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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... recommendations . Mr. CONN . Correct . Mr. KARSTEN . Before you leave this statement , who is that 125,000 influential citizens in the rural districts up to 10,000 population ? Mr. CONN . They are the people who are helping us ...
... recommendations . Mr. CONN . Correct . Mr. KARSTEN . Before you leave this statement , who is that 125,000 influential citizens in the rural districts up to 10,000 population ? Mr. CONN . They are the people who are helping us ...
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... recommendations , and I have written each one of those an individual letter telling them that I , too , am in favor of economy and efficiency in the Federal Government . But , every time when I wrote a letter asking them to explain the ...
... recommendations , and I have written each one of those an individual letter telling them that I , too , am in favor of economy and efficiency in the Federal Government . But , every time when I wrote a letter asking them to explain the ...
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... recommendation ; and that recommendation will cover 27 basic issues and over 100 issues . I may be overly optimistic , but I think for the first time in the history of this country we have an objective view on transportation ...
... recommendation ; and that recommendation will cover 27 basic issues and over 100 issues . I may be overly optimistic , but I think for the first time in the history of this country we have an objective view on transportation ...
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... recommendations made by one or more subordinates and these subordinates would have more authority in many respects than the other 10 members of the Com- mission . The Congress certainly intended this very important Commission to be a ...
... recommendations made by one or more subordinates and these subordinates would have more authority in many respects than the other 10 members of the Com- mission . The Congress certainly intended this very important Commission to be a ...
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... recommendations of the Hoover Commission by transferring the power of selection of the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission from the members of that Commission to the President . Second , the plan unnecessarily concentrates ...
... recommendations of the Hoover Commission by transferring the power of selection of the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission from the members of that Commission to the President . Second , the plan unnecessarily concentrates ...
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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.