But they are under intense pressure to make up an estimated $12 billion a year of income that vanished with the passage of rules curbing lucrative overdraft charges and lowering debit card swipe fees.
The passages of Rule's book in which she is not recounting meetings with Bundy, where she is narrating the crimes themselves, are suspenseful, chilling.
Fifty-four senators voted for the measure, but it fell short of the 60 votes needed for passage under Senate rules.
While audit fees have risen substantially since Andersen went out of business, much of that can be attributed to the passage of new rules, like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, rather than competitive dynamics.
Before the passage of the rules, they warned that the FCC's proposal "fundamentally and profoundly runs counter to the law," and that they spoke with the authority of people who had helped craft that particular law.
After months of negotiations, Uber later got the blessing of the D.C. city council for its on-demand mobile apps, with the passage of new rules that legitimized its services there.
Or what about the case where a legislature passes a legal rule for paternalistic reasons but there are sufficient non-paternalistic reasons to justify passage of the rule?
That would lead to a 4-to-4 tie and prevent the passage of the rule.
"The default is unbound delegates, so it will take passage of a rule to bind them," said the spokesman, Jonathon Prouty.
An article yesterday about the Senate's passage of a rule requiring at least 60 votes to approve any tax cuts in the next five years misidentified the state represented by Senator Pete V. Domenici, who opposed the rule.
