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A rider in the 1990 appropriations legislation for the Justice Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and other agencies that provides that no funds appropriated by that legislation may be used to repeal, modify, or reexamine certain FCC policies does not forbid the Justice Department from filing a Supreme Court amicus brief in a case in which those policies are at issue.
No provision of United States law precludes the President or members of his Administration from encouraging private parties to contribute funds to the National Opposition Union, a Nicaraguan political party, for use in the scheduled Nicaraguan elections.
Administrative law judges within the Department of Education, being employees of the Department, do not have authority to conduct administrative hearings in a manner contrary to the Department’s rules, to invalidate such rules, or to interpret such rules in a manner contrary to the Secretary’s interpretation.