Sentences with phrase «departments at every level of government»

Effective coordination across and within departments at all levels of government is also important.

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But there has been no discussion of America's corporate consolidation during the debates, nor of funding levels at federal government organizations like the NIH, DARPA or the U.S. Department of Energy.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

The Department of Homeland Security, ever the least controversial branch of the US Government, is developing a new laser - based scanner that can scan targets at a molecular level to read what they had for breakfast, how much adrenaline is pumping through their body and whether you they have any trace amounts of drugs or gunpowder on them.

So, when the Australia - India Institute tobacco control task force held a high - level launch of its policy document on plain packaging at the Press Club in New Delhi, we all waited intently for a response from the government and department of health and family welfare.

The Congress declares that the establishment of a Department of Education is in the public interest, will promote the general welfare of the United States, will help ensure that education issues receive proper treatment at the Federal level, and will enable the Federal Government to coordinate its education activities more effectively.

The work of the Tourism Council should be continued and built upon to ensure that tourism is represented across Government departments at a senior Ministerial level.

This is understandable, given the problems at government agencies from the Department of Veterans Affairs at the federal level to the Hamburg School Board at the local level.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

Mr. Bulgaro has more than twenty - five years of state government experience, serving at the highest levels of several state agencies, including the Department of Taxation and Finance and the Division of the Budget, where he served as director under former Governor Mario Cuomo.

Media organizations and individuals requesting information under the FOIA last year were less likely to receive the material than in 2010 at 10 of the 15 Cabinet - level departments, according to a Washington Post analysis of annual reports of government agencies.

But there needs to be top - level leadership on the family and there is much to recommend the view that family policy should have a central role in government, based perhaps at the Cabinet Office, rather than with one of the spending departments.»

Head teachers want data to be shared between government departments, so that pupil premium funding will not depend on gathering information at the level of individual schools.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Newly elected DNC Chair Thomas Perez — shown here in June 2016 as the secretary of the Labor Department under President Obama — says Democrats need a «50 - state strategy» to defeat Republicans at all levels of government.

The committee approved the nominations of former Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus, who faced insider - trading allegations while in Congress; Kimberly Reed, who held high level positions at the Treasury Department and Lehman Brothers in the lead up to the financial crisis; and Claudia Slacik, whose submission to the Office of Government Ethics reveals investment in Exxon, a recipient of Ex-Im Bank financing, and many other energy companies.

A former senior researcher in the department, Doug Lord, said yesterday two papers he co-authored with colleagues and was due to present at conferences were suppressed because they suggested sea - levels on the east coast are rising at only one 10th of the rate estimated by the federal government, based on data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The only «benefit» I can see is for those within the department to demonstrate the worthiness of their continued funding at or around the current level, even though almost half that department could be removed with the stroke of a pen if a few eligibility rules for benefits were loosened for the few remaining veterans who have a few years only before meeting their maker - essentially bucket loads of money could be saved that are being expended employing teams of people for millions of dollars, to literally save mere thousands of dollars on veterans entitlements - «penny wise and pound foolish» = > it is actually quite bizarre, and I'm sure it is just one of the most blatant examples of the organised stupidity that is government today.

But the politicization of the hiring process at DOJ penetrated far below the top levels, contaminating even the supposedly merit - based, DOJ Honors program designed to attract top talent to government service, according to a report prepared by the Department's inspector general.

Since starting her firm in 1998, Ellen has coached many hundreds of attorneys throughout the world at all levels of experience and seniority in law firms, corporate legal departments, government, not - for - profits and the judiciary.

The result of this in Canada is that a person who wants to use a public document abroad has to have the signature on the document certified authentic by a government authority — either at the provincial level or at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, or both.

Thousands of presidential appointees hold a great variety executive and staff - level jobs — a small fraction subject to Senate confirmation — at the White House and with a galaxy of federal departments, agencies, offices and programs in federal government.

Provided analytical and technical support to Department of Homeland Security projects in direct support of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness (SLGCP) in establishing a vast array of programs to enhance the Nation's preparedness at the Federal, State, and local levels.

In acknowledging the importance of the intra-State relationships between government departments and community organisations, it also follows that there must be a co-ordinated approach at the national level.

The submission to the ATSIC Review argues that ATSIC's powers at the national level should be enhanced to provide increased ability to set national objectives and to monitor and evaluate the performance of other government departments in addressing the service delivery needs of Indigenous peoples.

For every Minute (or administrative instruction) or policy statement that is issued in one department, there is a set of communications that must then occur between departments at national office, state / territory office and, ICC levels, in order to ensure that there is «joined up government», with all parties made aware.

Under these new arrangements, policy and service delivery at the federal level is the responsibility of mainstream government departments.

In this article on The Conversation, Professor Emily Banks, Scientific Director of the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study, outlined why one of the most powerful weapons that doctors, public health departments and governments could use in their battle to decide which disease to help prevent next was the long - term population study or «longitudinal cohort study», because it can build up a comprehensive picture of health at a population level over time.

So there has to be consistent funding, there has to be a commitment by governments to coordinate, not only with each other but with departments within levels of government so at state level to have all of the departments responsible have some form of mechanism where they can appropriately untangle the wires and get things happening.»

[17] As the benchmarks measure progress at a whole - of - government level they can not be used as a performance indicator to hold individual government departments accountable.

In acknowledging the importance of the intra-State relationships between government departments and community organisations, it also follows that there must be a coordinated approach at the national level.

While departments individually identify their activities in Indigenous affairs in their accountability documentation, there is little in the way of performance information at the aggregate level to assess and inform progress in terms of the... identified priority areas for action in whole of government Indigenous service delivery.