11.   But the Senate has not approved the legislation, so the Labor Department is free to issue its rules.

12.   But the voters have decided, and the rules have been issued.

13.   By June, the agency is supposed to issue rules on tire labeling.

14.   Congress, unable to agree on a comprehensive health privacy law, directed the secretary of health and human services to issue rules.

15.   Clinton, who called the regulations the most sweeping privacy protections ever written, issued the rules in December in the closing days of his administration.

16.   Congress and federal regulators eventually issued strict rules to protect investors.

17.   Coulson said it might be better to issue a rule that would make it harder for unsophisticated investors to buy stocks sold on the pink sheets.

18.   Course officials have issued detailed rules, regulating the line with numbered plastic bracelets issued to car sitters, who must wear them until teeing off.

19.   Deutch has also issued new rules about hiring tainted foreign agents.

20.   Dombeck says he will issue final rules in September.