Sentences with phrase «house effort which»

It's true that I've been pushing for energy poverty to get more attention and was pretty heartened by the White House effort which aims to increase electricity generation by 10,000 MW in six target countries.

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But as that occurred before the advent of the Tea Party, which was sparked in large part out of concern over the government's profligate spending, such an effort this time around would likely run into greater resistance, particularly from rank - and - file conservative House Republicans.

Now it appears as though these same hackers used the State Department cyber intrusion — which has been ongoing despite the department's best efforts to block and wipe it — as a beachhead to gain entry into the White House's computer systems.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

Burns, who has recently been giving Trump credit for diplomatic efforts with China and North Korea, said the White House needs to separate any U.S. response in Syria and the American relationship with Russia, which has been militarily supporting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

How does this dovetail with the overall western effort to characterize Iran as behind every nefarious act, even the ludicrous - sounding plot announced months ago by the White House, in which the Iranians were purportedly trying to recruit Mexican drug gangs to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US?

The deal, which was spearheaded by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Polosi, will keep the government funded and provide much needed appropriations to the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

«This does bring a sense of urgency to getting this done over the next month with the speaker leaving,» said Representative Stephen Fincher, who has led House Republican efforts to renew the export credit agency's charter, which expired nearly three months ago.

Despite early efforts from the House, which passed a version of the tax bill that condensed the current seven tax brackets to four and cut many of the deductions — like those for teachers» supplies and high medical expenses — the final draft of the tax bill does no such thing.

Even Alphabet's self - driving company Waymo, which says it's possible it will supply its self - driving tech to automakers but in the meantime is working on its own cars in partnership with those automakers, brought their hardware efforts in - house in an attempt to edge out traditional suppliers.

«Anything short of a steadfast US commitment of admitting 200,000 refugees over the next fiscal year would betray the White House's own call to redouble global resettlement efforts,» said CWS, which represents 37 Christian groups, in a statement.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily focus on youth and education.

After the parents spent their entire savings and remortgaged there house in repeated efforts to save their daughter from the evils of drugs, which lead to many other horrible life styles, including prostitution, she was finally murdered by her supplier / pimp.

Every year for four years, I'd buy some of the rock - hard peach approximations shipped in from California, and every summer I'd be disappointed — until, that is, I found out that you can pick your own peaches in Willcox, AZ of all places (which is why I currently have 6 cups of jam, 3 pints of pickled peaches, 2 pints of peach chutney and four quarts of sliced, frozen peaches at my house — takes surprisingly little effort to pick 25 lbs of peaches!).

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

In the early years, we leaned heavily on dear friends in our Nashville, Tennessee, USA, community to serve on our Board of Directors, staff our little office — which for seven years was in Barbara's house — and volunteer for fundraising efforts.

Orland Park has a historical society, which maintains two sites, the John Humphrey House and the Hostert Log Cabins, but McLaughlin said he hoped the new project could build on those efforts.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

John Boehner sent out a fundraising appeal this afternoon seeking cash to support the NRCC's «post-election activites fund» that is helping pay for recount efforts in six close House races — two of which are in New York.

The Assembly Democratic conference, which is poised to release its one - house budget proposal, is upping the ante in the abortion rights debate in light of President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and return this controversial issue back to the states.

But those efforts have also raised questions about whether the NYPD improperly surveilled Muslim residents, businesses and houses of worship, which Kelly and his defenders have steadfastly denied.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Trump will donate $ 1 million of his fortune to recovery efforts in Texas, though the White House says he hasn't determined which group or groups will receive the donation.

-LSB-...] Nunes has also spoken in the past week with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has been supportive of Trump, about how a potential contempt effort could unfold.

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

Mr Aboagye - Gyedu said Government, within the constraints of its budget, had made great efforts to overcome the inherent challenges within the health sector, which included provisions for professional training, conditions of service with remunerations, logistics and improved health facilities, housing and transportation.

Based on his affordable housing credentials and his apparent commitment to getting more low and middle income units built in central Brooklyn, Mr. Williams won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which will presumably wage an intensive street effort to get their man into office.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with HCR's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants thanks to the greatest strengthening of the state's rent laws in 30 years, and the creation of HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 44,000 units to rent regulation.

A 2009 city comptroller audit of Basic Housing Inc., which currently operates 598 cluster - site units, found the nonprofit did not consistently provide social services to all its clients, which impeded «their efforts to obtain permanent housing and become self - sufficient.Housing Inc., which currently operates 598 cluster - site units, found the nonprofit did not consistently provide social services to all its clients, which impeded «their efforts to obtain permanent housing and become self - sufficient.housing and become self - sufficient.»

MTA board member Mitchell Pally, a frequent critic of Penn's current condition, said Cuomo's plan would streamline several parallel efforts to changes at Penn, which houses multiple transportation agencies and retail landlords.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with HCR's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants thanks to the greatest strengthening of the State's rent laws in 30 years, and the creation of HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which pro-actively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 43,000 units to rent regulation.

Niou added, ``... I spearheaded efforts in the Assembly to restore funding to our neighborhood NORCs, NNORCs and settlement houses, which provide all - encompassing social services to our most vulnerable, and I am glad that our budget did not leave our seniors behind.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with HCR's unprecedented efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants, with the greatest strengthening of the state's rent laws in 30 years, and the creation of HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned 40,000 units to rent regulation.

Reform also recommended a substantial increase in social housing stock in an effort to reduce the housing benefit bill, which increased from the equivalent of # 16.6 billion in 2004/5 to # 24.4 billion in 2014/15.

The state - owned facility, which once housed 7,000 mentally ill patients, was largely shuttered between the 1960s and 1980s amid an effort to move the mentally ill out of large institutions.

Other observers suggested the verdict could put a damper on his national political ambitions, which include playing a major role supporting Democratic candidates in their efforts to flip New York's Republican House seats this fall, and a rumored potential run for president in two years.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with the HCR Office of Rent Administration's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants, and HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 40,000 New York City apartments to rent regulation.

Leading Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have stepped up their fundraising efforts in recent months on behalf of liberal - leaning super PACs, which can raise unlimited money but have fallen far short of matching their conservative opponents.

The OCE, which was established in 2008 as part of the Democrats» effort to clean up the ethics and public image of the House, has jurisdiction only over members of the lower chamber.

Schreibman argues the Republican congressman's effort to cast himself as a pragmatic centrist is undercut by his voting record, in which he generally — but not always — sides with the House leadership, whose agenda is driven by the more conservative members of the conference.

Once the mayor had donated money to the state Independence Party to pay for the effort, Haggerty created a company through which to launder the money, and used $ 750,000 to buy a house.

The congresswoman — who skipped Trump's inauguration and participated in the 500,000 - strong Women's March on Washington — is a co-sponsor of Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng's «No Funds for Unconstitutional Executive Orders Act,» which would deny funding to any effort to enforce the White House fiat.

I am also leading efforts in the House of Commons to put tackling serious youth violence back on the national agenda, which I have discussed with Jeremy because it impacts on both our constituencies.

Mr. de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, dedicated substantial resources to the State Senate Democrats» failed effort to capture the upper house of the legislature last year — which became fodder for Republican attack ads.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.