Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government OperationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - Executive departments |
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action administration agencies amended amount Anti-Deficiency Act Antideficiency appropriated funds appropriation bill approval areas ARNOLD & PORTER assistance authority Chairman Cong Congress congressional constitutional construction Court Department Director economic EDMISTEN Education effect enacted environmental executive branch expenditures Federal fiscal year 1973 funds appropriated going Government grants gress hearings Highway Trust Fund House impound funds impoundment of funds issue item veto January June 30 legislative loans Management and Budget mandate ment million obligation Office of Management percent President President's priorities problem projects proposed question request reserves responsibility RUCKELSHAUS rural Rural Electrification Act Secretary BUTZ Senator CHILES Senator ERVIN Senator FULBRIGHT Senator METCALF Senator MUSKIE Senator PERCY Separation of Powers Sess SNEED specific spending Stat statement statute statutory Subcommittee taxes termination tion U.S. Senate United water pollution withholding
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Page 220 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 135 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 78 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Page 697 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 345 - The 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays Its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.
Page 330 - In apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements, greater efficiency of operations, or other developments subsequent to the date on which such appropriation was made available.
Page 135 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
Page 142 - When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Page 431 - Whenever, on the basis of any information available to him, the Administrator finds that any person is in violation of any requirement of an applicable implementation plan...