Even so, the commission and others are pressing wireless carriers to offer consumers the option to block third-party billing as a way to prevent cramming charges.
But the ruralistas are the largest cross-party block in Congress, and that limited the president's room for manoeuvre.
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The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.
All this came as the Tories attempted to prove that - unlike the Labour party, which is trying to block Ken Livingstone - its selection process is the most democratic of the lot.
For five hours this Sunday, some 10 miles of normally car-crowded Los Angeles streets will be closed to vehicular traffic and turned into a massive block party for cyclists, pedestrians, joggers, even stilt-walkers.
The Conservatives have offered the government a compromise deal under which the party would not seek to block the bill - but only so long as the contentious "right to roam" is dropped.
Opposition parties claim that they will not block this in Congress, where Lula's nine-party coalition is in a minority.
Today it's Plaid Cymru - a party with the newest leader on the block in Leanne Wood, and the party that's done the most thinking about its future over the past year.
One, notably, who welcomed the Calgary document was Preston Manning, leader of the Reform Party, powerful in the west and the second-largest block in the federal parliament.
But if Boehner's plan is for his party to act as an oppositional force -- trying to block, delay and prevent legislative action -- then the GOP could find itself in big trouble.
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Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-funded Tea Party group, has lent support to his campaign to block the new bridge.
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After October's legislative election, it is the biggest party in both chambers of Congress, with power both to block legislation requiring a two-thirds majority and to force ministers to appear for public roastings when it so wishes.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
Ozawa still controls the largest block of DPJ votes and continues to act as pre-eminent power broker, despite having had his party membership suspended as punishment for campaign finance law violations.
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