Availability of Information from Federal Departments and Agencies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth- Congress, First- Session, Parts 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 |
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... position is simple and clear . We are in opposition to any and all forms or efforts that will restrict , or limit , or forbid the public to know what they are entitled to know and , 16 INFORMATION FROM FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.
... position is simple and clear . We are in opposition to any and all forms or efforts that will restrict , or limit , or forbid the public to know what they are entitled to know and , 16 INFORMATION FROM FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.
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... position and thinking . But there is great evidence today that the public has really caught on to the fact that the Government's business is its business . Newspapers , periodicals , radio , television have , of course , quickened the ...
... position and thinking . But there is great evidence today that the public has really caught on to the fact that the Government's business is its business . Newspapers , periodicals , radio , television have , of course , quickened the ...
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... position with the posi- tion of all of our allies in the coalition . This sometimes goes on for many months . And again we are asked not to intrude into the policy- making , the policy - defining position ; and , finally , when there is ...
... position with the posi- tion of all of our allies in the coalition . This sometimes goes on for many months . And again we are asked not to intrude into the policy- making , the policy - defining position ; and , finally , when there is ...
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... position that there would be any legal obstacle to taking this up , but thought that a question might be raised , and that it would be best for them to get a law passed . For the last year and a half I have been hasseling with the ...
... position that there would be any legal obstacle to taking this up , but thought that a question might be raised , and that it would be best for them to get a law passed . For the last year and a half I have been hasseling with the ...
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... position of International News Service and its principle - that one of the cornerstones of a free press is the right of access to information concerning all activities of Government , excepting only when publication of such information ...
... position of International News Service and its principle - that one of the cornerstones of a free press is the right of access to information concerning all activities of Government , excepting only when publication of such information ...
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Page 462 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets,...
Page 674 - ... to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $30,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee or the chairman of any duly authorized subcommittee thereof.
Page 342 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Page 445 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use. and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 462 - ... any income return, or to permit any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law...
Page 325 - ... to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer...
Page 678 - Provided, That no person shall be prosecuted or be subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, in any proceeding, suit, or prosecution under said acts : Provided further, That no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 75 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 483 - States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes, operations, style of work, or apparatus,...
Page 330 - ... it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the constitution between the different departments should be preserved; a just regard to the constitution, and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.