Discontinuance of Monthly Press Briefings by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the Consumer Price Index and Unemployment Figures: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, First Session. April 21 and 22, 1971, Volumes 74-77 |
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administration ALEXANDER announced answer April 22 Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Labor Chairman Commissioner Moore CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Consumer Price Index CONYERS D.C. DEAR decision to discontinue Department of Labor employment and unemployment employment statistics ERLENBORN explanation and analysis Foreign Operations FRANK HORTON gentleman Geoffrey Moore going Gordon committee Government Information Subcommittee Harold Goldstein HORTON indicated issued Joint Economic Committee Labor Department Labor Statistics letter LIBRARY OF CONGRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS marginally significant matter ment MOLLENHOFF month monthly press briefings MOORHEAD Nixon Office Operations and Government percent policy implications policymakers political President press conference press release procedure Professor Gordon R. A. GORDON reasons REID responsibility schedule Secretary Hodgson Secretary of Labor statement talking technical press briefings technical questions technical staff telephone testimony Thank things tion understand unemployment figures unemployment rate Washington Washington Evening Star White House
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Page 66 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and 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 73 - I am executive vice president of the WDSU Broadcasting Corp., New Orleans, La. I submit this statement in my capacity as chairman of the freedom of information committee of the National Association of Broadcasters, the trade association of the radio and television broadcasters of this country — whose membership includes 1,778 radio stations and 327 television stations, as well as the 4 national networks.
Page 61 - ... endeavoring to obtain the relatively longer short-time loans, such as cattle-raising loans, when the farmer needs the loan for perhaps a year or a year and a half or so, it is necessary in some way to arrange better contact with the savings institutions as contrasted with so-called commercial banks. But, on the other hand, it seems to me that there is also an opportunity for improvement in connecting the relatively short-time loans of farmers better than we now do to our Federal Reserve System....
Page 25 - Department to change the ground rules for the release of statistics is in my opinion a bad decision for a number of reasons. In the first place, I do not believe that it was...
Page 79 - The need to improve the organization of Federal statistical activities arises from the proliferation of statistical collection activities among some 40 different Federal agencies, the wide disparities in the quality of data and the standards used by the various agencies, incomparabilities in the data from different sources, inflexibility of the present structure in meeting emerging data needs, operational inefficiencies and overlapping collection activities, and similar problems.
Page 33 - ... 1874, cap. 28. There does not appear to be any valid grounds for contending that this was not a legal meeting. Although the Trustees were present, and moved an amendment to select the site in Walsingham, they acquiesced in the resolution of the meeting, which was to adopt the one in Charlotteville. There would appear to have been a difference of opinion between the Trustees and the majority of the meeting...
Page 6 - Federal agencies, and also to avoid any awkwardness that can occur and has occasionally occurred to our professional staff from having to respond to inquiries that call for a policy response.
Page 62 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. .- . Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Alexander? Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Chairman, I would just like [to say for the record that I dp not buy the explanation cither, 1 respectfully disagree with the position of the Secretary of Labor.
Page 55 - I have had difficulties with the irress, and obviously some of my friends and colleagues on the other side of the aisle have. But, my differences with the press, to me, have given me no reason to run from them. You asked me to draw my own conclusion, and that is, that the difficulties of the Secretary and his professionals' interpretation of the data have given him reason to run from the press, and that is his difficulty.
Page 23 - Rehnquist made a statement in 1971 to the Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee in which he asserted that the privilege of the President to withhold information "the disclosure of which he feels would impair the proper exercise of his constitutional obligations" is "firmly rooted in history and precedent.