The new rule mandates that socks be white and cover the ankle.
If adopted, the amendment would require federal regulators to enact a rule mandating audible alerts within three years.
The fight over the Obama administration's new health care rule, mandating that businesses provide coverage for birth control, grows more bizarre by the day.
WASHINGTON — President Obama has made the Buffett Rule, mandating that millionaires pay at least 30 percent of their incomes in taxes, the centerpiece of his campaign for "fairness".
The Food and Drug Administration chimed in with a rule mandating tests in children for a wider range of drugs than those covered by the incentives program.
The Women's Division of the D.N.C. implemented a rule mandating an equal number of male and female delegates, in 1920.
As its investor base has ballooned, Facebook has had to contend with a 1934 S.E.C. rule mandating that any company with 500 or more shareholders must disclose audited financial results four months after the year it breaks the threshold.
The International Volleyball Federation this year lifted its rule mandating that female competitors wear bikinis, allowing them to wear shorts and sleeved tops, but worries that they would completely adopt more modest attire have been unfounded.
A judo rule mandates that if two players in the same weight division are ranked in the top 22 in the world, as determined by the International Judo Federation, they must fight for the last, coveted spot.
The administration also imposed what is known as the gainful employment rule, mandating that schools, mainly aimed at for-profit colleges, meet benchmarks for graduation rates, student employment and debt, or risk losing access to federal loans and aid.
