Sentences with phrase «doling out federal»

On the right, advocates for vouchers and the free market are pushing for testing loopholes such as opt - out provisions and doling out federal money in block grants with no performance requirements whatsoever.

Being a Secretary of Education is different; doling out federal dollars requires explanations.

She said the five - point reform plan agreed to by the coalition would improve an imperfect system of doling out federal spending requests from Congress.

Another big part of the homeland security boondoggle is the formula used to dole out federal funds.

Not exact matches

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

Trudeau, like his predecessors, says the higher prices that result from supply management save the federal government from having to match the farm subsidies doled out by most other countries.

Federal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to futureFederal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to futurefederal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to future years.

But federal prosecutors allege that Babich and his co-conspirators doled out kickbacks to doctors who prescribed the drug even to non-cancer patients, and even set up a special «reimbursement unit» to sway insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers to provide coverage for these non-authorized uses.

Rival Google doled out US$ 1.3 - billion to snap up Israeli social traffic - mapping and navigation company Waze in June, a sum that has prompted the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the hefty acquisition.

Financial aid doesn't just appear out of thin air, it's carefully crafted by supportive organizations, including the federal government, and doled out through appropriate channels.

A federal jury found Joe Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, guilty in March 2018 of taking more than $ 300,000 in illicit payments in exchange for official favors doled out to COR Development in

A federal jury found Joe Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, guilty in March 2018 of taking more than $ 300,000 in illicit payments in exchange for official favors doled out to COR Development in Syracuse and Competitive Power Ventures, which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County.

Of the nearly $ 3 billion in federal funds the city - state venture was created to dole out, $ 540 million has yet to be dispensed and $ 250 million hasn't been earmarked for anything.

Gillibrand's leadership PAC has doled out $ 172,000 to federal candidates so far in the 2018 cycle, according to Open Secrets.

Under the terms of the settlement between Bank of America and a federal task force Mr. Schneiderman co-chairs, the lender will dole out $ 300 million in cash and $ 500 million in assorted relief efforts to New York State alone, with the rest getting spread across the country in the form of both hard currency and assistance to renters and homeowners.

The federal government doles out massive sums to private landlords each month to maintain Congressman Gregory Meeks's and Congresswoman Grace Meng's formal offices in their Queens districts — while the two Democrats simultaneously rent campaign headquarters in the exact same buildings at far, far lower rates.

More than a decade after its creation, the agency is still sitting on $ 700 million federal taxpayer dollars yet to be doled out.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

In late 1999, when Mr. Cuomo's department declared that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani could not be trusted to fairly dole out millions in federal funding for the New York City homeless, Republicans immediately suspected collusion — between Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio, who was then Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

ALBANY, N.Y. — As the Paterson administration starts to dole out $ 24.6 billion in federal economic stimulus money, good - government groups and some legislators warn projects are being chosen in secret...

«Many of these organizations aren't used to dealing with that magnitude of money or dealing with some of the federal rules,» he said of the local agencies charged with doling out much of the money, after expressing disappointment with the rate of disbursement.

WGU pushes that framework in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that credit hours are the basis on which the federal government doles out student aid, not attainment of competencies.

In this respect, RttT is old - fashioned federal funding, with money doled out for proper inputs rather than sure outcomes.

To deliver on that promise, the FCC, led by Chairman Tom Wheeler, overhauled the federal E-rate program, which will now dole out almost $ 4 billion a year to help schools and libraries pay for telecommunications services.

His program was a federal grant, called «Race to the Top,» which was doled out on a competitive basis.

Would the Race to the Top money end up getting doled out like any other federal spending program, and thus end up subsidizing the status quo?

Maryland doled out more than $ 26 million in federal SIG funding to 22 schools over the past four years, state education officials said.

But given the ever - increasing power of the federal government over education — from just doling out money in the mid 1960s to coercing specific standards, tests, and teacher - evaluation rules — ESSA is a significant success.

Trump's campaign plan for school choice was scant on details: He did not say where the $ 20 billion in federal funding would come from or how it would be doled out.

The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration established the Land Exchange Distribution Account to dole out the proceeds from these state - federal trades.

Before the George W. Bush administration, billions of dollars in education spending were doled out by the federal government with no accountability.

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

Financial aid doesn't just appear out of thin air, it's carefully crafted by supportive organizations, including the federal government, and doled out through appropriate channels.

Rather than being doled out through the William D. Ford Direct Loan program as with most federal student loans, each loan is made directly to you from the school itself.

If you're a regular Treehugger reader, you're probably aware that the federal government doles out hefty sums to the oil industry, and that it also lends a hand to

I'm not sure the federal district court will address this question: Courts prefer to address real cases and controversies and dole out declaratory relief only narrowly.

Known as acquitted and uncharged conduct sentencing, the practice is raising a sharp question among legal scholars: Should federal judges dole out tougher sentences based on accusations that jurors rejected or never heard during trial?

And the Michael Phelps witch hunt proves that Richland County, South Carolina doesn't need any of that federal money being doled out.

When either the provincial or federal courts dole out the required verdicts and / or disciplines, they usually satisfy the unhappy buyers or sellers and sometimes the Realtor is vindicated (but not often enough).