Sentences with phrase «u.s. national security interests»

offered an amendment limiting H.R. 910's applicability until the Secretary of Defense certifies that climate change does not threaten U.S. national security interests.

This is why some U.S. national security interests have begun to focus on climate change.

It regards changes in the present world order as communist - inspired threats against U.S. national security interests.

Titled «Talking Point Embassy of U.S. in Colombia as Political Post for Ambassadorship,» the memo says the ambassadorship is «no ordinary post, but one with a major U.S. national security interest.»

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«While deliberating the spectrum of potential responses, we believe it is critical to consider the role that the U.S. energy industry and refining sector play in our economic and national security interest.

A recent post in the Guardian suggests Canadian companies that operate globally — in this particular case, e-book seller Kobo — could be hurt by so - called anti-terror measures in the same way that National Security Agency spying has negatively affected the interests of U.S. businesses abroad.

The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an intra-government agency that scrutinizes foreign groups» purchases of U.S. assets to protect national security interests, rejected the initial application for the Alerian deal, one of the sources said on Tuesday.

Keeping a carrier close to Russian strategic interests also tracks closely with the Defense Department's recently released National Defense Strategy that declared that «inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national securityNational Defense Strategy that declared that «inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national securitynational security.»

Encouragingly, the new U.S. National Security Strategy reflects Washington's interest in working with European countries to address shared concerns about China.

In April 2003, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced the settlement of enforcement actions involving conflicts of interest between the research and investment banking operations of the nation's 10 top investment firms.

Policy analyst Matthew La Corte cites a variety of national security experts who note that a strong refugee resettlement program is absolutely critical for promoting U.S. interests at home and abroad....

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes disagreed, writing the government can not «gag citizens when it says it is in the interest of national security, and it can not do it in some bureaucrat's notion of cultural homogeneity,» according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.

Nevertheless, the US voted against China becoming a partner on the ISS, citing national security concerns, showing that competition and mistrust can not be overcome entirely for the sake of scientific progress, and U.S. national interests can overrule cooperation.

Except to the extent that «national security interests», immigration policy, or the enforceability of tax laws are involved, a major theme of U.S. law is that the legal standing of a person should not depend on who that person is.

In an Oct. 17 letter to President Trump, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and dozens of prominent scientific and engineering societies said the president's Sept. 24 proclamation on visa and immigration policies poses «serious implications for diplomatic, humanitarian and national security interests in part because it weakens our U.S. science and engineering capacity.»

«Our role at Sandia is the national security - driven notion that it's in the interests of the U.S. to be one of the dominant nuclear suppliers,» Sanders said.

What ensued was a Constitutional crisis ultimately settled by the U.S. Supreme Court which had to weigh the Freedom of the Press against President Nixon's (Curzon Dobell) request for an injunction preventing dissemination of the classified documents in the interest of national security.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a Federal law that gives you the right to access any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) records unless DOT reasonably foresees that the release of the information in those records would harm an interest protected by one or more of the nine exemptions (such as classified national security, business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative documents) or release is prohibited by law.

In this role, Dr. Nield provides strategic leadership and direction to ensure the protection of the public, property, and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States (U.S.) during commercial launch or reentry activities, and to encourage, facilitate, and promote U.S. commercial space transportation.

In April 2003, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced the settlement of enforcement actions involving conflicts of interest between the research and investment banking operations of the nation's 10 top investment firms.

One of the most interesting responses was in Washington, DC, where the National Intelligence Council, the umbrella over all the U.S. intelligence agencies, analyzed the effect of China's growing demand for grain on world agriculture and any security threats that it might pose.

The president chose the politics of a few over sound science and fundamental economics, ideology over the national interest, to cause a stunning defeat for the United States, American energy security and America's energy partnership with Canada — and a stunning victory for countries like Venezuela, which will benefit from the U.S. saying no to the oil Keystone XL would bring from Canada and the U.S. Bakken region.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.

This hearing comes at a time when there is burgeoning diverse and bipartisan support for ending anonymous companies in the U.S. Major financial institutions, national security experts, law enforcement organizations, anti-human trafficking groups and public interest organizations have all endorsed legislation that would require the disclosure of the real people who own American companies.

While recognizing that intelligence gathering is a legitimate function in the national security interest, Congress passed the law to limit the government's power to break into homes and spy on U.S. citizens.»

One need look no further than the dramatic rise of the U.S. national - security state in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when President Bush embarked on the U.S. - led War on Terrorism, and challenged nations of the world, including Canada, to join the war or be considered unfriendly to the United States» interests.