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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... Commission members are all appointed at the present time by the President , are they not ? Mr. CONN . That is ... Hoover Commission does not recom- mend that the Chairman be designated by the President . Mr. HOLIFIELD . But in five ...
... Commission members are all appointed at the present time by the President , are they not ? Mr. CONN . That is ... Hoover Commission does not recom- mend that the Chairman be designated by the President . Mr. HOLIFIELD . But in five ...
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... Commission being centralized . I understand they have the power to do it themselves if they want to now , without ... Hoover Commission . Mr. CONN . No. Car Service function in any event , outside of the Mr. HOLIFIELD . I must have ...
... Commission being centralized . I understand they have the power to do it themselves if they want to now , without ... Hoover Commission . Mr. CONN . No. Car Service function in any event , outside of the Mr. HOLIFIELD . I must have ...
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... Hoover Commission report on personnel management and on regulatory commissions , both bring out that such a type of rota- tion has contributed to inefficiency , and the task force brought out the fact that it was not a satisfactory way ...
... Hoover Commission report on personnel management and on regulatory commissions , both bring out that such a type of rota- tion has contributed to inefficiency , and the task force brought out the fact that it was not a satisfactory way ...
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... Hoover Commission which had been found on study were necessary in order to make our streamlining successful in our executive department and make it less unwieldy in order to centralize responsibility . So the question that you raise ...
... Hoover Commission which had been found on study were necessary in order to make our streamlining successful in our executive department and make it less unwieldy in order to centralize responsibility . So the question that you raise ...
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... Commission has elected the Chair- man , has is not ? Mr. LYON . That is true ... Hoover Com- mission in order to get efficiency and responsibility , has ... commission and a 11 - man commission , or a 3 - man commission with a ...
... Commission has elected the Chair- man , has is not ? Mr. LYON . That is true ... Hoover Com- mission in order to get efficiency and responsibility , has ... commission and a 11 - man commission , or a 3 - man commission with a ...
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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.