Federal regulators have held sway over indecent broadcast content since the radio era of the 1920s.
For the past couple of decades, federal regulators have been hostile to enforcement of anti-fraud regulations.
But as federal regulators have said, a mandatory label implies erroneously a meaningful difference where none exists.
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General aviation flights can resume starting Monday in a phased approval at 12 additional metropolitan areas, federal regulators have decided.
But tests by pet-treat makers and federal regulators have yet to make a conclusive connection between China-produced treats and the sickened dogs.
So far federal regulators have found no evidence of harm to humans.
"I've always thought that the federal regulators have the tools, if they choose to use them, to regulate this market, " he told CNBC.
For this reason, state and federal regulators have piled on laws and rules dictating what these detailers can and cannot say and do to educate physicians about their products.
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And while Texas is the lone state where federal regulators have no authority over wholesale energy markets, the report Monday implicating TXU is evidence that competition is not working as it was envisioned.
The high court two years ago ruled in favor of the FCC on the issue of "fleeting expletives, " concluding federal regulators have the authority to clamp down on broadcast TV networks airing isolated cases of profanity.
Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, several people briefed on the matter said on Monday.
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As one illustration, many of the supervisory guidances issued by federal bank regulators have been motivated, at least in part, by concerns that a particular industry trend posed risks to the stability of the banking system as a whole, not just to individual institutions.
Don't look at the latest FCC filings then -- Federal regulators appear to have snagged some exclusive hands-on time with Razer's upcoming Project Fiona, and its trademark handlebars are nowhere in sight.
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Federal prosecutors and securities regulators have brought dozens of insider-trading cases involving hedge funds in recent years, often focusing on third-party service providers engaged in expert-networking services.
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As a result, the investigators on the treatment protocol, the maker of the drug, federal regulators and I would all have suspected that the drug was the proximate cause of death.
Neither federal regulators nor police agencies seem to have taken any notice.
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Unfortunately, federal regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have said they won't approve Clarinex until Schering resolves manufacturing problems at plants in New Jersey and Puerto Rico.
These guidances likely would not have been issued if the federal regulators had viewed the issues they addressed as being isolated to a few banks.
But Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and other market regulators have stopped short of calling for tighter regulations, saying the industry can self-monitor and come up with ways to mitigate risk.
I'd like to see a full menu of choices, without state and federal regulators or the tort system dictating what people must have, so people can make choices that give them more take-home pay but still give them good protection.
Federal regulators, Congress and a federal grand jury in Chicago have investigated MF Global's failure and the disappearance of customers' money.
Mortgage settlement: For more than a year, banks have been negotiating a settlement with Federal and state regulators over alleged improper foreclosure practices including robo-signing, where officers approved foreclosures without reviewing documents.
More than 2.6 million New Jersey customers are living without power, representing 65% of the state's total, and nearly 2.1 million in New York state have been left in the dark, according to federal regulators.
Our spending tons of time on the Internet and revealing lots about ourselves is not a particularly new phenomenon, but it seems to have finally caught the sustained attention of lawmakers and federal regulators in Washington, D.
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Under the new law, a regulatory autonomous body formed by seven regulators, known as the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, will have the power to revoke operating licenses for monopolistic practices and to stop companies from controlling more than 50% of market share.
Many federal and state regulators say fracking is safe when done properly and thousands of sites have few complaints of pollution.
Federal regulators are so nervous about over-selling aspirin's benefits that they have restricted statements about aspirin to the most bland and basic.
Mr Corrigan is frustrated by the fact that Australia's rail tracks still have seven different state and federal government owners, and some 30 regulators.
After all, they say, many of the worst elements of the Glass-Steagall act have been disabled by the courts or by regulators such as the Federal Reserve reinterpreting what commercial banks are allowed to do.
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