Sentences with phrase «over the legislation authorizing»

Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

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That revelation provoked an uproar among privacy advocates, and Congress eventually reacted by replacing parts of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which authorized the privacy - invasive program, with a seemingly - less - intrusive piece of legislation, the U.S.A. Freedom Act, over the summer.

The reconciliation instructions identify the authorizing committee (s) tasked with reconciliation, the dollar amount of budgetary changes that must be achieved over designated time frames (usually the first year of the budget and the five - or ten - year period covered by the budget resolution) that the committee (s) must achieve, and the date by which the committee (s) must report reconciliation legislation.

Her legislation, offered near the end of session, authorized the state Power Authority to use eminent domain in taking over the FitzPatrick plant.

A policy crisis over NAAQS regulation of GHGs would finally make clear to the public and their elected representatives that Massachusetts v. EPA created a constitutional crisis by authorizing the EPA to enact policies that Congress has not approved and would reject if proposed in legislation and put to a vote.

And now, with shovels still scraping away at the mess of the last storm, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has filed legislation that would authorize over $ 1.4 billion in investments to make the Commonwealth more resilient in the face of climate impacts.