Committees Quotes
“Collegiate management” referred to a government central finance department that would be managed by committees of politicians and/or experts for the entire country. What Google feared was that elites like bankers and merchants would dominate and control the finances of the new government. He preferred to keep most of the financial management at the provincial and city governmental level. Further, that management by committee was inefficient and often produced gridlock. By the 21st century virtually every nation had a central bank or ministry that managed the nation’s finances in a globalized world. And there was a central banker in charge (although the amount of authority differs by nation.) However Gogel’s concern has never been abated. Virtually every country had evolved to where the nation’s finances were operated and/or controlled by elite minorities. The technical and educational requirements forced that to happen.
A theater arts program that operated nationally under the WPA.
Thomas Jefferson thought that Franklin should write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence:
In a celebrated case involving the right of the U. S. House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee to "expose" someone as a Communist, Mr. Justice Brennan wrote:
“Boards” was the term used then for groups which have collective executive power or responsibility. Modern terminology has added “commissions,” and in France and elsewhere “committee” have been used to describe executive groups in some cases as in the “Committee for Public Safety.”
In one of the most blatant statements of the arbitrary power of congressional committee chairmen, the chairman of the House Rules Committee blocked an investigation of military procurement even though every other member of the committee wanted to pursue the investigation. The prerogative of the chairman was upheld by the Speaker, and on appeal, by the House as a whole, but by 1924 House rules were amended to diminish the arbitrary power of chairmen.
