The same age as the turkey ceremony is 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal rulemaking.

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The Administrative Procedure Act (1946) also provides constraints which, if ignored, might provide a basis for challenging Dodd-Frank regulations.

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Pursuant to administrative procedure, Karam was required to deposit twenty percent of her offer with the IRS, which she did.

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"This is de facto legalisation using an administrative procedure, " Christian Hooft, vice-president of the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches, told La Nacion newspaper.

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Sunder Katwala's proposal is even worse than the current inheritance tax as it introduces a highly bureaucratic administrative procedure to monitor and control what we do with our wealth while we are alive.

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To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever tabulated the sheer number of federal regulations that have been adopted since passage of the Administrative Procedure Act, or since some earlier historical benchmark.

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Ms. HILLMAN: Right, well there is every voter during a Federal election has an administrative complaint procedure that they can take advantage of, and that is filing a formal complaint with the election official and there's a process that they are entitled to.

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