Last year, the Obama administration criticized a measure in North Carolina that banned same-sex marriage and made civil unions illegal.
The Obama administration criticized a measure in North Carolina, a swing state, that banned same-sex marriage and made civil unions illegal.
The decision to put the trust into administration - a measure made possible by legislation Labour introduced in 2009 - is being closely monitored within the NHS because it provides a blueprint for what could happen elsewhere.
Nor does there appear to be any progress in settling a dispute with Mexico, which imposed tariffs on the U.S. after the administration signed a measure favored by Democrats canceling a pilot program that allowed Mexican trucks to carry cargo on U.S. roads.
In the Lords (from 3pm) peers bid a less than fond farewell to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill - the measure which had Conservative and Lib Dem ministers voting in opposing lobbies for the first time, last week.
In theory, this ought to give Congress, the administration and the Pentagon a measure of control over private firms.
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For good measure, the administration has been dropping hints of economic goodies for both sides, if a deal is struck.
Administration officials are confident the measure will pass the House, but say they are still short of the public commitments necessary to guarantee passage.
That changed in 1996 when the Congress adopted and the Clinton administration approved of the welfare reform measure.
The administration has sent to Congress a measure to extend the existing trade preferences for up to two years.
White House officials and their allies on Capitol Hill, including key Republican lawmakers, are increasingly optimistic the measure will pass Congress, but an administration official said the White House would not let its guard down because the number of lawmakers publicly committed to the measure was still shy of the votes necessary for passage.
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Business leaders and the Clinton administration say extended delays could jeopardize the measure.
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By the same token Golkar would likely support Gus Dur over the populist Megawati in the hopes of holding onto some measure of power in a new administration.
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Whether wrecking the US-Saudi alliance is a good thing or a bad thing, it's unlikely that the current US government recognizes either that it has been destroyed, or that this has happened in large measure as a consequence of the administration's behavior.
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Opposition Labour councillors claim a budget saving measure tabled by the Conservative-SNP administration would lessen support for pupils.
Finally, a measure in the bill would require the administration to raise corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards from their current level of 25 miles per gallon (mpg) to 35 mpg by 2020.
Klein held that position for eight years and brought a measure of stability and toughness to public school administration that was surely lacking before his arrival.
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Finally, what probably accounts for a good measure of the confidence and support the Obama administration has enjoyed is the fact that they are not Republicans.
The measure also had the support of the Obama administration.
The 72 League clubs' chairmen unanimously backed the measure, so that if a club entering administration after the deadline escaped relegation, the 10 points would be deducted that season - but if they were relegated anyway, 10 points would be taken off the following season.
He said the Obama administration fought for wording to be included in the Sandy aid measure to require enhanced reviews and internal controls on all money made available by HUD and other agencies for superstorm relief and recovery.
Does the administration believe that Republicans or Democrats who vote against the war-funding measure are putting our troops in danger?
What the present administration does with those policies is their call to make, and will become a measure of their own record.
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate passed a food safety bill to give more power to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, more than a year after the House of Representatives passed a similar measure.
And Bowles said he would back a measure that would link the buyout to a provision that would give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco, which the Bush administration opposes.
The measure is designed to allow pharmaceutical concerns and drug wholesalers, under strict Food and Drug Administration guidelines, to reimport U.S. manufactured drugs that had been sold to other countries, and sell them in the United States at below market prices.
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Is there anything that this administration is doing to consider, calculate, pose in any way, shape or form, weigh or measure potential deficit implications or economic implications of a value-added tax?
Now, two Democrats who opposed the measure were absent today as was Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel who's often voted against the Bush administration.
The Administration should declare the U.S. firmly in favor of higher living standards abroad and use clearer tools to measure and evaluate progress.
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