Understand, this is not, by the way, part of the congressionally voted rescue plan initially.
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The congressionally mandated National Assessment of Educaitonal Progress brought out its Writing Report Card.
The last time employers reached the congressionally mandated limit in less than a week was 2008.
Congressionally imposed restrictions placed on ATF's ability to enforce existing laws should be removed.
Criminal prosecution and punishment are not the same as, or a substitute for, congressionally imposed sanctions.
This should be taken by executive action, without the necessity of congressionally imposed deadlines or funding cutoffs.
But this is a congressionally created committee with congressional membership, no seats at the table for members of the administration.
The United Network for Organ Sharing, the congressionally created agency that administers the organ-donor process, divides the country into districts.
When combined with the deleterious effects of congressionally imposed budget cuts, the impact of this amendment will be even more insidious.
Then, there is Mr. Obama's first "elective war": His ill-considered, incoherent, congressionally unauthorized and, to date at least, unsuccessful campaign in Libya.
As you know, the congressionally mandated National Defense Panel has just issued its report entitled Transforming Defense: National Security in the 21st Century.
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Political progress in Iraq depends on this kind of steady statecraft and patient diplomacy on the ground in Baghdad, rather than scapegoating and congressionally-ordered coups.
Irene Rich, director of congressionally directed medical research for the Army.
He has served for years as the chairman of a congressionally empanelled commission made up of many of the most knowledgeable scientists in the United States.
Rumsfeld was joined by members of the congressionally-mandated Space Commission that he headed until December, when he stepped down because of his nomination to be defense secretary.
This gift is particularly important in the context of the findings of the first comprehensive, congressionally mandated study ever conducted in the U.S. on a national level.
Because the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are congressionally chartered, "only Congress can address the inherent conflict of attempting to serve both shareholders and a public mission, " said Paulson in announcing the plan.
As well as this congressionally-inspired scrutiny, the Bureau is hounded by watchdogs dispatched by its overlords at the Commerce Department, and by more overseers from the administration's Office of Management and Budget.
The cellphone substantiation provision was needed because the Internal Revenue Service has strict, congressionally ordered rules requiring proof you made a donation if you want to take it as a tax deduction.
Olson runs an independent, Congressionally created office within the IRS, which assists individual taxpayers who are having problems dealing with the IRS and reports annually to Congress on the most serious issues facing taxpayers.
Even more daft than the one-kiloton threshold is the consideration reportedly being given to foregoing the option afforded under the Hatfield amendment to resume testing once the congressionally imposed nine-month moratorium expires on 1 July.
In response to a struggling housing market and a conservative lending environment, the FHA has added Cadillac pricing to their mortgage products to subsidize a congressionally mandated reserve requirement, and to pay for a tax cut!
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Dr. Graham formerly served as President Reagan's Science Advisor and has in recent years chaired the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (better known as the EMP Commission).
Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.
On the face of it, there is an obvious need for clearing away much of the thicket of congressionally mandated restrictions, reporting requirements and associated regulations that today afflict the Department of Defense in each of these areas.
Several research groups, including the National Research Council, part of the congressionally chartered National Academies, have complained that a lack of data on firearm use and ownership has meant they cannot draw conclusions on key questions related to guns.
As part of a congressionally mandated drive to wean U.S. taxpayers from paper, the IRS plans to send out only 29.5 million paper tax packages this year--half the number it sent five years ago and just one for every 4.5 tax filers.
It would be disingenuous -- and potentially quite reckless -- to argue that such a sensible principle should not now be applied in order to avoid plunging the Nation into recession simply because the economy performed a fraction of a percent better than the congressionally mandated standard.
The Bush administration counters that detainees have no Constitutional rights because they are not being held in the United States and that even if they do have some basic rights, the congressionally approved system of hearings for each prisoner at Guantanamo, plus review by a court of appeals here in Washington, is sufficient.
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