Suggested Improvements in the Administrative Process: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session. February 27, 28, and March 1, 1963Examines effectiveness of FPC administrative processes and procedures underlying retirement decision of Commissioner Howard Morgan. |
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Page 178 - Commission shall have jurisdiction over all facilities for such transmission or sale of electric energy, but shall not have jurisdiction, except as specifically provided in this Part and the Part next following, over facilities used for the generation of electric energy or over facilities used in local distribution or only for the transmission of electric energy in intrastate commerce, or over facilities for the transmission of electric energy consumed wholly by the transmitter.
Page 142 - ... or any proceeds thereof, to any purpose not specified in the commission's order, or to any purpose specified in the commission's order...
Page 81 - The Federal Power Commission without question represents the outstanding example in the Federal Government of the breakdown of the administrative process.
Page 124 - Every interstate railroad should be prohibited from expending money or incurring liability or acquiring property not in the operation of its railroad or in the legitimate improvement, extension, or development of that railroad.
Page 113 - No questions, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Younger? Mr. YOUNGER. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Dr.
Page 163 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity...
Page 18 - Commission shall make such order only if it finds that such issue or assumption: (a) is for some lawful object within its corporate purposes, and compatible with the public interest, which is necessary or appropriate for or consistent with the proper performance by the carrier of service to the public as a common carrier, and which will not impair its ability to perform that service, and (b) is reasonably necessary and appropriate for such purpose.
Page 106 - But abandonment of the public interest can be caused by many things, of which timidity and a desire for personal security are the most insidious. This commission, for example, must make hundreds and even thousands of decisions each year, a good many of which involve literally scores and hundreds of millions of dollars in a single case. A commissioner can find it very easy to consider whether his vote might arouse an industry campaign against...
Page 67 - The committee will adjourn until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, at which time we will hear representatives from the Department of Agriculture, followed by representatives of farm machinery manufacturers.
Page 116 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Rogers. Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr.