In 1835, Congress had authorized branch mints at Charlotte, North Carolina, Dahlonega, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to strike into American coin the gold being mined in or entering the country through the South.
Has authorized branches in California and Florida and operates subsidiaries in ten states.
At present, New York has nine banking districts, and bills to authorize statewide branch ing are currently pending in Albany.
In 2002, the vote to authorize the executive branch to handle trade negotiations passed the House, 215-212.
As one of the country's leading trade law experts and probably the foremost authority on Fast Track, Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, put it: [Fast track] authorized executive-branch officials to set US policy on non-tariff, and indeed not-trade, issues in the context of 'trade' negotiations.
What's happened in those cases is that no new appropriation bill has been passed authorizing many branches of the federal government to operate.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force, which was passed right after 9/11, authorized the executive branch to essentially wage war against the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks.
"Congress has not authorized the executive branch to waive any of the above statutory requirements," Mr. Orszag's letter said.
The administration repeatedly, systematically twisted the law to immunize its criminal conduct, and much of what was done was authorized by executive branch lawyers, particularly in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
In 1798, the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts increased the residency requirement from five years to fourteen before immigrants could vote, and authorized the executive branch to summarily deport immigrants who were deemed dangerous or who had come from hostile nations.
It may have been concern for children that got her in trouble in Waco, because the FBI told Reno, who had refused to authorize an attack on the Branch Davidian compound there, that they needed to use force in part because children were being abused.
