Reorganization of the FCC.: Hearings Before the Communications Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 2034, a Bill to Amend the Communications Act of 1934, as Amended, in Order to Expedite and Improve the Administrative Process by Authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to Delegate Functions in Adjudicatory Cases, Repealing the Review Staff Provisions, and Revising Related Provisions; and Reorganization Plan No. 2: Federal Communications Commission. May 23 and June 28, 1961United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 155 pages |
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Page 135 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with subsection (4) of rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman...
Page 131 - That the Commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice.
Page 122 - All decisions (including initial, recommended, or tentative decisions) shall become a part of the record and include a statement of (1) findings and conclusions, as well as the reasons or basis therefor, upon all the material issues of fact, law or discretion presented on the record ; and (2) the appropriate rule, order, sanction, relief, or denial thereof.
Page 129 - Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 24, 1958, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended CIVILIAN MOBILIZATION SECTION 1.
Page 124 - ... authorizing any agency to exercise any function which is not expressly authorized by law at the time the plan is transmitted to the Congress...
Page 128 - Except to the extent required for the disposition of ex parte matters as authorized by law, such an employee may not— (1) consult a person or party on a fact in issue, unless on notice and opportunity for all parties to participate...
Page 129 - Any member or examiner of the Board, when duly designated by the Board for such purpose, may hold hearings, sign and issue subpenas, administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive evidence at any place in the United States designated by the Board. In all cases heard by an examiner or a single member the Board shall hear or receive argument on request of either party.
Page 4 - The filing of a petition for rehearing shall not be a condition precedent to judicial review of any such decision, order, or requirement, except where the party seeking such review (1) was not a party to the proceedings resulting in such decision, order, or requirement, or (2) relies on questions of fact or law upon which the Commission has been afforded no opportunity to pass.
Page 131 - Organization and functioning of the Commission SEC. 5. (a) The member of the Commission designated by the President as chairman shall be the chief executive officer of the Commission. It shall be his duty to preside at all meetings and sessions of the Commission...
Page 128 - ... recommend a decision, except that in rule making or determining applications for initial licenses — (1...