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... matter be definitely and unquestionably settled , I have introduced this bill so that the committee might have a hearing on it and determine just what they want to do about it . I have asked the Comptroller General to appear here today ...
... matter be definitely and unquestionably settled , I have introduced this bill so that the committee might have a hearing on it and determine just what they want to do about it . I have asked the Comptroller General to appear here today ...
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... matters ; to have it acted upon solely on its merits ; and then to accept your decision , whatever it may be . I will correct the chairman just to this extent : I think probably that he was in error when he said that I asked him to ...
... matters ; to have it acted upon solely on its merits ; and then to accept your decision , whatever it may be . I will correct the chairman just to this extent : I think probably that he was in error when he said that I asked him to ...
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... matter how friendly I may feel , gentlemen , I cannot condone its attempt to evade responsibility and effective accounting of its expenditures . Nor can I acquiesce in its desire that I say such accounting shall not be made . Within a ...
... matter how friendly I may feel , gentlemen , I cannot condone its attempt to evade responsibility and effective accounting of its expenditures . Nor can I acquiesce in its desire that I say such accounting shall not be made . Within a ...
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... matter is simply this and nothing more ; and we should not permit extraneous matters to enter into it . In that decision I held that the T. V. A. was subject to section 305 of the Budget and Accounting Act as amended . And that reads as ...
... matter is simply this and nothing more ; and we should not permit extraneous matters to enter into it . In that decision I held that the T. V. A. was subject to section 305 of the Budget and Accounting Act as amended . And that reads as ...
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... matter what view you gentlemen may have about this question I think you will agree you have read it , I have learned backward to be fair in that letter . I accurately stated both contentions . And I placed in legislative language the ...
... matter what view you gentlemen may have about this question I think you will agree you have read it , I have learned backward to be fair in that letter . I accurately stated both contentions . And I placed in legislative language the ...
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Page 74 - I, therefore, suggest to the Congress legislation to create a Tennessee Valley Authority— a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.
Page 24 - ... not only creates it, but gives it every faculty which it possesses. The power to acquire rights of any description, to transact business of any description, to make contracts of any description, to sue on those contracts, is given and measured by its charter, and that charter is a law of the United States. This being can acquire no right, make no contract, bring no suit, which is not authorized by a law of the United States. It is not only itself the mere creature of a law, but all its actions...
Page 22 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page 81 - ... (c) The comptroller general shall specially report to Congress every expenditure or contract made by any department or establishment in any year in violation of law.
Page 24 - Authority" (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation"). The board of directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the board. This Act may be cited as the "Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.
Page 89 - ... or employed by the Corporation, and shall be afforded full facilities for counting all cash and verifying transactions with and balances in depositaries. He shall make report of each such audit in quadruplicate, one copy for the President of the United States, one for the chairman of the board, one for public inspection at the principal office of the Corporation, and the other to be retained by him for the uses of the Congress: Provided, That such report shall not be made...
Page 116 - Corporation; and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds, the General Accounting Office, in the settlement of the accounts of the...
Page 5 - There is created an establishment of the Government to be known as the General Accounting Office, which shall be independent of the executive departments and under the control and direction of the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 27 - department and establishment" and "department or establishment" mean any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, office, agency, or other establishment of the Government, including...
Page 68 - The Comptroller General shall make special report to the President of the United States and to the Congress of any transaction or condition found by him to be in conflict with the powers or duties entrusted to the Corporation by law.