As regional governments acquire more and more power to regulate, businesses face higher compliance costs.
There are moves in Congress to repeal or defer the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases.
There's a clause in the Constitution that says Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
It also applies to state governments, with their supposedly unlimited police power to regulate health and safety.
The fundamental question with Obamacare is whether it pushes Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce too far.
In a series of cases, the Justices gave Congress essentially unlimited power to regulate the national economy.
Under current law, the Court believes the IRS has no power to regulate preparers on its own.
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These problems multiply in modern times now that government has huge power to regulate economic and social affairs.
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Such as: the power to regulate health insurance, or the decision whether or not to buy health insurance at all.
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This will mean the immediate creation of a new parliamentary standards authority with delegated power to regulate the system of allowances.
The right not only detests the result but fears an unprecedented new Federal power to regulate private conduct through the tax code.
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The NI assembly has had the power to regulate expeditions and environmental matters in Antarctica - and the Foreign Office wants it back.
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The most serious governmental efforts to combat obesity consist of efforts to marry the power to regulate commerce with the insights of behavioral economics.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of October, 2009, gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) power to regulate smokeless tobacco products.
If approved, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, and seabed mining.
Much discussion followed about whether choosing not to buy health insurance is an economic activity, too, and one that Congress has the power to regulate.
In doing so, it rejected an interpretation of the 21st Amendment that granted the states the power to regulate all aspects of alcohol within their borders.
The decision hinges on the extent of the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce but not every detail of economic life.
If ratified by Congress, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
Congress should grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the power to regulate construction of the grid in the same way it does the construction of pipelines.
Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do.
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Finally, there is the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.
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He previously noted that the company supported federal legislation that in 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products, which includes various retail restrictions.
Instead, it gives the FDA more power to regulate medicines after they are approved, filling what he said were "gaping holes" in the agency's ability to enforce its decisions.
Thomas could only muster one supporter, fellow conservative Antonin Scalia, to argue that the law exceeds the power to regulate interstate commerce that is granted to Congress under the Constitution.
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This gives Congress the power to regulate inter-state commerce.
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EPA-awarded power to regulate GHGs failed by four votes.
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Mr. Axelrod said he expects to win legislation, possibly by June, that grants the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco, something Democrats have pushed for more than a decade.
Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron placed Monitor at the centre of his plans to reform the NHS in England, giving it more power to regulate hospitals and health providers around the country.
Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, says he worries that the case meant the FDA would not have the power to regulate what he sees as a large group of potentially dangerous drugs.
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