But the great discretionary power seems to fly in the face of the original rationale for the programme, which was for a systematic rules-based approach to resolving the crisis rather than ad-hoc bail-outs.
Whatever individual discretion they use on some occasions they follow the crowd as if that was the only discretionary power they had.
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In the first two years of the Obama administration, Democrats used their overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate to pass laws that grant government employees vast new discretionary power over the lives and fortunes of individual Americans.
For those who expressed concerns about giving the federal government too much discretionary power through waivers and exceptions in applying different aspects of the law, we have a chance to make clear exactly how the executive branch must enforce this immigration law and what the consequences are if it doesn't.
This creates uncertainty and gives discretionary power to the Department of Minerals and Energy, which determines whether proposals are adequate or not.
In some other limited instances, where there are certain exceptional or compelling circumstances, there will be a discretionary power for the lord chancellor to exempt payment of appeal fees.
The same could be said of the Dodd-Frank law, which gives new and expanded federal bureaucracies vast, new discretionary power with which to control the financial services industry and any other company they deem a systemic risk.
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Council Member Larry Seabrook, currently standing trial on corruption charges for abusing discretionary funds, lost the power to allocate the money in his district.
Mr Bush has received praise for being willing to take on discretionary spending, the main source of power for Congress.
The older demographic has buying power and discretionary income to spend.
Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.
What he will have to decide is whether Williams really has redeemed himself, and whether the work he has done from death row justifies a discretionary power that has not been used in California for almost 40 years.
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