The bill--created and passed in nanoseconds in 2002--has been a boon for lawyers and accountants and a confusing, expensive bane for everyone else.
In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
During his speech, Obama touted changes in the health-care system already passed in his month-old administration as part of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Her husband -- former presidential candidate Paul Tsongas who passed away in 1997 -- represented Massachusetts for one term in the Senate from 1979 to 1985.
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The American Laws for American Courts Act -- already passed in three states and never challenged in court -- is progressing through legislatures in several states with two-year or year-round sessions, and is either scheduled to be introduced or under consideration in over 25 additional states for the coming legislative session.
After her husband and whisky-smuggling in-laws passed away, Elizabeth Robertson took over in 1872.
Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in 2002 in response to the tech bubble-era accounting scandals (MCI, Enron, etc.).
If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimum wage.
Watson was among those to fall, being caught in the deep for 83 -- meaning he has not passed three figures in the five-day game since October 2010, despite registering 19 fifties in his 38 Test appearances.
The bill passed 26-10 in the Senate and 105-44 in the House of Representatives.
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It was put together and passed in I think -- put together, passed, and signed by the President in three weeks, because what we needed was to begin to get investment and money into this economy quickly.
The case was among the first to begin putting into practice a little-noticed provision in a package of laws passed in 2010 that more famously established no-fault divorce in New York.
The Information Technology Industry Council, a high-tech lobbying group, recently passed over its top in-house Republican in naming its new president.
The ball was handled by spectators, which should have denied Wales the right to take a quick throw-in, but Wales captain Matthew Rees was handed a different ball by a ball-boy and passed in to Mike Phillips peeling round the blind side.
Risk--in this case for workers' compensation liability--got passed from hand to hand in a game of hot potato.
California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale assault weapon ban would be hard to get passed in the GOP-controlled House.
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The new cities are part of a national roll-out for a company that has recently passed its one-year anniversary in its first city, San Francisco.
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The Commons resolution on sub-judice, passed in the 1960s, bans discussion of live issues before the courts - cases "awaiting judicial decision, being heard or appealed".
The 6-foot-4 star passed Moore with a neat tip-in with 7:04 left in the first half and wound up with a performance reminiscent of two of the all-time greats.
If you can parse that, you may belong in the U.Va. faculty senate, which passed a no-confidence vote in the board shortly after Ms. Dragas asked for Ms. Sullivan's resignation.
This legislation -- approved by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives, and passed unanimously in the Senate -- will create a commission to honor President Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
With all the hysterical talk about slowing takeovers with legislation, about curbing the spread of junk bond acquisitions and foreign buying of U.S. assets, few people seem aware that our current tax code--passed by Congress and approved in general by the business community--provides a huge bounty to people whether Americans or foreigners, who want to take over companies.
Last week, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service finally proposed long-awaited regulations--some 238 pages' worth of them--interpreting a law passed a year ago reining in deferred-compensation deals for executives.
It could suffer the same fate as a similar measure Congress passed in 1976--and then repealed after an outcry.
Federal and State legislatures passed anti-discrimination laws in the interim and the Courts performed their duty to interpret and enforce those laws.
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Of course, not all the states that passed voter-ID laws in their latest legislative session will see them take effect by November.
This bill was passed in parliament - this measure - overwhelmingly by 507 parliament members, despite opposition from the U.S. government, from the Iraqi government.
Under Auditing Standard 5, passed in mid-2007, the audit of internal control over financial reporting is now integrated with the audit of the financial statements.
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The company's hired Tallahassee lobbyist, James Eaton, takes credit for getting Florida's regulations banning self-referrals passed in 1992, six months before the federal government approved a similar bill.
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