Amending Railroad Retirement Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act ... Hearing ... on H.R. 4744 ... June 17, 1955 |
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administration agency amend the Railroad amount appointed attorneys benefit payable bill Board members Board personnel Brotherhood Chairman Civil Service Commission civil-service laws civil-service rules civil-service system classified civil service Committee on Interstate congressional cost DOLLIVER dual benefits effect employed enactment entitled Executive Order 10440 favor Government Harper HARRIS increase Internal Revenue Code Kelly laws and rules legislation MATSCHECK matter maximum memorandum ment merit system OREN HARRIS paid percent of payroll PERCY PRIEST PHILIP YOUNG political present President proposed provision qualified question railroad employees railroad industry Railroad Retirement Act Railroad Retirement Board railroad retirement fund railroad retirement system Railroad Unemployment Insurance Railway Labor Executives receive recommendation repeal restriction retired railroad rules and regulations SCHOENE security benefit Senate Senator DAVIS Social Security Act social-security benefits spoils system spouse's annuity spouse's benefit spouses SQUIRE statement statute survivor benefit Thank tion Unemployment Insurance Act widows WILLIAMS wives ZANDT
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Page 68 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof...
Page 71 - The Federal Trade Commission is an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in the statute in accordance with the legislative standard therein prescribed, and to perform other specified duties as a legislative or as a judicial aid. Such a body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive. Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control....
Page 70 - That no person in the classified civil service of the United States shall be removed therefrom except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of said service and for reasons given in writing...
Page 32 - Clerks, in collaboration and cooperation with the representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
Page 32 - Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America; International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers; Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees; Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees; Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America; National Organization Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America; National Marine Engineers...
Page 42 - Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act...
Page 61 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
Page 66 - Claims for benefits; regulations (a) Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the board may prescribe.
Page 71 - ... in both cases as the President shall direct, so as to provide representation on the Board satisfactory to the largest number, respectively, of employees and carriers concerned.