Sentences with phrase «against federal measures»

Gay rights advocates aligned with the former first lady attacked Pence's opposition to allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military, and his votes against federal measures that extended hate crimes statutes to cover them.

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Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Supporters said recent controversies involving prosecutors, including a reported federal probe of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and allegations of wrongdoing against upstate St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain, have given the measure new momentum.

He warned the federal government against taking such step and advised government to take more proactive measures in nipping the activities of the sect in the bud.

The former governor of Edo, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government, to adopt a «ruthless» measure against alleged looters...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, engaged in all - out war against GOP representatives following an amendment that would have relieved counties of paying into Medicaid by 2020, a measure he said would cost the state $ 2.3 billion over four years — and $ 6.9 billion when paired with estimates of lost federal funding.

New York state's comptroller is urging federal authorities to strengthen safety measures against oil spills and require trains to carry sufficient insurance to cover cleanup costs from major accidents.

Bob Megna, president of the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations, told POLITICO that the nonprofit offshoots were doing the best they could and shouldn't be measured against promises made by former SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros, who was forced from his position by state and federal bid - rigging charges.

In 2009 the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District seeking measures to prevent Asian carp from moving through the Chicago Area Waterway System into Lake Michigan.

The authors acknowledge that their original measure of family income via the federal lunch program was biased against the private schools, many of which do not participate.

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

Ironically, however, it is not clear that these growth models would fulfill the more simplistic federal requirements for adequate yearly progress, which dictate that the performance of students at each grade level be measured against a fixed standard of proficiency.

The federal government had no place in K — 12 education until the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 authorized federally funded education programs and set up measures to guard against educational inequality.

Several states, including Alaska, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia, have backed away from prior commitments to use new Common Core exams funded by the federal government to assess their students» progress and measure their achievement against kids in other states.

During this time, only Title 1 schools (who receive federal funds for low - income students) and the D and F schools were measured against AYP.

The movement to push back against the domination of testing in public education includes participants with diverse educational views — from people who believe the Federal government has no role in public education to parents of special education students outraged that their children are subjected to inappropriate measure.

Teacher unions and other education advocates who favor the bill have been stressing that the Protect Our Schools Act serves as a preemptive measure against school privatization, particularly since Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, both advocates of charters and vouchers, now guide federal policy.

Since George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind in 2002, federal law has required states to give all public school students in grades three through eight the same exams, so their math and language skills could be measured against a common yardstick.

If other Federal agencies plan displacements in or adjacent to a demonstration program project area within the same time period as the project acquisition and relocation actions of the demonstration program, the Secretary shall adopt measures to protect against inconsistent treatment of displaced persons.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

Serge de Gheldere is a co-founder of Klimaatzaak, the nonprofit initiating legal proceedings against the governments of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels, and the Belgian federal government demanding all measures necessary to ensure that Belgium makes the contribution needed to prevent a warming of the earth that is dangerous to humanity.

Patrick Michaels helped The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition develop a set of «five guiding scientific principles» aimed at «offering federal and state government a yardstick against which to measure science in public policy.»

Florida - Based Advocacy Group Against Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior ciAgainst Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior ciagainst nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citizens.

Besides appearing to discriminate against various groups, the measures conflict with federal immigration laws and policies.

An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citizens.

The Committee notes that the Federal Court has now granted it standing to raise that jurisdictional issue, but that that process would be «measured in years» while the stay against the Committee persists (para. 36).

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This data includes the index published by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and shows that housing in the 4th quarter of 2010 was 15 % undervalued as measured against American's disposable income.