Personnel Administration and Operations of Agency for International Development: Special Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, [Wednesday, May 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, June 5, 10, 1963] |
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Admin administrative Afghanistan Africa AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL Agency positions agricultural AID program American Bank BELL Bolivia Brazil Bureau capital development Chairman HAYDEN Chief committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract contractor currency DEANGELIS Deputy development grant direct-hire dollars East and South economic Education Embassy employees engineer engr Ethiopia field figures finance fiscal year 1963 foreign nationals GAUD going Haiti HUTCHINSON increase India Iran JANOW June June 30 Latin America Liberia loan officer local currency MCCAULEY ment Military million mission director Moscoso Nigeria operation overseas Pakistan percent Personal data problem projects Public Law 480 question record reduced region responsibility Senator ELLENDER Senator MCGEE Senator MONRONEY Senator MUNDT South Asia staff staffing SUKROW TAUBENBLATT technicians TENNANT things tion trust funds Tunisia U.S. AID U.S. Army U.S. Government U.S. nationals U.S. Navy University Upper Volta vacancies VAGLIANO Vietcong Vietnam Washington WEDEMAN
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Page 10 - As a member of the family of nations, the right and power of the United States in that field are equal to the right and power of the other members of the international family. Otherwise, the United States is not completely sovereign.
Page 11 - Not only as we have shown is the Federal power over external affairs in origin and essential character different from that over internal affairs, but participation in the exercise of the power is significantly limited. In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen ns a representative of the Nation.
Page 11 - It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power; but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations — a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress, but which, of course, like every other governmental power, must be exercised in subordination...
Page 297 - US SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 10 am, pursuant to recess, in room 1224, New Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 10 - ... of the international family. Otherwise, the United States is not completely sovereign. The power to acquire territory by discovery and occupation (Jones v.
Page 10 - It results that the investment of the federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution. The powers to declare and wage war, to conclude peace, to make treaties, to maintain diplomatic relations with other sovereignties, if they had never been mentioned in the Constitution, would have vested in the federal government as necessary concomitants of nationality.
Page 11 - The President may make loans, advances, and grants to, make and perform agreements and contracts with, or enter into other transactions with, any individual, corporation, or other body of persons, friendly government or government agency, whether within or without the United States, and international organizations in furtherance of the purposes and within the limitations of this Act.
Page 11 - ... in the interest of orderly and effective execution of long-term plans and programs of development assistance, he is authorized to enter into agreements committing, under the terms and conditions of this title, funds authorized to be appropriated under this title, subject only to the annual appropriation of such funds; (c) Upon conclusion of each such agreement involving funds to be appropriated, the President shall notify the Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the...
Page 308 - Office of Capital Development and Finance, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, AID (GS-13).
Page 314 - Division, Office of Technical Support, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, AID (GS-14, FSR-3).