Federal Reports

“ No attention has been paid to the subject by Government, and private enterprise has hitherto cared for it only in the more populous circuits and districts. The Federal Reporter undertakes to fill this chasm in the judicial system. Its engagement is to give immediate publication of all the current decisions of the Circuit and District Courts, issued every week, in the ordinary size and form of State reports. The number of pages in each issue varies in accordance with the quantity of matter received, the object being to give every opinion promptly, which makes some issues large and some small. ”

“ That the reports were required 'for all the purposes and under all the authority granted to them by law, including the purpose of gathering and compiling said information for publication and the consequent regulation of the interstate commerce of said complainants resulting from such publication of the true trade facts as to all of the business of complainants and of others engaged in commerce in those commodities, and including the purpose of making reports to Congress and of recommending additional legislation to Congress. ”

“ In general When a committee of authorization of the Senate or the House of Representatives reports a bill or joint resolution of public character that includes any Federal mandate, the report of the committee accompanying the bill or joint resolution shall contain the information required by subsections (c) and (d) of this section. ”

“ TERMINATION.— (1) IN GENERAL.— Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this subsection and subsection (d) , each provision of law requiring the submittal to Congress (or any committee of the Congress) of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report specified on the list described under subsection (c) shall cease to be effective, with respect to that requirement, 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) EXCEPTION.— The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply to any report required under— (A) the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) ”

“ For any person, corporation or organization, other than a financial institution or private banker subject to examination and regulation under State or Federal law, to receive deposits subject to check or to repayment upon presentation of a pass book or certificate, unless such person, corporation or organization shall submit to periodic examination by the Comptroller of the Currency or Federal reserve bank and shall make periodic reports of condition in the same manner and at the same time as is required of national banks. ”

“ Required posting.— The Commission shall, as soon as practicable, post on the Internet any information received under this paragraph. (b) Contents of reports Each report under this section shall disclose—
(1) the amount of cash on hand at the beginning of the reporting period; (2) for the reporting period and the calendar year (or election cycle, in the case of an authorized committee of a candidate for Federal office) , the total amount of all receipts, and the total amount of all receipts in the following categories: (A) contributions from persons other than political committees ”

“ As used in this paragraph, the term “report” means, with respect to the Commission, a report, designation, or statement required by this Act to be filed with the Commission. (12) Software for filing of reports.— (A) In general.— The Commission shall— (i) promulgate standards to be used by vendors to develop software that— (I) permits candidates to easily record information concerning receipts and disbursements required to be reported under this Act at the time of the receipt or disbursement ”

“ Indeed, the Department of Insurance, Statistics, and History carried no great heft of the burden of state. Its main work was the regulating of the business done in the state by foreign insurance companies, and the letter of the law was its guide. As for statistics—well, you wrote letters to county officers, and scissored other people's reports, and each year you got out a report of your own about the corn crop and the cotton crop and pecans and pigs and black and white population, and a great many columns of figures headed "bushels" and "acres" and "square miles," etc.—and there you were. ”

“ It is true, that, under the Federal Constitution, an inferior tribunal cannot compel a State to appear as a party; but it is at very different proposition to say, that a State cannot, by her own consent, appear in any other court, than the Supreme court. The general rule applies among all sovereigns, who, as equals, are not amenable to courts of each other ”

“ There are annual reports on the Excise Department, on the Customs Department, on Salt, on Opium, on License-Tax, on Stamps, on Stationery, on the Shipping Office, and whatever other miscellaneous subject is susceptible of an annual report. Parliamentary Blue Books are light and cheerful reading in comparison with most 136of the Board’s reports, but fortunately they find very few readers. Nevertheless annual reports may be said to represent the circulation of the blood in the whole official community. Every official throughout the country contributes his quota to them. ”

“ Reporting Administrative Activity: In delegating powers in the areas of defense, foreign affairs or in time of emergency, Congress is [99] inclined to insist upon frequent reporting, and to specify carefully the kind of information and supporting documentation it expects to receive. It may stipulate, as in the Japanese Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 and the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, the subjects on which it wishes reports, and refrain from imposing an obligation to report at specified calendar intervals. ”

“ Something has gone seriously awry with this Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not. Once one accepts, as the Court at least nominally does, ante, at 477, that the Public Use Clause is a limit on the eminent domain power of the Federal Government and the States, there is no justification for the almost complete deference it grants to legislatures as to what satisfies it. ”

“ The Commissioner recommends an increase of the permanent force of the office commensurate with the increasing amount of work to be done, an appropriation for book-cases and record-cases, additional funds for the publication of circulars of information to meet the increasing demand for the same, the passage of a law requiring annual reports respecting the condition of education in the Territories for the information of Congress and the public, the setting apart of the net proceeds of public land-sales in behalf of public instruction, and the printing of a larger number of his annual report. ”

“ In addition, and independently of an audit or investigation, OGC will analyze and opine on the proper use of federal funds and properties or on the scope and exercise of authority by federal officers and employees at the request of Congress, its committees, and Members. ”

