Sentences with phrase «after federal lawmakers»

One day after federal lawmakers voted to end the government shutdown, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was back in the North Country.

After federal lawmakers failed to take any significant action following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut — in which 6 - and 7 - year - olds were killed — I saw little reason for hope.

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Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

Lawmakers agreed Monday to reopen the federal government after a brief closure.

The Associated Press reports that lawmakers modeledKansas House Bill 2203 — known as the Religious Freedom Preservation Act — after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which originally provided federal religious freedom protections in state courts.

The conservative lawmaker who came up with the idea — after he'd been attacked for refusing to supplement the federal school - meal program — said last spring he feared creating an entitlement program.

The announcement came after several state lawmakers introduced legislation that would create a new email retention policy for the state, requiring that online communications be preserved for at least seven years — much like how the federal government currently operates.

The state budget includes no significant new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, and that troubles many lawmakers after federal prosecutors accused eight men of bid - rigging schemes in earlier development projects.

Retiring Congressman Charles Rangel is confident Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election despite recently revealed federal probes, but if Donald Trump triumphs after all, the octagenarian lawmaker says he's «out of here» — and he's taking his friends with him.

Cuomo's schedule, released last night, included a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, at which he was to be joined by three Republican lawmakers from New York — Reps. Bob Turner, Michael Grimm and Pete King, on whom the governor is leaning quite heavily as he pushes for the $ 42 billion worth of federal disaster aid he's seeking after Sandy.

The former Democratic lawmaker from New York will serve his 21 - month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 - year - old girl.

MSNBC host Kasie Hunt said that potential Democratic candidates for president in 2020 are facing pressure from progressive activists after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) reached an agreement with Republican lawmakers to reopen the federal government Monday.

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

The pilot is for a five - year period, and after the third year, the federal education secretary will do a study to see how the states are doing and could then open it up to all states, according to federal lawmakers.

Its formation last July came after federal bribery and embezzlement charges were filed against several state lawmakers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on Sunday called his effort to gain more «flexibility» over the budget after its approval a «major sticking point» with lawmakers, but a necessary move given the potential for federal actions that could negatively impact the state.

After returning to Washington, Clinton worked with other lawmakers to secure billions of dollars in federal aid for New York to assist in the city's recovery.

Retiring Rep. Charlie Rangel is confident Clinton will win the presidential election despite recently revealed federal probes, but if Trump triumphs after all, the octagenarian lawmaker says he's «out of here» — and he's taking his friends with him.

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside) has joined the chorus of lawmakers calling for tighter arms control after a gunman in Arizona shot a U.S. congresswoman in the head and killed six others, including a federal judge and the 9 - year - old granddaughter of a former New York Mets manager.

[2] After college he worked as an aide to several federal and state lawmakers including former State Assembly members Donald Davidsen and Jim Bacalles, who both represented parts of the district that Palmesano now represents.

ALBANY — The day after Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his dramatic and contentious education agenda, the state lawmaker who holds the most power over New York's schools was arrested on federal corruption charges.

The governor first floated the idea that lawmakers could be recalled to Albany last week, when he suggested that they adjust the formula used to distribute Disproportionate Share Hospital payments — money used to fund health care for the poor — after the federal DSH spigot was turned off Oct. 1.

Republican congressional and State Senate candidates Thursday called on Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto to resign after the GOP lawmakers were charged by federal prosecutors with receiving bribes from a businessman.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Three weeks after a gunman killed 17 at a Florida high school in Parkland, state and federal lawmakers are still responding with possible solutions.

The former Democratic lawmaker will serve his 21 - month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 - year - old girl.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday wrote to the two Chambers of the National Assembly to intimate the federal lawmakers that he has resumed work after spending 104 days outside the country.

For years, federal prosecutors have gone after Albany politicians one by one, taking on lawmakers such as Pedro Espada, Carl Kruger and, most recently, Malcolm Smith.

He previously floated the possibility that lawmakers could be recalled to the Capitol to adjust the law that guides the distribution of federal money for hospitals that aid the poor after a federal funding stream was turned off Oct. 1.

The pay cuts come a month after mandatory across - the - board spending cuts went into effect after the White House and lawmakers couldn't agree on a deal to cut the federal deficit.

Cuomo formed the commission six months ago under the Moreland Act, which allows investigations of the executive branch, after the latest spate of federal corruption cases, all involving lawmakers.

A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»

ALBANY — Just weeks after both leaders of the Legislature were convicted of federal corruption charges, lawmakers returned to the Capitol Wednesday still split on whether to enact tougher ethics rules.

Liberal activists and organizations affiliated with the progressive movement castigated Senate Democrats on Monday after they struck a deal with Republican lawmakers to reopen the federal government.

Thirteen years after President George W. Bush and Congress embarked on the country's biggest - ever education experiment to help the poorest and most vulnerable students — casting the federal government as enforcer — lawmakers are poised to step it back.

Lawmakers late Tuesday canceled planned debate in the Assembly on the state budget bill after delays in drafting amendments, but not before removing a plan to cut $ 37 million in federal money for the UW System for a statewide Internet provider.

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

Bernanke Goes Off Script to Address Fire - Sale Risks, RTE: After listening to Senate lawmakers» opening statements for 90 minutes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took a highly unusual step of ditching his prepared remarks, which... leaked out early this morning.

Via:: San Francisco Chronicle (Australian federal lawmakers, although able to ban incandescent bulbs at a moments notice, somehow lose their gumption for also banning the ubiquitous plastic bag, after years of prevaricating.

But after prodding by lawmakers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a preliminary review.»

Federal lawmakers are now calling for Mark Zuckerberg to personally testify before Congress after bombshell reports revealed late last week that the shadowy political consultancy Cambridge Analytica acquired personal information on as many as 50 million Facebook users, many without their explicit permission.

The six financial federal regulators [HUD, Fed, FDIC, FHFA, OCC, SEC] responsible for writing and implementing the Qualified Residential Mortgage rule, or «QRM», re-proposed the rule after receiving considerable pushback from NAR, other housing industry groups, consumer groups, and lawmakers.