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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... control and direction over the functions of that Bureau . Now this Bureau is not a part of the Commission ; it enjoys a semi- independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by ...
... control and direction over the functions of that Bureau . Now this Bureau is not a part of the Commission ; it enjoys a semi- independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by ...
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... direction and control under any one Member of Congress . Mr. HOFFMAN . Nor the whole group of them . The CHAIRMAN . But we do want these men to be under the jurisdic- tion of someone who is responsible to Congress and who is respon ...
... direction and control under any one Member of Congress . Mr. HOFFMAN . Nor the whole group of them . The CHAIRMAN . But we do want these men to be under the jurisdic- tion of someone who is responsible to Congress and who is respon ...
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... control and direction . I realize that . The point I am making is that you certainly do not mean to say that all these pages and pages of statutory law which have already been enacted on these particular functions of these inspectors ...
... control and direction . I realize that . The point I am making is that you certainly do not mean to say that all these pages and pages of statutory law which have already been enacted on these particular functions of these inspectors ...
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... direction and control of a chairman who may have little or no training and experience in the many technicalities which affect railway safety , the results cannot but adversely affect safety . A chair- man with such broad authority and ...
... direction and control of a chairman who may have little or no training and experience in the many technicalities which affect railway safety , the results cannot but adversely affect safety . A chair- man with such broad authority and ...
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... control , or influence.16 In other countries the world over a ministry of transport has ordinarily emerged as the operator of a governmentally owned sys- tem of transportation . The reasons why this is the natural out- come of placing ...
... control , or influence.16 In other countries the world over a ministry of transport has ordinarily emerged as the operator of a governmentally owned sys- tem of transportation . The reasons why this is the natural out- come of placing ...
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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.