European banks have more than a passing interest in the financial-regulation legislation now in Congress.
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The financial regulation legislation currently being finalized by conference committee in Congress has added to the depressed stock market.
President Obama was a co-sponsor of the FDA regulation legislation when he was in the Senate, and his administration has demonstrated a commitment to tobacco control.
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Commercial pressures from marketing and advertising are also often highlighted - and this is why the government has looked at regulation and legislation on a national level.
In effect, secrecy jurisdictions create regulation that is designed to undermine the legislation or regulation of another jurisdiction.
While normally, our preference is for less, rather than more, government regulation, some legislation may be necessary in this case.
Scotland's fish farming industry could face stricter regulation through new legislation.
By requiring this approval step for every major regulation, the REINS Act would foster greater upfront co-operation between agencies and future Congresses, resulting in better legislation and regulation.
Of course, neither legislation and regulation nor more vigorous law enforcement provide the complete answer.
The Fine Gael-Labour coalition said it would bring in legislation and regulation on the issue by the summer.
The British reforms came largely through voluntary codes and self-regulation, rather than legislation.
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It is imperative that any new legislation and regulation recognizes this reality.
The reality is: There are limits as to how much human legislation and regulation can accomplish for the good of human society.
Carriers have improved service on their own and are responding to passenger issues without legislation or regulation that could raise ticket prices, the group says.
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Yet industry leaders have repeatedly lobbied for legislation and regulation that block disruptive approaches from being used anywhere until they are certifiably good enough to be used everywhere.
Here, their anxiety is not about future legislation or regulation, but the enforcement of existing rules as well as the overall impact of security breaches on reputation and revenue.
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She added that the new regulation also contradicts existing EU legislation by focussing on the court in the consumer's country.
Pollutants subject to EPA regulation are explicitly listed in legislation.
His communications director, Robert Gibbs, says Demers is a state lobbyist who does not do business involving any federal legislation or federal regulation, and that the campaign has drawn a distinction between lobbyists who are registered to work at the state level and those who lobby the federal government.
"There is no environmental regulation in New Caledonia, no legislation and no enforcement, " Hutton said.
Although it is only voluntary, the commission made clear that it would call for legislation if self-regulation by the parties failed.
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But the health secretary Andrew Lansley believes legislation takes time and regulation is expensive - and working with industry is the quickest way to get results.
The Congressional Review Act allows any senator to bring up legislation to overturn a regulation or an order within 60 days of its effective date, provided the senator gets 30 signatures supporting it.
In 2005, I joined Michael Oxley, then chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, in supporting legislation to increase the regulation of Fannie and Freddie that passed the House by a vote of 330 to 90.
The Leveson proposal for legislation to back up press regulation was "politically hard to resist" and Lord Justice Leveson has called it "essential", it noted.
The Administration, in its usual posture of believing that the government must solve every problem through regulation and oversight, is firmly behind this legislation.
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Legislation will be introduced to improve the regulation of financial services and markets, with a new statutory regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
The report says there was a "compelling case" for a fundamental review of the legislation governing undercover policing, including the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act 2000 (Ripa).
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