He tucked the hat prohibition into a batch of rules that members voted on together without any discussion.
But the biggest fight came after the first batch of rules went into effect, when Ms. Kaufman said she hoped the government might get tough on the doctors.
The department's latest batch of rules would make more difficult a practice known as "earnings stripping" that enables companies to lower their taxable U.S. profits.
The Yankees' Darryl Strawberry, who has had more chances than a Monopoly board, was back in a Florida jail this week after supposedly breaking a batch of rules -- like selling cigarettes and having sex with a fellow resident -- in his court-ordered drug treatment program.
The board put forth a similar batch of rules more than three years ago, drawing heat from various business lobbying groups as well as congressional Republicans.
"There's an attempt to kill this through delay," said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and a former official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is in charge of writing batches of the rules.
Ten years ago, before we had even heard of today's teen stars like Shawn Mendes and Chloë Grace Moretz, a different batch of stars ruled Young Hollywood.
The F.B.I. agents rapidly ruled out huge batches of messages that weren't work-related, "de-duped" thousands of e-mails they'd seen before, and isolated the relative few — about six thousand, according to Comey — that required individual scrutiny.
These are the usual quantifier rules, liberalized to apply to any categories of variable in batches of one or more.
