To Create a Joint Committee on the Budget: Hearings ... S. 913 ... May 1951, Volumes 7-14 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Accounting Office adequate administrative amend ANDREWS appropriation bill approved believe Budget Bureau CHAIRMAN Committee on Appropriations Committee on Expenditures Committee on Internal Comptroller Concurrent Resolution 38 congressional consideration director duplicate duties economy effective employees established estimates executive agencies executive branch Executive Departments February 15 functions Government gress hearings House Appropriations Committee House of Representatives Internal Revenue Taxation investigation lative LAWTON legislative budget Legislative Reorganization Act letter matters ment mittee necessary Okla Oklahoma City Oklahoma Public Expenditures operations organization personnel present President problem procedure proposed joint committee Public Expenditures Council RAMSPECK recommendations reduce reports responsibility Secretary section 138 section 206 Senate bill 913 Senate Concurrent Resolution Senator DwORSHAK Senator HOEY Senator MONRONEY Sincerely spending standing committees statement STEVE STAHL subcommittee thereof submitted subsection suggestion Taxpayers Association tion Treasury United States Senate Washington WILMERDING
Popular passages
Page 59 - it the duty of the Secretary— to make report and give information to either branch of the Legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required), respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office. There
Page 109 - SEC. 206. The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to make an expenditure analysis of each agency in the executive branch of the Government (including Government corporations), which, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, will enable Congress to determine whether public funds have been economically and efficiently administered and
Page 172 - and for fixing the salaries of the officers of the Government of the United States, shall originate in the first branch of the legislature and shall not be altered or amended by the second branch." [Italics mine.] On the question as to whether this clause should stand as a part of the report, it passed in the affirmative.
Page 116 - Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOE MCCLELLAN : It is so easy for me to agree wholeheartedly with your proposal for more effective mechanisms to aid the Congress in its consideration and disposition of the annual budget (S.
Page 45 - Since the beginning of the Government, heads of agencies have been authorized by law to prescribe regulations for the "custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property" of their agencies— section 161 of the
Page 142 - That is all that I have. Thank you very much,. Mr. Lawton. Thank you very much for your testimony. (The documents referred to are as follows:) UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS, January 25, 1951. Hon. JOHN W. SNYDER, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington 25, DC DEAR MR. SECRETARY:
Page 9 - such employees shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties to which they may be assigned: Provided, however, That
Page 125 - Chairman, members of the committee, I am appearing before you today to testify on S. 913, a bill which would amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. The purpose of this bill is to provide the Congress with a more effective method for evaluating and passing upon the fiscal requirements of the Government.
Page 107 - The bill proposes to create a Joint Committee on the Budget composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives. The