Hearings Before the House Select Committee on Lobbying Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, Created Pursuant to H. Res. 298, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - Lobbying |
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Accounting Office agent or counsel ALBERT appear apply appropriation attempt to influence BAILEY believe BROWN Budget Bureau California CANTRIL CHAIRMAN Clerk Committee on Lobbying congressional Constitution DOYLE employee employment enacted executive agencies executive branch expenditures expense statements filed Frank Buchanan Galloway Government Hadley Cantril HALLECK hearings Henry Wallace individual influence legislation investigation joint committee JONES LANHAM lative legislative advocate legislative agent legislative counsel Legislative Reference Legislative Reference Service Legislative Reorganization Act legislature Lobbying Act lobbying activities lobbying law lobbyists March 20 Members of Congress ment Miss ZELLER mittee newspapers North Dakota O'HARA organizations passage or defeat pending person political President pressure boys pressure groups proposed provisions public opinion purpose question recommendations record Regulation of Lobbying Secretary Section 305 Calif Senate session specific staff statute tion violation vote WEITZEL Wisconsin witnesses
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Page 159 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 126 - Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropriation...
Page 10 - ... by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 155 - Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the Department, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department, shall be used in the current fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled "An Act to prevent pernicious political activities...
Page 155 - Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropriation; but this shall not prevent officers or employees of the United States or of its departments or agencies from communicating to Members of Congress on the request of any Member or to Congress, through the proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of the public business. Whoever, being an officer or employee...
Page 1 - Subpenas may be issued over the signature of the chairman of the committee or any member of the committee designated by him, and may be served by any person designated by such chairman or member. The chairman of the committee or any member thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
Page 1 - States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence...
Page 9 - To influence, directly or indirectly, the passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States.
Page 93 - On the return of the attachment and the production of the body of the defendant, the said judge shall have jurisdiction of the matter, and the person charged may purge himself of the contempt in the same way, and the same proceedings shall be had, and the same penalties may be imposed, and the same punishment inflicted as in the case of a witness subpoenaed to appear and give evidence on the trial of a civil cause before a superior court.
Page 10 - ... of any proposed legislation or from appearing before a committee of the Congress in support of or opposition to proposed legislation; and any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.