The insurance pool is the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund and a Congressional mandate requires that this fund maintain a 2% reserve.
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In its history, OPIC has been granted two specific exceptions to its congressional mandate to limit its programs to free world countries: Romania and China.
And there are few better vehicles for finger pointing than the House Oversight Committee, a panel with a congressional mandate to find the critters beneath the rocks.
Following public complaints and a congressional mandate, the TSA announced on 17 January that it will pull its last 174 full-body scanners from 30 US airports by 1 June.
By congressional mandate, Williams couldn't be fired by Barry.
Those findings were incorporated into a rule implementing a congressional mandate for biofuel use nationwide that will allow at least an extra 2 billion gallons of corn ethanol to be produced and perhaps much, much more.
Opponents of a Congressional plan to mandate a minimum amount of renewable energy for most utility companies say it will increase the cost of power in states where wind power is not prevalent.
In order to market and pass the act, the president and the congressional majority insisted that the mandate was not a tax.
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But they should be cautious of the assumption that Mr Clinton's popularity is solid, or that public impatience with congressional Republicans represents a new mandate for Democrats.
Conversely, a Supreme Court decision invalidating the mandate would not seriously undermine congressional authority.
First, congressional Republicans made the argument against the mandate a Republican position.
Congressional Democrats are backing a bill to mandate a nationwide data base to automatically register driver's license holders or recipients of government benefits.
The Government counters that the individual mandate is well within the bounds of congressional power.
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The individual mandate was interpreted as a tax and therefore within Congressional powers to enact as legislation.
In order for the individual mandate to correspond equally, he would have to support congressional power to require individuals to grow marijuana in the first place.
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In order for the individual mandate to correspond equally, the judges would have to support congressional power to require individuals to grow wheat in the first place.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the mandate alone, separate and apart from the other provisions in ObamaCare designed to induce people to buy insurance, will be responsible for bringing in 16 million newly insured about half of the total estimated number of newly insured.
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