Sentences with phrase «federal executive orders»

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Delivery shall be made in accordance with all applicable Federal executive orders and all applicable Federal, State and Local laws and regulations.

However, the United States has no federal law outlawing discrimination nationwide other than from federal executive orders which have a more limited scope than from protections through federal legislation.

During World War II, Fred Korematsu refused to comply with Civilian Exclusion Order 34, based on the federal Executive Order 9066, which imposed strict curfew regulations and resulted in the forcible removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their communities to be incarcerated indefinitely in American concentration camps.

President Bill Clinton then signed a federal executive order covering 17 federal agencies in 1997, asking them to prioritize actions to reduce risks to children's environmental health.

Please be advised that if your Organization is awarded funding, you must sign the Erie County Equal Pay Certification, stating that your organization is in compliance with federal law, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Federal Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 and New York State Labor Law Section 194 (together «Equal Pay Law»).

To the Princeton community, Many of you have written to express concerns about the recent federal executive order barring entry to the United States for refugees and for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries.

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In June 2014, he issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $ 10.10.

Protests and condemnation of the executive order intensified throughout the day, with opposition culminating in a temporary suspension of the order by a federal judge.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers.

A majority of the judges on a federal appeals court seemed skeptical of the government's defense for President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

The move, which would dramatically pare down federal regulations on small businesses (earlier in the day, Trump told reporters he wants to eliminate «a little more than 75 percent» of the current regulations), is not unexpected — Trump included the executive order in his plan for his first 100 days in office.

President Trump continues to make sweeping changes with the swipe of his pen, signing an executive order on Monday stating that for every new federal regulation, two existing rules must be eliminated.

In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, which ended workplace discrimination by federal contractors based on «race, color, religion, sex or national origin.»

POTUS plans to sign an executive order on Monday that will ban federal contractors from LGBT discrimination.

As numerous foreign citizens were detained at airports around the globe, triggering spontaneous protests, part of Trump's executive order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York.

A federal judge issued an emergency stay on parts of the executive order Saturday evening, but the DHS and the White House responded early Sunday, saying that the order continues to remain in force.

Small business is the designated beneficiary of President Trump's executive order, signed yesterday, that requires federal agencies to cut two regulations for every new one issued.

Less than a month into office, he signed an executive order directing the federal government to «thwart transnational criminal organizations» and calling for the removal of foreigners involved in those organizations.

According to a New York Times report in January, President Obama has been considering for some time «an executive order that would require companies doing business with the federal government to disclose their political contributions.»

President Donald Trump made a splash on Monday with an executive order requiring that for every new regulation in the Federal Register, two get rolled back.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

None of the Reporting Persons nor any manager or executive officer of the Reporting Persons, has, during the past five years, (a) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), or (b) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting, or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or a finding of any violation with respect to such laws.

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

President Obama first signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave last September, and the Labor Department unveiled a draft of the rule in February, after which it solicited public comments.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

Ten days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the pipeline for federal infrastructure projects.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the Department of the Interior Wednesday directing the review of federally designated lands to determine if the federal government should relinquish ownership to states.

It was only on Thursday that a federal appeals court unanimously rejected Trump's Executive Order on entry («travel ban»), which seeks to ban...

A federal court on Thursday upheld the Labor Department's Fiduciary rule, in defiance of a Trump executive order signed on Feb. 3, which sought rescinding the rule enacted by his predecessor The executive order, though not taking effect immediately, sought the Labor Department to review options...

The money for the process came from $ 20 million that Congress authorized the Department of Homeland Security to pull from other places in the budget earlier this year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing the federal government to begin construction on the border wall as soon as possible.

Executive Order 13360 calls for at least 3 percent of all federal agencies» contracting money to go toward businesses owned by these vets.

In January, the House passed a bill requiring securities officials to conduct a cost - benefit analysis of any new rule — something that should have been done in the first place — and in February the president signed an executive order requiring the elimination of two federal regulations for every new one that's adopted.

Before you scream too loudly over this move by President Obama, keep in mind that the prohibition for using federal funds under the executive order by President Bush did not stop the practice of harvesting stem cells from unused embryos in fertility clinics.

Church - state experts told CT that any White House executive order would be limited to federal actions.

Last Tuesday, just days before the draft of the religious freedom executive order began circulating, the White House announced that Trump would enforce, and not overturn, an Obama administration order protecting LGBT individuals from discrimination in federal and government contract employment.

According to experts, Trump's executive order would strengthen religious exemptions under federal laws and programs, but it wouldn't have the reach to quell debates over Christian - owned businesses refusing to serve same - sex weddings.

Trump's proposed executive order would carve out religious accommodations and exemptions to the federal LGBT protections secured under Obama, said Wilson.

«We support an executive order making clear that people of religious conviction will not be pushed aside by the federal government as we seek to serve our neighbors, including those who disagree with us.»

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday clarifying the ground rules for religious groups partnering with the federal government through the White House's controversial faith office.

The health care bill specifically and by executive order states that no federal funds can be used to pay for elective abortions.

The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»

President Obama is poised to issue an executive order this week reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem - cell research.

Christians fleeing the Middle East will not take first priority under an updated version of President Donald Trump's executive order on travel and refugees, which he signed Monday morning after weeks of debate and holdups in federal court.

President Obama suggested recently that he does not plan to change an executive order that permits some faith - based organizations that receive federal funding to discriminate in hiring based on applicants» religious beliefs.