Hearings Before the House Select Committee on Lobbying Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, Created Pursuant to H. Res. 298, Volumes 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - Lobbying |
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Page 326 - To influence, directly or indirectly, the passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States.
Page 247 - No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, In the absence of express authorization by 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...
Page 59 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof...
Page 33 - 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 29 - 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 180 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 29 - 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 25 - The comptroller general shall investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds...
Page 34 - Labor, who is directed 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.