Request for Information on Government Corporations
B-34706
Dec 05, 1947
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The Chairman of the House Select Committee on Foreign Aid requested information regarding Government corporations. Specifically, the chairman requested information on: (1) the significance of the use of the corporate form, from the standpoint of appropriations, expenditures, accounting, purchases, receipts, lawsuits, etc.; (2) restrictive and exemptive measures applied to government corporations, compared to those applied to ordinary government agencies; and (3) the distinction in foreign law between the operation on their territory of foreign-owned public corporations or their subsidiaries, as opposed to field offices of executive agencies of foreign governments.