In short, John Boehner has committed himself to a set of principles for operating the House that makes the body fundamentally dysfunctional.
It must deliver the vision he set out in the now infamous "burning platform" memo in February 2011, when he abandoned Nokia's in-house operating systems in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
And so a number of the senior engineers and I got together and we recommended that first we modernize the operating system, and then we try to get it to run on Intel, initially by developing our own in-house operating system which turned out to be one of these projects that just grew and grew and never finished.
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In DeLay's case, he presumably could seek to restore the House Ethics Committee to operating condition.
The White House also knows BP is currently operating under the Oil Pollution Act, a piece of legislation passed in 1990 by a Democratic Congress.
Nokia has been turning around slowly after its gutsy decision to abandon its in-house smartphone platform and support Microsoft Office Phone operating system.
America's oldest continuously operating restaurant, and a National Historic Landmark, the Union Oyster House occupies a building so old no record exists of who built it or when.
Members of the House of Representatives passed legislation making U.S. contractors operating overseas accountable under U.S. law.
The Turkish government says it no longer has room to house displaced Syrians in the 14 refugee camps it is currently operating on Turkish soil.
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Concerning really big or controversial claims, the insurer will delay the claim as long as they can (make money on financing), then deny it (improve their loss ratio), then defend it if the claimant sues (in-house legal staff can spend a lot more than most consumers operating on their own).
Besides the constitutional issue, the justices had specifically ordered both sides to argue a supplemental question: whether congressional Republicans -- operating officially as the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives -- have "standing" or legal authority to make the case.
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M. company operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, that was perhaps most famous for once having former House Majority Leader Tony Coehlo on its board.
We assume they will use their oversight power in the House to find out what happened, and whether these Cincinnati kids were really operating on their own.
The funding amendment may wind up as one of many bitter pills the White House has to swallow to get a budget deal done and keep the government operating.
In a letter Monday to Republican congressional leaders, senior Democrats on a House panel that oversees the NRC noted that the commission recently voted to renew an operating license for a Vermont nuclear plant they said is of the same design as some of the troubled Japanese reactors.
The company has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since 2002, but still boasts more customers than Cablevision and Bright House Networks (the sixth- and seventh-largest players) combined.
Mr Starr retorts that White House workers are public servants, and that they would best serve the public interest by co-operating with his investigation.
Also in response to the Blackwater ordeal, members of the House of Representatives passed legislation, 389-30, late Thursday making U.S. contractors operating overseas accountable under U.S. law.
The House Appropriations Committee has attached an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill that would stop Dubai Ports World from operating the terminals at six American ports.
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