Sentences with phrase «many executive branch»

But it's easy to imagine a Trump presidency leading to a constitutional crisis or mass protests that would leave the executive branch, and perhaps the entire federal government, significantly weakened.

And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.»

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

«That's an executive branch function,» Gowdy said.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

To be fair, the disingenuousness is hardly specific to the Bush administration or even the executive branch.

As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription drug crisis are beginning to target the pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive drugs.

«The problem with that analysis is that with the American presidency... the executive branch is designed in a particular way which means you're going to have deep continuities whoever is president.

Traditionally, judges have been extremely cautious about stepping on the executive branch's authority in such matters, legal experts said.

BRUSSELS — Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

The blocked merger could indicate more severe barriers to China to come from the executive branch, analysts said.

Several people have asked me why the federal conflicts of interest law, which bars every lowly executive branch official from acting on matters that affect their personal financial interests, won't apply to President Donald Trump.

With Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and GOP control of the Executive Branch, there were few reasons not to think that a swift repeal of the healthcare law was achievable and likely.

Yes, since a president's power over the executive branch is vast.

That pushes the real budget showdown into 2012, an election year not only for the executive branch but for a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

If Trump uses his pardon power in either of those cases, it «is incredibly problematic and would aggrandize the executive branch's power» and compromise the judiciary's independence, Ohlin said.

She avoided paying hefty taxes thanks to a loophole that applies to executive branch employees.

But that is the executive branch of government.

It seems to me that the Republican leadership will have multiple components of this test to pass — learning to work with the president and the executive branch, figuring out how to collaborate with Democratic colleagues and cooperating with their Republican compatriots who may have different perspectives.

A number of reform proposals have been made, in both the legislative and executive branches.

He said this is «unfortunately» part of a «troubling pattern of the Oversight Committee capitulating to the Trump White House rather than exercising its independent authority to conduct oversight of the executive branch.»

«The questions are an intrusion into the President's Article 2 powers under the Constitution to fire any Executive Branch Employee... what the President was thinking is an outrageous.....

The president acknowledged that the federal government's IT infrastructure is outdated, and called for executive branch agencies to move some services to the cloud.

DiGenova, whose comments were rebroadcast on Tuesday night on Hannity's Fox News program — which Trump is known to watch regularly — also said that a series of questions purported to come from Mueller's office were an «intrusion» on the president's constitutional right to «fire any executive branch employee.»

Such a return may occur if the rule is not compatible with the law, if the quality of the agency's analysis is inadequate, if the regulation is not justified by the analysis, if the rule is not consistent with the regulatory principles stated in Executive Order 12866 or with the president's policies and priorities, or if the rule unnecessarily conflicts with other executive branch agency regulations or efforts.

Beyond the battle over at least the temporary future of the CFPB lies a legal question: Which federal law decides who will lead the CFPB — the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first place?

Republican control of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government has continued to provide a boost to stock prices throughout 2017.

Congress has formal authority over trade policy under the US Constitution, but it has generally delegated much of its authority to the executive branch in modern times.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

Russia's executive branch has weighed in on a proposed bill to regulate ICOs, offering several suggestions on how to improve it.

Meanwhile, and apparently separately, Russia probe investigators in both Congress and the executive branch dug into his activities.

But over the past century, Congress has shifted many of the powers to raise and lower tariffs to the executive branch (a concentration of power that conservatives now decry).

Shortly before his inauguration, The Washington Post noted several additional ways employees in Trump's executive branch could do so: Trademark disputes, for instance, will be adjudicated by judges appointed by his Commerce secretary, while the EPA could roll back environmental regulations that reduce profits at his golf courses.

According to the Religion News Service, it's also charged with informing the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

I thought it helpful to provide a rundown of the remaining legislative days» events and offer a bit of commentary about what Congress and the White House / executive branch will be doing between now and November.

Under the law, if Cohn sells his Goldman stock to avoid a conflict of interest as a member of the Executive Branch, he will be able to indefinitely defer capital gains taxes on the sale, providing he invests the proceeds from the stock sales in government securities or an approved government securities mutual fund.

Under Article II of the Constitution, only Officers of the United States may bring litigation on behalf of the Executive Branch.

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, gives the executive branch the ability to conduct investigations to «determine the effects on the national security of imports.»

There are many reasons to suspect that the finances and persona of Trump the individual and Trump the candidate were intertwined, just as the separation between the executive branch and the Trump administration has been anything but airtight.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, found that the resignations, firings and promotions within the White House and executive branch during Trump's first year in office numbered twice that of the Reagan administration's and triple that of Obama's.

«Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization.

Reforming the taxation of international businesses has been a priority for U.S. politicians, and key members of the legislative and executive branches have proposed a wide variety of potential changes.

In 2017, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, but unified GOP control of the legislative and executive branches didn't lead to a burst of lawmaking.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

and then destroying the Trump presidency gives the Deep State complete control the Executive Branch (it owns Congress and controls the SCOTUS — see the Citizens United decision).

There has been a statement issued by the Russian government's executive branch which pledges their support for a bill that has the goal of implementing regulations on the ICO market.

It's very difficult to manage inflation just by determining whether government liabilities take the form of cash or government bonds (which is what the Fed does) if you can't control the explosion of government liabilities itself (which only Congress and the executive branch can do).

The executive branch did not that they would like a few changes to be made or considered in advance of this bill going forward to be approved

The Cabinet of Thailand, the government's executive branch compromising of thirty - five of the country's most senior members, has reportedly approved to royal decrees that will both cover cryptocurrencies and initial