But the early action also foreshadowed problems that would hinder the new majority all year: the Senate, with its minority-empowering rules, was not on the same hurry-up schedule, and House Republicans bristled at what they considered heavy-handed treatment.
But that office is largely empowered to rule on violations of state conflict-of-interest laws.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which may offer comments on such pipelines but is not empowered to rule on their authorization, sharply criticized the State Department's previous environmental assessments as inadequate but has not yet weighed in on the August report.
Two EU institutions – the court of justice and the European Commission – would be empowered to rule on conformity with these stipulations and the commission would effectively be charged with imposing fines.
Every euro country is to enact new balanced budget legislation, with the European court of justice empowered to rule whether the new laws are adequate, the two leaders demanded.
He has insisted that the sitting upper house of parliament, which was elected by only a tenth of voters and had been seen by many as a talking shop, is the sole legitimate legislature, even as it writes rules empowering the Islamists, whose media spew forth sectarian hatred, claiming that anyone who rebukes them is an agent of foreign powers.
The current rules empower the parliament, composed almost entirely of the old ruling elite, to approve presidential candidates.
There will be a catch-all anti-abuse rule empowering governments to close down new loopholes devised by creative accountants.
The decision will fall on the shoulders of those leaders in our party empowered by the rules to vote at the Democratic Convention.
And never mind that the Texas senate's procedural rules empower the president of the body to end a filibuster after having warned the speaker against non-germane discourse three times, and that Mr Dewhurst had previously chided Ms Davis for off-topic oration only once.
The new rules empower local taxi administration authorities to manage the ride-hail licensing platforms.
