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Page 39 - Studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency ; (c) Evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government ; (A) Studying intergovernmental relationships between the united States and the States and municipalities, and between the United States and international
Page 38 - Evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government ; (a) Studying intergovernmental relationships between the United States and municipalities, and between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member. subcommittees
Page 39 - have the duty of : (a) Receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller General of the United States and of submitting such recommendations to the House as It deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports;
Page 14 - protect environmental values (S. 719) : nomic development of domestic mineral resources, reserves, and reclamation of metals and minerals to help assure satisfaction of industrial, security and environmental needs, (3) mining, minerals, and metallurgical research, including the use and recycling of scrap to promote the wise and efficient use of our natural and
Page 347 - with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings . . . and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture.
Page 146 - Over a century ago John Stuart Mill, the great synthesizer of classical economics, spoke of the stationary state in words that could hardly be more pertinent today : 'It must always have been seen, more or less distinctly, by political economists, that the increase in wealth is not boundless: that at the end of what
Page 16 - operation will conform to approved receiving water quality standards If discharges occur which violate the standards in interstate or navigable waters, the Federal Government may institute abatement action by suit or by injunction. The law gives these instructions : The court, giving due consideration to the practicability and to the physical and economic feasibility of securing abatement of any pollution proved, shall
Page 38 - Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. 9 Weather Bureau. 10. Fisheries and wildlife. 11. National Bureau of Standards, including standardization of weights and measures and the metric system. 12. Other related matters. Standing subcommittees 1. Aviation. 2. Communications. 3. Consumer. 4. Energy. Natural Resources and the Environment. 5. Merchant Marine. 6. Surface Transportation.
Page 106 - signed the Declaration of Independence: "Through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. Posterity will triumph in this day's transaction, even although we should rue it. which I trust in God we shall not.
Page 106 - generation can doubt that it was genuine and pervasive. Remember Tom Paine's plea for independence : "Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age ; posterity are virtually involved in the contest.