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Business Record
April 20, 2018
But the reality is, there are just things that are built into the actual text of the statute that really are going to make it hard to ever fix without an act of Congress.” ... The company works with about 2,000 independent agents that represent about 75,000 individual health clients and nearly 5,000 business clients.
Engadget
April 19, 2018
The third option is called the National Bonus Plan and was first floated by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. back in 2000. .... Doing so would require an act of Congress on par with the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which ponied up $3.6 billion to update the previous generation of outdated voting machines.
CommonSpace
April 19, 2018
Akande points to the 'Declaration of the South Summit', issued in April 2000 by the Group of 77 (in actuality, over 130 nation-states), declaring: “We reject ... “To be legal, the strike would have to be authorized either by some act of Congress or by the president's own powers under Article II of the Constitution.
Caledonian Record
April 14, 2018
However, as the Supreme Court has made clear, “no Act of Congress can authorize a violation of the Constitution. ... anywhere within 100 air miles of the 2,000-mile border … without any reason to suspect that they have violated any law” and holding Fourth Amendment standards apply to Border Patrol).
Quad-Cities Online
April 13, 2018
C.P. Kingsbury, who arrived in 1863 following creation of the arsenal July 11, 1862 by an act of Congress. In 1863 the first building, the Rock Island District United States Engineers office, ... Almost 2,000 would die there. A severe winter and smallpox with pneumonia caused hundreds of prisoner deaths inÃâà...
Law.com
April 3, 2018
Arguing that Greyhound is misinterpreting a federal law on immigration status checks that take place at a distance from international borders, the American Civil Liberties Union is urging the bus company to stop federal agents from boarding its buses and making arrests. Ten ACLU affiliates, including NewÃâà...
Newsweek
April 2, 2018
Under President Donald Trump's first travel ban, immigration officials stopped almost 2,000 people in nine days in airports, at border crossings and even ... "The Constitution and acts of Congress confer on the President broad authority to prevent aliens abroad from entering this country when he deems it inÃâà...
WTOP
March 30, 2018
... words, the U.S. military does not respond to disasters on home soil unless ordered to do so by an act of Congress or for a “humanitarian assistance mission.” ... Between 1970 and 2000, American troops provided international humanitarian assistance and disaster relief 366 times, mostly in the Pacific.
Berkeley Independent
March 29, 2018
These 2,000 IRS employees received “high-performing” bonuses despite their record of “serious misconduct such as unauthorized access to tax return information, substance abuse, and ... Opening the books on federal performance bonuses will require an act of Congress, and we're leading the charge.
WTOP
March 24, 2018
Volunteers handed out more than 2,000 candles to attendees. Once lit, those candles illuminated the front steps of the National Cathedral in Northwest D.C. during a moment of silence for the victims of gun violence. Rev. Jan Naylor Cope said the Cathedral was created by an act of Congress to be a churchÃâà...
AZCentral.com
December 31, 1999
... a second-place award in the journalistic innovation category. The project examined the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, revealing the challenges and consequences of a wall in unprecedented detail. ... Their symbolism spurred an act of Congress. But the horses also crowd out native species, fall victim toÃâà...
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