"This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority," the judges wrote in a two-to-one decision.

“这项经济上的强制措施完全不切实际，其实是对国会权利的无限追求的潜在表现，”法官们在以2：1比例通过的裁决书中如是说。

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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.

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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.

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