Sentences with phrase «federal politicians went»

Not exact matches

There's the federal exchange, of course, but when they're encouraged by their politicians, their churches, and their news stations into not even attempting to sign up they're going to have a coverage gap.

The blame for Penn Station, the tunnels, Portal Bridge, etc. go far beyond Amtrak to include federal, state, and municipal politicians from NY / NJ.

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman for the government's case against former state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Wednesday that the disgraced politician was well aware he...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors have tried and tried again to take on public corruption in New York, going after several of the state's most powerful politicians and power brokers.

For years, federal prosecutors have gone after Albany politicians one by one, taking on lawmakers such as Pedro Espada, Carl Kruger and, most recently, Malcolm Smith.

«The U.S. attorney in Manhattan generally believes Albany is corrupt and that the politicians are not acting in the public interest, so that's the area where he is going to focus,» said lawyer Bradley Simon, a former federal prosecutor who represented ex-state Controller Alan Hevesi on corruption charges.

Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the deficit reinforce this perception of massive spending, and Americans believe them: In surveys, they estimate that as much as one out of four dollars spent by the federal government goes to foreign governments.

After characterizing federal involvement in higher education as «something that has only driven up higher education costs for students and families,» he would go on to say «politicians should not be in the business of setting interest rates.»

In fact, it's very possible that at least in some of the states the reason they adopted these measures is they thought there would be struck down under federal law, which therefore would allow the politicians in each state to claim that they got a benefit for their state, yet it's entirely cost free to them because federal law is going to strike it down.

The report went on to suggest that the Federal Government had, «failed to listen or act on the recommendations of the Close the Gap Steering Committee» and listed 15 recommendations, including a call for a national summit this year between federal, state and territory politicians and community lFederal Government had, «failed to listen or act on the recommendations of the Close the Gap Steering Committee» and listed 15 recommendations, including a call for a national summit this year between federal, state and territory politicians and community lfederal, state and territory politicians and community leaders.

But to get a bond business like this up and going one would need the ears of the local, provincial and possibly federal level politicians.