Egg Research and Consumer Information Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12000 ... July 12, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 49 pages |
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advertising AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY Alabama American Egg Board American Heart Association bill BLUM Chairman cholesterol commercial eggs produced COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE commodities CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumer education Consumer Information Act cost DATT Department of Agriculture develop ducers effective Egg Association Egg Board egg industry Egg Marketing Egg Producers Association Egg Research eggs and poultry exempt Farm Bureau funds GEORGE MCGOVERN Hawaii Egg Producers hearing House Agriculture Committee individual egg producers issuance KENNETT laying hens legislation less than two-thirds LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS markets for eggs MILLER million national program number of egg organization percent persons engaged PHIL CAMPBELL PICKLER plan or project Poultry & Egg Poultry Association Poultry Federation production of commercial products of spent referendum refund representative Research and Consumer Ross Senator ALLEN Senator CLARK spent fowl STATEMENT term Thank tion U.S. Department U.S. SENATE United USDA Vernon Miller WENTINK
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Page 8 - ... and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found.
Page 7 - Any handler subject to an order may file a written petition with the Secretary of Agriculture, stating that any such order or any provision of any such order or any obligation imposed in connection therewith is not in accordance with law and praying for a modification thereof or to be exempted therefrom.
Page 8 - State commissions information concerning any such subject. (b) For the purpose of any investigation or any other proceeding under this title, any member of the Commission, or any officer designated by it, is empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, subpena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of any books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, contracts, agreements, or other records which the Commission deems relevant or material to the inquiry.
Page 7 - The several district courts of the United States are hereby vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any person from violating any order, regulation, or agreement, heretofore or hereafter made or issued pursuant to this title, in any proceeding now pending or hereafter brought in said courts.
Page 4 - Agriculture and only such information so furnished or acquired as the Secretary deems relevant shall be disclosed by them, and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the direction, or upon the request, of the Secretary...
Page 5 - ... the publication by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by such person.
Page 8 - Whenever in the judgment of the Commission any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation...
Page 8 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 8 - The extent to which the cotton producer membership of such organization is represented in setting the organization's policies ; (d) Evidence of stability and permanency of the organization; (e) Sources from which the organization's operating funds are derived ; ( f ) Functions of the organization ; and (g) The organization's ability and willingness to further the aims and objectives of...
Page 8 - The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, with the approval of the President, to make such regulations with the force and effect of law as may be necessary to carry out the powers vested in him...