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Page 37 - No member shall speak more than twice in any one debate, on the same day, without leave of the Senate.
Page 18 - Act of 1949, as amended ; <5) procure services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 USC 55a), at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals...
Page 15 - Secretary, but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 5 - (a) GENERAL RULE. — In the case of an individual, there shall be allowed, as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year, an amount equal to...
Page 38 - No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.
Page 6 - As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
Page 10 - It shall be the duty of the treasurer of a political committee to keep a detailed and exact account of...
Page 11 - It shall be the duty of the treasurer to obtain and keep a receipted bill, stating the particulars, for every expenditure by or on behalf of a political committee exceeding $10 in amount. The treasurer shall preserve all receipted bills and accounts required to be kept by this section for a period of at least two years from the date of the filing of the statement containing such items.
Page 23 - ... of a respectable majority. In those emergencies of a nation in which the goodness or badness, the weakness or strength, of its government is of the greatest importance, there is commonly a necessity for action. The public business must in some way or other go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority...
Page 30 - When he ascertains that the number of books in a depository library is below ten thousand, other than Government publications, or it has ceased to be maintained so as to be accessible to the public, or that the Government publications which have been furnished the library have not been properly maintained, he shall delete the library from the list of depository libraries if the library fails to correct the unsatisfactory conditions within six months.