The Attorney General's Refusal to Provide Congressional Access to "privileged" INSLAW Documents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, December 5, 1990, المجلد 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 290 من الصفحات |
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2138 RAYBURN HOUSE 55 Bankr acquisition Administration agency allegations analysts Assistant Attorney attorney-client privilege audit authority automated Bankruptcy Court bankruptcy judge BROOKS Chairman CALIFORNIA CAMPBELL CARLOS MOORHEAD claim Committee Committee's component organizations conduct CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional constitutional counsel criminal Department of Justice Department officials developed Dick Thornburgh documents employees Executive Branch executive privilege Federal files FLORIDA Hadron Hamilton House of Representatives HOWARD COBLE implementation information technology INSLAW INSLAW matter interview investigation involved IRM official IRM program issues Jack Brooks Jensen Judge Bason JUDICIARY 2138 RAYBURN Justice Department JUSTICE MANAGEMENT DIVISION Justice's letter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS litigation Meese oversight PATRICIA SCHROEDER President Project Eagle PROMIS PROMIS software Public Integrity Section radio records management request requirements responsibilities RICHARDSON Ross schedule Service staff statement subcommittee Supreme Court telecommunications TEXAS U.S. Attorneys United Videnieks Washington withholding
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الصفحة 97 - The power of the Congress to conduct investigations is inherent in the legislative process. That power is broad. It encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes. It includes surveys of defects in our social, economic or political system for the purpose of enabling the Congress to remedy them. It comprehends probes into departments of the Federal Government to expose corruption, inefficiency or waste.
الصفحة 190 - First, that the House was an inquest, and therefore might institute inquiries. Second, that it might call for papers generally. Third, that the Executive ought to communicate such papers as the public good would permit, and ought to refuse those, the disclosure of which would injure the public; consequently were to exercise a discretion.
الصفحة 127 - When a court reviews an agency's construction of the statute which it administers, it is confronted with two questions. First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter, for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress.
الصفحة 79 - ... the subject to be investigated was the administration of the Department of Justice — whether its functions were being properly discharged or were being neglected or misdirected, and particularly whether the Attorney General and his assistants were performing or neglecting their duties in respect of the institution and prosecution of proceedings to punish crimes and enforce appropriate remedies against the wrongdoers; specific instances of alleged neglect being recited.
الصفحة 122 - Treasury in pursuance of appropriations by law; shall make report, and give information to either branch of the legislature in person or in writing, as may be required, respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives or which shall appertain to his office ; and generally shall perform all such services relative to the finances as he shall be directed to perform.
الصفحة 115 - ... carried out in its results, to all cases falling within it, would be clothing the President with a power entirely to control the legislation of Congress, and paralyze the administration of justice. To contend that the obligation imposed on the President to see the laws faithfully executed implies a power to forbid their execution, is a novel 'construction of the constitution, and entirely inadmissible.
الصفحة 191 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Major General St. Clair; and that the said Committee be empowered to call for such persons, papers, and records, as may be necessary to assist their inquiries.
الصفحة 100 - We do not mean to say that all written materials obtained or prepared by an adversary's counsel with an eye toward litigation are necessarily free from discovery in all cases. Where relevant and non-privileged facts remain hidden in an attorney's file and where production of those facts is essential to the preparation of one's case, discovery may properly be had.
الصفحة 134 - He did not consider the Prerogatives of the British Monarch as a proper guide in defining the Executive powers. Some of these prerogatives were of a Legislative nature. Among others that of war & peace &c.
الصفحة 115 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.