In 1990, the year Ryan passed away, two great friends and unlikely political allies, Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, came together and introduced the Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act -- the CARE Act -- which was later named after Ryan.
Luckily, some are already on the books, thanks to the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act, an outgrowth of the Sago Mine accident in West Virginia in January 2006.
The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.
The United States government nationalized all gold through the Emergency Banking Relief Act and the The Gold Reserve Act.
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Indeed, it was last adopted, with some success, when it was part of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (1985).
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Writing this blog on the Sunday after the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) has become law, has caused me to think through my immediate reactions and my long term investment strategies.
The bill, called the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, faces its first hurdle later on Monday when the House votes on it, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.
In October 2008, under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Congress and the Treasury Department took the first steps to limit compensation at companies receiving investments under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-343).
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to suspend the mark-to-market rules, which went into effect in the fall of 2007, just in time for the credit crisis.
In a 1948 case dealing with the World War II era Emergency Price Control Act, the Supreme Court held that the government can require individuals engaged regulated activity to maintain and produce certain types of records.
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On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, the President declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
On June 16, 2006, by Executive Order 13405, the President declared a national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Belarus, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
On August 1, 2007, by Executive Order 13441, the President declared a national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons undermining the sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes or institutions and certain other persons, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
On July 24, 2011, by Executive Order 13581, I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the activities of significant transnational criminal organizations.
In order to close this loophole, the Lautenberg amendment would apply the same restrictions imposed on U.S. companies' dealings with a foreign country or persons dealing with that country pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to foreign-incorporated subsidiaries of such companies, where the U.S. parent owns at least a 50% share of the subsidiary.
On October 27, 2006, by Executive Order 13413, the President declared a national emergency with respect to the situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in that country.
One-third of the Recovery Act was emergency relief, like increasing unemployment benefits and helping states keep teachers and police officers and firefighters from losing their jobs.
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For the next 20 years, using flashy names like Fiscal Structural Reform Act, Emergency Employment Measures and Policy Measures of Economic Rebirth, the government cut taxes, increased spending and borrowed money to finance itself.
Finally, as we are moving forward in these areas, we should also extend the relief in the Recovery Act, including emergency assistance to seniors, unemployment insurance benefits, COBRA, and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs.
He was appalled that according to the survey in every minute of every day another shopworker is assaulted, threatened or abused, and believed that all public-facing workers deserve the same level of protection as workers covered by the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005.
Then came the uninsured in need of emergency care (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act).
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Currently a severe "space weather" event would most likely be considered an "emergency" under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and require help from the armed forces.
Anne Studd QC, representing the police, told the appeal court Sir Robert had failed to understand "the bigger policing picture" and had failed to build in any operational discretion when officers genuinely believed they were in an emergency situation that required them to act at once.
The program, called the Toxics Release Inventory, was created as part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act.
And so we had to act fast and take some emergency steps to prevent the economy from going back into what could have been a Great Depression.
They cite the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986, which led to the development of a Toxic Release Inventory detailing the pollution habits of various companies.
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He said the coalition government was looking to "move towards the establishment of a UK National CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)", to act as a "focus point for international sharing of technical information".
The bill has been brought in to replace the previous government's Terrorist Asset Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act, a piece of emergency legislation rushed through Parliament after the UK Supreme Court ruled that ministers had failed to legislate properly to give themselves the power to freeze the assets of suspected terrorists.
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