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  2. List of executive actions by Bill Clinton - Wikipedia

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    Delegating a Federal Pay Administration Authority 1993-11-29 51 12884: Delegation of Functions Under the FREEDOM Support Act and Related Provisions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act 1993-12-01 52 12885: Amendment to Executive Order No. 12829 1993-12-14 53 12886

  3. Powers of the president of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Congress gave President Bill Clinton a line-item veto over parts of a bill that required spending federal funds. The Supreme Court , in Clinton v. New York City , found Clinton's veto of pork-barrel appropriations for New York City to be unconstitutional because only a constitutional amendment could give the president line-item veto power.

  4. District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

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    Concerns that the Senate would stall such a proposal spurred the consideration of a compromise bill introduced by Rep. Ancher Nelsen (R–MN), who at the time served as ranking member of the House Committee on the District of Columbia. Nelsen's proposal guaranteed non-voting representation only in the House.

  5. Preamble to the Constitution Act, 1867 - Wikipedia

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    The suggestion that this distribution of legislative authority, enacted by the Imperial Parliament, under the then "existing circumstances", could now be altered by Parliament or the Legislature of a province by transfer, exchange, or delegation, is repugnant to the very intent manifested in the above Resolutions ultimately implemented under ...

  6. James William Lair - Wikipedia

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    James William Lair (often referred to as Bill Lair) (4 July 1924 – October 28, 2014) was an influential Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer from the Special Activities Division. He was a native Texan, raised in a broken family, but a good student.

  7. James Andrew Wynn - Wikipedia

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    Wynn grew up in the Eastern North Carolina community of Robersonville, one of eight children.His family operated a farm on which he worked during his childhood. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, 1975); Marquette University Law School (Juris Doctor, 1979); and the University of Virginia School of Law (Master of Laws, Judicial ...

  8. Code Pink - Wikipedia

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    Code Pink activists protest Democratic senators who supported Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, December 2017.. Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002, by a group of American anti-war activists, including Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq (which the organization opposed).