Sentences with phrase «obama signed a law»

Two years ago, Congress passed and President Obama signed a law that said private companies can own and sell what they extract, although, abiding by the language of the Outer Space Treaty, the companies can not claim ownership of the celestial body itself.

However, hemp cultivation was banned in the U.S. until 2014 when President Barack Obama signed a law legalizing growing hemp for research.

Meanwhile, President Obama signed a law in February 2012 that gives the FAA until September 2015 to draw up rules that dictate how law enforcement, the military and other entities may use drones in U.S. airspace.

President Barack Obama signed a law yesterday that eliminates a requirement that many high - level government employees» financial holdings be posted online in a public database.

President Obama signed a law that ends test - and - punish policies and opens the door for real teaching and learning.

President Obama signed a law on November 2 that changes the options for collecting Social Security benefits.

In 2012, Barack Obama signed a law that made the lower rates permanent for most taxpayers but allowed the rate reductions for high - income individuals to expire.

Funds are available to candidates during the primaries and general election; up until 2014 parties could use public funds at nominating conventions, but President Obama signed a law that ended that.

In 2011, President Obama signed a law called the America Invents Act that was supposed to fix the problem, but little has changed.

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There's no word yet on whether President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill into law.

In 2015, President Obama signed into law a bill allowing U.S. citizens ownership of whatever resources they're able to extract from an asteroid.

The bill will be merged with two information - sharing bills that were passed earlier this year by the House of Representatives, then sent to President Obama to be signed into law.

That's why the 21st Century Cures Act, which aims to streamline the drug approval process, was overwhelmingly approved by Congress last year and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The new rules, known as Title III, come from the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which President Obama signed into law in 2012.

The House is expected to vote on the Obamacare bill on Thursday, the anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law.

Barack Obama signed a new bipartisan health bill into law on Tuesday that includes funding to expand access to mental health care, an issue that has been a priority for many Sandy Hook families.

More than a year after President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, the Commission released rules for regulating equity crowdfunding.

Signed into law by President Obama in 2011, it was the most extensive reform to food safety regulations in more than 70 years.

Obama's budget, to be formally released Monday, will call for $ 74 billion more than the levels frozen in place by across - the - board cuts agreed to by both Democrats and Republicans and signed by Obama into law.

On June 2 of that year, former President Barack Obama signed the USA Freedom Act into law.

The statement said HHS has already spent more than $ 60 million to promote sign - ups this year under former President Barack Obama's health care law.

Earlier this month, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Congress to pass the proposed bill so President Obama, who also supports Olympic tax relief, can sign it into law.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.

In December 2010, President Obama signed into law The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act.

That is four years after Obama signed the JOBS Act into law.

In April, President Barack Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, which among other things loosened the restrictions on who can invest in startups.

Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, while Barack Obama signed not only a nearly $ 800 billion stimulus package to combat a spiraling recession but also the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and a law expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Since its birth on April 5, 2012, when President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, equity crowdfunding has become a byword in aspiring entrepreneurial minds encouraged by the prospect of raising capital directly from the public online.

On February 7, 2014, President Obama signed the Farm Bill of 2013 into law.

But in December 2014, Citigroup was able to slip language into the must - pass spending bill that effectively repealed this critical Dodd - Frank provision and President Obama signed the bill into law.

The Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a federal statute in the United States that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.

The next major shift in American space policy came in November 2015, when President Obama signed congressional bill H.R. 2662 into law.

At the White House yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching one of the most forward - thinking pieces of pro-business bipartisan legislation to date signed into law by President Obama: the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS)...

Imagine George W. Bush and Barack Obama are President at the same time, both with equal ability to appoint, to declare war, and to sign bills into law.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

In signing laws that have increased Wall Street regulations and stopped health insurance companies from rejecting patients with preexisting conditions, Obama said at the breakfast, he wanted to «make the economy stronger for everybody.»

Feathers began flying last Friday hours before Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the country's strictest state law governing illegal immigration, when President Obama called it unfair and promised to have the Justice Department examine it for possible civil rights violations.

Health and Human Services announced in August 2011 that organizations would be required to provide contraception to their employees as part of the health care law President Obama signed.

Bill supporters were optimistic that Obama would sign the measure, named in honor of Congress» longtime top religious freedom advocate, into law.

The Huffington Post: Westboro Baptist Church To Obama On New Funeral Protest Law: There's «Prime Real Estate At 301 Feet» Members of the Westboro Baptist Church once again took to Twitter to react to the new law signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that will restrict one of the group's notorious activities: Picketing funerals of soldieLaw: There's «Prime Real Estate At 301 Feet» Members of the Westboro Baptist Church once again took to Twitter to react to the new law signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that will restrict one of the group's notorious activities: Picketing funerals of soldielaw signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that will restrict one of the group's notorious activities: Picketing funerals of soldiers.

I hope Obama's & Pope's National Sunday Law gets signed!

(CNN)-- A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the nation's first to drop its health care plan because it opposes parts of the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Grocery Manufacturers Association today praised President Obama for signing into law free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

Signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the most sweeping...

As a result, the Grocery Manufacturers Association helped craft the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011.

Through the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 or H.R. 2751 (which was signed into law by President Obama in 2011), the US Food Development Authority and other stakeholders can efficiently undertake these tasks by issuing guidelines, reports, public notices, safety strategies and related tasks.

When President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law in 2011, FSMA's 2015 and 2016 compliance deadlines seemed far away.

«Our industry applauds President Obama and Members of Congress for ensuring that this significant piece of legislation advanced and was signed into law this year,» Susan K. Neely, ABA president and CEO, said.

The American Beverage Association (ABA) today commends President Barack Obama for signing into law the «Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act,» a bill that will provide necessary funding to federal child nutrition programs.