Sentences with phrase «branch agencies»

The president acknowledged that the federal government's IT infrastructure is outdated, and called for executive branch agencies to move some services to the cloud.

Thirty - six fellows will be working in congressional offices, and the remaining fellows will be working in 21 executive and judicial branch agencies.

Maybe state centralization inevitably begets executive - branch agencies with expansive legislative - like powers, including, eventually, substantial latent authority that can be animated as needed.

The Congressional Budget Office is a legislative branch agency that produces independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process.

Each year AAAS offers two congressional fellowships and about 150 fellowships in executive branch agencies in the areas of diplomacy; national defense and global security; health, education and human services; and energy, environment, agriculture, and natural resources.

Such a return may occur if the rule is not compatible with the law, if the quality of the agency's analysis is inadequate, if the regulation is not justified by the analysis, if the rule is not consistent with the regulatory principles stated in Executive Order 12866 or with the president's policies and priorities, or if the rule unnecessarily conflicts with other executive branch agency regulations or efforts.

«In fact, the Moreland Act itself identifies executive branch agencies as a proper subject of inquiry,» he said.

«Our relationship with OSTP has been tremendously productive, particularly with respect to that office's role in ensuring that all executive branch agencies work together to implement policies that are based on sound science,» said STPF Director Cynthia Robinson.

Over generations, when you don't trust subsidiarity and civil society, and you do trust the federal government and technocrats, not only does the federal government grow, you have executive branch agencies dictating more and more rules.

Additionally, the bill moves executive branch agencies further toward digitizing all paper and fax records to improve agency organization effectiveness and increase the public's ability to easily access and work with public data.

More than half of the 15 executive branch agencies under President Trump have only the secretary leading them confirmed by the Senate.

Serves as the DOT liaison with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and other executive branch agencies concerning demand reduction activities and workplace substance abuse programs.

This was partly due to a mostly positive policy environment at the national level and due to widespread support by various executive branch agencies like the EPA and the Department of Energy.

The actual documents are given to the Committee (s) listed in the communication record and generally are available only if either the respective Committee or the Executive Branch agency publishes them elsewhere.

The bureau would be restructured as an executive - branch agency with a single director who could be removed at will by the president.

Each year, several hundred scientists and engineers flood Capitol Hill and executive branch agencies in Washington, D.C., to get a taste of policy work.

by convening groups to provide advice and guidance to organizations involved in the policy making process, including (but not limited to) Congress and the executive branch agencies of the federal government;

The Bloomberg story, «Obama Tells Labor Leaders He'll Pursue Union - Friendly Agenda,» reported the NAM's objections to the strategy of using Executive Branch agencies to push through labor's policy priorities that could not make it through Congress.

The Governor is required to balance the budget, and may use «9C» cuts to reduce the funding of any executive branch agency or operation at any point during the fiscal year as a corrective measure.

Your assertion that Congress has to follow the rules set by an Executive Branch agency is incorrect.

The Department of Public Service, while overseen by the commission's chair, is an executive branch agency.

For example, looking at the relatively small subset of hourly workers in each level of government, a pay bump to $ 15 an hour would boost personnel costs by $ 25 million for the state's executive branch agencies, and by $ 39 million for New York City.

The violation of traditional separation of powers is everywhere... The PSC is not an executive branch agency, it's a legislative branch agency,» Brodsky said.

Cuomo, however, has directed the commission to investigate the records of the Board of Elections and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, both executive branch agencies.

The commission isn't technically authorized to investigate the legislative branch of state government, but Cuomo directed the commission to investigate the records of the Board of Elections and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, both executive branch agencies.

Malloy is ordering more than $ 99 million in cuts to Executive Branch agencies.

Gagan was one was of three former staffers from Cuomo's term as attorney general hired in July by JCOPE's executive director, Letitia Tagliafierro, as she was leaving for a job at the Department of Taxation and Finance, an executive - branch agency.

Executive branch agencies have settled dozens of sexual harassment cases involving federal workers in recent years, but the resulting taxpayer - funded payments are shrouded in mystery.

New York state operations (the portion of the budget covering state executive branch agencies and facilities) accounts for about 8 percent of the total state budget.

He doesn't control the state Controller or Attorney General's office - two other executive branch agencies - and the Legislature and Judiciary are separate branches of state government.

Executive orders only have force of law for executive branch agencies or other situations in which Congress has given executive orders legal significance by statute (and even that may not be quite constitutional).

The Moreland Commission never had a specific budget allocation — a point made repeatedly by legislators who resisted its inquiries and formally fought subpoenas — but was funded out of other executive branch agencies.

Last week, the governor, through his counsel, ordered all executive branch agencies to cease contact with Mr. Howe or anyone connected with his business.

Up to 10 fellows spend a year in Washington, D.C., working on health care policy in executive branch agencies and legislative offices.

One fellow is selected each year who then places him - or herself in a congressional office, an executive branch agency, or a nongovernmental organization.

Fellowships are only for 1 year, but fellows at executive branch agencies have the option to renew the fellowship for an additional year.

I have a new appreciation of the peer - review process and of NSF's relationships with other executive - branch agencies and Congress.

Dr. Guice also acted as a liaison for other offices within OSD, the Military Departments, Congress, and other Executive Branch agencies to develop, coordinate and integrate health care policies with departmental priorities and initiatives.

Though regulations are written by executive branch agencies and not approved by Congress, they ultimately carry the force of law.

The second reason for denying district waivers is that approval would constitute a worrisome level of presumptuousness by an executive - branch agency.

I will remember that it's Congress's job to write the nation's laws, and that the job of executive branch agencies (like the Department of Ed) is to execute those laws — not to rewrite them or impose their own.

It is, at minimum, three branches, two political parties, 535 members of Congress, innumerable judges, the White House, the Office of Management and Budget, and umpteen executive - branch agencies — a list that only starts with the U.S. Department of Education.

The grants themselves and the grant reports are public but a federal grant does not transform a university lab into an executive branch agency — which is the ambit of FOIA.