If passed, Tyrie's proposals would impose requirements on airports to search suspicious flights and keep detailed records.
But after Mr. Obama's re-election, they found a way: White House lawyers concluded that the president could impose requirements on contractors in the interest of taxpayers.
Some have banned abortion after the twentieth week of pregnancy, and others have imposed requirements on clinics that make them virtually impossible to operate.
The new top Republican on the committee, Rep. Mike Rogers (Ala)., tells me he's ready to impose requirements on states to secure their election systems against hackers.
Some exceptions exist, for example, federal statutes regulating use of electronic cards may impose requirements on issuers, merchants or others, such as with respect to error resolutions.
The proposal, focusing on the residential market, also takes an antiregulation stance, by restricting the ability of the F.C.C. and state agencies to impose requirements on high-speed Internet providers.
In not mandating its recommendations, the report clashed sharply with a bill sponsored by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, that would impose requirements on the states regardless of whether they received federal money.
Peter I. Cavallaro, a village trustee who is the liaison to the building department, said the judge had exceeded his authority by "trying to impose requirements on us that no other municipality in the state has to abide by".
