Reorganization of the Government Agencies: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Government Organization, United States Senate, Appointed Pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 69, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 2700, a Bill to Provide for Reorganizing Agencies of the Government, Extending the Classified Civil Service, Establishing a General Auditing Office and a Department of Welfare, and for Other Purposes. August 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9. 10, 11, 12, 1937 |
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... responsible Chief Executive to coordinate and manage the departments and activities in accordance with the laws enacted by the Congress . Under these conditions the Govern- ment cannot be thoroughly effective in working , under popular ...
... responsible Chief Executive to coordinate and manage the departments and activities in accordance with the laws enacted by the Congress . Under these conditions the Govern- ment cannot be thoroughly effective in working , under popular ...
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... responsibility among them to keep the President in closer contact with the departments , would tend in any way to reduce the importance and significance of the Cabinet ? Mr. MERRIAM . That is a matter which we considered very care ...
... responsibility among them to keep the President in closer contact with the departments , would tend in any way to reduce the importance and significance of the Cabinet ? Mr. MERRIAM . That is a matter which we considered very care ...
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... responsible heads are certainly out in the open . Everybody knows what the President is doing , everybody knows what the Senate and the House are doing . Senator O'MAHONEY . Of course , it is a very difficult task . No one can doubt ...
... responsible heads are certainly out in the open . Everybody knows what the President is doing , everybody knows what the Senate and the House are doing . Senator O'MAHONEY . Of course , it is a very difficult task . No one can doubt ...
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... responsibility involved in the administration of this tre- mendous acreage , have largely guided and supported the Forest Service in its cooperative protection methods and in the policies and the extension of forestry to private ...
... responsibility involved in the administration of this tre- mendous acreage , have largely guided and supported the Forest Service in its cooperative protection methods and in the policies and the extension of forestry to private ...
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... responsible relationship to the management and extension of national forests . The determination of areas which should be ac- quired as national forests and of policies in their administration is as important to a sound land program as ...
... responsible relationship to the management and extension of national forests . The determination of areas which should be ac- quired as national forests and of policies in their administration is as important to a sound land program as ...
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Accounting Office activities amended appointment appropriation Auditing Office auditor authority Board Budget Bureau CHAIRMAN Civilian Conservation Corps classified civil service Commissioners Committee on Government Comptroller Congress Court of Claims decisions DENIT Department of Agriculture Department of Conservation disbursing officers division duties effect efficiency ELLIOTT employees examination executive branch executive department Executive order exercise expenditures Federal Trade Commission Forest Service forestry GREELEY GULICK head independent agency independent establishment interest Interior Interstate Commerce Commission June 24 jurisdiction legislative matter ment merit system MERRIAM NEUMANN office or position opinion Panama Canal personnel political preaudit present President President's committee proposed provisions purpose question railroads recommendations record reorganization responsible Secretary section 203 Senate bill 2700 Senator BARKLEY Senator BYRD Senator MCNARY Senator O'MAHONEY Senator Robinson settlement Stat statement statute submitted TABER tion transfer Treasury Department TULLOSS United vouchers Washington
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Page 198 - This report shall contain such information and data collected by the Commission as may be considered of value in the determination of questions connected with the regulation of commerce, together with such recommendations as to additional legislation relating thereto as the Commission may deem necessary; and the names and compensation of the persons employed by said Commission.
Page 286 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page 229 - The Commission is also authorized to avail itself of the cooperation, services, records, and facilities of such State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this Act.
Page 425 - to provide for the better organization of the Treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
Page 195 - The commission is to be non-partisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law. Its duties are neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative. Like the Interstate Commerce Commission, its members are called upon to exercise the trained judgment of a body of experts " appointed by law and informed by experience.
Page 416 - March next, all claims and demands whatever, by the United States or against them, and all accounts whatever, in which the United States are concerned, either as debtors or as creditors, shall be settled and adjusted in the Treasury Department.
Page 171 - service employee" means guards, watchmen, and any person engaged in a recognized trade or craft, or other skilled mechanical craft, or In unskilled, semiskilled, or skilled manual labor occupations; and any other employee Including a foreman or supervisor in a position having trade, craft, or laboring experience as the paramount requirement; and shall include all such persons regardless of any contractual relationship that may be...
Page 120 - Interior transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior by Reorg.
Page 124 - Washington it has been proposed to transfer the Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior...
Page 171 - Government property, or work which is subordinate incidental, or preparatory to work of a professional, scientific, or technical character, the President, upon a finding that the characteristics and working conditions of such offices or positions render them substantially the same as comparable offices or positions in the District of Columbia included within the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, may by Executive order extend the provisions of such...