Puerto Rico's political status: hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on S. 712, November 14 and 15, 1989, Part 1

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Page 196 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 122 - USCS §7421(a)], provides that "no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed.
Page 192 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food...
Page 319 - The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy less parochial in range. It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several States must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
Page 195 - ... 3. by authorizing the Secretary of Labor to set mandatory occupational safety and health standards...
Page 263 - ... the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have effectively exercised their right to self-determination; 5. Recognizes that, in the framework of their Constitution and of the compact agreed upon with the United States of America, the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have been invested with attributes of political sovereignty which clearly identify the status of self-government attained by the Puerto Rican people as that of an autonomous political entity; 6.
Page 148 - The tax is uniform when it operates with the same force and effect in every place where the subject of it is found.
Page 100 - Chinese society will enter the era of communism in which the principle of 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs
Page 261 - States ; and that after the admission of the said territory of Orleans as a state into the Union, the laws which such state may pass shall be promulgated and its records of every description shall be preserved, and its judicial and legislative written proceedings conducted in the language in which the laws and the judicial and legislative written proceedings of the United States are now published and conducted...
Page 105 - For right of estate or trust to the credit for taxes imposed by foreign countries and possessions of the United States under this section, see section 642 (a) (2).

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