Home Rule and Reorganization for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Home Rule and Reorganization of ... 82-1, ..., February 02, 21, 22, March 1, 5, 1951, Partes 63-651951 - 277 páginas |
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Página 10 - ... rule-making power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in such House in the case of resolutions (as defined in section 202) ; and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith...
Página 213 - Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain...
Página 25 - President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause. (b) A vacancy in the Board shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the Board, and two members of the Board shall, at all times, constitute a quorum.
Página 8 - Any failure to obey such order may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Página 103 - ... will have had their voice in the election of the Government, which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them...
Página 10 - Congress — (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions described by subsection f.
Página 16 - District government incurs financial obligations, having previously ascertained that moneys have been appropriated and allotted and will be available when the obligations shall become due and payable ; (3) audit and approve before payment all bills, invoices, payrolls, and other evidences of claims, demands, or charges...
Página 56 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever " over the District of Columbia, thus possessing the combined powers of a general and of a State government in all cases where legislation is possible But as the repository of the legislative power of the United States, Congress in creating the District of Columbia " a body corporate for municipal purposes " could only authorize it to exercise municipal powers, and this is all that Congress attempted to do.
Página 17 - The financial transactions of all Government corporations shall be audited by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The audit shall be conducted at the place or places where the accounts of the respective corporations are normally kept.
Página 262 - An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States...