The Senate's responsibility for exercising "advice and consent" on Supreme Court nominees is a constitutionally mandated responsibility and one it has always exercised.
Opposition to mandated responsibility for packaging after use is widespread, even among companies that are already required to do it abroad.
Health maintenance organizations, managed care organizations, insurance companies and drug companies all operate on a legally mandated responsibility to maximize profits for shareholders.
Watching the two bodies try to reconcile their notions of how to fulfill their mandated responsibility by the time they head to the Shore next July will be worth the price of admission.
The report is being released on the heels of news that the American Red Cross, the only relief organization with a legally mandated responsibility to help the government provide care in an emergency, is seeking $150 million in federal aid to cover the costs of assisting the victims of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Colleges are ruining the futures of young adults through their mandated responsibility, but total lack of ability to adjudicate campus sexual assault cases.
But if the three major networks want to avoid rightful challenges to the licenses of its stations, they should accept their mandated responsibility to serve the public interest and not just their bottom line.
But the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is fulfilling his internationally mandated responsibilities.
The Red Cross also has officially mandated responsibilities and roles to play during disasters under the National Response Framework.
It would be an abdication of the Justice Department's congressionally mandated responsibilities to ignore these problems.
In time, key agencies may find themselves incapacitated, lacking the talent, morale, and experience to carry out their congressionally mandated responsibilities.
