Revise Congressional Review Procedure: Hearing and Markups Before the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs and the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1602 and H.R. 3932, to Amend the District Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, May 5 and September 28, 1983 |
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Page 7 - The signing by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and, by the President of the Senate, in open session, of an enrolled bill, is an official attestation by the two houses of such bill as one that has passed Congress.
Page 9 - ... that your committee request recommendations from the District of Columbia concerning such amendments. The first bill, HR 12506, authorizes the District Government to control and charge rent of surface or subsurface space not required for public purposes. On July 20, 1967, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitted to the Speaker of the House draft legislation identical to HR 12506 except for a modification of the definition of "vault" in section 103 and the addition of...
Page 15 - While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government. It enjoins upon its branches separateness but interdependence, autonomy but reciprocity.
Page 61 - If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 14 - But if the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the District of Columbia...
Page 47 - Congress's broad authority to take action that has "the purpose and effect of altering the legal rights, duties, and relations of persons . . . outside the Legislative Branch,
Page 40 - Supplemental questions concerning specific statutory qualifications for service as a judge in the courts of the District of Columbia pursuant to the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970, DC Code Section 1 1 - 150 1 (b), as amended.
Page 7 - Council shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate a copy of each act passed by the ' Council and signed by the Mayor, or vetoed by the Mayor and repassed by two-thirds of the Council present and voting (and with respect to which the President has not sustained the Mayor's veto), and every act passed by the Council and allowed to become effective by the Mayor without his signature.
Page 60 - Sec. 412. (a) The Council, to discharge the powers and duties imposed herein, shall pass acts and adopt resolutions, upon a vote of a majority of the members of the Council present and voting, unless otherwise provided in this Act or by the Council. Except as provided in the last sentence of this subsection, the Council shall use acts for all legislative purposes.
Page 4 - Nation. Indeed, one stated purpose of the legislation was to "relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters." This goal of limited Federal involvement has worked remarkably well. For example, in one session prior to passage of the Home Rule Act, Congress enacted 19 laws affecting the District After passage of the act such enactments more than halved.