The "Secretary" in that clause, as the rest of the law specifies, is the Secretary of State.
Speaker William Hay explained that clause 104 of the bill was believed to be incompatible with the EU weapons directive.
That clause empowers Congress to enact "all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" its enumerated powers.
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If you add "Bob" to that clause, the "me" pronoun still works.
That Clause requires Senate confirmation for principal U.S. officers, other than inferior officers, who report to and may be removed by higher officers appointed by the President.
That clause requires that a state law affecting the affairs of a single municipality can only be passed as long as two-thirds of its local legislative body agrees.
Now go back to that clause in the new bill.
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The SDLP would like that academic selection to be temporary, but the DUP said that agreement to that clause does not mean they foresee an end to academic selection.
For this reason, the mandate also cannot be justified under the Necessary and Proper Clause, because that clause can effectuate only those powers that Congress actually possesses under the Commerce Clause, not create new ones.
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It would have made little sense to make the primary method of appointment the cumbersome advice and consent procedure contemplated by that Clause if the secondary method would permit the President to fill up all vacancies regardless of when the vacancy arose.
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But the Compact Clause takes that possibility from the unthinkable to the unconstitutional because the MSA is precisely the kind of joint state interference with federal laws that the Clause was designed to preclude.
In 1964, the commerce clause formed part of the basis for the Civil Rights Act, and the Court upheld the argument that the clause grants Congress the power to prohibit racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.
The government won a vote on the first reading of the civil-service bill in June, but only by one vote, and that after holding back a clause that would have let state governors and mayors sack surplus workers.
This was a response to concerns that the clause might prevent the secretary of state from intervening when bodies were failing except in rare circumstances.
The crossbench peer and former deputy High Court judge argued that the clause allowing legal aid to be provided in such circumstances was too narrowly drafted.
She said the health secretary's duties as currently defined in the bill were "neither prescriptive nor exhaustive" and therefore the amendment "would not give the secretary of state a new power to do anything that the clause does not already accommodate".
He also stated that if the clause were stricken from the Constitution, that the enumerated powers still would be only those enumerated.
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Thirteen state attorney generals sent a letter to congressional leaders saying that if a Nebraska clause isn't in the final health care bill that they would bring legal action, based on equal protection clause and arbitrary spending.
As further evidence of Ergen's shrewdness, Merrill Lynch's Jayant notes that Ergen got away without having to adhere to the breakup clause that required him to buy Hughes' 81% stake in satellite wholesaler PanAmSat (nasdaq: SPOT - news - people ), in the event the deal didn't go through.
Still, many argue that the Establishment Clause was intended to prohibit Congress from getting involved with religion and that the prohibition was only intended to apply to the federal government.
That is why the American government is opposing, among other things, a clause that would ensure that consumers could sue businesses in the courts of the country where the consumer lives.
The price agreed between Cairn Energy and Vedanta is 9% lower than that agreed last year for its much bigger sale, in exchange for removal of a clause that would have banned Cairn from competing with Vedanta.
Even without that reality, the law's sunset clause means that Congress has the option to renew the legislation or revise it.
That is, a written clause in the bond indenture that says, if a control change occurs (i.e. merger, acquisition or LBO) then bondholders have the right to put their bonds back to the company at a predetermined price when a sale of substantially all the assets occurs.
The new offer also includes a clause that would protect MCI stockholders if Verizon's stock price drops.
Australians voted overwhelmingly then to repeal a clause that had excluded aborigines from being counted in the census.
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Its most important and unique financial regulation is the ownership clause that ties teams to the local community.
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