To Establish an Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

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Considers (86) H.R. 6904, (86) H.R. 6905, (86) S. 2026.

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Page 184 - Amendments of 1962 indicate that the term "safe" has reference to health of man, nowhere do they define safety. Discussing this ubject before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives,' the Commissioner of FDA pointed out that no effective drug can be absolutely safe.
Page 3 - Subject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the Commission, the Chairman, without regard to the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949...
Page 4 - Code, and shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties as members of the Workmen's Compensation Commission.
Page 171 - Leave to private initiative all the functions that citizens can perform privately; use the level of government closest to the community for all public functions it can handle; utilize cooperative intergovernmental arrangements where appropriate to attain economical performance and popular approval; reserve national action for residual participation where state and local governments are not fully adequate, and for the continuing responsibilities that only the national government can undertake.
Page 94 - Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive branch of the Government, including independent agencies, is authorized and directed to furnish to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or Vice Chairman, such information as the Commission deems necessary to carry out its functions under this joint resolution.
Page 204 - The Commission is authorized to request from any department, agency, or independent instrumentality of the Government any information it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act ; and each such department, agency, or independent instrumentality...
Page 133 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate very much the opportunity to appear before the committee...
Page 111 - Commerce between the States having grown up like Topsy, the Congress meanwhile not having undertaken to regulate taxation of it, and the States having understandably persisted in their efforts to get some return for the substantial benefits they have afforded it, there is little wonder that there has been no end of cases testing out state tax levies.
Page 112 - ... 497 (1954). invalidating school segregation in the District of Columbia, is often cited for this proposition, the Court was careful not to imply that all of the specific restraints imposed by the equal protection clause necessarily apply with equal force to the federal government.
Page 50 - STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Mr. MICHEL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee.

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