Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government: Lending Agencies Report. Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session |
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Page 362 - The financial transactions of the Corporation for any fiscal year during which Federal funds are available to finance any portion of its operations may 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.
Page 103 - TITLE IX.— BOARD OF TAX APPEALS "MEMBERSHIP OF BOARD "Sec. 900. The Board of Tax Appeals (hereinafter referred to as the 'Board') is hereby continued as an independent agency in the Executive Branch of the Government.
Page 23 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 226 - STATEMENT OF GEORGE J. BURGER, VICE PRESIDENT, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS Mr. BURGER. I am George J. Burger, vice president in charge of legislative activities, National Federation of Independent Business, 740 Washington Building, Washington, DC Our national headquarters are located in Burlingame, Calif. We also maintain division offices at New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
Page 408 - Government to the extent that they make or participate in the making of foreign loans or engage in foreign, financial, exchange or monetary transactions.
Page 158 - Administration also is empowered — "(1) to make such loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lending institutions through agreements to participate on an immediate or deferred basis) as the Administration may determine to be necessary or appropriate because of floods or other catastrophes...
Page 225 - The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a State or a municipality or a citi/en.
Page 225 - The Fifth Amendment commands that property be not taken without making just compensation. Valid contracts are property, whether the obligor be a private individual, a municipality, a State or the United States. Rights against the United States arising out of a contract with it are protected by the Fifth Amendment.
Page 159 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 249 - ... the loan, together with other funds which may be available, is adequate to achieve the purpose for which the loan is made; (C) the credit assistance is not otherwise available on like terms or conditions from private sources or through other Federal, State, or local programs ; (D) the loan bears interest at a rate not to exceed 3 per centum per annum...