By their terms, these provisions reach any person engaged in any fraudulent scheme.
But even if FEHBA's preemption provision reaches contract-based reimbursement claims, that provision is not sufficiently broad to confer federal jurisdiction.
The S.E.C. usually pursues this type of disclosure case as a violation of Rule 10b-5, the broad antifraud provision reaching any "scheme or artifice to defraud" related to a securities transaction.
A single taxpayer has more of his Social Security benefits taxed when his income (calculated a special way, just for this provision) reaches $34,000; a couple when their combined income hits $44,000.
In addition, for the first time, provisions were reached to cover the use of films and television programs on the Internet, and the basic minimums for writers will rise 3.5percentt a year.
But once the Commodity Futures Modernization measure — with this provision included — reached the Senate floor, Mr. Gramm led the debate, urging his fellow senators to pass it into law.
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the agreement to remove the provision was reached after several days of intense negotiations with Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee's Democratic chairman.
13 But this was replaced by the present provision, which reached the same result not via the Secretary's contract authority but by the awkward device of requiring California's legislature to consent to the limitation as a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Project Act.
Pataki aides have suggested that the governor may be willing to drop some of his more controversial provisions to reach an agreement.
They've set up checkpoints throughout the area in an attempt to block provisions from reaching the surrounded camp.
