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 . So we need certainly to study very carefully these things . The very weakest of all phases of Gov ... Interstate Commerce Committees . I might add that one of your own committee - Interstate and Foreign Commerce char ...
... Commission . So we need certainly to study very carefully these things . The very weakest of all phases of Gov ... Interstate Commerce Committees . I might add that one of your own committee - Interstate and Foreign Commerce char ...
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... commission . Mr. CONN . All right . The Interstate Commerce Commission today is dealing with a very sensitive problem . It is true that centraliza- tion over administrative functions in any business organization is a proper thing to do ...
... commission . Mr. CONN . All right . The Interstate Commerce Commission today is dealing with a very sensitive problem . It is true that centraliza- tion over administrative functions in any business organization is a proper thing to do ...
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... Interstate Commerce Commission the way it is . I am not qualified to say that a centralization of management down there at the Commis- sion would not do a better job . I do not know . But they have done a pretty good job and what we ask ...
... Interstate Commerce Commission the way it is . I am not qualified to say that a centralization of management down there at the Commis- sion would not do a better job . I do not know . But they have done a pretty good job and what we ask ...
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... Commerce . There are a lot of things in this thing that transfer promotional and regulatory features over into the ... Interstate Commerce Commission ; that the Chairman so appointed shall have transferred to him the executive and ...
... Commerce . There are a lot of things in this thing that transfer promotional and regulatory features over into the ... Interstate Commerce Commission ; that the Chairman so appointed shall have transferred to him the executive and ...
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... Interstate Commerce Commission consists of 11 members , appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate . They serve a term of office of 7 years . Not more than 6 of the 11 Commissioners may be from one political party . The ...
... Interstate Commerce Commission consists of 11 members , appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate . They serve a term of office of 7 years . Not more than 6 of the 11 Commissioners may be from one political party . The ...
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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.