Sentences with phrase «president under the reform»

Andre Barnett ran for President under the Reform Party banner in 2012.

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Wall Street hated it, but Congress enacted key parts of the accords under the Dodd - Frank financial reform act, which President Trump started to roll back on Friday with the latest of a series of executive orders.

And their gambit worked: Physicians and insurers defeated attempts under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower to reform health care.

What's striking about the FDA's move is that the mandatory kratom recall order is based on a power the agency gained under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a major piece of reform legislation signed by former President Barack Obama in 2011.

With talk of tax reform and cash repatriation on the horizon under President Trump's administration, some buyers could wait before deciding to spend money on deals.

President Donald Trump's tax reform plan came under new criticism on Tuesday from two towering Wall Street figures, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who called into question a Republican drive to slash the U.S. corporate rate.

The «Squawk on the Street» crew discusses the promised tax reform under President Trump and its effect on the markets.

China will allow foreign firms to own majority stakes in banks, fund managers and insurance companies in major reform push under President Xi Jinping.

President Trump is starting to do the things that many of the people worried about before he got elected (tax reform convinced many that he would not ruffle markets): Amazon under pressure as the White House is Tweeting up a storm about the company ripping off the USPS and not paying enough taxes — Today, Pres Trump said the US is giving a subsidy to Amazon — He noted that the company has the money to pay for additional USPS shipping rates; — Commented that the post office continues to lose «billions» due to Amazon.

This is why it was eliminated not only in the Big 6 framework, but under recommendations from the 2005 President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, the Simpson - Bowles Fiscal Commission plan, the Domenici - Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force plan, and former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R - MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014.

On January 10, 2012, an important national figure, Mr. Arafat, resigned, as a result of his discontent over proposed reforms to the emergency medical system under a new health law and of criticisms from Romanian President Traian Basescu.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

Under President Mahama, the NHIA carried out a number of reforms.

Under an optional provision of President Obama's health reform law — which only New York and Minnesota have chosen to exercise — the federal government pays most of the cost.

«It's clear people on Long Island would definitely lose under this tax reform,» said Rep. Peter King (R - Seaford), who has joined other New York lawmakers in lobbying Republican leaders and the president on the issue.

«Kachikwu is focused on delivering on the reforms currently being implemented in the petroleum sector under the leadership of President Buhari and Acting President Osinbajo in line with his duties as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Chair of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Together we will reform Washington, improve the economy by helping small businesses expand, and repair the damage that has been done during the past eight years under President Obama.»

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

The Senate President's motivation for the reform package of 2011 was to save the pension system from going under, to ensure that hard - working public employees received their pensions during retirement that they had been counting on throughout their careers.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

In addition to John Preston becoming President, Ray McCann today becomes Deputy President and Glyn Fullelove Vice President of CIOT.1 On tax simplification John Preston will say: «Whichever party wins on June 8th, we hope they take seriously the unquestionable need to simplify the UK tax system... Whilst the OTS has achieved a great deal under John [Whiting]'s leadership and, I'm sure, will continue the great work under his successor Paul Morton, it must feel at times that they are fighting with one hand tied behind their back with the Government deciding certain reforms are simply politically unacceptable.

Senate President Pro Tem Marty Looney, shown here in his office, and other Democrats are now calling for fully restoring $ 11.7 million in public financing under the campaign reform law.

At least under the US system the people that take over the White House after a new president has been elected believe passionately in the reforms they want to achieve.

Updegrove noted that SNA was not mandated by the federal government under welfare reforms signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1996.

With Queens Library President Thomas Galante (l.) under fire, state Sen. Tony Avella has introduced a bill that battles with one put forth by his colleagues aimed at reforming the library.

Image credit: John Fekner & Don Leicht In an effort to rally support for healthcare reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama spoke today about how one requirement of his flagship law is already putting money back in Americans» wallets.

«We need to get away from all the paperwork required under No Child Left Behind [President George W. Bush's signature reforms of elementary and secondary education, which many Republicans now view as a failure and an intrusion of federal authority into state - run education systems].»

Mugabe and the White African (Unrated) White flight documentary highlighting the legal battle waged by one of the last Caucasians still in Zimbabwe to hold onto his family farm in the face of President Mugabe's plans for redistribution under a land reform program.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

Washington — Proposals by President Bush and others to create a national testing system are unlikely to improve schools and could set back reforms already under way, educational researchers cautioned at a meeting here last week.

Ravitch, who served as the Assistant Secretary of Education under President George H.W. Bush, famously about education reform.

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

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Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

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Under President George W. Bush, the administration's «No Child Left Behind» education reform has involved the federal government in elementary and secondary education to an unprecedented degree.

Our union president wrote an editorial the other day talking about how under this contract, teachers will drive school reform.

Yesterday, Elsa M. Núñez, who serves as the President of Eastern Connecticut State University (and is also in the process of being named Vice President of the Connecticut State Universities, under the new Board of Regents for Higher Education) wrote a commentary piece for CTNewsjunkie in which she glowingly endorsed Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.

In 1960, Daisaku Ikeda, was inaugurated as president of Soka Gakkai and under his leadership the organization started expanding its orientation beyond religious propagation to include peace work, cultural advancement and education reform.

What has become known as the «opt out» movement has been growing in various states for a few years, sparked by standardized test - based school reform that began under the administration of the younger Bush and gained steam under President Obama.

Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and president of the Trades Union Congress, told Wednesday's fringe event that responsibility for admissions had to be taken back from academies as additional powers given to them under the reforms could be open to abuse.

The current CEA leadership, under President Sheila Cohen and Executive Director Mark Waxenberg, has stated their desire to and actually has taken some steps to change the course of the CEA to focus more on organizing teachers and community members against education reform.

If you want an estimate of how tax reform under President Trump may affect you, our calculator can help.

Also, keep in mind that the tax reform under President Trump may mean certain deductions are different than in previous years.

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Rigg doesn't just point a finger at President Obama though, she also has words for developing nations (who need to recognize too that they need to get on board with commitments to low - carbon energy and not just stand behind historical obligations to combat climate change) and the EU (who have tried to eliminate language on fisheries reform, no doubt under domestic political pressure).

Trump has performed extremely well under the most hostile of circumstances, and accomplished a lot: Now the huge tax reform bill moves to the President's desk for signing.

For the formal announcement, Pruitt was introduced by NADA's President and CEO Peter Welch, who praised the administrator for «[spearheading] over two dozen significant regulatory reforms worth over one billion dollars in savings in his first year at EPA» and «issuing more deregulatory actions than any other federal agency under the Trump administration.»

Work highlights Represented SW General against the NLRB before the Supreme Court, in a case involving the President's ability under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to fill high - level vacancies without the Senate's consent.

Practice Directions are made under powers in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 by the Lord Chancellor who can delegate his authority to the Lord Chief Justice, who can delegate to the President of the Family Division (family proceedings Practice Directions issued by the President are endorsed as being approved by the LCJ).