"All indications on the Hill are that reform will be done in 2010," he said, "but it's not as certain that it will be done retroactively".
Because the moneys that we are going to have to come up with for any raises will be through productivity enhancements, which you can't do retroactively".
Even if it takes till February, it can be done retroactively.
Wendell Potter: Oh, that's exactly right, it's done retroactively, and it happens many, many times.
If a malicious party has been privy to Heartbleed for any amount of time, then there's nothing anyone can do, retroactively, about any nefarious data collection or interception that may have taken place.
In August, Ostrovsky and his people did indeed retroactively credit every stolen joke.
But the law did not retroactively affect the lump-sum payouts that some former inmates had already received.
At the end of the season, the Poling System named Stanford the national champions, and in later years, the Billingsley Report and Helms Athletic Foundation did likewise retroactively.
The new guidelines, however, did not retroactively apply to Dickson, because the court ruled that the jury would have found him guilty anyway.
The amendment did not retroactively include adoption cases prior to the amendment, thus does not account for the peak of adoptees from South Korea - more than 160,000 of whom were adopted in the last 60 years, arriving in the U.S. in the 1970's through the 1980's.
"And to do it retroactively is absurd and unfair".
