Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on RulesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - Legislative hearings |
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... look into violations of criminal law ) ; and in both , the chairman refused jurisdiction be- cause the complaints were not in writing and under oath , as the statu- tory history of the act required . Moreover , the full committee would ...
... look into violations of criminal law ) ; and in both , the chairman refused jurisdiction be- cause the complaints were not in writing and under oath , as the statu- tory history of the act required . Moreover , the full committee would ...
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... look into matters dealing only with elections , accounts , and other housekeeping matters . There is one section of the rules which says the committee can look into " measures relating to the election of the President , Vice President ...
... look into matters dealing only with elections , accounts , and other housekeeping matters . There is one section of the rules which says the committee can look into " measures relating to the election of the President , Vice President ...
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... look at the law at all . A specific thing had to be cured and they wrote a law to cure that thing without looking at the broad picture at all . The CHAIRMAN . Well , of course , any law that was recommended by your committee would have ...
... look at the law at all . A specific thing had to be cured and they wrote a law to cure that thing without looking at the broad picture at all . The CHAIRMAN . Well , of course , any law that was recommended by your committee would have ...
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... look into this matter fully and come forth with recommendations and operate in a way they should . The record as it was written by the very able Congressman from Ohio is replete with illustrations of where this committee has known , it ...
... look into this matter fully and come forth with recommendations and operate in a way they should . The record as it was written by the very able Congressman from Ohio is replete with illustrations of where this committee has known , it ...
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... look into anything that was not approved by the House in law . So I don't know what the purpose of writing the article that way was , and I talked to the reporter about it the day after it came out . It was sort of paradoxical because I ...
... look into anything that was not approved by the House in law . So I don't know what the purpose of writing the article that way was , and I talked to the reporter about it the day after it came out . It was sort of paradoxical because I ...
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Page 62 - In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against state aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by state authority in the shape of laws, customs or judicial or executive proceedings.
Page 64 - ... or because he had some personal difference with him, political, racial, or social. That was purely his own affair, with which nobody else had any concern. Neither the Sherman Act, nor any decision of the Supreme Court construing the same, nor the Clayton Act, has changed the law in this particular. We have not yet reached the stage where the selection of a trader's customers is made for him by the government.
Page 5 - What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget— is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
Page 20 - Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
Page 31 - Conduct, and violations of rules and regulations of the Senate, relating to the conduct of individuals in the performance of their duties as Members of the Senate, or as officers or employees of the Senate, and to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions with respect thereto...
Page 48 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall — (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances; (2) violate the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizures, nor issue warrants...
Page 62 - It is, of course, state action that is prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment, not the actions of individuals. So far as the Fourteenth Amendment is concerned, individuals can be as prejudiced and intolerant as they like. They may as a consequence subject themselves to suits for assault, battery, or trespass. But those actions have no footing in the Federal Constitution. The line of forbidden conduct marked by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is...
Page 7 - House, of any law applicable to the performance of his duties or the discharge of his responsibilities, which may have been disclosed in a committee investigation...
Page 64 - It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice, or malice.
Page 65 - ... which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute...