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	Hatch Act - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Hatch Act, popular designation of the Political Activity Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1939 and amended in 1940, forbidding federal employees...
		The Hatch Act restricts the political activity of executive branch employees of...
		The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity.
	encarta.msn.com /Hatch_Act.html (124 words)

	Hatch Act â“ FREE Hatch Act Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Hatch Act Research
		The bill was sponsored by Sen. Carl Hatch of New Mexico (1889–1963) in response to allegations that officials of the Works Progress Administration were using their positions to win votes for the Democratic Party in the 1936 election.
		The Hatch Act applies to an officer or employee of a state or local...
		Cloning Doubletalk: Dianne Feinstein and Orrin Hatch pretend that their bill to legalize human cloning is actually a ban.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-366695.html (1034 words)

	NASULGC: The Land-Grant Tradition Hatch Act (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hatch Act of 1887 authorized federal-grant funds for direct payment to each state that would establish an agricultural experiment station in connection with the land-grant college established under the provisions of the Morrill Act of July 2, 1862, and of all supplementary acts.
		In 1955 the Hatch Act of 1887 was amended to bring about consolidation of the several federal laws relating to the appropriation of federal-grant funds for the support of agricultural experiment stations in the states, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
		With this amendment the Adams Act of 1906 and the Purnell Act of 1925, as well as the Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935 and title I, section 9, of the amendment of 1945 to the Bankhead-Jones Act, as the latter two laws applied to agricultural experiment stations, were repealed.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/Hatch.htm (968 words)

	Hatch Act of 1939 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity.
		Hatch, himself a Democrat, saw this as outright corruption which should not be tolerated under any circumstance by either political party, a feeling shared by most of his colleagues in the Senate.
		The Act was appealed to the Supreme Court in 1947 and 1974, both times claiming it was a violation of free speech, and both times it was upheld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939 (922 words)

	HATCH ACT,
		The Hatch Act was amended in 1940 to put a $5000 ceiling on annual individual contributions to campaigns for any one candidate for election to federal office and to limit the contributions received and expended by political committees to $3 million a year.
		All provisions of the act relating to federal employees were extended to state employees engaged in any function financed by federal funds.
		The Hatch Act Reform Amendments of 1993 liberalized restrictions on partisan political activities by off-duty federal employees.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=211510 (809 words)

	PSRF - Public Service Research Foundation
		Should the Hatch Act, which has already survived numerous legal and political (legislative) challenges, be repealed, Baird says, the implications would reach beyond merely affecting federal sector employment policy but would influence the nation's economy and fiscal policies.
		Examines the efficacy of the 1939 Hatch Act's prohibition on government workers' involvement in partisan political activities.
		The act had originally been passed to protect federal workers from coercion by their superiors and to insure a politically neutral civil service.
	www.psrf.org /gur/hata.jsp (252 words)

	Gutting the Hatch Act: Congress's Plan to Re-Politicize the Civil Service
		The Hatch Act Amendments of 1993 (S. 185), sponsored by Senator John Glenn, the Ohio Democrat, would allow federal employees to become actively involved in partisan political campaigns, serve as campaign aides to candidates for federal elections, and serve as officers of political parties.
		The Hatch Act of 1939 prohibits federal employees from interfering or using the authority of their office to: X Influence the outcome of electoral campaigns; X Offer compensation or employment to anyone in return for their participation in political activities; X Take an active role in marfaging or running partisan election campaigns.
		In this respect, the Hatch Act functions as another federal man- date on the states, and undermines the independence of the voters and elected officials of the states to set their own rules for state government service.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/IB180.cfm (5881 words)

	Inviting Tammany Hall to the Potomac: Rolling Back the Hatch Act
		The Act is the result of over one hundred years of bi-partisan effort to improve the functioning of the federal government and to strengthen American democracy.
		The sponsors of the Hatch Act knew well that as long as government employees are free to engage in political activity in support of elected officials and can anticipate some form of benefit in return for this political service, the spectre of patronage and harassment of officials would remain.
		Rolling back the Hatch Act would damage severely good executive government in the U.S. It would subject government employees to partisan political pressure in the workplace and would free the federal workforce to act as a political lobby for increased public expenditures.
	www.heritage.org /Research/GovernmentReform/IB134.cfm (2949 words)

	The Hatch Act Meets the Digital Age
		That was the key warning at a Senate hearing yesterday on the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain political activities in the federal workplace.
		The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, restricts the political activities of federal employees, giving them a shield to ward off pressure from their supervisors or political bosses.
		Officials from the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates and prosecutes Hatch Act allegations, said they make determinations of violations on a case-by-case basis, looking at the content of the message, who sent the e-mail and how many people received the e-mail from the government computer.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101802280_pf.html (873 words)

	Don't Bury the Hatch Act September October Prosecutor 2004
		Penalties for violating the Hatch Act include the removal of the employee or forfeiture of federal grants and loans in the amount of two years of the offending employees’ salary—a high cost in an era of severe government budget constraints.
		The Hatch Act applies to all executive branch state and local employees who, as a normal and foreseeable incident of their principal positions or jobs, perform duties in connection with an activity financed in whole or in part by federal loans or grants.
		OSC is authorized by statute and federal regulations to issue advisory opinions on whether the Hatch Act applies at all to a given employee, the extent of the restrictions at issue, and interpretation of regulations.
	www.ndaa.org /publications/ndaa/dont_bury_hatch_act_sept_oct_2004.html (2300 words)

	Hatch Act Does Not Apply to Employee Who Merely Uses Equipment Purchased with Federal Grant Funds
		The Hatch Act applies to executive branch federal employees and to state and local employees who are principally employed in connection with programs financed in whole or in part by federal loans or grants.
		Whether or not a particular state or local employee is covered by the Hatch Act is determined by whether he or she is principally employed in connection with a program financed in whole or in part by federal loans or grants.
		CAAs, some of whose employees may be covered by the Hatch Act, and others not, would be well-advised to carefully review potential connections between the employee and the CSBG or Head Start-funded programs, and seek legal counsel and possibly an OSC advisory opinion, before making a determination as to Hatch Act coverage.
	www.caplaw.org /HatchActDoesNotApplytoEmployeeWhoMerelyUsesEquipmentPurchasedwithFederalGrantFunds.htm (1134 words)

	Overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act and Its Impact on the Drug Development Process
		The Act provides for a period of exclusivity such that once an NME is approved, a generic version cannot be approved for five years.
		The Act specifies that each patent can be extended only once, but the extended patent does cover subsequently approved uses for the period of the extension.
		Thus, it is time to revisit the Hatch-Waxman Act with a view to increase the patent incentives for the creation of new life-saving medicines.
	www.oblon.com /Pub/hatchwax.html (3470 words)

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		Information about the Hatch Act may be found at the Office of Special Counsel website which is www.osc.gov. The parts of the Hatch Act that say that some federal employees and some state government employees may not run for elective office is not constitutional because of Amendment One of the United States Constitution.
		The parts of the Hatch Act that says that some federal employees and state employees may not run for elective office is not constitutional because those parts of the Hatch Act lessens those employees ability to run for elective office.
		The Hatch Act should only say that some federal employees and some state employees have to say when they are running for elective office and that they have to say which campaigns they are helping.
	www.geocities.com /kstremskyforpresidentusa/hatchacttext.txt (290 words)

	The Conservative Monitor - Commentary on the Hatch Act
		The Hatch Act is excluding a whole class of people from elected office.
		At that hearing the MSPB will determine if there was a violation of the act, determine whether the violation warrants the removal of the officer or employee from the office or employment, and will notify the individual and the agency of its decision by mail.
		Congress should revisit that portion of the Hatch Act of 1939 which excludes an entire class of citizens from their right to be a candidate for any partisan political office, municipal, State, or Federal.
	www.conservativebookstore.com /creview/carchive/199803.htm (546 words)

	hatch act
		The Hatch Act applies to the political activity of state and local government employees if they are principally employed by state or local executive agencies in connection with programs financed in whole or in part by federal loans or grants.
		The Act does not apply to the political activity of persons employed by educational or research institutions or agencies supported in whole or part by (a) states or their political subdivisions, or (b) religious, philanthropic or cultural organizations.
		The specific Hatch Act prohibitions applicable to state, local, or nonprofit employees are not as numerous as the prohibitions for federal employees.
	www.marylandnonprofits.org /html/policy/hatchact.asp (387 words)

	Fish & Richardson P.C. - Practice Areas
		The Hatch/Waxman Act was intended to strike an acceptable balance between providing appropriate incentives for research and development (RandD) based companies to develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic products while encouraging generic pharmaceutical companies to market lower cost generic versions of pioneer products expeditiously.
		Regulatory affairs professionals and patent attorneys resident outside the United States also may be interested in attending, not only due to the relevance of the Hatch/Waxman Act to their activities in the United States, but also due to the relevance of these issues under their laws.
		Experience has shown that prudent companies, whether generic or RandD based companies, incorporate planning of such a strategy as an integral part of the development process for a new or generic version of a drug, with implementation of their strategies beginning years before any relevant patents are due to expire.
	www.fr.com /practice/fdli.cfm (855 words)

	Orrin G. Hatch - Congresspedia
		Hatch was born March 22, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		INDUCE Act Hatch caused an overnight controversy June 17, 2003 by proposing that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing.
		Immigration Hatch was one of the architects and advocates of the expansion of H-1b visas and was generally an advocate of looser immigration policy.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Orrin_Hatch (993 words)

