The Obama administration could sue to block the legal markets from operating, on the grounds that actively regulating an illegal substance conflicts with federal drug law.
This is precisely what occurred when Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to block Obama administration appointments unless money was provided for a harbor dredging project in his home state.
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Block grants restore administration back to statehouses, but continue the programs nationwide.
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The U.S. administration has warned it may block an international donors' conference tentatively set for late in May if it does not see progress.
The city teachers union on Friday threatened to go to court to block the Bloomberg administration's plan to replace staff at 33 troubled schools as the city moved ahead with preparations to close the schools.
The order stems from a decision by the Bush administration earlier this year to block the release of almost 70, 000 pages of confidential communications between President Ronald Reagan and his top advisers, that the Reagan library wanted to make public.
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Ben Wizner says the administration is asking the judge to block the case because it might reveal state secrets.
The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
She called security the essential "building block" of the agreement the administration is trying to nail down and said "there has to be a lot of effort" by the Palestinians to back up promises to combat terrorism.
But in two recent cases the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was not swayed by big pharma's attempts to block copycat drugs.
If Congress makes a decision that they are going to try to block the opening of a new facility, it potentially constrains what our administration can do.
But I then traveled up to the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, a largely Tajik area, and there people were voting in significant numbers, not least because the Tajiks are a minority, want to, try to acquire a block of power in parliament to counterbalance what they say is a Pashtun-governated Karzai administration in Afghanistan.
He is one of several parties interested in a block of shares former Rangers chairman Chris Wright agreed to free up when the club came out of administration last year.
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