Availability of Information from Federal Departments and Agencies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session-U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - Executive departments |
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85th Congress action would endanger Administration agencies to withhold agency or official amend section 161 Answer Attorney authority of Federal authorize withholding information authorized to prescribe availability of records Boske Chairman Civil Aeronautics Act claim of privilege Committee on Government Congress custody D. C. DEAR DAWSON Department of Defense efficiency of Government employees enacted executive departments EXHIBIT explain in detail FASCELL given an agency GOFF Government Information Subcommittee Government Operations House of Representatives information and limit January 17 July 18 June 20 legislation limiting the availability ment MITCHELL Moss officers and agencies officers and clerks plaintiff Post Office Department postal Postmaster prescribe regulations provides public interest public or limiting questions Ragen request result in unfair Revised Statutes rules and regulations Secretary section 22 specific Statutes 5 U. S. C. Statutes with respect subordinates tion Touhy United States Attorney United States Code unreasonably impair Washington WILLIAM L withholding of information
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Page 2575 - the head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 2628 - States, as may be by law required of him; to make report, and give information to either branch of the legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required) , respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office; and generally to perform all such services relative to the finances, as he shall be directed to perform.
Page 2624 - To sustain the privilege, it need only be evident from the implications of the question, in the setting in which it is asked, that a responsive answer to the question or an explanation of why it cannot be answered might be dangerous because injurious disclosure could result.
Page 2626 - ... whenever the said principal officer shall be removed from office by the President of the United States or in any other case of vacancy...
Page 2627 - War, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of War, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on, or entrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeably to the Constitution, relative to military commissions, or to the land or naval forces, 13.
Page 2628 - State ; he shall digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of the public credit...
Page 2624 - There must be a formal claim of privilege, lodged by the head of the department which has control over the matter, after actual personal consideration by that officer.
Page 2624 - Judicial control over the evidence in a case cannot be abdicated to the caprice of executive officers. Yet we will not go so far as to say that the court may automatically require a complete disclosure to the judge before the claim of privilege will be accepted in any case.
Page 2619 - Information concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes operations, style of work, or apparatus, or to the Identity, confidential statistical data amount or source of any Income, profits losses, or expenditures of an; person, firm partnership, corporation, or association...
Page 2628 - ... shall be referred to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.