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Neither the Senate nor the other body objected and the plan became effective on July 1. 1979. Subsequent appropriations bills passed by Congress since 1979 have referenced the enforcement of ADEA and the Equal Pay Act as being among the functions performed by the Commission. In 1983. in the landmark case of Immigration and Naturalization Service against Chada. the Supreme Court held that the oneHouse congressional veto in the Reorganization Act of 1977 was unconstitutional. because it allowed Congress to act in a legislative capacity without complying with the procedural requirements of article I. Not unexpectedly. the decision raised questions about the validity of more than 200 statutes which contain legislative veto provisions including the Reorganization Act of 1977. Last February. in EEOC against Hernando Bank. the fifth circuit held that the legislative veto provision was severable from the rest of the Reorganization Act and that authority over ADEA was validly transferred to the Commission.