Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting...
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...thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress...
...Budget of the U. S. is a green-bound volume about the size of a telephone book for a city of two million and contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget...
...routine operation of Government-8? ($300,307,860, including the cost of Congress, the U. S. courts, foreign relations, law enforcement, the postal deficit...