He is now calling for a "reasonableness" clause to be introduced to the act so that any request for information has to be reasonable and relevant to the workings of a council.
Harry Reid, D-Nevada, would not need to act on Sanders' request, but Sanders could launch a filibuster to delay the motion to nominate the Fed chairman for another four-year term.
The Sun newspaper had used the Freedom of Information Act to request details of his personal expenses.
So if a hurricane has caused flooding in Tennessee, governors normally request a Stafford Act declaration to cover damages.
As a result, you may not even see the request, which then makes it hard to act in a timely manner.
Granting power of attorney in the language of the scholars is a permissible request for legal assistance for the attorney to act as one's representative.
High River declined to act on Goldman Sachs' request, but claims it offered Goldman Sachs "the economic equivalent of the" deal participation.
The audio of her three-hour interview with investigators, as well as 324 pages of documents and more than 600 crime scene photos, were released for the first time in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press.
Hidden in the cold legalese and legislative word-smithing is the following result: if a document could interfere with some sort of enforcement proceedings (very broadly defined by 5 U.S.C. 552 (c)), the agency does not simply deny the request for the document, but actually is instructed to act as if the document does not exist at all.
The FDA replied to a request for comment with three letters: "FOI, " referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
This was the most recent in a string of changes the Bush administration has made to the Clean Air Act rules at the request of industry.
It is a matter of constitutional principle that the chancellor does not act without an unambiguous request from a member to relinquish his or her seat.
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Thirty out of the 43 police forces provided information to the BBC after a Freedom of Information Act request.
If upheld, the ruling is a major victory for media outlets like Bloomberg LP, which initiated the case after being denied access to the documents in a Freedom of Information Act request.
Just 44% of marketers surveyed believe their organizations were in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act, a law that requires marketers to request permission to send email messages, disclose the messages' source and offer an opt-out function.
The current NICS is required by federal law -- the Brady Act of 1993 -- to destroy background check request records within 24 hours.
His first attempt at getting the information was denied, so he filed an appeal on the Freedom of Information Act Request from the Department of Justice, and continued to persist in uncovering the information.
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During these conversations, I had the opportunity to announce -- consistent with our strong government-to-government relationship and after a lengthy review process -- that the administration supports amending the Stafford Act to allow federally recognized tribal governments to make a request directly to the president for a federal emergency or disaster declaration.
The figures came in response to a request from the BBC Wales news website under the Freedom of Information Act about serious incidents involving patient safety in Welsh hospitals.
So the Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the IRS. The agency high-handedly refused to hand over the documents within the deadlines set by the law.
We respectfully request that the General Court act on our concerns and for the European Commission to ensure the proper protections are put in place to encourage innovation and a competitive marketplace.
But he declined to provide it (The Economist has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request).
The costs of Project Pegasus were given to Nuclear Information Service (NIS) following a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Subtitle B of title III of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to take certain actions in response to a request by an interested party for relief from serious damage or actual threat thereof to a domestic industry producing certain textile or apparel articles.
Labour MP and former minister Denis Macshane said the act needed to be reviewed to cover the press and claimed many FOI request were simply designed simply to seek out "sensationalist tittle-tattle".
McKinnon's lawyer, Karen Todner, complained that the United States has never provided evidence to prosecutors or McKinnon's legal team to support their extradition request -- and in fact, under Britain's Extradition Act of 2003, U.S. prosecutors are not required to.
Data obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by David Patch, a well-known blogger in the movement to eradicate manipulative naked short-selling, showed an astonishingly high degree of trade settlement failures in Global Links shares in the days and weeks following a 350-to-1 reverse split in February 2005.
The initial row centred on whether it was legitimate for communication via private email accounts to be accessed by journalists and others if they made a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Jesse Jackson said Sunday's event had a sense of urgency because the U.S. Supreme Court heard a request Wednesday by a mostly white Alabama county to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act.
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