He barred administration officials from talking to registered lobbyists about any projects involving federal stimulus money.
The dissidents, they insist, are an unrepresentative rump of fundamentalists without a coherent political strategy, offering little to nationalist communities bar "civil administration" – otherwise known as punishment beatings.
The explicit purpose of my legislation does exactly that: it would bar the administration from expending funds for any offensive action against Iran, except in very narrow instances, without the approval of Congress.
By a slightly smaller margin, the House also voted to bar the administration from oil, gas and coal exploration on public lands designated as national monuments -- areas on which the president and his secretary of the interior, Gale Norton, had cast covetous eyes.
Last month, the Senate Finance Committee approved a Menendez amendment that would bar the administration from fast-tracking trade deals with countries that tolerate human trafficking.
Both measures specifically bar the administration from putting American troops on the ground unless it is to rescue a member "of the Armed Forces from imminent danger," but Boehner's goes a step further, demanding that the White House explain its rationale for intervening in Libya in mid-March.
After Cuba responded to a provocative campaign of overflights by exiles by shooting down two light aircraft in international airspace, killing their four crew, Congress in 1996 approved a law known as Helms-Burton, which attempted to extend the embargo to foreign companies and barred the administration from supporting Cuba's return to the IMF.
Judges in New York and Nebraska have barred the administration from enforcing the abortion law in response to suits brought by groups of doctors, who have argued, correctly, that the ban should be struck down because of imprecise wording and the lack of an exception to protect a woman's health.
For instance, lawmakers have barred the administration from transferring any detainee without the Pentagon certifying that, among other requirements, the receiving country is not "facing a threat that is likely to substantially affect its ability to exercise control over the individual".
But last week, Congress passed an annual defense spending bill barring the administration from using funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees to American soil.
