And tonight, I am grateful that this Congress delivered, and pleased to say that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now law.
Now, there are a bunch of folks out there who would tell you otherwise and would say that the Recovery Act hasn't made a difference and created a job.
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' So I say, trying to act all innocent and unknowing, I say, 'What all did they take?
Congress wants to act and they say they're going to do something in the next - or they could act in 30 days.
Second of all, it sounds good and it sounds easy to say let's make the act apply to the whole country and let's come up with a formula to do that.
But the only way we do it is if the American people insist on a different approach and say to their elected officials, we expect you to act reasonably, and we don't expect you to get your way a hundred percent of the time, and we expect you to have strong convictions, but we also expect you to manage the business of the people.
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Membership of the single currency would take a bit longer, but pro-EU politicians say the simple act of applying and working towards euro convergence would reassure the markets.
"It is always sad to say goodbye to a good double act and especially to a long-running character like Robbie Jackson, so we will be leaving the door open for both characters, " she added.
Economic incentives and early-warning systems say donors should act early.
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Mr D'Anjou said they were being held in custody "on suspicion of conspiracy of a terrorist criminal act" and officials would say in the next few days whether they would be charged.
In an irony only Congress could foster, many of the blind pools rushing to list under the JOBS Act have no employees and say in their prospectuses that they might never hire anybody at all.
And then I would say that we are examining our options and we have the capacity if necessary to act in case of a major disruption.
Employers also say that new costs and uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act are making them cautious.
What I will say is that we certainly expect Congress to act responsibly and raise the debt ceiling.
Those questions are open, compliance experts say, because Congress passed the Patriot Act in haste and set tight deadlines.
But assessed against more modest expectations we say two cheers: the JOBS Act has meaningfully improved and reduced the cost of the IPO process.
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"What we have seen on the streets of London has been particularly sickening, a really, really heinous act of I would say criminality -- and I'm being careful to say criminality, not terrorism, " he told CNN.
You would think that by now, people would know that of all the idiotic things to think, say or act out, the one guaranteed to expose and confirm your idiocy is pretty much anything involving Adolf Hitler.
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New government guidance will say the act relates to "the nature of the information and not the format".
We are listening, and ready to act on what you have to say.
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Of course there will be issues on which a president is free to act without Congress's say-so, and on which the country as a whole will rally to the president.
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Experts point to the early- to mid-1970s as the effort's start, and say it got a boost when the Native American Languages Act, passed in 1990, declared the U.S. was committed to ensuring the languages' survival.
Countless people have phoned and written from all over the country and all over the world -- friends, strangers, quadriplegics, parents of handicapped children -- to say how inspired they were by such an act of kindness and compassion at a time of such unspeakable evil.
Now, let me just say that Congress still has it within its capacity to be responsible and act.
Rep. MUSGRAVE: I'm confident if we are hypocritical, if we say we're for small government, and we don't act like that, then we're going to have consequences, but I'm also confident if we will be true to our principles, that the pendulum will swing back.
But critics say the act makes it harder for British courts to extradite criminals and has also led the current controversies over prisoners being able to vote and sex offenders having the right to appeal to get their name removed from the sex offenders register.
According to senior administration officials, the president will say the senators' plan represents progress and argue that now is the time to act.
This plan looks suspiciously like elements of the Dream Act, and so the pressure will be on Congress to say if they will do something, or do nothing.
Diplomats say Pakistan is the key, and that what's needed is a balancing act where the country is committed to a solution without exercising a veto or having an "unhealthy" involvement.
As mentioned above, Bullard did say QE is a more direct, and preferable way, for the Fed to act (given nominal rates in the zero range and forward guidance as the other major tool), but said he sees asset purchases affecting labor markets in the same way as interest rate moves.
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