Domestic Common Carrier Regulation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7047 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 527 páginas |
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Página 378 - regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Página 147 - ... the commission shall give to the hearing and decision of such questions preference over all other questions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as possible.
Página 17 - That the Commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice.
Página 63 - ... one or more points in each and every other city, town or place in said State, and...
Página 527 - No change shall be made in the charges, classifications, regulations, or practices which have been so filed and published except after thirty days' notice to the Commission and to the public, which shall be published in such form and contain such information as the Commission may by regulations prescribe...
Página 15 - Section 706(2) (A) requires a finding that the actual choice made was not 'arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.' 5 USC § 706(2) (A) (1964 ed., Supp. V). To make this finding the court must consider whether the decision was based on a consideration of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of judgment.
Página 27 - Rates which enable the company to operate successfully, to maintain its financial integrity, to attract capital, and to compensate its investors for the risks assumed certainly cannot be condemned as invalid, even though they might produce only a meager return on the so-called "fair value
Página 24 - The legislative discretion implied in the rate making power necessarily extends to the entire legislative process, embracing the method used in reaching the legislative determination as well as that determination itself. We are not concerned with either, so long as constitutional limitations are not transgressed. When the legislative method is disclosed, it may have a definite bearing upon the validity of the result reached, but the judicial function does not go beyond the decision of the constitutional...
Página 228 - Act's provisions are explicitly applicable to "all interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio . . .." 47 USC § 152 (a). The Commission's responsibilities are no more narrow : it is required to endeavor to "make available ... to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service . . . ." 47 USC § 151. The Commission was expected to serve as the "single Government agency" with "unified jurisdiction" and "regulatory power...
Página 6 - DC 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. SUPREME...