Modifying the Honoraria Prohibition for Federal Employees: Hearing Before the Subcommitte on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 325 (H.R. 109, H.R. 414, and H.R. 474) ... February 7, 1991U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 206 Seiten |
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Seite 126 - The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides that " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Seite 180 - At the same time it cannot be gainsaid that the State has interests as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees that differ significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general.
Seite 44 - The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering Congress to grant patents and copyrights is the conviction that encouragement of individual effort by personal gain is the best way to advance public welfare through the talents of authors and inventors in "Science and useful Arts.
Seite 83 - It is hard to imagine many circumstances where a party making an honoraria payment to a professional staff member of the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate Finance Committee, or to the top staff aide of a Member of Congress, would not have some interest that could be affected by that staff member's performance of his or her official duties.
Seite 164 - The moral principle upon which the statute is based has its foundation in the Biblical admonition that no man may serve two masters, Matt. 6:24, a maxim which is especially pertinent if one of the masters happens to be economic self-interest. Consonant with this salutary moral purpose, Congress has drafted a statute which speaks in very comprehensive terms. Section 434 is not limited in its application to those in the highest echelons of government service, or to those government agents who have...
Seite 52 - The thread running through all these cases is that prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights. A criminal penalty or a judgment in a defamation case is subject to the whole panoply of protections afforded by deferring the impact of the judgment until all avenues of appellate review have been exhausted.
Seite 42 - Yet this Court has never suggested that the dependence of a communication on the expenditure of money operates itself to introduce a nonspeech element or to reduce the exacting scrutiny required by the First Amendment.
Seite 39 - honorarium" means a payment of money or any thing of value for an appearance, speech or article (including a series of appearances, speeches, or articles if the subject matter is directly related to the individual's official duties or the payment is made because of the individual's status with the Government) by a Member, officer or employee, excluding any actual and necessary travel expenses...
Seite 46 - The problem in any case is to arrive at a balance between the interests of the teacher, as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.
Seite 190 - Perhaps Congress at some time will come to a different view of the realities of political life and Government service; but that is its current view of the matter, and we are not now in any position to dispute it.
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| Titel | Modifying the Honoraria Prohibition for Federal Employees: Hearing Before the Subcommitte on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 325 (H.R. 109, H.R. 414, and H.R. 474 ... |
| Autor/in | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations |
| Verlag | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 |
| Original von | Die Library of Congress |
| Digitalisiert | 25. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 206 Seiten |
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