Obama's announcement in June 2012 that he would use executive authority to extend work authorization and deportation relief to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children was his most concrete success on immigration; 750,000 young undocumented immigrants have taken advantage of it.
The plan put forward by Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Byrd, for example, would require the president to seek new authority from Congress to extend the conflict beyond Oct. 11, 2007, which will mark the fifth anniversary of the original authorization.
"Delta is disappointed that Congress was unable to reach an agreement to extend the authorization of the Federal Aviation Administration's funding," the company said in a statement.
In 2007, Steven G. Bradbury, then in charge of the office, wrote a two-page letter simply to extend the authorization for use of a particular technique — its name is redacted — for an extra day, until "1700 E.S.T., November 8, 2007".
SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown, seeking authorization to ask California voters to extend expiring taxes to avoid more draconian budget cuts, is fighting what increasingly appears to be an intractable battle.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia introduced a bill to extend the current authorization law, which says nothing about the privatizing of controllers' jobs, until the end of March.
The government office in charge of administering the system (ONCCA 2 was given the power to extend an export authorization for each shipment, as a precondition to the custom clearance.
Instead of renewing the authorization for one year, the government plans to extend the duration to 14 months to insulate it from political campaigning in Germany next year.
The Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to extend for a year the United Nations' authorization for the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan, expressing concern about the increase in terrorist activities by the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other extremist groups.
His successor, Harry Truman, attempted to extend medical care to the poor through grant authorization to the states, but met opposition from the American Medical Association, and both Senate and House versions of the bill foundered.
