In the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, the safety agency no longer faces Congressional prohibitions on setting ergonomic standards.

President Bush, after all, was part of the Reagan Administration, whose efforts to circumvent a Congressional prohibition of aid to the Nicaraguan contras led to the Iran-contra scandal.

Judge Lynch pressed Mr. Coppolino with a series of questions on the limits of presidential power in the face of Congressional prohibitions.

In the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, the safety agency no longer faces Congressional prohibitions on its efforts to develop ergonomic standards.

Senators must determine whether anything Mr. Negroponte did to encourage Honduran assistance to the contras violated Congressional prohibitions.

But the embassy is stymied by a Congressional prohibition on aid to Azerbaijan.

The Arizona Supreme Court held that the state did have jurisdiction to hear civil cases involving Indians and non-Indians, since there was no Congressional prohibition against it.

Current Congressional prohibitions on providing assistance to or through the Haitian government has accelerated the move to private voluntary agencies as contractors to oversee the use of U.S. aid funds.

The supply network, involving about two dozen private citizens, was organized to circumvent a Congressional prohibition of Government military aid to the rebels, known as contras.

The President, who was peppered with questions about the Iran-contra case, again denied that he had solicited funds to aid Nicaraguan rebels at a time of a Congressional prohibition.