“ Agencies impose the requirements on private parties in order to generate information to be used by the agency in pursuing some other purpose. For instance, agencies use these information requests in gathering background on a particular subject to develop the expertise with which to devise or fine-tune appropriate regulations, amassing diffuse data for processing into useful statistical form, and monitoring business records and compliance reports for signs or proof of nonfeasance to determine when to initiate enforcement measures. ”

“ IN GENERAL— Not later than July 1, 2007, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall commence a pilot program to— (i) test the collection and accession of data about subgrants and subcontracts; and (ii) determine how to implement a subaward reporting program across the Federal Government, including— (I) a reporting system under which the entity issuing a subgrant or subcontract is responsible for fulfilling the subaward reporting requirement; and (II) a mechanism for collecting and incorporating agency and public feedback on the design and utility of the website. ”

“ Our government wisely provides for the gathering of statistics at intervals of ten years, and some of the States also take an account of stock and production at intermediate periods, some of them, like Ohio, have a permanent statistician who reports annually to the Governor of the State. ”

“ As with all nineteenth-century history, the extent, the variety, and the intricacy of the various sources are simply overwhelming. The number of official records—Statutes, Orders, Circulars, Minutes, Reports, Letters, etc.—dealt with for the present small volume (although we have confined ourselves in the main to the publications of the Central Authority itself, and have not been able to consult the manuscript records and letter-books of more than a score of the Boards of Guardians) runs into, literally, tens of thousands. ”

“ In addition to testimonies and letters, an agency may communicate in another form, such as submitting talking points to convey comments (often informally) on a bill under consideration by Congress, or responding to questions for the record following a congressional hearing. Also, agencies have numerous requirements to submit certain reports to Congress, and reports that contain any legislative views or recommendations must be submitted to OMB for clearance to ensure consistency with Administration policy and the President's Budget. ”

“ If an agency certifies in its annual report that it has made available to the NICS its relevant records that can be shared consistent with applicable law, and describes its plan to make new records available to the NICS and to update, modify, or remove existing records electronically no less often than quarterly as required by the NIAA, such agency will not be required to submit further annual reports. ”

“ Just as everyone is charged with knowledge of the United States Statutes at Large, Congress has provided that the appearance of rules and regulations in the Federal Register gives legal notice of their contents. ”

“ The order of the Commission rests upon findings of fact; and these upon evidence which fills 350 pages of the printed record. Section 5 of the act makes the Commission's findings conclusive as to the facts, if supported by evidence. ”

“ Speaking of what became this section, the Report said, 'The commission, under this section, may also require such special reports as it may deem advisable. By this means, if the ordinary data furnished by a corporation in its annual reports does not adequately disclose its organization, financial condition, business practices, or relation to other corporations, there can be obtained by a special report such additional information as the commission may deem necessary.' Id., at p. 4. An annual report of a corporation is a recurrent and relatively standardized affair. ”

“ V. Respondents inaccurately disclosed the amount of the Committee's receipts, disbursements, and cash on hand in reports filed with the Commission, in violation of 2 U.S.C. § 434 (b) , and did not deposit contributions within 10 days of receipt as required by 11 C.F.R. § 103.3 (a) .
VI 1. Respondents will pay a civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission in the amount of Thirteen Thousand Dollars ($13,000.00) , pursuant to 2 U.S.C. § 437g (a) (5) (A) .
2. Respondents will cease and desist from violating 2 U.S.C. § 434 (b) and 11 C.F.R. 103.3 (a) . ”

“ The expedients which are put into laws to make them effective, the decisions and rules of administrative commissions, the decisions of attorney-generals, bar associations, reports upon codification, model laws or uniform laws—all this data, if made available, would aid the legislator in his task. Such material will help him to find out what he can do, and although the classification of this data is a great task, it should be begun by some one. ”

“ GAO’s Mission The Government Accountability Office, the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress, exists to support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people. GAO examines the use of public funds ”

“ If federal factfinding is to be avoided, then, in addition to providing a court judgment on the constitutional question, the State must also ensure that its procedures are adequate for the purpose of finding the facts. ”

“ The findings of the District Court, which this court has not modified, criticised, or overruled, establish beyond cavil that, despite the fact that AP was early in the field and has grown to great size, many other reporting agencies have been established, and grown in the United States, two of which, UP and INS, are now comparable to AP 'in size, scope of coverage and efficiency.' Additional agencies which furnish substantial news reporting services in the nation total between twenty and thirty. ”

“ Federal Power Commission (certiorari granted 343 U.S. 941, 72 S.Ct. 1034) . Abstract propositions may not solve concrete cases, but, when basic confusion is responsible for a particular result, resort to the fundamental principles which determine the position of the administrative process in our system may help to illuminate the shortcomings of that result.
The Act, like many regulatory measures, sketches a general outline which contemplates its completion and clarification by the administrative process before court review or enforcement. ”

“ Report.—The Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress a report of each annual audit conducted under this subsection. The report to the Congress shall set forth the scope of the audit and shall include the statement of assets and liabilities and surplus or deficit, the statement of income and expenses, the statement of sources and application of funds, and such comments and information as may be deemed necessary to inform Congress of the financial operations and condition of the Agency, together with such recommendations with respect thereto as the Comptroller General may deem advisable. ”