Presidential Nominating Process: Hearings Held Before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, March 20, May 8, 1986, Washington, DC.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 186 pages |
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Page 8 - LEWIS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend title 44, United States Code, to provide for improved administration of public printing services and distribution of public documents. 1 Be it enacted by the...
Page 157 - Time of election. The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
Page 173 - [e]ffective advocacy of both public and private points of view, particularly controversial ones, is undeniably enhanced by group association." Subsequent decisions have made clear that the First and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee " 'freedom to associate with others for the common advancement of political beliefs and ideas,' " a freedom that encompasses " '[t]he right to associate with the political party of one's choice.
Page 159 - The importance of his election and the vital character of its relationship to and effect upon the welfare and safety of the whole people cannot be too strongly stated. To say that Congress is without power to pass appropriate legislation to safeguard such an election from the improper use of money to influence the result is to deny to the nation in a vital particular the power of self protection. Congress, undoubtedly, possesses that power, as it possesses every other power essential to preserve...
Page 159 - Federal functions under, and discharge duties in virtue of authority conferred by. the Constitution of the United States. The President is vested with the executive power of the Nation. The importance of his election and the vital character of its relationship to and effect upon the welfare and safety of the whole people cannot be too strongly stated.
Page 26 - A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing.
Page 2 - Vice President of the United States. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcsenta2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That this Act may be cited as the "Public Records Act of 4 1974".
Page 159 - The power of Congress to protect the election of President and Vice President from corruption being clear, the choice of means to that end presents a question primarily addressed to the judgment of Congress. If it can be seen that the means adopted are really calculated to attain the end, the degree of their necessity, the extent to which they conduce to the end, the closeness of the relationship between the means adopted, and the end to be attained, are matters for congressional determination alone.
Page 60 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I appear before you today in my capacity as Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board ("Bank Board' or 'Board') and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation ("PSLIC").