In a statement on the bill signing, Obama made it clear this wasn't a moment to celebrate.
Kayani said he was considering a statement on the bill, but he was struggling with what to say.
He described the provision, freeing those contracts and their renewals from review, in a footnote toward the end of a four-page statement on the bill.
A "fiscal impact statement" on the bill, prepared by the nonpartisan staff of the legislature, said that "restricting freedom of choice with respect to providers of family planning services is prohibited" by federal law.
The DfE's statement on the bill highlighted the example of Downhills primary school in Tottenham, north London, which was the subject of a high-profile legal battle lasting two years over its enforced conversion into a sponsored academy.
The White House, in its statement on the bill, called the higher goal "laudable but overly ambitious" and said that the new inflexibility on individual agency goals "could undermine the goals process and take away the government's ability to focus its efforts where opportunities for small-business contractors are greatest".
President Obama's signing statement on the bill said that it might be unconstitutional if it kept him from acting "swiftly in conducting negotiations with foreign countries," and, indeed, there is something constitutionally odd about a law designed to keep a specific list of people — some of whom, it can't be said often enough, have been found not to be threats — imprisoned without trial.
The White House policy statement on the bill refers generally to the need to promote respect for human rights around the world and says the administration will continue to work with Congress to support those seeking a free and democratic future in Russia.
Neither he nor Boehner released a statement on the bill's final passage Thursday.
"[The Better Care Act] takes insurance away from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Nevadans," Heller said, echoing a sentiment expressed in his initial statement on the bill, when it came out Thursday.
