One exception or excuse will lead to another, the right of the most powerful of our leaders to act outside the law--or in violation of the law--will be established.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, who co-wrote the Hatch-Waxman Act, has been very vocal in arguing that a law Congress intended to help reduce the cost of prescription medicines has been hijacked by the drug industry to do the opposite.
The proposal was fleshed out in a white paper - Policing in the 21st Century - and enacted in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which became law in 2011.
Seventy-eight years ago, on April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act became law in the United States, making it legal to manufacture and sell alcohol for the first time in 14 years.
The Dodd-Frank financial law broadened the rules instituted in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave companies the power to recoup pay from top executives after a financial restatement or certain misconduct.
Byrd said he objected to the inclusion of what he called Patriot Act-style law enforcement provisions in the bill and denounced the "misguided rush to judgment" in its passage.
Instead, the judge said, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which sets forth basic privacy protections in non-credit reporting situations, is the relevant federal law and it does allow states to enact more stringent privacy controls.
On September 16, President Obama signed into law the Smith-Leahy America Invests Act (AIA), the first significant change in patent law since 1952.
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The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
Naral Pro-Choice Washington, a group that has advocated for the legislation, says its attorneys have highlighted a provision in the Affordable Care Act that says the federal law cannot pre-empt state laws that prohibit or require abortion coverage.
The whole controversy arises from the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law in which Congress cleverly shoved the question of whether generics could compete with entrenched patentholders in front of the courts.
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The RESTORE Act, which was signed into law as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141), established a mechanism for providing funding to the Gulf region to restore ecosystems and rebuild local economies damaged by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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The founders clearly show by this Act, that the law they applied was with-in the constitutional jurisdiction of the government.
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Mr. BECERRA: The government under 1996 - Bill Clinton signed a law, the Immigration Reform Act in 1996, that gives the government the power to do exactly that, to deport anybody that's arrested that's not legal or is a legal resident of this country.
The court struck down other provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold law, passed by Congress in 2002.
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.
Privacy extremists of organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have nonetheless reacted to the Patriot Act's much-needed business records law as if the Gestapo had seized office in the United States.
And in 2010, President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act, which made progress in reducing the 100-to-1 disparity between sentences for powder and crack cocaine that disproportionately affected minorities and also eliminated the mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of crack cocaine.
In the Defense of Marriage Act case, the Obama administration announced it would not defend the law -- that it would urge the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional.
The signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law is a long-awaited victory for the 31 million students who participate in federal school meal programs.
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More recently, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has filed an Internet-specific anti-gaming bill called the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, expected to be signed into law in the U.S. later this year.
In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case upholding the new Motor Voter Act -- the very law whose mandated postcard registration system Acorn workers use to flood election offices with bogus registrations.
The report, Achieving and Sustaining Earth Observations: A Preliminary Plan Based on a Strategic Assessment by the U.S. Group on Earth Observations, was requested by Congress in the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-117).
Gensler was also an instrumental player in the Sarbanes-Oxley act, and remember what a great job that law did in preventing financial strife?
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In March 1996, Congress passes the Helms-Burton Act, codifying the embargo against Cuba into law.
In 2002, Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, usually called the McCain-Feingold law, after its original sponsors.
The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was mandated by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-398).
And former President Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week saying he now believes the law is unconstitutional.
Such an investment was in violation of U.S. law under the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
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The Patriot Act has also been successful in updating anti-terrorism and criminal laws to bring law enforcement up to date with technology.
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