Secretary Chertoff exercised his waiver authority on April 1, 2008.

In sum, my proposal upholds the principle that we should pay for our government in a responsible manner, with waiver authority to be used only in exceptional circumstances.

A State Department official said that with the waiver authority, the department supported the measure.

Last week, Senator Glenn, the author of the original sanctions legislation, blocked the broader waiver authority from being attached to the exemption on grain sales.

There may be different decisions by the different waiver authorities based on the "needs" of that Service/Program.

Congressman Palazzo voted in favor of the waiver authority.

And given that we're four years overdue, the President directed us to use our waiver authority to offer states flexibility from NCLB.

It's important to note that this title includes waiver authority, so that the President might suspend its application.

Mr. Clinton has until July 15 to decide whether to exercise his waiver authority.

The agreement gives President Clinton special waiver authority to overturn provisions in the bill on several environmental issues, some of which had been debated for nearly a year, his aide said.