Sentences with phrase «takes congressional acts»

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It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

Net neutrality supporters are focusing their efforts in part on the Congressional Review Act, a once - obscure law that allows Congress to overturn regulations enacted by federal agencies within 60 days of when they take effect.

Earlier this year, the House of Representatives took decisive action and passed bipartisan reforms to the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), an outdated law that currently requires sexual assault survivors to endure an antiquated and often expensive dispute resolution process.

Because it took so long to complete, and because it was only finalized in December 2016, it can be easily overturned by Congress via the 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA).

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

The United States Postal Service took heat during a congressional hearing for allegedly violating the federal Hatch Act by «favoring» a union doing pro-Clinton campaign work.

And if the Congressional Clowns, fail to act in time, or take a half - a99 approach and only extend for 6 months to hang O out - they will soon realize that they only hung themselves.

Madeline Singas, the chief assistant Nassau County prosecutor, was sworn in as the acting district attorney Tuesday, when her former boss, Kathleen Rice, took the congressional seat she won on Election Day.

U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei's latest ad to hit airwaves in Central New York takes aim at Republican challenger John Katko's opposition to a measure supported by congressional Democrats that they say would improve the Equal Pay Act, a 51 - year - old law requiring equal pay for women.

Intense congressional backlash led to the 2010 NASA Authorization Act wherein Congress directed the Administration to build a new big rocket and crew spacecraft — the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion — to take astronauts beyond LEO, essentially continuing that part of the Constellation program.

When your editor took time yesterday to discuss how infighting among congressional Republicans would make any reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act unlikely, he didn't fully expect that the sparring would doom the prospects of John Kline getting his own plan passed out of the House today.

Given the dissatisfaction among civil rights groups with the efforts by both the administration and congressional leaders to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions, the unwillingness of the administration to back away from the effort, and the successful court challenges launched by those opposing implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, it is quite likely that reformers on both sides of the ideological line will take Obama and Duncan to court.

Under the Congressional review provisions in the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, agencies must submit all final rules to Congress before they can take effect.

With the recent passage of the Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2017, a bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers have taken one important step forward towards changing the system.

Although the US Congress has continued to fail to act on climate change since climate negotiations began in 1990, President Obama identified administrative actions that he would take that did not depend upon US congressional action.

After years of drafting and refinements, the rule took effect in January 2017 before being revoked by Congress in February through the Congressional Review Act.

The U.S. Senate held a hearing on the issue last April, at which one of Hearne's clients testified, and Missouri's congressional delegation has introduced companion Senate and House bills aimed at ensuring that property owners are compensated for land taken under the Rails - to - Trails Act.

It remains to be seen if Congress can get its collective arse into gear and take some action, but the dynamic congressional duo of DeFazio and Chaffetz seem confident that the SHIELD Act will at least get through the House of Representatives...

The action taken Thursday under the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn recently enacted federal regulations, prohibited a Senate filibuster.

The policy would've made it easier for consumers to file class action lawsuits against banks, but lawmakers used their powers under the Congressional Review Act to kill it before it could take effect.