Executive Impoundment of Appropriated Funds: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ... March 23, 24, and 25, 1971 |
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Page 616 - which declares it to be '. . . the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy ... to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.' " In order to promote purchasing power (which Mr. Weinberger had underlined), it is
Page 36 - when he wrote: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. The
Page 136 - 44 Contemporary regulations are even more explicit: No officer or employee of the United States shall make or authorize an expenditure from or create or authorize an obligation under any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available therein; nor shall a.iy such officer or employee involve the Government in any contract or other
Page 595 - 3. cases, the duty and responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of the law, and not to the direction of the President. . . . K To contend that the obligation imposed on the President to see the laws faithfully executed, implies a power to forbid their execution, is a novel construction of the constitution, and entirely inadmissible.
Page 524 - the complex nature of most tax questions. In order to protect the public from unlimited bureaucratic discretion, the Congress passed the Administrative Procedure Act which, among other important provisions, provides that an agency shall give notice before promulgating rules, and "shall give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making through submission of written data, views, or arguments
Page 618 - Congress op the United States of America, at the Second Session, Begun and Held at the City of Washington on Monday, the Nineteenth Day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy AN ACT To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise, extend, and Improve the program established by title VI of such Act, and for other purposes. Be it
Page 40 - 1. When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate ... If his act is held unconstitutional under these circumstances, it usually means that the Federal Government as an undivided whole lacks power
Page 49 - Now. leaving out such things as any "portion, any appropriation, reserves may be established to provide for contingencies or to effect savings by or through . . ."—well, it does not exactly do that. But the question in my mind was whether these other developments subsequent to the date on which such appropriation was made available,
Page 594 - With respect to the President, as Commander in Chief of the army and navy, his authority "would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and Admiral of the confederacy
Page 302 - reason therefor shall be fully set forth in each particular case and communicated to Congress in connection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on account thereof. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be summarily removed from office and may also be punished by a fine of not