The bill already includes a measure for modestly increasing the mandated efficiency of light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, light trucks and minivans.
It was viewed as such a success that Congress increased the mandate in 2007: The nation's gasoline refiners must buy and blend an increasing amount of ethanol every year, rising to 36 billion gallons by 2022 from 15 billion now.
He added, "We think there will be a day when people ask, 'Why in the world did we do this?'" The bill in Congress would increase the mandate for renewable fuels to a striking 36 billion gallons by 2022.
There are definitely reasons why it may seem logical to increase the mandate of the Federal Reserve, and Chairman Ben Bernanke seems to actively seek a wider role.
Furthermore, the decentralisation by devolution (D by D) policy was purposively introduced in order to increase the mandate of LGAs in making decisions regarding how health care services are delivered at this level, and to encourage the active participation of the users of the services [ 3].
Teenagers, however, represent only a fraction of workers who would benefit from a higher minimum wage, argue proponents of increasing the federally mandated minimum.
In light of that, environmental groups are furious about the failure of the Senate last year to increase the federally mandated total liability that oil companies should have to pay for such disasters.
And that turns out to be an important reason for the deterioration in Medicare's prospects: of the seven years lopped off the life of the trust fund, two are the result of increased subsidies mandated by last year's law, mainly in the form of higher payments to H.M.O.'s.
In those years, workers have also received $26 million through the increased pay rate mandated through the program.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which administers the mandate, effectively increased the amount of ethanol required to be added to gasoline to 17.4 billion gallons this year, an annual increase of about 9percentt over 2015.
