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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... Railroad employees have always had great concern about the proper and impartial administration of the various safety laws which the Congress has enacted and which are administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission . Railway labor ...
... Railroad employees have always had great concern about the proper and impartial administration of the various safety laws which the Congress has enacted and which are administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission . Railway labor ...
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... railroad unions and I am trying to do that . I do not know what happened there and I am not familiar with the other plan . Mr. HOLIFIELD . I realize that you are under the Railway Labor Act as far as labor relations are concerned , but ...
... railroad unions and I am trying to do that . I do not know what happened there and I am not familiar with the other plan . Mr. HOLIFIELD . I realize that you are under the Railway Labor Act as far as labor relations are concerned , but ...
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... railroad safety matters under the general supervision of that expert Commissioner - if he was made Chairman by the President , why , it would not make any particular change now but I have no idea that that would happen . And it would ...
... railroad safety matters under the general supervision of that expert Commissioner - if he was made Chairman by the President , why , it would not make any particular change now but I have no idea that that would happen . And it would ...
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... railroad under the law could be permitted to start a locomotive without an engineer , do you ? Mr. LYON . Well ... railroads of our country . 65835-50-3 Mr. HOFFMAN . What are the efficiency standards as they REORGANIZATION PLAN NO ...
... railroad under the law could be permitted to start a locomotive without an engineer , do you ? Mr. LYON . Well ... railroads of our country . 65835-50-3 Mr. HOFFMAN . What are the efficiency standards as they REORGANIZATION PLAN NO ...
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... railroads now with- out these laws that Congress enacted many years ago and if they were not fairly enforced . Mr. HOFFMAN . Like the pure food and drug laws , as far as I am concerned - let anybody administer the medicine and drugs ...
... railroads now with- out these laws that Congress enacted many years ago and if they were not fairly enforced . Mr. HOFFMAN . Like the pure food and drug laws , as far as I am concerned - let anybody administer the medicine and drugs ...
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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.