and functions not necessary to the efficient conduct of government...
Page 66 - GRANTS TO STATES FOR OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE, AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN, AND AID TO THE BLIND The CHAIRMAN.
Page 151 - 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...
Page 42 - St. Elizabeths Hospital," fiscal year 1949, $13,704, and fiscal year 1950, $22,604, $86,308 The District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1949, approved June 19, 1948, included an appropriation of $6,682,000 for support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in St. Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law.
Page 29 - Act, other than subsection (h) of section 1, shall apply in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Page 3 - From this it appears that there were 3,649 more births in the last half of the year than in the first half...
Page 69 - ... $18 for the first child and $12 for each additional child in the same home, and no separate provision is made for the adult or adults who care for the children.
Page 152 - Therefore let the Scriptures be thy authority, in determining what ought to be done, or what ought not to be done. Knowing what hath been declared by the ordinances of the Scriptures, thou oughtest to work in this world.
Page 79 - I think that is all I have at this time ; Mr. Chairman. Mr.
Page 69 - ... plan approved as meeting the requirements of the Federal act. Each State establishes the conditions under which needy people may receive assistance and determines how much they shall get.

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