Consumer Protection Legislation: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 635 pages |
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Page 568 - For the purpose of 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, Nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 479 - ... when the agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rules issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.
Page 517 - The theory that the Commission can always effectively represent the listener interests in a renewal proceeding without the aid and participation of legitimate listener representatives fulfilling the role of private attorneys general is one of those assumptions we collectively try to work with so long as they are reasonably adequate. When it becomes clear, as it does to us now, that it is no longer a valid assumption which stands up under the realities of actual experience, neither we nor the Commission...
Page 143 - In questions of power then let no more be heard" of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 554 - An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 578 - That nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 373 - ... substantial issues of law or fact which would not otherwise be properly raised or argues, and (2) the issues thus raised are of sufficient importance and immediacy to warrant an additional expenditure of the Commission's resources on a necessarily longer and more complicated proceeding.
Page 477 - Many of the present recommendations have been implemented, and others are in the process of implementation. In addition, the Conference study of an issue has led in several instances to immediate acceptance of procedural improvements by affected agencies, without the necessity of a formal recommendation.
Page 393 - Panel (MACAP), sponsored by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association, and the American Retail Federation.
Page 569 - In the Matter of AMENDMENT OF PART 74, SUBPART K, OF THE COMMISSION'S RULES AND REGULATIONS, RELATIVE TO COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION SYSTEMS; AND INQUIRY INTO THE Docket No.