Key US congressional leaders should also be involved.

An agreement establishing that office awaits congressional ratification.

Their ratification is expected during the 2005 congressional session.

As Johnson pointed out in his Congressional testimony, solutions that depend on smarter, better regulatory supervision and corrective action ignore the political constraint on regulation and the political power of big banks.

The relevant congressional committees also should agree to this exercise.

Let s hope that by then he will have helped move the consensus permanently among his colleagues preparing the ground for further congressional action aimed at a serious tightening of safeguards over the financial sector.

Moreover, the changed Congressional landscape will be better for trade related legislation.

CAMBRIDGE Obamacare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is the health insurance program enacted by US President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats over the unanimous opposition of congressional Republicans.

Still within congressional restraints, the Nixon administration attempted to bolster Cambodia s military government.

And that is exactly what trade talks and subsequent Congressional votes would do.

But Chinese FDI, especially in sensitive sectors like energy, does often trigger Congressional hearings, ad hoc resolutions, and calls for tougher CFIUS action. As a result of high profile Congressional opposition, China s state owned energy company CNOOC withdrew its bid for Unocal, an American energy company, in 2005, before a CFIUS review that most likely would have cleared the deal on national security grounds.

Congressional bills aimed at benefiting powerful constituencies are generally given appealing (and misleading) names.

Congressional action in America was the last act of a long drama, and it cleared the way for US companies to bid for Indian nuclear contracts, an area in which they will face stiff competition from France and Russia.

A recent Congressional bill has called for imposing a 27.5 punitive tariff on Chinese imports.

Several competing plans emerged from the different Congressional committees that have jurisdiction over the issue.

Last November s Congressional elections dealt President George W. Bush a sharp rebuff over his Iraq policy.

Continued congressional polarization would maintain policy uncertainty, confound debt and deficit negotiations, and impede economic growth.

Currency wars eventually lead to trade wars, as the recent US congressional threat against China shows.

But, with Congressional elections in 2006 and a presidential election in 2008, five years is too long.

To be sure, some Democrats have recently launched Congressional hearings into the Bush administration s abuses of power.

John McCain, the US senator and 2008 presidential candidate, always leads a large congressional delegation to Munich.

Outside vetting including published reviews by congressional investigative bodies, think tanks, and scholars could add important insights.

Vetocracy reflected in the Republicans routine Congressional obstructionism in Obama s first term is a threat to democracy.

Thousands reached at the Hearing, subsequent publication in the Congressional Record, and media articles on the hearing.

This can be measured in public opinion polls, in newspaper editorials, congressional resolutions, summit declarations, and street demonstrations.

WASHINGTON, DC The Republican Party has some potentially winning themes for America s presidential and congressional elections in November.

The Congressional Budget Office is assuming 3.4 average growth in real GDP over the 2013 to 2016 period.

Fundamental policy changes will probably have to wait until after the presidential and congressional elections in November 2012.

Much of the congressional opposition stems from worries about an influx of cut rate Colombian goods, costing US jobs.

The breakthrough came in late 1978, and was carefully timed by Carter to follow the mid term congressional elections.

The Prize Fund for HIV AIDS Act, a congressional bill introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, is just such an initiative.

We need you to overcome a prolonged period of congressional paralysis and polarization in order to address the country s malaise.

Just last month, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew trumpeted Doing Business in congressional testimony justifying American support for multilateral development banks.

The Congressional Budget Office warns that falling off the fiscal cliff would push America s economy into a serious recession next year.

In January 1871, Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Scott convened a Congressional committee which took testimony from 52 witnesses about Klan atrocities.

Bush requested and received a Congressional delay in discussion of the guarantees, and the Madrid Conference of 1991 was later convened.

When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief. Let s hope that by then he will have helped move the consensus permanently among his colleagues preparing the ground for further congressional action aimed at a serious tightening of safeguards over the financial sector.

Disappointment over the effects of the TARP has already destroyed popular and Congressional support for more public money to recapitalize the banks.

America s absence from such instruments has much to do with Congressional opposition, as was seen in the latest attempt to ratify UNCLOS.

But the presidency of the World Bank is a rare presidential plum an appointment that is not subject even to Congressional hearings.

After reading through the emails, a congressional report found evidence that the Commission s work was guided by politics rather than fact finding.

The US preaches good governance in the shadow of an unprovoked war, congressional bribery scandals, and windfalls for politically connected companies like Halliburton.

These same Republicans also argued for government spending restraint while blocking the institutional changes to Congressional procedures needed to make spending restraint possible.

Because the CBO reports to the relevant congressional committees those dealing with tax and budgets both Republicans and Democrats watch its every move.

The non partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Senate Finance Committee plan would cost about 800 billion between now and 2019.