Filburn, where Congress ordered the farmer to stop growing wheat for his own consumption.
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Private-equity managers have faced similar criticisms in America, where Congress held hearings in May.
Well there was the District of Columbia, where Congress was in charge.
Nothing in federal law persuades us that we should change our own law to create a remedy where Congress did not.
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Today, Specter rattled off about a dozen instances where Congress and the Justice Department have conducted simultaneous investigations in the past.
While no one knows where Congress will come down on the current tax debates, the assumption is that changes are coming.
We're in a situation now where Congress is about to leave town.
"Waiting until next year gives until October 2012 to undo the conversion, and we should know more about where Congress is heading, " says Prof.
Housing isn't the only area where Congress is showing its generosity.
In the US, immigration is one area where Congress might actually be able to agree on some action, unlike the legislative deadlock that's afflicting most issues in Washington.
Where Congress happens to be of the same party or ideology as the president, this can also help to some extent, though party ties are weaker than they are in Britain.
At the same time, GE officials did a lot of what Elizabeth Comstock, chief marketing officer, calls "pulsing, " in Washington, to sense where Congress and regulators might be heading, especially on the issue of carbon dioxide emissions.
As we have made clear, should it get to the point where Congress has failed to do its job, as dictated by Congress, and the sequester may take effect, OMB and DOD and the various agencies will be ready.
No one is more worried than Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief of the 20-strong Samajwadi Party, which serves the sort of customers Congress goes after (Muslims and lower castes) in a state (Uttar Pradesh) where Congress is desperate to expand.
The 1817 inaugural was held outdoors for the first time when James Monroe took the oath in front of the Old Brick Capitol, where Congress met temporarily after the original Capitol was burned by British troops in the War of 1812.
And we now have a situation where Congress has left town for a number of weeks, where instead of passing legislation that would extend a tax cut for 98 percent of the American people, the House left town refusing to do that.
And then finally, we have the situation here with the campaign contributions where really Congress has not been informed, or we don't have a close working relationship.
Mr Singh has inducted half-a-dozen ministers from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress has been fast losing ground to a breakaway group led by the son of a former loyalist leader who died in a helicopter crash and the mounting movement for a new Telangana state.
And despite the record of intransigence that you cited, the fact is there have been occasions even with this Congress where, with their backs against the wall, leaders in the Republican Party in Congress have come together and worked with the President on important economic issues.
So if you agree with me, I need you to tell Congress where your priorities lie.
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And I'm Robert Siegel at the Capitol, where the 110th Congress was sworn in today.
Bob ultimately found employment in Congress where he became one of the biggest spenders on the hill.
It should not be, as the President said, a situation where leaders in Congress -- Republican leaders in Congress should be bargaining for political priorities in exchange for giving this President the payroll tax cut.
That's where members of Congress come together at regular meetings and complain about illegal immigration while counting the campaign contributions they collect from businesses back home, many of which undoubtedly profit from hiring illegal immigrants.
In the U.S., Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech in Congress where he reiterated the Fed stands ready to act if the economy slips, while asking Washington to help him out and share the responsibility.
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Skaggs goes on to explain that during those years, they also had what he refers to as "admittedly contrived occasions" such as bipartisan House retreats where members of Congress and their families would get together to socialize.
Mr McCain should argue forcefully that, as an experienced legislator who has worked with left-wing Democrats as well as right-wing Republicans, he will be the perfect man to check Congress where necessary and work with it where desirable.
In 1992, the Court observed that Congress was where states should go for help.
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