Sentences with phrase «us federal commission»

«From my perspective and I can't tell you that I'm an expert on the election law, the request by the federal commission does not involve an election.»

Outside of the AG's office, there was never much support for the proposed guidelines from the federal commission.

The Cuomo administration in a statement said the federal commission had initially sought the data from the New York secretary of state's office «which was rejected.»

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

The request to the states came from Kris Kobach, the federal commission's co-chair who is also the Kansas secretary of state.

On Monday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the government would dissolve the federal commission that had been working towards creating national standards in forensic science.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

In April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, «A Nation at Risk,» that American education was a «rising tide of mediocrity.»

Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., chairman of the independent federal commission, said in the letters to Cabinet members Terrel H. Bell and William French Smith that he was concerned that U.S. District Judge D. Dorich Warriner's...

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

The Federal Commission on School Safety has not yet had a public meeting, has not yet publicly shared any draft agendas or meeting materials, and has no members that directly represent parents, teachers, schools, states, and / or civil rights groups.

With this in mind, it is also worth remembering that President Trump recently designated Betsy DeVos as the leader of a new Federal Commission on School Safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's guidance on anti-discriminatory school discipline practices.

Additionally, in response to the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, President Trump designated US ED Secretary Betsy DeVos as the leader of a new federal commission on school safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's «Rethink School Discipline» policies.

School Discipline President Trump has designated US ED Secretary Betsy DeVos as the leader of a federal commission on school safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's «Rethink School Discipline» policies.

«For their part, they are clean however, we are going to remain attentive in what confers to the surveillance of the destination in these types of cases,» Julio Mendoza Alvarez, the head of Mexico's Federal Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), told Riviera Maya News.

The program would be established by a federal commission under the Department of Energy.

Full text of the Congressional Record 1874 - 2004 (and counting), scanned Wisconsin Reports volumes 1 - 200, selected federal commission reports, congressional biographies and more.

Maybe, too, a way to imply criticism of the shutting down of the federal commission.

In 2007, Francis joined a federal commission of inquiry on national security matters.

Commission staff recently completed a consultation with indigenous women about the barriers they face when trying to access justice through the federal commission.

Fifteen years ago a colleague served on a blue ribbon federal commission studying the future of the Web.

These guidelines must comply with the recommendations of The Federal Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar and the Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou - Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin.

Dr. Faust was reacting to a September 2006 federal Commission's recommendation that college use more standardized testing (a la No Child Left Behind) to raise student standards.

The Prime Minister's initial announcement was that it would be joint NT / federal Commission into the treatment of children held in the Don Dale Detention Centre, but NT Chief Minister Adam Giles flagged later that, as he and the Federal Attorney General George Brandis worked to negotiate the terms of reference, he would like it to «look at some of the root causes... why children are entering the youth system in the Northern Territory... recognising that there are children who are being neglected, unloved, getting into trouble, causing trouble in the streets, and finding their way into our detention facilities.»

A federal commission is considering whether to ask Congress to impose a simplified sales tax structure on e-commerce, leveling the playing field for brick - and - mortar stores.

Not exact matches

Some privacy advocates have charged that the app's ability to glean information on all those users that never installed it violated the terms of a 2011 settlement agreement Facebook struck with the Federal Trade Commission.

One identically - worded comment opposing net neutrality rules has been submitted to the Federal Communications Commission's web site 440,000 times, according to a new data analysis.

Finally, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) proposed abolition of network neutrality rules provides stronger incentives to AT&T to use the acquired contents exclusively.

«A federal capital markets regulatory framework would be applied consistently on a national basis and would not displace provincial securities commissions, which would still manage the day - to - day regulation of securities activities.»

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm on Tuesday, accusing the company of antitrust violations in its patent licensing business.

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

The Canadian Radio - television Telecommunications Commission, at the request of the federal government, is investigating the impact of cable unbundling and is due to report by the end of April.

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is the latest setback for Uber, which is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after an investor lawsuit was filed against the company's ousted chief executive.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

Gizmodo reports dozens of complaints have been filed with the Federal Trade Commission alleging Jessica Alba's Honest Company has been charging customers for a subscription diaper service under «misleading conditions.»

Rather, they are meant to cover the multiple sales of distributorships or businesses that do not meet the requirements of a franchise under the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule passed in 1979.

And regardless, an upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision impacting Verizon could complicate the company's relationship with user data, she said.

The FCC is slated to vote Oct. 27 on new broadband privacy rules that according to Ars Technica, «will put broadband providers under a stricter privacy regime than the one imposed on websites like Google and Facebook, which are regulated separately by the Federal Trade Commission.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

In what the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called «the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,» the attacker - who may have been an insider - fired about 100 rounds of.30 - caliber rifle ammunition into the radiators of 17 electricity transformers over the course of 19 minutes.

Five wind companies have since complained to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

But these practices will be getting more scrutiny from regulators now, according to new guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission.

As if the debate over net neutrality rules couldn't get any more polluted, reports are surfacing that the Federal Communications Commission is being flooded with fake comments.

That order came as a result of charges the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook alleging that the company had deceived consumers about their ability to keep information they posted on the service private.

Its key broadband internet business has suffered a double blow, first from the Federal Communications Commission's ruling for more utility - like regulation of the Internet's infrastructure, and then, shortly afterwards, by the collapse of its bid for Time Warner Cable (TWC).

Mark Cuban speculated Tuesday about the scope of Donald Trump's wealth, after the Federal Election Commission released a dismal campaign - finance report from the presumptive Republican nominee.

A recent survey commissioned by the federal government found one in three Canadians said they now download or stream films online and 12 per cent said they do it either daily or at least once a week.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

PACs, meanwhile, are limited to donating $ 5000 to a candidate per election, according to the Federal Election Commission.