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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... heads of the various depart- ments involved and then they are submitted to the Congress and we can file a disapproving resolution if we see so fit to do ; but it is not done ex parte in the sense that it is a willful act of just sitting ...
... heads of the various depart- ments involved and then they are submitted to the Congress and we can file a disapproving resolution if we see so fit to do ; but it is not done ex parte in the sense that it is a willful act of just sitting ...
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... head chairman of an important Commission like this , it would seem to me that you would agree with me that in pri- vate industry we just do not do that . Therefore what we are trying to do here according to the plan is to set up the ...
... head chairman of an important Commission like this , it would seem to me that you would agree with me that in pri- vate industry we just do not do that . Therefore what we are trying to do here according to the plan is to set up the ...
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... head of the Commission , the head of the Interstate Commerce Commission . Mr. LYON . I say that is a serious mistake to do that . I say that would be a serious mistake . If the locomotive - inspection law needs amendment to that extent ...
... head of the Commission , the head of the Interstate Commerce Commission . Mr. LYON . I say that is a serious mistake to do that . I say that would be a serious mistake . If the locomotive - inspection law needs amendment to that extent ...
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... heads at the present time and it would only be concentrating in the Chairman the re- sponsibility in one head to Congress . In other words , Congress in- stead of trying to go to the heads of all these different divisions to find out ...
... heads at the present time and it would only be concentrating in the Chairman the re- sponsibility in one head to Congress . In other words , Congress in- stead of trying to go to the heads of all these different divisions to find out ...
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... head of the Wage and Hour Division in the Labor Department was set up by an independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here I believe it was plan No. 6 ...
... head of the Wage and Hour Division in the Labor Department was set up by an independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here I believe it was plan No. 6 ...
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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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