Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. Hearing ... on S.164 ... March 13, 19471947 - 59 pages |
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... kind . 11 Marcy , op . cit . , pp . 4-5 . The CHAIRMAN . I am not sure all the members 6 ORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT Statement of- Page Hon Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr , United States Senator, Massachusetts -
... kind . 11 Marcy , op . cit . , pp . 4-5 . The CHAIRMAN . I am not sure all the members 6 ORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT Statement of- Page Hon Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr , United States Senator, Massachusetts -
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... kind enough to offer to me to testify in behalf of this bill , but I recognized how busy you all are and I felt that the argument for this thing could be stated in a succinct fashion , although , of course , there is no limit to the ...
... kind enough to offer to me to testify in behalf of this bill , but I recognized how busy you all are and I felt that the argument for this thing could be stated in a succinct fashion , although , of course , there is no limit to the ...
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... kind of a study . The annual pay roll of the executive branch approximates 64 billion dollars . This is 11⁄2 billion dollars more than the entire Government spent for all purposes in 1933. The executive branch now employees more people ...
... kind of a study . The annual pay roll of the executive branch approximates 64 billion dollars . This is 11⁄2 billion dollars more than the entire Government spent for all purposes in 1933. The executive branch now employees more people ...
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... kind of a study . The annual pay roll of the executive branch approximates 64 billion dollars . This is 11⁄2 billion dollars more than the entire Government spent for all purposes in 1933. The executive branch now employees more people ...
... kind of a study . The annual pay roll of the executive branch approximates 64 billion dollars . This is 11⁄2 billion dollars more than the entire Government spent for all purposes in 1933. The executive branch now employees more people ...
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... kind of thing which I think could be done not only within the depar- ments but among the departments . The charts referred to face this page.j Senator LODGE continning . You can ilustrate it this way is the father . Here are as fre sons ...
... kind of thing which I think could be done not only within the depar- ments but among the departments . The charts referred to face this page.j Senator LODGE continning . You can ilustrate it this way is the father . Here are as fre sons ...
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Accounting Office action administrative appointed apportionment Appropriations Committee audit authority basis Brookings Institution Budget Bureau CHAIRMAN chart Civil Service Commission on Organization COMMISSION SEC committee of Congress Committees on Expenditures Comptroller General's confidential congressional continuing cost course curtailing deficiency Director duplication effective enacted estimates executive branch Executive Departments extend his full Federal Communications Commission fiscal responsibility functions and activities Government hearings Interstate Commerce Commission investigation LAWTON legislation Maritime Commission matter ment MERIAM methods million 9 mittee Navy operation organizational studies personnel present proposed purpose question recommendations Reorganization Act Representative Wigglesworth responsibility goes Robert Heller royal commission Senator Aiken Senator FERGUSON interposing Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator HOEY Senator LODGE Senator O'CONOR Senator ROBERTSON Senator THYE spoils system staff statement submitted supervision survey Taft commission thing tion undertake veterans War Shipping Administration
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Page 2 - 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 2 - Commission, may conduct hearings. (f) Members of Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress ; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 1 - ... (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 2 - The Commission shall have power to appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, in accordance with the provisions of the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
Page 3 - Any member of the Commission may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the Commission or any subcommittee or members thereof.
Page 3 - 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 - Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 2 - The members from private life shall each receive $100 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 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 1 . It is hereby declared to be the policy of...
Page 1 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business...