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document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012135.txt Jun 19, 2008 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ity than when it limits the ambit of an affirmative defense to criminal conduct. If the term is ambiguous, absent clear Congressional intent on the issue, the Court's decision in Santos requires that the narrower rather than the broader definition be used. The facts simply do not...

Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 85-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/17/2011 Page 1 of 4
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012718.txt Jun 8, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ould extend the Unfunded Mandates Relief Act to so-called independent agencies which today are actually exempt from the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE cost-benefit rules that govern aII other agencies. In 1995, we had this debate and determined at that time we would not extend the...

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014037.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ute in its plain language and legislative history. Shortly after the Department released its opinion, one of the CVRA’s congressional sponsors, then-Senator Jon Kyl, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder strenuously objecting to the Department’s conclusions. Senator Kyl d...

Article 1. The Washington Post
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030156.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…a result, it may attempt to continue aiding elements of the PA that remain unaffiliated with Hamas. Yet absent specific congressional authorization, such a strategy will face significant legal obstacles. U.S. law has long prohibited citizens from providing support to or doing bu...

Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022284.txt Aug 30, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…premise behind Chevron and its progeny is that agencies should be allowed reasonable latitude to fill gaps arising from congressional silence or ambiguity. Accordingly, “the contrast between Congress’s mandate in one context with its silence in another suggests not a prohibition...