Confirmation of Clyde B. Aichison, Patrick J. Farrell, and Claude R. Porter to be Members of Interstate Commerce Commission: Hearings...Dec. 20 and 21, 1928 |
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Halaman 27 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an increase in an item of any such estimate or request * * * shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment, unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Halaman 38 - ... as are the other reports transmitted to Congress. This report shall contain such information and data collected by the Commission as may be considered of value in the determination of questions connected with the regulation of commerce, together with such recommendations as to additional legislation relating thereto as the Commission may deem necessary ; and the names and compensation of the persons employed by said Commission.
Halaman 38 - That the Commission shall, on or before the first day of December in each year, make a report, which shall be transmitted to Congress, and copies of which shall be distributed as are the other reports transmitted to Congress This report shall contain such information and data collected by the Commission as may be considered of value in the determination of questions connected with the regulation of commerce, together with such recommendations as to additional legislation relating...
Halaman 25 - ... Several of us on the committee were anxious to find out why these mandates had not been fulfilled, including such stalwarts as Senator Pittman of Nevada, the late Senator Fess from Ohio, and former Senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Pittman made the following statement while questioning Mr. Aitchison : What I am getting at is this : In creating the Interstate Commerce Commission we made it totally responsible to Congress and not to any department of the Government. We were in hopes that it would...
Halaman 25 - To which Mr. Aitchison replied : Since you enacted the budget law it has imposed very important restrictions upon our ability to come to you and talk things over the way we used to do. To which Chairman Watson said : Then we ought to repeal the law. and Senator Pittman : I think so, too. I am trying to get at that. Congress passes a law and, apparently, the Director of the Budget repeals it in part or in toto as he sees fit by refusing to allow appropriations.
Halaman 40 - Yes, sir." Senator Wheeler: "But they assume that they are a branch of the executive branch of the Government rather than the legislative branch of the Government." Senator Pittman : "I hope that the Commission does not find anything in the statute other than that section 206 to cause them fear, because the effort of Congress was to have an independent body and not a body that was afraid of anyone. "I want to say to the Commission that my convictions in this matter have not changed since 1928, and...
Halaman 25 - ... Commission we made it totally responsible to Congress and not to any department of the Government. We were in hopes that it would be responsible to Congress rather than to a department of the Government or the Bureau of the Budget. To which Mr. Aitchison replied : Since you enacted the budget law it has imposed very important restrictions upon our ability to come to you and talk things over the way we used to do.
Halaman 40 - ... failure to grasp the intent of Congress in creating the Interstate Commerce Commission, and that was that it was to be a separate, nonpartisan commission as far as possible, and I mean by that it was to be an establishment that was as independent as possible of any institution except Congress * * *. It looks to me as though the institution has conceived the idea that it is responsible to the Chief Executive rather than to Congress.