According to the lawsuit, which is asking for a declaration from the court to make Countrywide live up to its contracts, some 374 mortgage pools issued by Countrywide contain language pledging to buy back modified loans from investors.
"That's not — I don't — you know, I just don't consider that going to war in the classic sense of coming to Congress and asking for a declaration of war and training troops and sending people abroad and putting young Americans in harm's way".
Mr Kerry urged Congress to stand by Mr Obama, saying the president was not asking for a declaration of war, simply for the power to show that the US "means what we say".
They are asking for a declaration that California's prostitution statute is unconstitutional, an order prohibiting the defendants from enforcing the prostitution statute, and attorney fees.
All patients visiting on any of two certain days will consecutively receive an information sheet asking for the declaration of consent to be contacted by the research team and a short survey on age, sex, subjective morbidity and the number of contacts with a physician during the last 3 months.
Wit points to comments from Pence that the U.S. had changed its position on asking for a full declaration of North Korea's nuclear program up front "because it realized that was unrealistic and wouldn't help the negotiations move forward".
Governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency early on the evening of August 17, asking for a presidential emergency declaration to give Louisiana access to federal funds prior to any landfall.
The news organizations are asking for $1,000 each, a declaration that the marshals' actions were unconstitutional and an order forbidding the service from seizing recorders from working reporters.
But even so, moving from a wish list document to actual change will likely be a challenge, notes Thomas Schäfer, a principal investigator at the University of the Basque Country's Institute for Polymer Materials in Donostia-San Sebastián who participated in a June event organized by the Slovak Presidency and the European Commission asking for feedback on the declaration.
He said that all they were asking for was what the Declaration of Independence had promised all Americans: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
