Sentences with phrase «congress passed»

In order to close the loophole that single - premium policies presented, congress passed legislation turning any policy that didn't pass certain tests to be a «Modified Endowment Contract,» or MEC.

So after the lands were taken back, congress passed legislation to manage these sections for sustained - yield timber production, with the proceeds to go to the counties as I mentioned earlier.

I think a few coments are also pointing in this direction but It is my understanding, that congress passed that Debt Relief act which in case of a short sale on your primary residence does NOT allow the banks to come back to you anymore and charge you for the difference between loan balance and short sale amount.

As a result, congress passed a few different acts to squash these tax shelters, and prevent people from using life insurance policies as a short term savings vehicle.

Brazil's congress passed a bill to do just that last month.

But the state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

The state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

When congress passed the new federal tax law in December, it capped the state and local tax deduction at $ 10,000.

When congress passed this law, it shifted the responsibility of retirement savings from the employer to the employee, giving individuals more control over their savings.

A trivial example would be congress passes a law to create a seal for an agency, the president (under that law) says the background would be green.

When did congress pass legislation allowing for astronaut farmers to launch their own rockets?

Heck, even my Dad watched congress pass a retroactive change which reduced his federal pension a few years after he retired, dropping his monthly benefit by 40 %.

When Congressed passed the Controlled Substances Act, CCE was alone in providing for a stiff mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction.

Not exact matches

During the short time that they controlled both houses of congress, Democrats reacted by passing new rules that prevented reconciliation from being used to increase the deficit.

In theory, the following should occur if congress and the President can not pass new legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff:.

So far Rush has been wrong about everything from womans reproductive rights, endangered species, climate change, how laws and bills are actually passed in congress, drugs, alcohol, gay marriage, marriage (what is he on now his 5th?)

The Catholic church spends 28 million dollars a year lobbying OUR congress members to pass and enact morality laws.

But this week, the US Department of State has encouraged the Guatemalan congress to pass the Ortega Law which would effectively put an end to all adoptions from Guatemala.

If, like me, you live in what seems like a hopelessly red district, you might want to check out Swing Left, which helps you locate the closest «Swing District» that will decide the majority in congress and join a team working to elect democrats, who won't give this president a free pass, to those seats.

I don't care if you pick your nose and eat the boogers, I just don't want to see you doing it in public or trying to get congress to pass laws forcing my children in public schools to learn your disgusting habits.

Sabrina said her biggest concern presently is that congress will pass a health care bill that will «socialize medicine.»

10,000 people die yearly from gun violence and congress can't pass a bill.

Also, the 1st amendment clearly state that congress will pass no legislation prohibiting OR INCOURAGINGthe practace of religon, by giveing them an exemption on the law, they are passing a law that incourages the practice of this barbaric and brutal form of thought control.

It was read aloud in its entirety and passed by both houses of congress on June 7, 1797.

1879 — US congress upholds Morill law that bans polygamy 1882 — Application for statehood denied as Utah failed to meet requirement of «a republican form of government» 1880 - 89 — Various federal laws passed imposing penalties for polygamy.

Our teaching was that at the end of time the US congress would pass a national Sunday law, then the United Nations would pass a world Sunday law.

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that establish an official national religion (e.g. Islam in Saudi Arabia, or the Church of England in colonial times), or from passing laws that prohibit you from getting together with those of like mind and faith.

Please draft the Petition urging congress to mandate all midwives to report adverse outcomes, and at the same time, passing legislation to protect hospitals from being sued from adverse outcomes due to negligent midwives.

There's also a lot of bills that go in with no intention of passing at all from both sides, that are merely there so the congress person can say «I sent a bill that does this thing that is popular with my constituency.

I heard after coincidentally asking a ex-marine that there is talk the United States congress of passing legislation to create a space combat unit.

Because Democrats are already having enough problems passing legislation, next year we're expected to have even fewer Democrats in the House and Senate, and there's talk in town as to whether the Democrats will even control the congress after the elections this fall.

All of these different methods have serious implications on the kinds of laws the court will allow congress to pass.

Any law passed by congress must adhere to these rights, or it is struck down.

You also have to consider that a lot of bills passed by congress explicitly give the president authorities to make certain decisions, and this might not actually be unconstitutional because of that.

I might add that, if a restriction of rights is in the constitution, congress can always pass an amendment.

The leftists in the NY congress were chomping at the bit to get this legislation thru knowing that it would never pass if a Republican controlled Senate were to return in 2 years.

And with both houses of congress in the hands of Republicans, she stands NO chance of passing any of her agenda.

It also follows a difficult week in the US for president Bush whose own economic bale out proposals were intially rejected by the US congress and were only then passed after a week of what can best be described as pork barrel politics by his own party.

You know, the half of congress that didn't pass a budget for three years?

What happens to bills that are passed by one house of congress but not both?

After an NYPD officer was shot and killed by a suspect with a gun illegally transported into the state, Bratton went off on a tirade about Congress when asked to identify a piece of gun control legislation he believed could pass the Republican - led congress.

Several lower courts have ruled against it, saying it is un-constitutional, but the nation's highest court will take up a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, a law passed by congress in 1996 that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

The Civil Rights Act could not pass Lyndon Johnson's democratic congress - too many southern democrats opposed it.

To the editor: 9/11 health care was won through the efforts of a vast coalition of 9/11 responders, community members and other stakeholders who worked alongside Congressman Jerry Nadler and a host of other elected officials to get the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act passed by the congress in 2010.

This was a report to congress, not a book or journal article, and there was no attempt to pass Bradleys material off as his own.

Instead, due in large part to the efforts of Noelle, Sasha and Leslie, congress did not act to pass this proposal, but acted put dollars back into the important federal programs providing services to children.

The report comes as congress works to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind, and as states countrywide pass laws that link the hiring and firing of teachers to their students» performance on standardized tests.

To the members of congress in the room: we hope you'll support it — and we're eager to work with you to pass a bipartisan bill.

Clips from a congressional meeting that showed how congress let the credit card companies get a «pass» since time was short and they could not let them address the concerns that came up.

An act passed by congress that was intended to improve the economy of the United States by reducing the taxes collected, giving the population more money to spend.