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In June, the United States Sentencing Commission voted to apply the guidelines retroactively, with the new policy going into effect on Monday this week.

At the insistence of European political leaders, Greece's governing Socialists voted to apply another dose of growth-killing austerity to the country's nearly inert economy.

Waukegan, another Illinois town, has voted to apply for a federal program that would allow its police to begin deportation charges against those who are here illegally.

The money went to cooperatives of farmers, who voted to apply it to development projects like new schools, health care facilities and equipment to improve the productivity of farms and the quality of their coffee.

In 2011, the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent bipartisan agency, voted to apply those standards retroactively, which made the cases of twelve thousand prisoners eligible for review and possible sentence reduction.

In July 1989, for instance, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to apply a withholding capital gains tax to foreigners who own more than 10% of a company's shares.

However, although the council voted to allow Mattix to apply for an amendment, no application was processed, Alexander said this week.

The agency, the United States Sentencing Commission, voted unanimously to apply retroactively a new law that brings penalties for crack cocaine offenses more closely in line with those for powder cocaine.

The association voted June 3 to apply for cityhood.

On July 18 , 2014 the United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to apply Amendment 728 -- which downwardly adjusted the Sentencing Commission's Drug Quantity Table by two levels -- retroactively, so it applies cases finalized before its enactment.

Last week, in a historic victory for nearly 46,000 federal drug offenders, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) voted unanimously to apply recent amendments to the federal drug sentencing guidelines retroactively to all eligible offenders.