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Of course, the government will administer certain aspects of the health-care act's coverage.
Health Insurance Gives Wonderful Results, if You Have It 2011
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Responding with incredulity, Judge Nelson emphasized that the act's original purpose was to protect union employees from striking, not to protect employers from locking out.
Andrew Brandt: Courtroom Football Kicks off: Who Has Early Lead? Andrew Brandt 2011
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The lawsuit also claims the plan to remove the animals violates the 1971 wild horse act's requirement to preserve the horses in their range and the requirement under federal environmental laws to consider reasonable alternatives.
Wild Horse Advocacy Groups File Lawsuit To Stop Colorado Horse Roundup AP 2010
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While many of the act's major changes have yet to take effect, the administration has already exempted more than 1,000 groups from one of its requirements: the mandate to provide at least $750,000 in annual coverage per enrollee.
The Sunlight Foundation: One year after passage, health care reform continues to generate lobbying and legal fees The Sunlight Foundation 2011
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This six-hour look at life beneath and behind the big top of the Big Apple Circus begins with "First of May," which finds the traveling act's entertainers and crew descending on Walden, N.Y., to map out a new show for its annual 350-performance tour.
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Once the Patriot Act breached this wall, its goal of catching terrorists became a secondary concern to the act's opposition.
Whatever Happened to 9/11? Daniel Henninger 2011
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"I hope it makes us get sharper," said King, who supported the act's extension.
House GOP Leaders Caught Off Guard As Tea Party Flexes Muscle AP 2011
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"I hope it makes us get sharper," said King, who supported the act's extension.
House GOP Leaders Caught Off Guard As Tea Party Flexes Muscle AP 2011
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My second gripe -- the conservative usurpation of the constitutionalist mantle -- didn't come up in Obama's remarks, but it was implicit in his discussion of the state and freedom, and in the context of the debate about the constitutionality of the health-care act's individual mandate.
Hey, it's my Constitution, too! Ruth Marcus 2011
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"Because of the volume of comments and the complexity of the issues raised in those comments … we have concluded that we will be unable to meet the Dodd-Frank act's directive that the Board issue final interchange fee standards by April 21," he wrote in a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R., Ala.) and the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.)
Web Comments Slow Down Debit-Fee Revamp Maya Jackson Randall 2011
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