To Establish a Consumer Protection Agency: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research ..., 92-1, on S. 1177 and H. R. 10835. November 4 and 5, 19711972 - 323 pages |
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... powers and resources to act exclusively as their advocate in connection with activities of the Federal Government . As a cosponsor of S. 1177 , I face the question of not whether , but how best to shore up the organization and improve ...
... powers and resources to act exclusively as their advocate in connection with activities of the Federal Government . As a cosponsor of S. 1177 , I face the question of not whether , but how best to shore up the organization and improve ...
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... powers should be given , and the general powers of the agency . The power that is given shall have a great effect . The point I would like to make concerns who will be using the power . Who will govern at the agency , to whom should ...
... powers should be given , and the general powers of the agency . The power that is given shall have a great effect . The point I would like to make concerns who will be using the power . Who will govern at the agency , to whom should ...
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... power that you invest in it , that the freedom and independence depends on the executives ' powers . And again , Mr. Chairman , and your colleagues , thank you for moving this Congress down a very difficult road . Senator RIBICOFF ...
... power that you invest in it , that the freedom and independence depends on the executives ' powers . And again , Mr. Chairman , and your colleagues , thank you for moving this Congress down a very difficult road . Senator RIBICOFF ...
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... power to intervene in wage and price proceedings ? Senator HART . I am glad Mr. Chairman , that I built an escape ... powers and perhaps there would be this hesitency . CRUSADING ROLE Senator ALLEN . Would you characterize a desirable ...
... power to intervene in wage and price proceedings ? Senator HART . I am glad Mr. Chairman , that I built an escape ... powers and perhaps there would be this hesitency . CRUSADING ROLE Senator ALLEN . Would you characterize a desirable ...
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... power of all agencies of Government to gain access to the books and records of private organizations - business , labor , or other- wise . Our committee had carefully considered and rejected by majority vote a subpena power for the ...
... power of all agencies of Government to gain access to the books and records of private organizations - business , labor , or other- wise . Our committee had carefully considered and rejected by majority vote a subpena power for the ...
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Page 282 - States; or (2) a matter relating to agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. (b) General notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the Federal Register, unless persons subject thereto are named and either personally served or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance with law.
Page 277 - We respectfully request that this statement be made a part of the record of hearings by your Subcommittee on this matter.
Page 198 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
Page 299 - When rules are required by statute to be made on the record after opportunity for an agency hearing, sections 556 and 557 of this title apply instead of this subsection.
Page 282 - Except when notice or hearing is required by statute, this subsection does not apply — (A) to interpretative rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice...
Page 172 - ... individual chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member whom he is to succeed.
Page 282 - ... when the agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rules issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.
Page 180 - I because the applicant or recipient, or anyone responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient, has been convicted, in any Federal or State court, of (1) any felony, or (2) more than one violation of any law, other than a felony, based upon the acquiring, handling, or distributing of unwholesome, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food.
Page 250 - The regional director or the trial examiner, as the case may be, may by order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such terms as he may deem proper.
Page 172 - Nothing in this order shall be construed as subjecting any department, establishment, or other instrumentality of the executive branch of the Federal Government or the head thereof, or any function vested by law in or assigned pursuant to law to any...