Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal leadership»

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But early in 2017, with new leadership and a new emphasis on domestic U.S. projects, Exxon's fortunes may be improving, in no small measure thanks to its allies in the Federal Government and its growing investment in U.S. shale.

At the federal level, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing important leadership with the first - ever National Summer Food Service Program Week: «Food That's In, When School Is Out.»

Senior U.S. administration officials have encouraged the Ukrainian leadership to consider constitutional reform along federal lines.

Osborne sent a letter in 2012 to Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in an attempt to help HSBC's leadership avoid criminal charges over the bank's involvement in laundering drug money and in channelling money to countries under economic sanctions.

In a wide - ranging interview with MSNBC, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he doesn't believe people would tolerate Albany's «three men in a room» negotiations if they were done at the federal level with the president and House and Senate leadership.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team are seriously considering voting on a bill that would scale back the federal government's role in the health care system and instead provide block grants to states.

In the U.S., individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought Democratic Party office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts, and been nominated for state and federal office as Democrats, although the party leadership has periodically voiced its disapproval.

His leadership in this arena initiative has been critical to ensuring that federal and state policymakers understand the link between domestic shale gas, the chemical industry and growth in America's manufacturing sector that will drive U.S. competitiveness, boost exports, and create new, high - paying jobs.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

As national leadership development strategist for NYCLA, Gutierrez works to build leadership capacity with current and aspiring principal supervisors in 12 states across the U.S.. Also a national leadership development strategist, Polo - McKenna splits her time between coaching school leaders and leadership teams nationally and working on the federal i3 grant - funded Teaming Model project, which pairs aspiring principals and assistant principals and places them as teams in struggling New York schools.

With the current change in leadership at the U.S. Department of Education and a new president on the horizon, educators are worried about the direction that federal education policy will take.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

There have been very few policy efforts to address the segregation problem in the U.S., as «housing policy in the United States appears to be in a protracted, transformative period that combines a lack of strong federal leadership with continued reliance on increasingly uncertain federal funding» (Basolo and Scally, 2008).

From 2002 to 2006, Ms. Austrian was Vice President of Domestic Tax at PepsiCo, where she provided leadership in U.S. federal and state tax planning, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and operations.

It is another sign that, in the absence of leadership by the Bush Administration and the federal government in Canada, U.S. States and Canadian provinces are seeking global partnerships to reduce emissions — or, at the very least, coordinate efforts to do so.

Without sustained high energy prices or concerted, high - profile federal government leadership, U.S. consumers are unlikely to change their energy - use patterns, and the United States will continue to rely upon its current energy portfolio.

State action has been crucial to continuing emissions reductions and engagement in the climate process, but there is no substitute for federal U.S. leadership on climate.

But then came the crash of 2008, the rightward shift of federal Conservative leadership and, in the U.S., the Tea Partiers, surging gasoline prices and ongoing fears of economic collapse.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate policy.

INVEST IN DEVELOPING ADVANCED VEHICLES AND PUT 1 MILLION PLUGIN ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON THE ROAD BY 2015: As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama has led efforts to jumpstart federal investment in advanced vehicles, including combined plug - in hybrid / flexible fuel vehicles, which can get over 150 miles per gallon of gas As president, Obama will continue this leadership by investing in advanced vehicle technology with a specific focus on R&D in advanced battery technology.

With the Building Sector consuming almost 50 % of all the energy produced in the U.S., Section 433 is intended to provide federal leadership for addressing climate change and moving the country toward energy independence *.

Surfrider calls upon all elected officials in the U.S. to hold the Administration accountable for taking meaningful action on climate - both through federal policies and displaying international leadership.

Some farsighted individuals in U.S. business, local and state government, federal agencies including the military, and other influential fields did recognize that they had a responsibility to offer such leadership.

While the set back in U.S. federal policy is very serious, important leadership initiatives are emerging at the state and city level that will create pressure, again, for that country as whole to act.

In 2005, we decided it was time to take a more proactive leadership role and promote a federal, economy wide U.S. policy.

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.

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Since the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates slightly on Wednesday, which I understand is bad news for the Canadian dollar and economy, I thought it was appropriate to post some of his 97 tips here that deal with leadership and personal conviction.

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During the hour - long webinar, Institute experts shared their views on what real estate professionals should expect as a result of new leadership in the White House and the federal executive departments, as well as new lawmakers in both houses of the U.S. Congress.

With a new U.S. president from a different political party taking office in 2017, few are expecting federal policies to remain as they have under prior leadership.