The
"executive branch" refers to a part of the government that is responsible for carrying out or executing laws and policies. It is usually led by a president or a head of state who makes important decisions and takes actions to govern the country.
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Given the traditional separation of powers between legislative and
executive branches of government, some might find that process curious.
As I continue to emphasize, the administrative justice with which I am concerned includes only the exercise of judicial rights - determining functions
by executive branch tribunals and their members.
The president acknowledged that the federal government's IT infrastructure is outdated, and called for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.
The panel is charged with investigating and imposing penalties
on executive branch employees and lobbyists.
As governors consider their priorities, this issue brief provides recommendations on ways that
state executive branches can support early learning programs.
The so - called «nuclear option» will allow a bare majority of senators — as opposed to 60 - to approve most judicial and
executive branch nominations.
[In other countries], a
strong executive branch typically has the authority to keep the government functioning even without an approved budget.
These programs have been widely recognized as making a valuable contribution to the use of science and technology by policy makers in both the legislative and
executive branches of government.
And in areas in which the federal government lacked either the license or capacity to shape local policy directly,
executive branch officials used federally sponsored litigation as a tool to advance reform.
In addition, approximately 35 congressional and 10
executive branch fellowships are selected and awarded by our science and engineering partner societies.
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.
The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be republican in form and its legislative, judicial and
executive branches as established by this Constitution shall be equally subordinate to the sovereignty of the people of Puerto Rico.
Conflict - of - interest rules
for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, but Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments, according to Republican and Democratic ethics lawyers.
The Task Force is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and consists of the heads of major
executive branch departments, agencies, and offices including the NIH, the NCI, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Health, the National Economic Council, and others.
In 2017, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, but unified GOP control of the legislative and
executive branches didn't lead to a burst of lawmaking.
There has been a statement issued by the Russian government's
executive branch which pledges their support for a bill that has the goal of implementing regulations on the ICO market.
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.
These are offices such as President, U.S. Senator and Representative, Governor, Secretary of State, state auditor, state attorney general, and other state
executive branch offices.
BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's
executive branch said Thursday.
It would also reaffirm the importance of the global fight against cartels, which has reflected consistent U.S.
executive branch policy for decades (and has enjoyed strong support from the International Competition Network, the OECD, and the World Bank).
If you thought the board seriously needed
Executive Branch Ethics Commission oversight to stop funneling itself goodies, let's get that done.
The majority of presidential games are Army - Navy, which has at least one high -
level executive branch member in attendance every year.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, found that the resignations, firings and promotions within the White House and
executive branch during Trump's first year in office numbered twice that of the Reagan administration's and triple that of Obama's.
At the Federalist Society's Sixth Annual
Executive Branch Review Conference, Office of information and Regulatory Affairs («OIRA»)...
Say two investigations, one from the Department of State and one from the DOJ, both organizations which are federal and operate under the
same executive branch of the United States, determine someone is guilty and come up with an identical set of charges.
Clement's courageous actions and words to date highlight the urgent need for critically important checks and balances on
Executive Branch overreach.
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While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via
executive branch regulations.
President Donald Trump and his
new executive branch of the federal government are making the transition from politics to policy.
«It would represent a serious expansion of judicial oversight of what the president and the
entire executive branch does,» said Yoo, now a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
6) Inaccuracy: The
County Executive Branch gave Judge Alfred Lama, the ethics director, special treatment to receive benefits to which he was not entitled.
He cited a letter from Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, that suggested such
executive branch leaders should get around $ 240,000, which is what top state officials in California earn.
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