European governments, U.S. rating agencies, and Congressional votes all seem to cause major market swings.
And they're concerned that Pentagon activities could escape the strict congressional oversight required when intelligence agencies carry out such operations.
The Federal Transit Administration said that with Friday's allocation the agency has met the 60-day Congressional deadline to reimburse transit agencies for expenses incurred while preparing for and recovering from the storm.
The agencies were responding to a congressional request to assess the possible impact of global warming.
Backgrounds of political intelligence agents range from former congressional staffers to officials from powerful federal agencies, like the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.
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In all, 22 people were sickened and five died after a series of anthrax attacks that targeted news agencies in New York and a congressional office building in Washington.
President-elect BARACK OBAMA: We have been asleep at the switch, not just some of the regulatory agencies, but some of the congressional committees that might have been taking a look at this stuff.
Ben Critchley, a sales trader at IG Index, said investors would be keeping a close watch on the Congressional testimony of senior staff members of credit rating agencies in Washington on Wednesday.
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His practice includes counseling corporations on compliance, securities, regulatory, and criminal law issues, as well as representation of corporations and individuals before grand juries, in congressional hearings, in court proceedings, and before federal agencies.
While Mr. Obama may choose to make the cuts ordered by the sequester in the most painful way possible, the best alternative which is practiced every year to some extent is allowing federal agencies to transfer funds among individual programs with congressional approval or by rearranging priorities as part of the March 27 resolution to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.
For example, while some count 159 new agencies, boards and commissions in ObamaCare, the Congressional Research Service claims it's impossible to know how many because the legislative language is so vague.
At the same time Congress surrendered and the courts pried away congressional prerogatives and delegated both congressional and presidential power to an alphabet soup of independent executive agencies, which empowered unaccountable bureaucrats at the expense of both the Congress and the president.
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Congressional sources said Ridge will have input on budgetary matters and federal agencies will be directed to cooperate with him.
In order to strengthen the information base for Congressional consideration and to facilitate input from key stakeholders, the participating agencies, led by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, will hold a series of workshops across the country and issue a separate RFI in April.
After all, the American mortgage market is one of the most regulated parts of finance anywhere: dominated by two government sponsored agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and guided by congressional schemes to increase home-ownership.
Congress certainly has over-delegated power to agencies (In that sense, REINS is really a form of Congressional reform rather than executive reform).
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Planned Parenthood has been and is under congressional and criminal investigation (by attorneys general, local prosecutors and various regulatory agencies in Arizona, Indiana, Alabama, Kansas and Texas) for allegations including failure to report criminal child sex abuse, misuse of health-care and family-planning funds, and failure to comply with parental-involvement laws regarding abortions.
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Prodded in part by a congressional oversight committee and consumer advocates, the IRS began investigating dozens of credit counseling agencies most holding non-profit status two years ago.
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