Sentences with phrase «about federal power»

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The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

While Joe Volpe, the current federal immigration minister, has talked about encouraging more newcomers to settle in smaller centres, he lacks any real coercive powers.

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

Federal Government MPs who support a constitutional monarchy question an address by the Prime Minister to the Australian Republican Movement, criticising the timing of the speech amid debate about power prices, pensions, and the economy.

This act has now become the law of the land and requires that patients on admission to a hospital or other institutions in receipt of federal health care funds be questioned about Advance Directives» which are a Living Will, Health Care Agent, Durable Power of Attorney» so that if unable to express an opinion, the patient's wishes concerning life - sustaining technologies will have been made known.

Along the way I will describe some events that are virtually unknown about the televangelists gained power over the Federal Communication Commission — a power that has provided a unique opportunity for fundamentalist religion to effect cultural change during the past forty years.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

None of these federal departments has responded to my requests for information about why they consider such high - powered military - style teams necessary.

He said in the past two years Farmer Power had warned the federal government about the «critical state of the industry, including the particular problems looming for Murray Goulburn».

Unfortunately, it's no longer open to the public, but there is still another great option to teach kids all about the power of a dollar — the Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

The premium that participants pay for green power, about $ 10 or $ 20 per month, is tax - deductible for those who itemize charitable deductions on their federal tax - returns.

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump last year, but his wish is about to come true: The high - profile trial of Percoco and three co-defendants on charges that Percoco was bribed to exercise influence on behalf of a power company and Syracuse developers starts Monday in a federal court in Manhattan.

Charging documents in the federal case allege that Toscano - Percoco was paid $ 7,500 a month for an average of 15 hours of work developing and teaching elementary school students about power.

It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.

«The states were the formative party to the federal government and the states were very careful about limiting the power of the federal government,» Cuomo said in the conference call.

Federal prosecutors have amassed about 11 million pieces of evidence, including more than 28,400 pages of emails and images from the phone Kelly used as an executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corrupPower Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruppower plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruption.

«About ($ 72 million) in federal money plus additional money from the New York Power Authority settlement and Honeywell has contributed to a river that is much cleaner than it was 30 years ago.

Fayose said, «The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has destroyed the economy within eight months in power and rather than look for solutions to the problems facing Nigeria, Lai Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about stolen money just to cover up their lack of solution to the country's economic problems.»

Scottish and Welsh nationalism have been increasing in popularity, and since the Scottish independence referendum, 2014 there has been a wider debate about the UK adopting a federal system with each of the four home nations having its own, equal devolved legislatures and law - making powers.

Federal Executive Council has approved the award of contracts for 12 roads for about N126bn, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

«The Federal Government on Wednesday regretted that despite the various efforts being put into stabilising the power sector; about 120 million Nigerians were still in darkness.

is pushing an amendment to the financial overhaul bill before the Senate that would broaden the Government Accountability Office's power to audit the Fed and compel the central bank to disclose details about the firms that received emergency federal aid during the financial crisis.

When Gotham Gazette asked de Blasio about the new budget mechanism that gives Cuomo additional power and any concerns for New York City he may have, particularly about federal cuts trickling down to the city, the mayor said he wasn't completely familiar with the provision, but from what he did know, he wasn't sure why it was needed.

After federal regulators created a new capacity zone in the Lower Hudson Valley, two new power plants in the Hudson Valley, Danskammer and Bowline, will bring back about 1,000 megawatts of power.

Lawyers for six former trustees suing to get their positions back after they were kicked out by Mayor de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz revealed in court papers the library has retained a high - powered former federal judge to probe leaks that led to a series of stories in The News about library director Thomas Galante's $ 392,000 salary and his free - spending ways.

From, 2010 to 2020 roughly, the federal government would have to supply about 420 billion dollars in subsidies to get these massive scale [s] of production for, you know, all the mix of photovoltaic systems, solar power systems, the compressed air systems, the direct current system.

Volk says states and the biomass power industry are hindered by a lack of clear, uniform federal guidelines about which power plants will pass muster and which won't.

Writing at The Federalist, Joy Pullman says «it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand,» while offering no opinion whatsoever on the likely outcome — but of course taking the opportunity to note yet again (cue the applause) that «federal laws explicitly prohibit the national government from directing, supervising, or controlling curriculum and instruction.»

All the talk about federal versus state power in education strikes a lot of people as beside the point.

• He has separation - of - powers concerns about unbridled federal agency power.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

ESSA pushes decision - making power about most aspects of accountability from federal education officials to the states and localities.

In the meantime, the key takeaway to remember about the proposed legislation is that it gives state legislatures the power to decide how to intervene in low - performing schools without the constraints of the federal mandates in place under ESEA's previous iteration, No Child Left Behind.

Unlike others, the Fordham Foundation analyst isn't so much concerned about what LAUSD is asking to do, or the federal government's ability to oversee the progress of individual districts around the country, but rather the possibility that a waiver for LAUSD gives too much power to the Education Department in Washington and bypasses state education agencies.

Parents Across America is especially concerned about the use of federal power in the nationwide push to expand standardized testing.

Because ESSA reins in the federal government's influence over local decisions about academic standards and accountability, states and districts will have more power to decide how best to gauge student progress toward becoming well - rounded.

This would be particularly true if a Trump administration set about relinquishing some federal power back to the states.

Her political power in New York has already been tested over the last year, following a spate of negative press about her schools» discipline practices and internal workings, a federal investigation conducted by the Office of Civil Rights, and mounting criticism from local elected officials.

It's hard to believe any future federal secretary of education will have the opportunity to abuse his power in the way the current one has; and better solutions may arise locally, particularly if legislators are willing to learn about practices already proved effective overseas, rather than experimenting ceaselessly on the unsuspecting children trapped in California's declining state schools.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) strips the power of rewards and sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education in implementing Title I. Gone are any federal sanctions or rewards intended to influence states» decisions about their content standards, assessments, and teacher - evaluation systems.

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What's worse about dealing with the IRS is that they have almost all the power in the situation, since they're able to enforce any Collection or Enforcement Actions with the full power of the Federal Government, including literally arresting you and throwing you in prison for failure to pay your taxes.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

The federal government has the power to pass regulations that could end the trade of shark fin products immediately, but it needs to know that Canadians still care about this issue.

And that's because Big Oil has always had, essentially, a veto power over what the federal government does, both because of its economic might — I mean, we're talking about the richest business enterprise in human history — and all the political muscle that comes from that.

This move is especially important as a new administration hostile to the scientific consensus about climate change — and eager to open federal lands and waters to more drilling — prepares to take power.

In April 2011, not long after Julia Gillard was returned to power in the 2010 federal election, I asked a representative sample of Australians about their attitudes to climate policy.