Sentence examples for branch functions from inspiring English sources

The three-bill legislative package ensures programs for veterans, military construction projects, energy and water spending and legislative branch functions will be funded through 2019, regardless of what happens with the rest of the federal budget.

I am here to make sure that the science input to policy making is sound and that the executive branch functions properly with respect to its science and technology missions".

"Had they done so, this activity may well not have taken place, the intelligence would not have been recorded and, if it had been, it would have been rapidly weeded as it did not relate either directly or indirectly to the discharge of special branch functions".

He incorrectly stated, for instance, that Article I of the Constitution governs the vice president's executive branch functions — actually Article I deals with the legislative branch — and he restricted those duties to breaking a tie vote in the Senate, not mentioning the constitutional mandate that the vice president "shall be President of the Senate".

HSBC and DOJ, in their opening briefs submitted in July, argued that Judge Gleeson wrongly intruded on Executive Branch functions by concluding that the courts have the authority and the duty to monitor the ongoing implementation and execution of HSBC's DPA.

"I am here to make sure the science input to policy making is sound and that the executive branch functions properly with respect to its science and technology missions".

This is enforcement, an executive branch function.

Since prosecution is an executive branch function, this theory goes, it is counter to the constitutional structure for the President to be subject to prosecution.

"The decision whether to proceed with a criminal prosecution of this indictment in the first instance, at least, is an executive branch function," the judge wrote.

In a letter to Senate leaders, Mr. Holder argued that enacting the House provision would set a "dangerous" constitutional precedent because "the exercise of prosecutorial discretion has always been and must remain an executive branch function".

This uncertainty around branch function versus cost structure and capability serves to illustrate the key differences in goals between the institution and the customer.