But in April 2009 the U.S. told Tronox that the DOE had frozen those funds pending discussions about the rightof the U.S. to setoff the Title X reimbursement against its pre-petition claims in the Tronox bankruptcy.
Right from the beginning, fume his foes, he ignored the narrowness of his mandate and setoff in an unambiguously rightward direction, pushing through an even bigger tax cut than he had promised.
The Nasdaq situation has setoff alarms within the government because of the exchange's critical role, which officials put right up with power companies and air-traffic-control operations, all part of the nation's basic infrastructure.