Members of the Advisory Group, acting in their official capacity, may designate employees with authority to act on their behalf.
Because Congress has given me the authority to act if it does not do so by August, one way or another, we will protect the privacy of medical records this year.
House Republicans are expected to pass a measure this week that would prevent the NLRB from conducting business until the Senate confirms new members constituting a quorum or the U.S. Supreme Court decides the board has the authority to act.
"It's ironic that the Bush Administration, which acts like Superman most of the time, doing exactly what it wants to, is acting like a 97-pound weakling in this case, saying it doesn't have the authority to act, " says David Doniger, lead attorney on the case for the National Resources Defense Council.
While the IRS must go through a public comment period to put its proposals in place, the agency doesn't believe it needs new authority from Congress to act, Shulman said.
American officials, however, continue to make it clear that they still regard the resolution to be all the authority Mr Bush needs to act against Iraq.
Preventing roving wiretaps: The Patriot Act allows federal officials, pursuant to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court authority, to track the telecommunications of suspected terrorists, despite their efforts to defeat such monitoring by changing phones or service providers.
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If Congress does not warm to Babbitt's wishes, the Interior Secretary hopes President Clinton will use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the land monuments.
This typically means utilizing existing EPA Clean Air Act authority to regulate carbon emissions from electricity generation plants.
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And he will obviously look for every opportunity to act administratively with his executive authority to further economic growth and job creation.
He added that the authority was "unable to act retrospectively".
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Arguing that if Congress did not explicitly prohibit its authority it could act to regulate anything, the EPA subsequently lost its legal attempt at naturarchy, seizing absolute power in the name of nature.
The Working Group doesn't have the authority to force a country to act in response to its opinions, but it can send a strong diplomatic and political message, Genser said.
Under the authority of amendments to the Clean Air Act, the EPA mandates the use of cellulosic biofuels and fines refiners for failing to use the mandated amount.
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First exercised by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to designate Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the authority of the Antiquities Act has been used by 16 presidents since 1906 to protect unique natural and historic features in America, such as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients.
The 2005 Energy Policy Act gave FERC the authority to prevent market manipulation in the energy markets.
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The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
Second, where FINRA enforces statutory or administrative rules, or enforces its own rules promulgated pursuant to statutory or administrative authority, it is exercising the powers granted to it under the Exchange Act.
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That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other echelons of command.
Under the 1958 act the authority had been able to charge some vessels for passage which had in effect subsidised other boats.
"I fully intend to use the authority that was granted under Public Act 4, " Bobb said in the statement.
The state of Texas also sued claiming the EPA did not have the authority to do what it did under the Clean Air Act.
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This is especially true given that Section 921 of the Dodd-Frank Act provided the SEC with rulemaking authority to prohibit or impose conditions on the use of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements.
Senator DANTE DELGADO (Mexico): (Through translator) I'm sorry to say this was not an act of authority.
But under the 1996 Communications Act, the FCC has almost no authority to regulate Internet access or content.
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The chairman of Cwm Taf Health Board, Dr Chris Jones, is being appointed to advise the minister and act with his authority.
The dissenters on the Court argued that a law known as the Detainee Treatment Act took away the Court's authority to rule on the issue.
While it appears to me that HHS did act within its authority, I can see how a question can be raised given the technical language of the law.
Right now he has the authority that Congress provided under the National Defense Authorization Act to start transferring the men who have been cleared using a national security waiver.
The legislation, which is an amendment to the Clean Air Act, will codify EPA authority.
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