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The effect has been that all "significant executive-branch regulations" must get approval from OIRA before being proposed or finalized.
Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011
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Against that backdrop, USA TODAY analyzed the highest-paid federal workers in Office of Personnel Management employment data, based on its Central Personnel Data File, the most authoritative database of federal executive-branch employees.
Doctors, lawyers, dentists tops in fed jobs that pay $180K-plus 2011
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This is the province of policy makers: state legislatures, school boards, members of Congress, executive-branch members, even corporate boards.
Beating Obesity 2010
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The amendments range from a permanent ban on federal earmarks, or targeted spending provisions that lawmakers add to bills to fund home-state projects, to an expansion of the bill's restrictions and disclosure requirements to the White House and other executive-branch employees.
HUFFPOST HILL - People Who Think Like Mitt Romney Voting For Mitt Romney Eliot Nelson 2012
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The effect has been that all "significant executive-branch regulations" must get approval from OIRA before being proposed or finalized.
Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead Michele Simon 2011
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Obama administration lawyers see some of those provisions as comprising a clearly unconstitutional overreach by Congress into matters of prosecutorial discretion and foreign relations -- two areas of executive-branch preeminence.
Obama Faces Balancing Act With Signing Statement Dan Froomkin 2011
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But I think, you know, as a matter in the past, I mean we've got sort of citizen executive-branch people too.
Jason Salzman: Reporter, Not Gessler, Started Conversation About Moonlighting Jason Salzman 2011
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But I think, you know, as a matter in the past, I mean we've got sort of citizen executive-branch people too.
Jason Salzman: Reporter, Not Gessler, Started Conversation About Moonlighting Jason Salzman 2011
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The report gives particular attention to the problem of executive-branch infringement on judicial independence, and to the threat posed by “security and armed forces that are not subject to public oversight”.
Wonk Room 2009
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The amendments range from a permanent ban on federal earmarks, or targeted spending provisions that lawmakers add to bills to fund home-state projects, to an expansion of the bill's restrictions and disclosure requirements to the White House and other executive-branch employees.
HUFFPOST HILL - People Who Think Like Mitt Romney Voting For Mitt Romney Eliot Nelson 2012
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