Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977 (Executive Office of the President): Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3 and September 8, 1977

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Page 194 - So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred...
Page 193 - National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976.
Page 58 - Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use.
Page 192 - Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 24, 1958, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended CIVILIAN MOBILIZATION SECTION 1.
Page 143 - ... (2) Improvements in existing systems for handling scientific and technical information on a Government-wide basis, Including consideration of the appropriate role to be played by the private sector in the dissemination of such information...
Page 60 - ... for many deaths and are frequently used in suicide attempts. The withdrawal reaction of patients addicted to barbiturates can be more difficult and more dangerous than that associated with heroin withdrawal. They are frequently oversold, overprescribed, and overused. Therefore, I will : Instruct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake a study of barbiturates and other sedative/hypnotic drugs to determine the conditions under which they can be most safely used. Instruct the...
Page 140 - Advisers, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, shall transmit to the Congress all reports required by Section 408 of the Act (7 USC 1736b).
Page 56 - Drug addiction, which in recent years was viewed as a problem peculiar to America, now affects people throughout the world. We can no longer concern ourselves merely with keeping illicit drugs out of the United States, but we must join with other nations to deal with this global problem by combatting drug traffickers and sharing our knowledge and resources to help treat addiction wherever it occurs.
Page 194 - Budget shall determine, shall be transferred to the appropriate agency, or component at such time or times as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide, except that no such unexpended balances transferred shall be used for purposes other than those for which the appropriation was originally made. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide for terminating the affairs of...
Page 183 - July 1, 1978, as the President shall specify, but not sooner than the earliest time allowable under section 906 of title 5 of the United States Code.

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