Sentences with phrase «broad federal effort»

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The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement to Capital Tonight said he has «grave concern» over the federal proposal to eliminate state and local tax deductions as part of a broader effort to cut taxes.

It's time for leaders of both the House and the Senate to forge an agreement that will avoid a costly mistake of shuttering important government services and furloughing hundreds of thousands of public servants, while finding responsible solutions to the broader fiscal challenges that lie immediately ahead.New York's Congressional delegation has shown leadership in trying to resolve this standoff, and I encourage them to continue their efforts to keep the federal government functioning.

The movement on the measures comes amid a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and it follows a series of stories by The Associated Press that revealed how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.

As mentioned above, science and technology funding in the Obama years ultimately fell victim to broader Congressional efforts to shrink federal spending and deficits.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

That new approach could include strategies such as removing or setting back levees in some locations to promote seasonal flooding, strengthening regulations to reduce the discharge of contaminants into waterways, reworking the operations of some dams to facilitate fish passage, and changing federal and state laws to move conservation efforts to a broad, ecosystem - based approach.

The effort to end de jure segregation back then enjoyed broad public and judicial support; OCR worked hand in hand with the federal courts to desegregate southern schools.

Ultimately, the success and sustainability of efforts to improve educational excellence and equity, particularly with regard to our most vulnerable students and communities, requires robust and thoughtful partnership between and among federal and state and local governmental agencies and a broad variety of community members.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

An effort sparked by hopes of winning up to $ 400 million in federal money for Michigan schools could have broad implications on educational choice and quality for years to come...

WASHINGTON — As part of a broad effort to strengthen the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund), FHA Commissioner Carol Galante announced a series of changes to be issued this week that will allow the agency to better manage risk and further strengthen the health of the MMI Fund.

The event is part of a broader effort to help San Francisco - based Internet Archive with its End of Term 2016 project, an effort by university, government and nonprofit officials to find and archive valuable pages on federal websites.

It is essential that the federal government coordinate its efforts and develop a broad reconciliation framework, which includes scrapping the existing comprehensive claims policies, overhauling the broken B.C. treaty making process and developing new and appropriate mechanisms to support reconciliation including self - government recognition legislation.»

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Continuing effort to help strengthen FHA's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund WASHINGTON — As part of a broad effort to strengthen the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund), FHA Commissioner Carol Galante announced a series of changes to be issued that will allow the agency to better manage risk and further strengthen