It's not clear if the agency has this authority under the law, however.

FORBES: Regulations

In any case, the Vatican was not the only world authority under fire this week for giving heart to anti-Semites.

ECONOMIST: Catholics and Jews

The Affordable Care Act is constitutional under Congress's taxing authority, but this is clearly a penalty that affects less than 1 percent of the American population.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

This entails creating a new planning authority under the mayor of Jerusalem, and devolving on to it the regional planning powers previously exercised by the army.

ECONOMIST: Tampering with Jerusalem

The Port Authority runs JFK. Maybe this fell under their purview.

WSJ: Lost Cause in New York

President Bush can help bring this about by utilizing authority available to him under existing U.S. law to impose import sanctions against German companies judged to have violated regulations controlling exports.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: German profits uber allies

At that meeting, OMB staff told participants that the first regulatory enforcement report is due by December 31, 2003, and that information in this report should be consistent with agency information reported under the authority of the IG Act and the CFO Act.

WHITEHOUSE: Statement of John D. Graham

This gave EPA long-awaited authority to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars under its Clean Air Act.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Earlier this year, Congress acted to give the President Trade Promotion Authority to negotiate trade agreements with other nations under strict parameters.

CNN: How to jump-start U.S. economy

As well as the DfT, this included 27 councils and one public authority, who all paid private firms to undertake surveillance using powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa).

BBC: Public bodies 'spending millions to snoop'