Sentences with phrase «current federal issues»

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In his current position he leads the tax modeling team, oversees the center's research, and researches and writes on a variety of federal tax issues.

The latest edition of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Current Issues in Economics and Finance is available: What Moves Sovereign Bond Markets?

Twin Deficits, Twenty Years Later, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 12, no. 7 (October).

The latest edition of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Repurchase Agreements with Negative Interest Rates, is available.

The Federal Reserve collects information on the current interest rates of credit card plans issued to American consumers by all commercial banks - this includes data from non-reward and retail credit card accounts.

The presence of the Alberta Alliance Party raised the issue of whether or not the current federal system is in the benefit of Alberta.

Current Issue Subscribe This Federal Reserve quarterly publication provides information on guidance, resources and tools to help community banks across the United States.

Shall it be current issues in education, like federal aid to schools, education of the gifted, and so on?

After talking about the issue of sanctuary cities on «The Brian Lehrer Show» — she argues the city's current rules offer protection for crimes she deems too serious to shield from the federal government — people encouraged her to run, she said.

He worked with researchers at the FJC to investigate current policy issues confronting federal courts in addressing patent litigation.

Her recent research on this issue, as well as work carried out by Wolfgang Tress and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, shows the way in which a current — voltage measurement is carried out will dictate the efficiency value you obtain.

Since 2006, CSTSP has hosted a monthly biosecurity meeting series that brings together interested and engaged staff from federal agencies, Congress, local universities, and DC - based non-governmental organizations to discuss current issues in science and security.

CSTSP has hosted occasional nuclear security meetings that bring together interested and engaged staff from federal agencies, Congress, local universities, and non-governmental organizations to discuss current issues in science, nuclear security, and disarmament.

To quote the Spiegelman case notes, «We must dig into the lower strata of the history of the Federal tax system to unearth the Rosetta stone that will decipher the issues of fellowship grants in terms of the current self - employment tax.»

In a keynote speech at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science, Biden also eviscerated the current trend toward science denial by President Donald Trump's administration and other national leaders, and issued a passionate call to double or even triple federal science funding.

He stressed that addressing current issues of overweight and obesity will require partnerships between the federal agencies, between nutrition educators, dieticians, and extension educators, and between federal agencies and industry.

For the first time, local, state, and federal agencies will have to disclose future benefit costs in current budgets, a requirement that could force policymakers to confront the under - the - radar issue of meeting those costs and explain why such obligations have grown so large.

• Commitment to federal laws established by Supreme Court rulings: OCR's current reading of its authority under Title IX goes beyond the narrow interpretation adopted by the Supreme Court in two decisions that addressed the sexual harassment issue, even explicitly rejecting the rulings in guidelines issued under the Clinton administration.

It offers current and authoritative information on legal issues facing schools within the context of state and federal education law.

This chart compares current Federal law, two bills that have passed the U.S. House and Senate, and NSBA's position on a number of different issues within the context of ESEA.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

The program contains the School Board's positions on state and federal issues of major and current significance.

In his role, DeSchryver serves both public and private sector clients providing counsel on federal regulatory matters, budgetary and compliance matters; research and analysis on national policy issues; research and analysis on emerging markets in education services; and his current focus is on the emerging solutions to assess education productivity / yield on investment.

Professional Development for Transition Personnel: Current Issues and Strategies for Success (August 2005) NCSET Information Brief After more than two decades of federal transition legislation, students with disabilities continue to have significantly poorer postschool outcomes as compared to their peers without disabilities.

Finally if you are a resident of Spain the gifted books include Los 3 primeros casos del inspector Mascarell by Jordi Sierra I Fabra and Orange is the new black: Crónica de mi año en una prisión federal de mujeres by Piper Kerman, along with current issues of top selling magazines Hola, DeViajes, Elle — Spain edition, Diez Minutos and QUE ME DICES.

Federal programs for home loans including FHA and VA loans are driving current volumes of activity for home purchases and mortgage lending, according to a report issued by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

The Federal Reserve collects information on the current interest rates of credit card plans issued to American consumers by all commercial banks - this includes data from non-reward and retail credit card accounts.

