Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1950: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 545, Resolved, that the House of Representatives Does Not Favor the Reorganization Plan Numbered 7 of 1950 Transmitted to the Congress by the President on March 13, 1950United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 107 pages |
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... HOFFMAN . Those I have just read - those are divergences from the Hoover Commission recommendations . Mr. CONN . Correct . Mr. KARSTEN . Before you leave this statement , who is that 125,000 influential citizens in the rural districts ...
... HOFFMAN . Those I have just read - those are divergences from the Hoover Commission recommendations . Mr. CONN . Correct . Mr. KARSTEN . Before you leave this statement , who is that 125,000 influential citizens in the rural districts ...
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... HOFFMAN . May I ask a question ? I have received many , many letters from people in my district asking that I ... HOFFMAN . Except they have been sold on the proposition that we must have less spending and more efficiency . Mr ...
... HOFFMAN . May I ask a question ? I have received many , many letters from people in my district asking that I ... HOFFMAN . Except they have been sold on the proposition that we must have less spending and more efficiency . Mr ...
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... HOFFMAN . This plan transfers to the Department of Commerce , the ICC , Safety , Equipment and Inspection and Car Service functions . Mr. CONN . We are absolutely against all of that . Mr. HOFFMAN . It does that very thing . That was ...
... HOFFMAN . This plan transfers to the Department of Commerce , the ICC , Safety , Equipment and Inspection and Car Service functions . Mr. CONN . We are absolutely against all of that . Mr. HOFFMAN . It does that very thing . That was ...
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... HOFFMAN . What you are afraid of is that there will be cen- tralization of power ; is it not ? Mr. LYON . Well ... HOFFMAN . And they have to do that , they have to obey the instructions that come down from above . Mr. LYON . They ...
... HOFFMAN . What you are afraid of is that there will be cen- tralization of power ; is it not ? Mr. LYON . Well ... HOFFMAN . And they have to do that , they have to obey the instructions that come down from above . Mr. LYON . They ...
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... HOFFMAN . May I ask a question , or three or four ? At present , and heretofore , the Commission has elected the Chair- man , has is not ? Mr. LYON . That is true , sir , I think . Mr. HOFFMAN . And the job of Chairman as Chairman has ...
... HOFFMAN . May I ask a question , or three or four ? At present , and heretofore , the Commission has elected the Chair- man , has is not ? Mr. LYON . That is true , sir , I think . Mr. HOFFMAN . And the job of Chairman as Chairman has ...
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Page 99 - Roosevelt addressed a letter to the commissioner asking for his resignation, on the ground "that the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection," but disclaiming any reflection upon the commissioner personally or upon his services.
Page 56 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation, subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 49 - The authority of Congress, in creating quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies, to require them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control, cannot well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime.
Page 82 - Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp.
Page 49 - The Commission is to be nonpartisan; 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.