	Hatch Act - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
		The Hatch Act is a 1939 federal law that strictly limits the political activity of federal employees.
		The Hatch Act (1939) extended limitations to unclassified employees (that is, political appointees) as well.
		Gall (1995) chronicles the Hatch Act from its passing in 1939, through its amendment in 1940, and to its further amendment in 1993.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Hatch_Act (344 words)

	IAHEES History-Hatch Act
		Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
		That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States or Territories In which they are respectively located.
		Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or all the provisions of this act.
	www.ag.iastate.edu /iaexp/projects/hatch.html (170 words)

	Essays.cc - The Hatch Act Of 1939
		The Hatch Act of 1939 Under Hatch Act of 1939, federal employees, employees of the District of Columbia (D.C.) government, and certain state and local government employees faced significant restrictions on their ability to participate in political activities and placing ceilings on campaign expenditures.
		The Hatch Act was amended in 1940 to put a $5000 ceiling on annual individual contributions to campaigns for any one candidate for election to federal office and to limit the contributions received and expended by political committees to $3 million a year.
		Violations of Hatch Act provisions applicable to covered state and local employees are punishable by removal, or, if the agency refuses to remove the employee, by forfeiture by the affected state or locality of federal assistance equal to two years of the charged employee's salary.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/d2/aie250.shtml (860 words)

	Hatch Act of 1887 — Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
		Signed on March 2, 1887, the Hatch Act gave the United States its network of agricultural experiment stations, allowing the nation, through research, to become the most effective and efficient producer of food and fiber in the world.
		The Morrill Act gave states authorization to sell public lands to create land-grant universities, which were to teach agriculture and the mechanical arts.
		The Hatch Act of 1887, revised in 1955, states that experiment stations should, "conduct original and other research, investigations and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry.
	www.oaes.okstate.edu /hatch-act-of-1887-1 (338 words)

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		P.L. Intelligence Authorization Act for FY1996, enacted on January 6, 1996, amends Section 7325 of P.L. 103-94 to allow the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to extend coverage of regulations on political activity permitted of employees residing in certain municipalities to certain employees previously excluded.
		The text of S. 185, The Hatch Act Reform Amendments of 1993, as amended, was substituted for H.R. 20 and H.R. 20, as amended, passed the Senate by a vote of 68 to 31 on July 20, 1993.
		Any activity of employees covered by the Hatch Act is excluded unless that activity is prohibited under 5 U.S.C. 7323 or 7324, relating to prohibitions on the use of official influence or official information and solicitation.
	www.fas.org /irp/crs/87-153.htm (3023 words)

	Federal Times
		The office claims that Thompson violated the Hatch Act, the 65-year-old law that restricts the political activities of federal, state and local government employees.
		This year, OSC is prosecuting a record number of Hatch Act violations, receiving more questions for guidance on what activity is allowable, and fielding more complaints of possible violations than in most years.
		The OSC expects to receive 700 more requests for guidance this year about what is permissible under the Hatch Act than it did during the last presidential campaign in 2000.
	federaltimes.com /index.php?S=383338 (1522 words)

	Patent Term Extensions and Restoration under the Hatch-Waxman Act
		This Act amended 35 U.S.C. § 154 so that patents filed on or after June 8, 1995 have a patent term of twenty years from the date they are filed.
		The Act added Section 156 to the Patent Act permitting patent term extension for patents on products (or processes for making or using the same) that are human drug products, medical devices, food additives, and color additives subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
		The Act restores a portion of the patent term during which the patentee is unable to sell or market a product while awaiting government approval, such as the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) review of a prescription drug.
	library.findlaw.com /2002/Nov/20/132408.html (1310 words)

	Hatch Act: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Enacted in 1939, the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C.A. 7324) curbs the political activities of employees in federal, state, and local governments.
		The law's goal is to enforce political neutrality among civil servants: the act prohibits them from holding public office, influencing elections, participating in or managing political campaigns, and exerting UNDUE INFLUENCE on government hiring.
		Critics have long argued that the act violates the FIRST AMENDMENT freedoms of government employees.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/hatch-act (139 words)

	Federal Times
		The office claims that Thompson violated the Hatch Act, the 65-year-old law that restricts the political activities of federal, state and local government employees.
		This year, OSC is prosecuting a record number of Hatch Act violations, receiving more questions for guidance on what activity is allowable, and fielding more complaints of possible violations than in most years.
		The OSC expects to receive 700 more requests for guidance this year about what is permissible under the Hatch Act than it did during the last presidential campaign in 2000.
	www.federaltimes.com /index2.php?S=383338 (1516 words)

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