Sentences with phrase «executive branch said»

BRUSSELS — 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.

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.

Effectively, the President writes a signing statement to the executive branch saying «This is how we're going to interpret and implement this law» as he signs the bill.

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«That's an executive branch function,» Gowdy said.

Traditionally, judges have been extremely cautious about stepping on the executive branch's authority in such matters, legal experts said.

The blocked merger could indicate more severe barriers to China to come from the executive branch, analysts said.

«We're not accusing them (the FBI) of anything at this point,» Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said.

If Trump uses his pardon power in either of those cases, it «is incredibly problematic and would aggrandize the executive branch's power» and compromise the judiciary's independence, Ohlin said.

He said this is «unfortunately» part of a «troubling pattern of the Oversight Committee capitulating to the Trump White House rather than exercising its independent authority to conduct oversight of the executive branch.»

DiGenova, whose comments were rebroadcast on Tuesday night on Hannity's Fox News program — which Trump is known to watch regularly — also said that a series of questions purported to come from Mueller's office were an «intrusion» on the president's constitutional right to «fire any executive branch employee.»

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida - based branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said his group would by the end of this week file a request for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice to review Todashev's death.

Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

«We will continue to accept any invitation to dialogue with the executive branch to protect the religious freedom that is rightly ours,» the bishops said.

The Republic of South Africa separates its legislature (newly become a racially tricameral body of whites, Indians and «coloured» that can no longer be technically considered a Parliament, although the term is still popularly used to refer to the only body with any real say - and that not much - the White Assembly) from the executive branch.

Effective government, says our Constitution, must have a system of checks and balances, divided and, to some degree, autonomous branches with executive, legislative, and judicial functions.

The company plans to consolidate two bank branches that sit at 143rd Street and La Grange Road, kitty - cornered from one another, into its new building, said Marquette Bank's Executive Vice President Tom Burgin.

After toppling both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Dean Skelos with public corruption last year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he has his eye on the executive branch, too.

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.

Speaking to reporters in Buffalo today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said an ethics overhaul for the executive branch, which Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos suggested to Liz yesterday, isn't necessary.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Last week on Capital Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said ethics reform should include the executive branch, and today, Speaker Sheldon Silver called the effectiveness of the governor's tour across the state «irrelevant.»

Speaking on ABC News» «This Week» in his first TV interview since Donald Trump fired him in March, former U.S Attorney Preet Bharara said he believed the president's calls to him violated the usual boundaries between the executive branch and independent criminal investigators.

«They feel it strengthens the executive branch and strengthens the role of lobbyists and entrenched staff,» Morelle said.

By that fall, Cuomo said he no longer believed that the commission should investigate anything within his own executive branch, but should stick to looking at the Legislature.

«I was shocked to not see a lot of the recommendations for the executive branch in the agreement,» Skelos said.

«We're going to have no role to play,» Deputy County Executive Ed Ward said of the potential influence of the executive branch on MyrillExecutive Ed Ward said of the potential influence of the executive branch on Myrillexecutive branch on Myrill's cases.

Further proof of bias, Laufer said, came in the form of a subpoena that requested records of the Campaign for One New York's communications with the executive and legislative branch of New York City and state government «with the inexplicable exception of seeking no records with respect to legislative lobbying targeted to» Cuomo.

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch as we have been, but not just there, but in the executive branch, too — both in city and state government,» Bharara said on April 12 at a gala hosted by the good - government group Common Cause, where he suggested there should be more efforts at government reform.

«Historically, the commission was supposed to be somewhat independent from the executive branch,» he said.

The violation of traditional separation of powers is everywhere... The PSC is not an executive branch agency, it's a legislative branch agency,» Brodsky said.

«He's done everything he can to kind of remove oversight form the executive branch,» McMahon said.

Intensive negotiations occur between the legislative and executive branches of government, as well as between the various parties (which is to say two in the US or the UK, but countries in Continental Europe typically have more than that), and between members of parliament within those parties.

«My guess is, if he wanted to move, because of the support that he has consistently provided Hillary Clinton, if Hillary Clinton wins the election, an offering will be made to him to be a secretary or an under - secretary in one of the departments within the executive branch,» he said.

But speaking to Nii Arday Clegg Friday, Mr. Anyidoho said the regional branch failed to seek approval of their decision from the national executives of the party.

So then, no government (defined as those people operate in the offices of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches thereof) has been conferred by law to exact its will over the very People it claims to protect and serve, and who are the very source of law that is said to have established such a government.

The commission said a state of emergency would give the Executive Branch more tools to deal with the problem and put pressure Congress to approve more funding.

«What Mr Taylor is saying is at variance with the branch election guidelines released by the party's highest body — National Executive Council (NEC),» an outraged Mr Amegbor said.

Cuomo also said he will appoint a «Chief Procurement Officer for the Executive branch.»

«You really have the executive branch extending its authority to this agency,» said David Barrett, a lawyer with the Coalition for Competitive Electricity.

«The Legislature is a check on the executive branch,» Loughran said.

«I can't image anything that drives voters more crazy than when lawmakers and the executive branch are considering pay raises in a smog of scandal,» he said.

Griffo said that he wants to see all criteria by which the Executive Branch will evaluate prisons, and to see how all facilities score.

Azzopardi said the process is lawful and noted that all the agencies whose payrolls are being used to pay staffers are within the executive branch.

This report took a pass on recommending changes to JCOPE's voting structure, saying «questions concerning JCOPE as an institution... are the prerogative of the Executive and Legislative Branches of government.»

Cuomo told the panel not to stop at just probing the legislature, and he said the executive branch which he controls would not be off limits.

Skelos says senators want to also include the executive branch in any new disclosure laws, but that is not part of the agreement worked out between Cuomo and the Assembly.

Under Zibelman, Cuomo's executive branch has taken a more direct role in the inner workings of the DPS and the decisions that come before the PSC, insiders say.

His appeals to the executive branch for backup information have fallen on deaf ears, he said, echoing Chipman.

Walt McClure, a spokesman for the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which has oversight over the executive and legislative branches, said said his agency can not comment about whether an investigation has been started or the status of ongoing probes.