Agency for Consumer Protection: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6118 ... April 20 and 21, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 508 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action activities Administrator Agency for Consumer agency proceedings agency's Agriculture April April 24 Association Attorney authority beef believe Better Business Bureaus bill budget bureaucracy Chairman citizen Commission committee complaints concern Congress Congressman Consumer Advocacy consumer advocate Consumer Affairs consumer agency consumer interest Consumer Protection Act Consumer Protection Agency consumer's cost court create decisionmaking decisions Department economic effective ERLENBORN establish executive exemption farmers Federal agency federal government Federal Trade Commission functions Government Operations groups hearings HORTON House industry interests of consumers intervene issue Jack Brooks judicial review labor Legislation and National ment million Nader National Consumers League participation PETERSON prepared statement problems programs proposed Agency public interest Ralph Nader regulations regulatory agencies represent responsibility RIEHM ROSENTHAL safety Senate small business Stop & Shop Subcommittee sumer Thank tion trade Washington
Popular passages
Page 103 - ... establish or utilize such regional, local, or other agencies, and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, as may from time to time be needed. Attorneys appointed under this section may, at the direction of the Board, appear for and represent the Board in any case in court. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the Board to appoint individuals for the purpose of conciliation or mediation, or for economic analysis.
Page 43 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Page 114 - Subcommittee of the Consumer Protection Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General and asked the FCC to clarify the pay-pcr-call rules issued in Docket No.
Page 101 - ... the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any income return by any person or corporation, 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...
Page 91 - For the purpose of this study, a subsidy is defined as the Provision of Federal economic assistance, at the expense of others in the economy, to the private sector producers or consumers of a particular good, service or factor of production. The Government receives no equivalent compensation in return, but conditions the assistance on a particular performance by the recipient - a quid pro quo - that has the effect of altering the price or costs of the particular good, service, or factor to the subsidy...
Page 102 - It is implicit in the entire structure of the Act that the Board acts to oversee and referee the process of collective bargaining, leaving the results of the contest to the bargaining strengths of the parties.
Page 209 - The time of the gentleman has expired. Thank you very much, Mr.
Page 148 - He is a graduate of the City College of New York, and is now divisional sales manager of TDK Electronics Corp.
Page 287 - Informed consumers are essential to the fair and efficient functioning of a free market economy. Packages and their labels should enable consumers to obtain accurate information as to the quantity of the contents and should facilitate value comparisons. Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to assist consumers and manufacturers in reaching these goals in the marketing...
Page 103 - It may be that the time has come for a re-evaluation of the basic content of collective bargaining as contemplated by the federal legislation. But that is for Congress. Congress has demonstrated its capacity to adjust the Nation's labor legislation to what, in its legislative judgment, constitutes the statutory pattern appropriate to the developing state of labor relations in the country. Major revisions of the basic statute were enacted in 1947 and 1959. To be sure, then, Congress might be of opinion...