Sentences with phrase «administration took office»

Since President Donald Trump's administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed.

«You may have forgotten about the fact that when this administration took office, our debt was 10.6 trillion dollars.

This rise has been even more pronounced since the latest Republican administration took office and promised massive tax cuts primarily to businesses and did in fact almost halve the corporate tax rates.

That was decided before the current administration took office, but feel free to take credit.

What he conveniently overlooks is that substantially all of the progress in reading and math between 2000 and 2013 was made in the period 2000 - 2009, before the Obama administration took office.

The Obama Administration took office in January 2009.

Not long after the Obama administration took office, my colleague Betsy Brown Ruzzi and I paid a visit to an old friend, Carmel Martin, who had left behind many years as a senior...

Despite these issues, the E.I.S. ultimately recommended that the co-location be approved, which it was at an October 15 meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy, as the Bloomberg administration's D.O.E. scrambled to pass dozens of charter co-location approvals before the less charter - friendly de Blasio administration took office.

When the Bloomberg administration took office, the charter movement was still in its infancy.

The demonstrators called on New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and the Office of Court Administration (OCA) to take action that would keep agents out of the courts, citing an increase in courthouse arrests and deportations since the Trump administration took office.

«Since my administration took office, we have worked in partnership with the city to focus the efforts of the Oneida County Health Department on addressing the menace of lead in housing,» Picente said.

Olatoye, who has overseen NYCHA for de Blasio since the administration took office in 2014, has noted in council testimony that the problems have long predated her tenure and federal subsidies have dwindled, leaving localities scrambling to make up the shortfall.

As Home Secretary, I travelled to the US soon after my appointment and again when the Obama administration took office to build relationships and understanding.

The broader S&P 500 also retreated to trade slightly lower ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee's first interest rate announcement since the new administration took office.

As Donald Trump's administration takes office in Washington on Friday, it will be rushing into headwinds generated by growing Sino - Indian tensions and a budding Sino - Russian entente.

A federal judge postponed ruling on the matter as of now and with a new administration taking office in January, the regulation may never come to fruition.

The moves occurred before July, not only allowing the reclassified employees to serve a six - month probation period, if necessary, before a new administration takes office, but also allowing them to collect a 2 percent union raise that took effect July 1.

«Personnel decisions are difficult when a new administration takes office, and I thank the current administration for their assistance with employee notifications.»

«We are very suspicious of the fact they are trying to maneuver through a set of regulations just a week before a new administration takes office,» Gregg said.

With no final decision on the lawsuit expected until well after the Trump administration takes office — and with administration appointees including the proposed secretary of labor and the Republican - controlled Congress apparently opposed to the change — observers believe that, even were the new rule to survive court scrutiny, it would likely be overturned.

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

With oil prices stabilizing, new capital spending commitments underway and an energy friendly administration taking office in the U.S., there is a growing sentiment that the worst is over for the Alberta economy.

Navient disputed the allegations, calling the suit a politically motivated «midnight action» two days before the Trump administration takes office.

Finally, just as Obama has moved quickly to name a transition team, law firms thinking about entering these practice areas should hit the ground running now so that they're prepared to assist clients once the new administration takes office.

More Time for the CFPB WalletHub senses the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court this fall, won't get the boot, even with the «You're fired» administration taking office.

Not exact matches

Jeanne Hulit, the Small Business Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, will take over as interim head of the agency when Karen Mills departs at end of the month.

The government's General Services Administration previously said it would refrain from commenting on the apparent contract violation until Trump took office, which he did at noon Friday.

Constructions crews spent roughly a month erecting the prototypes, in the first major step the Trump administration has taken toward fulfilling a January executive order to «immediately plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border» which the president signed shortly after taking office.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

Trump has sanctioned dozens of Venezuelan officials, including government ministers and military officers, since he took office — including the vice president, who was accused of involvement in international drug trafficking, and President Nicolas Maduro himself, whom the Trump administration has labeled a «dictator.»

The administration has been rocked by high - profile departures — including Reince Priebus as chief of staff and James Comey as FBI director — since Trump took office in January 2017.

Instead, it encouraged Justice Department officials to keep reviewing the Obama administration's more hands - off approach to enforcement, something Sessions has promised to do since he took office.

That event will cap off a week where Obama and administration officials will look back on innovation's impact on the economy since Obama first took office and «announcing new steps... to build on those efforts,» Zients wrote.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has made a series of moves that have alarmed groups with a stake in open public information: historians, librarians, journalists, climate scientists, internet activists, to name a few.

Since Trump took office, his administration has been split into two camps: one that favors free trade and is resolutely opposed to using tariffs to reboot American industries, and another that thinks tariffs are both good policy and good politics.

The DOL rule was created by the Obama administration, but Trump ordered the DOL to delay and further study the rule soon after taking office.

The Obama administration pursued such an agreement for years, but it was largely moribund even before Mr. Trump took office, in part because of popular opposition in Germany.

The Obama administration attempted to negotiate a more limited agreement with China, a bilateral investment treaty, but could not finalize the deal before Mr. Trump took office.

The U.S. Congress and the Obama administration took a step in the right direction last month by approving increased funding for the federal patent office to reduce the backlog of 1.3 million patents pending.

It is, of course, illegal for an incoming Administration to discuss policies with foreign officials before taking office, as it implies authority they do not yet have.

The Obama administration is rushing to get a flurry of priorities done before Donald Trump takes office.

In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunes.

Upon taking office, one of the president's first acts was to slash the previous administration's energy subsidies, which cost the government more than $ 51 billion over the past 13 years.

She talks about the Bush administration wanting to go to war with Iraq right after they took office.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

It ensures that «citizens and businesses supply certain standard information only once, because public administration offices take action to internally share this data, so that no additional burden falls on citizens and businesses.»

President Donald Trump's administration moved quickly to try and lift economic sanctions on Russia and other punishments former President Barack Obama had put in place as soon as it took office in January, according to multiple sources who have spoken with Yahoo News.

Trump slammed his critics as «pathetic» during his first commencement speech since taking office — as his administration comes under fire on multiple fronts.

Over the years, upon assumption of office, the Mahama - led administration had course to plead with the people of Ghana to fasten their belts as the administration put in place, the structures required for a smooth take - off.

He had been a key point person for the Cuomo Administration's economic development initiatives in the Buffalo area since Cuomo took office in 2011.