To Create a Joint Committee on the Budget: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 913, a Bill to Amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to Provide for More Effective Evaluation of the Fiscal Requirements of the Executive Agencies of the Government of the United States. May 15, 16 and 17, 1951 |
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... question . The CHAIRMAN . May I ask you this question : If you do not agree that the Appropriations Committee are confronted with a handicap because those who appear representing the agencies to testify before the committees have , in ...
... question . The CHAIRMAN . May I ask you this question : If you do not agree that the Appropriations Committee are confronted with a handicap because those who appear representing the agencies to testify before the committees have , in ...
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... question . Nor can there be any doubt that a single staff for review of the admin- istration's proposal and actual expenditures is highly desirable and would be tremendously helpful ; such a staff would provide a check on expenditures ...
... question . Nor can there be any doubt that a single staff for review of the admin- istration's proposal and actual expenditures is highly desirable and would be tremendously helpful ; such a staff would provide a check on expenditures ...
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... question in just about a minute . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Mr. ANDREWS . They also consider whether the activities that they review are economically organized as well as whether they are eco- nomically managed . But one doesn't have ...
... question in just about a minute . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Mr. ANDREWS . They also consider whether the activities that they review are economically organized as well as whether they are eco- nomically managed . But one doesn't have ...
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... question ? The CHAIRMAN . Very well . Mr. ANDREWS . So there you have it . What S. 913 would provide already is required by existing law . Moreover , to a degree it is being provided in audits now being made by the General Accounting ...
... question ? The CHAIRMAN . Very well . Mr. ANDREWS . So there you have it . What S. 913 would provide already is required by existing law . Moreover , to a degree it is being provided in audits now being made by the General Accounting ...
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... question that you have asked . The RFC report , for instance , was a tremendously long report . My recollection is that it was several volumes , but in about seven or eight pages we gave you the guts of that report in a summary in the ...
... question that you have asked . The RFC report , for instance , was a tremendously long report . My recollection is that it was several volumes , but in about seven or eight pages we gave you the guts of that report in a summary in the ...
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Accounting Office administrative amend ANDREWS appropriation bills approved Budget Bureau budgetary requests CHAIRMAN Committee on Appropriations Committee on Expenditures Committee on Internal Comptroller Concurrent Resolution 38 CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional consideration director duplicate duties economy effective efficiency employees estimates executive agencies executive branch Executive Departments February 15 functions Government gress hearings House Appropriations Committee House of Representatives Internal Revenue Taxation investigation JOHN L La Crosse County lative LAWTON legislative budget Legislative Reorganization Act letter matters ment mittee necessary Okla Oklahoma City Oklahoma Public Expenditures organization personnel present President procedure proposed joint committee Public Expenditures Council recommendations reduce responsibility Secretary section 138 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
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Page 174 - All bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the salaries of the officers of government, shall originate in the House of Representatives, and shall not be altered or amended by the Senate.
Page 48 - We had better at the outstart recognize the fact that the executive department is a coordinate branch of the Government, with power to judge what should or should not be done, within its own department, and what of its own doings and communications should or should not be kept secret, and that with it, in the exercise of these constitutional powers, the courts have no more right to interfere than has the Executive, under like conditions, to interfere with the courts.