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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... branch of the Government [ with the Commission ] is an unmixed evil however subtle and indirect its manifestations may be.14 14 What he could have added is that the most dangerous kind of interference is that of the subtle and indirect ...
... branch of the Government [ with the Commission ] is an unmixed evil however subtle and indirect its manifestations may be.14 14 What he could have added is that the most dangerous kind of interference is that of the subtle and indirect ...
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... branch , the task force states : 23 In the last 3 years the Commission has not been so amenable to Presidential influence as during the previous 9.24 In its discussion of the Civil Aeronautics Board , the task force notes that- the ...
... branch , the task force states : 23 In the last 3 years the Commission has not been so amenable to Presidential influence as during the previous 9.24 In its discussion of the Civil Aeronautics Board , the task force notes that- the ...
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... branch . Reference is made to the feature of four of the plans , including plan No. 7 , of transferring the function of designating the Chairman to the President , thus changing the present system under which the Chairman is elected by ...
... branch . Reference is made to the feature of four of the plans , including plan No. 7 , of transferring the function of designating the Chairman to the President , thus changing the present system under which the Chairman is elected by ...
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... branch ; we have the legislative branch ; and we have the judicial branch . Those are the branches set up by our Constitution and therefore make the frame- work of our Government . Now , wherein is there any provision within that ...
... branch ; we have the legislative branch ; and we have the judicial branch . Those are the branches set up by our Constitution and therefore make the frame- work of our Government . Now , wherein is there any provision within that ...
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... branch of the Government ? Mr. HOFFMAN . I do not think he should be required to answer that question by " Yes " or " No. " Mr. GIBSON . I could not answer it accurately " Yes " or " No. " The CHAIRMAN . Are they part of the judicial branch ...
... branch of the Government ? Mr. HOFFMAN . I do not think he should be required to answer that question by " Yes " or " No. " Mr. GIBSON . I could not answer it accurately " Yes " or " No. " The CHAIRMAN . Are they part of the judicial branch ...
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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.