Organization of Congress: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 2, Volumes 3-6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 |
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4-year term 88th Congress A. S. Mike Monroney administrative agencies amendment Appropriations Committee authority broadcast budget Bureau candidate Chairman cloture Cochairman MADDEN Cochairman MONRONEY congressional constitutional debate democratic district effective election ELLIOTT executive branch expenditures experience Federal fiscal floor foreign George Meader going Government gress hearings House of Representatives important interest Joint Committee lative leadership Legislative Reference Service Legislative Reorganization Act legislatures majority matter MCCLELLAN Members of Congress Members of Parliament ment minority mittee operation organization oversight Parliament party person political committee Political Science present President presidential problem procedures proposal question recommendations record reform Representative GRIFFIN Representative HALL Representative HECHLER Representative LINDSAY Republican responsibility Senator BOGGS Senator METCALF seniority session staffing statement subcommittees suggestion television testimony Thank thing tion tive U.S. Senate vote WASILEWSKI
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Page 664 - May 1 of each year (beginning with the year 1947) to file a report with the Senate and the House of Representatives containing its findings and recommendations with respect to each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic Report, and from time to time to make such other reports and recommendations to the Senate and House of Representatives as it deems advisable.
Page 483 - The provisions of sections 102 to 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes (USC, title 2, sees. 192-194), shall apply in the case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this section.
Page 842 - Representatives, plus the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate, serves as a continuing research agency for the legislature through the maintenance of a trained staff.
Page 973 - Where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question he is to withdraw. And where such an interest has appeared, his voice has been disallowed, even after a division. In a case so contrary, not only to the laws of decency, but to the fundamental principle of the social compact, which denies to any man to be a judge in his own cause, it is for the honor of the House that this rule of immemorial observance should be strictly adhered to.
Page 708 - Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee, and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original selection. The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members.
Page 675 - With full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to the procedure in such House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. SEC. 202. As used in this title, the term "resolution...
Page 610 - COMMITTEE PROCEDURE SEC. 133. (a) Each standing committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives (except the Committees on Appropriations) shall fix regular weekly, biweekly, or monthly meeting days for the transaction of business before the committee, and additional meetings may be called by the chairman as he may deem necessary.
Page 675 - ... (2) With full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, In the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
Page 610 - ... calendar days from, the date of said request, then, upon the filing with the clerk of the committee of the written and signed request of a majority of the committee for a called special meeting of the committee, the committee shall meet on the day and hour specified in said written request. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the committee to notify all members of the committee in the usual way of such called special meeting.
Page 497 - The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the National proceedings. Hence, tedious delays ; continual negotiation and intrigue ; contemptible compromises of the public good.