Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1996: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations

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Pagina 87 - CAGW was created 11 years ago after Peter Grace presented to President Ronald Reagan 2,478 findings and recommendations of the Grace Commission (formally known as the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control). These recommendations provided a blueprint for a more efficient, effective, less wasteful, and smaller government. Since 1986, the implementation of Grace Commission recommendations has helped save taxpayers more than $250 billion.
Pagina 249 - ... the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the application of more sustainable practices of the conservation compliance program.
Pagina 5 - The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Pagina 215 - That the hours of labor and the rate of wages of the employees in the navy yards shall conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the respective yards, to be determined by the commandants of the navy yards, subject to the approval and revision of the Secretary of the Navy.
Pagina 29 - ... environmental lawyer is nowadays a highly trained and highly paid individual who may prove to be most influential in determining the outcomes of environmentally related policy issues. In the USA too lobbying is a recognised political art which has been adopted by the major environmental organisations such as the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund in imitation of their 'enemy', the industrial and resource Figure 4.1: Constitutional...
Pagina 59 - Union STATEMENT OF ROBERT M. TOBIAS NATIONAL PRESIDENT NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HON.
Pagina 138 - Federal facilities and Federal use of space in urban areas shall serve to strengthen the Nation's cities and to make them attractive places to live and work. Federal space shall conserve existing urban resources and encourage the development and redevelopment of cities.
Pagina 137 - ... no appropriation shall be made to construct any public building or to acquire any building to be used as a public building involving an expenditure in excess of...
Pagina 137 - ... if such construction, alteration, or acquisition has not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Committee on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and such approval has not been rescinded ns provided in subsection (c) of this section.

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