Issuing Company: ETF Securities Ltd Ticker: PPLT Expense Ratio: 0.60 % Tax Treatment: From the prospectus, «Under current law, gains recognized by individuals from the sale of «collectibles,» including physical platinum, held for more than one year are taxed at a maximum federal income tax rate of 28 %, rather than the 15 % rate applicable to most other long - term capital gains.»

Federal Investigative Notice No. 06 - 07 says the OPM does not automatically expand investigations for financial issues unless a credit report reflects current aggregate delinquent debt totaling $ 3,500, there has been a Bankruptcy within the past 2 years, or there has been a bankruptcy within the past 3 to 5 years with evidence of current credit problems.

In 1996, economists for the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Arturo Estrella and Frederic S. Mishkin, published an article in the «Current Issues in Economics and Finance» published by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

While these securities do not pay current cash income, federal income tax law requires the holders of zero - coupon, step - coupon, and pay - in - kind securities to include in income each year the portion of the original issue discount (or deemed discount) and other non-cash income on such securities accruing that year.

Learn about current legislative and regulatory issues (both Federal and state) from policy experts

By contracting with a Washington D.C. based legislative relations firm, Washoe County is current on Federal Issues that impact the region.

The announcement arrived two months after the interior department settled a dispute with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over who has authority over issuing leases and licenses for projects that generate electricity using wind and ocean currents in the outer continental shelf.

It does not directly address which federal ministry should administer climate - change policy, but delegates to the Katoomba meeting clearly advocate a change from the current practice of leaving it up to the Ministry of External Relations (MRE, Ministério das Relações Exteriores) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia), which critics say are overly concerned with issues of sovereignty and energy.

After such 10 - year period, the Commission shall issue Federal renewable electricity credits to the facility in accordance with the current multiplier as determined pursuant to subparagraph (B).

My current opinion would be that the use of SAIDI is just fine — and that the issue of Renewables is about finding the Right Fit based on engineering economics (and clearly not one - size - fits - all Federal mandates like a national portfolio standard).

While shark finning is illegal in the U.S., current federal laws banning the practice do not address the issue of the shark fin trade, so shark fins are imported to the U.S. from countries with few or even no shark protections in place,» notes Oceana.

A summary of legal issues affecting community banks, with a current focus on Troubled Asset Relief Program Capital and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program.

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I almost landed in another federal agency's appellate office that practiced a very narrow issue before federal circuits across the country, but chose my current job because of the very broad swath of constitutional criminal issues we routinely litigate, which is endlessly fascinating.

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«Thanks to the federal government, who has done nothing on this issue other than pass the Indian Act, there is no over-arching legislation that provides certainty in relation to acquisition of consent, unless the band and the collective self - identify,» said Charles Willms, chairman of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver aboriginal law practice, speaking at the panel, Key Legal Cases in Canada: The Current Landscape.

Within days, if not hours, current and former presidents of the Canadian Bar Association, law deans from across the country, other members of the profession, and even journalists were publishing articles in support of the chief justice and questioning the prime minister's motives in saying a July 31 call from McLachlin — voicing her opinion there could be issues if Harper decided to appoint a Supreme Court justice from the ranks of the Federal Court to represent Quebec — was misguided.

Combining a thorough knowledge of class action procedure with an understanding of current regulatory developments, Phil represents his clients in state and federal courts nationwide on issues such as unclaimed property, contractual obligations, privacy / cyber risk, adequacy of disclosure and regulatory compliance.

In producing this Issue, our goal has been to provide an overview of the current state of American sentencing and to present a variety of perspectives on the issues that Congress will likely have to consider in order to reshape the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

On November 3, the federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee met in Washington D.C. to discuss a range of issues — from current proposed rule amendments to future projects focused on discovery practice and active judicial case management.

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Whatever one thinks about the Court's purported moves to the right on other issues, in the arena of criminal sentencing, federal defendants certainly should be more hopeful arguing before the current Justices than before any other group of appellate judges.

The current scope of the federal regulatory protections for protecting human subjects in research is just one of the issues that will be addressed in the by the Commission's report, and the Department looks forward to receiving the Commission's recommendations.