A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.
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Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
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