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[-Eighty-sixth Congress, 1st Session.], Partes6-8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 |
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Accounting Act Accounting Office activities administrative agency Air Force Air Materiel Command Air National Guard answer appropriate approval ARCHIBALD Army Assistant Attorney Auditor authority ballistic missile program Budget and Accounting Bureau CAMPBELL Chairman Chief of Staff classified command Comptroller concerned conduct confidential Congress contract contractors copies Department of Defense Deputy Inspector determine Director documents duties effectiveness established evaluate executive executive agencies executive privilege expenditures FASCELL funds furnish GOLDEN Government Information Headquarters USAF HOFFMAN inspec inspection reports Inspector General report Inspector General's report internal audit investigation JOSEPH CAMPBELL KELLER legislative letter Materiel matter ment MITCHELL Moss opinion organization paragraph personnel POWERS President procedures procurement question records regulation request responsibilities ROGERS Secretary DOUGLAS Secretary of Defense SOUTHWICK specific statement of facts Statutes statutory subcommittee Thompson Products tion title 31 United Washington
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Página 3753 - All departments and establishments shall furnish to the Comptroller General such information regarding the powers, duties, activities, organization, financial transactions, and methods of business of their respective offices as he may from time to time require of them ; and the Comptroller General, or any of his assistants or employees, when duly authorized by him, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records...
Página 3776 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.
Página 3779 - The comptroller general shall investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds, and shall make to the President when requested by him, and to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a report in writing of the work of the general accounting office...
Página 3693 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
Página 3773 - The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to make an expenditure analysis of each agency in the executive branch of the Government (including Government corporations), which, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, will enable Congress to determine whether public funds have been economically and efficiently administered and expended.
Página 3789 - The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
Página 3910 - ... it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the constitution between the different departments should be preserved; a just regard to the constitution, and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.
Página 3767 - The bureau, when directed by the President, shall make a detailed study of the departments and establishments for the purpose of enabling the President to determine what changes (with a view of securing greater economy and efficiency in the conduct of the public service...
Página 3914 - I do not suppose that the public offices of the United States are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress by the fact that they were created by laws enacted by themselves. It must be that these instrumentalities were created for the benefit of the people and to answer the general purposes of government under the Constitution and the laws, and that they are unencumbered by any lien in favor of either branch of Congress growing out of their construction, and unembarrassed...
Página 3676 - Because It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the executive branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters, and because it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed...