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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... consideration now being given by the House Committee on Interstate Commerce to this whole problem , the consideration now being given by the Senate committee , that anything having to do with the administration of transportation or the ...
... consideration now being given by the House Committee on Interstate Commerce to this whole problem , the consideration now being given by the Senate committee , that anything having to do with the administration of transportation or the ...
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... considerations . The pending proposal would tend in the opposite direction . The executive branch of the Government would designate one man to serve as Chairman and could remove him and replace him with an- other at will and this one ...
... considerations . The pending proposal would tend in the opposite direction . The executive branch of the Government would designate one man to serve as Chairman and could remove him and replace him with an- other at will and this one ...
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... consideration to the duties assigned to the Chairman and to his length of office from the beginning of the Commission in 1887 ; that in 1910 it unanimously adopted a policy of annual rota- tion of the chairmanship as grave weaknesses ...
... consideration to the duties assigned to the Chairman and to his length of office from the beginning of the Commission in 1887 ; that in 1910 it unanimously adopted a policy of annual rota- tion of the chairmanship as grave weaknesses ...
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... other duties would prevent his consideration of the problems involved . The CHAIRMAN . Would the law be changed by the adoption of this law ? Mr. LYON . The plan itself would not change the REORGANIZATION PLAN NO . 7 OF 1950 21.
... other duties would prevent his consideration of the problems involved . The CHAIRMAN . Would the law be changed by the adoption of this law ? Mr. LYON . The plan itself would not change the REORGANIZATION PLAN NO . 7 OF 1950 21.
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... consideration at the time those laws were passed . Con- gress realized that through the years it had set up a very unwieldy structure with poor accountability and in order to change , authorized the President to make those changes ...
... consideration at the time those laws were passed . Con- gress realized that through the years it had set up a very unwieldy structure with poor accountability and in order to change , authorized the President to make those changes ...
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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.