A number of proposed electricity bills are before Congress, and several states are debating whether to follow the example of California, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania in enacting electricity competition laws unilaterally.
At an event hosted by the search giant near London, Miliband also pledged that a future Labour government would change laws unilaterally to stop "transfer pricing" by which companies such as Amazon shift profits between countries and to increase transparency about profits and revenues.
He tried to go around Congress with an executive order to rewrite laws unilaterally.
He says that the U.S. will uphold the rule of law in the area, a set of laws unilaterally proposed by the U.S. Mr. Carter clearly doesn't wish to uphold the Japanese Constitution which stipulates, "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes".
They may be required by law, granted unilaterally by employers, or obtained through collective bargaining.
"This is another attempt by the Obama administration to circumvent the rule of law and unilaterally implement its failed housing agenda at the expense of responsible homeowners".
Its law to unilaterally impose rules on the routes of all international flights that use Europe's airports has been strongly resisted by airlines and by nearly two dozen countries, including the United States.
And, in any case, in a democracy, the decision of what — and whether — to cut should rest with elected officials who are responsible to voters, not to an unelected receiver using bankruptcy law to unilaterally make cuts.
"The U.S.P.S. finally admitted it had no legal justification to circumvent existing law and unilaterally implement a change in delivery service that many believe will not only disrupt mail service, but also exacerbate U.S.P.S. revenue losses and contribute to the decline of this constitutionally mandated service to all Americans," he said in a statement.
On Friday, in its most definitive statement yet on the subject, the White House again ruled out the possibility that Mr. Obama would cite the 14th Amendment to disregard the debt-limit law and unilaterally order government borrowing to proceed if no deal was reached by Tuesday's deadline for raising the debt ceiling.
