Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2330/S. 1191, an Act Making Appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2002 and for Other Purposes : Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Agriculture ... Nondepartmental Witnesses |
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Page 397 - Other agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were created as independent agencies with vast adjudicative powers, as is typical for the model independent regulatory commission.
Page 371 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 319 - These activities are administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the...
Page 421 - Service with an assessment of the nutrient composition of meals offered in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP).
Page 434 - Guidelines* used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC...
Page 318 - FDA's primary objectives in reviewing an IND are, in all phases of the investigation, to assure the safety and rights of subjects, and, in Phase 2 and 3, to help assure that the quality of the scientific evaluation of drugs is adequate to permit an evaluation of the drug's effectiveness and safety.
Page 340 - Congress intended when it passed the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984 (commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act after its principal sponsors).
Page 371 - This concludes my statement, Mr Chairman. I will be glad to answer any questions the Committee may have.
Page 281 - Mr. Chairman this concludes my statement. My colleagues and I will be happy to answer any questions that the committee has today.
Page 111 - These advance payments, called "cushion of credit" payments, are held in the Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Liquidating Account. This account is credited monthly with a sum determined by multiplying the outstanding cushion of credit payments made after October 1, 1987, by the difference between the average weighted interest rate paid on outstanding certificates of beneficial ownership issued by the Fund and the 5 percent rate of interest provided to RUS borrowers on cushion of credit...