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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... duties . We call special attention to the provisions of paragraph ( c ) of the pending plan . It states that the director of locomotive inspection and the two assistant directors shall perform their functions subject to the direction ...
... duties . We call special attention to the provisions of paragraph ( c ) of the pending plan . It states that the director of locomotive inspection and the two assistant directors shall perform their functions subject to the direction ...
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... duties required by the laws which Congress has passed . It is merely a con- centrating of responsibility and power so that Congress itself can as- certain where the responsibility lies . Mr. LYON . I am sorry I cannot agree with you ...
... duties required by the laws which Congress has passed . It is merely a con- centrating of responsibility and power so that Congress itself can as- certain where the responsibility lies . Mr. LYON . I am sorry I cannot agree with you ...
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... duties , I do not think it can be done . Mr. HOFFMAN . All through the point made by Mr. Holifield and others on this committee has run the thought that the Hoover Com- mission in order to get efficiency and responsibility , has ...
... duties , I do not think it can be done . Mr. HOFFMAN . All through the point made by Mr. Holifield and others on this committee has run the thought that the Hoover Com- mission in order to get efficiency and responsibility , has ...
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... duties that a Chairman of that kind would have to discharge , the proper attention could not be given to the supervision of this work . Mr. HOFFMAN . I remember when the Labor Committee was holding hearings with reference to the Wagner ...
... duties that a Chairman of that kind would have to discharge , the proper attention could not be given to the supervision of this work . Mr. HOFFMAN . I remember when the Labor Committee was holding hearings with reference to the Wagner ...
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... duties to perform in that kind of a field at all and I am not equipped to talk about the matters of that controversy . But what little I know about it , I think that the firemen have merit on their side in what they are contending for ...
... duties to perform in that kind of a field at all and I am not equipped to talk about the matters of that controversy . But what little I know about it , I think that the firemen have merit on their side in what they are contending for ...
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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.
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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.