Panama Canal Treaty Negotiations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Panama Canal of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress |
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... reason we have requested this hearing in executive session . However , we have attempted to draft this opening statement for release by this committee so there can be public assurance that while we seek an improved treaty relationship ...
... reason we have requested this hearing in executive session . However , we have attempted to draft this opening statement for release by this committee so there can be public assurance that while we seek an improved treaty relationship ...
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... reasons . Let us take for a minute an objective look at some aspects of the situation that rankle Panamanians most : The United States maintains a strip 10 miles wide across the heart of Panama in which 40,000 U.S. citizens live in too ...
... reasons . Let us take for a minute an objective look at some aspects of the situation that rankle Panamanians most : The United States maintains a strip 10 miles wide across the heart of Panama in which 40,000 U.S. citizens live in too ...
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... reason for Panama not to adhere to a new treaty far more beneficial to Panama than the current treaty . Panama's economic well - being is tied to efficient operation of the canal and the expenditures associated with the U.S. presence ...
... reason for Panama not to adhere to a new treaty far more beneficial to Panama than the current treaty . Panama's economic well - being is tied to efficient operation of the canal and the expenditures associated with the U.S. presence ...
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... reason I would like the press to be here is because there has been so much misinformation in the Panamanian newspapers and we have done nothing to bring out the facts as we know them here . I do not think the press has learned anything ...
... reason I would like the press to be here is because there has been so much misinformation in the Panamanian newspapers and we have done nothing to bring out the facts as we know them here . I do not think the press has learned anything ...
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... reasons why the adminis- tration began the treaty negotiations with Panama which are now underway ? Mr. MUNDT . The original reasons , I think , were adequately stated by President Johnson . Mrs. SULLIVAN . I know , but this is a new ...
... reasons why the adminis- tration began the treaty negotiations with Panama which are now underway ? Mr. MUNDT . The original reasons , I think , were adequately stated by President Johnson . Mrs. SULLIVAN . I know , but this is a new ...
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Acanthaster planci agreement Ambassador American Article Atlantic authority Boise Cascade cable CANAL TREATY Canal Zone Chairman Colombia committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional Constitution construction coral crown-of-thorns starfish defense Deleted Department drug DUNSON economic effect employees executive session expropriation facilities foreign Fuerza y Luz Gatun Lake going Government of Panama Governor PARKER GROVER HENNESSY House of Representatives HURWITCH INGERSOLL Inter-American Development Bank interest jurisdiction land legislation level canal LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loan lock canal marine McNITT ment military MUNDT MURPHY nations Office ounce Pacific Panama Canal Company Panama Canal Zone Panama City Panamanian Government percent present canal President problem question reefs Republic of Panama sea snake sea star sea-level canal Secretary Senate ships sovereignty specific STANTON statement subcommittee SULLIVAN territory Third Locks tion tolls treaty negotiations treaty-making power U.S. citizens U.S. Government United WEINTRAUB yellow-bellied sea snake
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Page 117 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Page 184 - Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such evidence may be required from any place in the United States or any Territory or possession thereof, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 117 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and ofthat of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids...
Page 171 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 184 - ... than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Page 142 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 143 - Senate present concur," the House of Representatives do not claim any agency in making Treaties; but, that when a Treaty stipulates regulations on any of the subjects submitted by the Constitution to the power of Congress, it must depend for its execution, as to such stipulations, on a law or laws to be passed by Congress. And it is the constitutional right and duty of the House of Representatives, in all such cases, to deliberate on the expediency or inexpediency Annals of Congress, 4th Cong., ist...
Page 10 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 142 - It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, as well as those who were responsible for the Bill of Rights - let alone alien to our entire constitutional history and tradition - to construe Article VI as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international agreement without observing constitutional prohibitions.
Page 183 - In addition to such preliminary reports the Board shall submit to the President and to the Congress an annual report...