For instance, they want to be allowed to classify up to 8% of all farm products as "sensitive" and therefore subject to different rules.
Any "organ of state"—there are over 1,000 of them was to be allowed to classify documents, including commercial information, if it were deemed to be in an undefined "national interest".
Even its critics admit that it has been vastly improved.In its new form, only the police, intelligence and security services would be allowed to classify information, and then only for reasons of national security.
Under an obscure but vigorously defended item of the tax code, managers of hedge funds and private-equity funds are allowed to classify much of the fee income they receive from their investors as "carried interest," which the I.R.S. treats in the same way as a capital gain.
PSE&G would be allowed to classify these costs as a capital expense and therefore earn a return of 10% on its investment.
But under the current rules, last tweaked by the administration of George W. Bush, millions of low- and middle-income workers are also excluded from time-and-a-half pay because their companies are allowed to classify them as management.
In April the company settled two lawsuits over whether or not Uber drivers were legally employees at an initial settlement of $84m with the possibility of another payment of $16m; on settling those suits, the company made sure to include the condition that it would be allowed to continue to classify its drivers as independent contractors.
Senators are allowed to request classified briefings on such efforts in a secure room in the Capitol.
They will then monitor the moods and attitudes of staff who are allowed to access classified information.
While the lawyers share a client, they're not privy to the same evidence: Only Claudia, as the special advocate, is allowed to examine classified material.
