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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... respect to locomotive - inspection work . The law of Congress makes the policy and the Commission does not make decisions about it . Mr. HOLIFIELD . All right , then . Mr. LYON . Except on appeal and review . Mr. HOLIFIELD . That is ...
... respect to locomotive - inspection work . The law of Congress makes the policy and the Commission does not make decisions about it . Mr. HOLIFIELD . All right , then . Mr. LYON . Except on appeal and review . Mr. HOLIFIELD . That is ...
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... respect , for our former President , who is so innocent and gullible that ho is letting now somebody use his label , economy and efficiency , on the outside of it pasted on a lot of political plans sent down here to increase the power ...
... respect , for our former President , who is so innocent and gullible that ho is letting now somebody use his label , economy and efficiency , on the outside of it pasted on a lot of political plans sent down here to increase the power ...
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... respect to a proposal very much like the present one to centralize administrative authority in the chairman . It did so in a letter dated October 11 , 1949 , addressed to Senator Johnson of Colorado , chairman of the Committee on ...
... respect to a proposal very much like the present one to centralize administrative authority in the chairman . It did so in a letter dated October 11 , 1949 , addressed to Senator Johnson of Colorado , chairman of the Committee on ...
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... respect to its budgetary needs ; and ( 4 ) to give the members some voice in new appointments to the Commission , it being pointed out that in the past where the President has had confidence in a chair- man he has not unusually ...
... respect to its budgetary needs ; and ( 4 ) to give the members some voice in new appointments to the Commission , it being pointed out that in the past where the President has had confidence in a chair- man he has not unusually ...
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... respect of ( 1 ) its internal management , including budgeting and accounting , personnel ( including appointments and assigments ) , supply , management research , information and publications , and other administrative matters ; ( 2 ) ...
... respect of ( 1 ) its internal management , including budgeting and accounting , personnel ( including appointments and assigments ) , supply , management research , information and publications , and other administrative matters ; ( 2 ) ...
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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.