Public Financing of Federal Elections, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections..., 93-1, on S. 1103..., S. 1954..., S. 2417..., September 18, 19, 20, and 21, 1973 |
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Page 541 - ... it shall be the duty of the judges so designated to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date, to participate in the hearing and determination thereof, and to cause the case to be in every way expedited.
Page 122 - We cannot accept the view that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled "speech" whenever the person engaging in the conduct intends thereby to express an idea.
Page 130 - Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free press is a condition of a free society.
Page 130 - It would be strange indeed, however, if the grave concern for freedom of the press which prompted adoption of the First Amendment should be read as a command that the government was without power to protect that freedom.
Page 129 - We need not suppose that when power resides in an exclusive class, that class will knowingly and deliberately sacrifice the other classes to themselves : it suffices that, in the absence of its natural defenders, the interest of the excluded is always in danger of being overlooked; and, when looked at, is seen with very different eyes from those of the persons whom it directly concerns.
Page 128 - If this government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other states and governments, each of which is superior to the general government, it must have the power to protect the elections on which its existence depends from violence and corruption.
Page 279 - STATEMENT OF HON. LAWTON CHILES, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Senator CHILES. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am delighted to be here this morning to offer my support for S.
Page 276 - The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties...
Page 130 - Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. Freedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests.
Page 554 - System." (b) The table of parts for subchapter O of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Part VIII. Distributions pursuant to Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.