Sentences with phrase «federal agencies today»
Two federal agencies today announced a new initiative to support regulatory science, the tools and standards used to evaluate new drugs and devices.
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President Trump will instruct federal agencies today to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that includes sharp increases in Defense Department spending and drastic enough cuts to domestic agencies that he can keep his promise to leave Social Security and Medicare alone.
In the milling ab0ut period before a technical conference started on an unrelated matter, I overheard a lawyer from another firm attempting to throw one of my firm's clients under the bus with the staff of a federal agency today.
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Today, Qualtrics has more than 9,000 customers, including 65 % of the Fortune 500, federal agencies, and more than 1,800 universities.
Governor Greg Abbott today requested the addition of 14 Texas counties to the Presidential Disaster Declaration previously granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The 2012 Study — similarly developed in consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, other federal agencies and President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability — updated key measures from the 2009 Study and deepened the exploration of topics that are highly relevant today.
As a result of the MBS and agency purchases, the total assets of the Federal Reserve today exceed the total reached at the peak level of activity for the lending facilities in December 2008.»
E.J. Burke, Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), today issued the following statement on the confirmation of U.S. Representative Mel Watt to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA): «MBA commends the confirmation of Mel Watt as the next Director of
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees the venture, announced today that the popular mortgage refinancing and modification programs will be extended through the end of 2016.
The federal government released its Report on Plans and Priorities for 2014 - 15 today with departments and agencies identifying spending estimates and work priorities.
This problem today is engendered and sustained by virtually every institution responsible for the creation of the built environment: the real estate development industry; the construction industry; federal, state and local regulatory agencies; the rule - of - thumb manuals of transportation engineers; the lending policies of banks; the professions of architecture and planning; the patrons of architecture; and above all the zoning ordinances that regulate where and how buildings get built.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wine Institute today announced a restructuring of its Federal Relations and International Public Policy Departments to streamline its work with U.S. government agencies, the U.S. Congress, and foreign governments and international organizations.
More Californians Preparing for Severe El Nino Flood Risk: Residents Purchase 28,000 New Flood Insurance Policies in California: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today released new data on National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Policies, showing an increase of more than 20,000 new NFIP Policies written in California during the month of November 2015...
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Today, our nearly 1,200 employees help federal, state, and local agencies as well as more than 20 major foundations use data to make a difference in more than 50 countries.
Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office rejected the diversion of $ 481m of these dedicated clean water funds, while approving $ 29.1 m.
«The legal guidance and model policies my office released today give local governments the tools they need to protect immigrant communities from any over-reach by federal agencies.
Community organizations and agencies gathered in Utica today to call on Washington to repeal sequestration and support measures that will help close the federal deficit without hurting vulnerable groups.
President Trump has two options, according to USA Today: File lawsuits against sanctuary - observing cities, counties and states for violating federal law by refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement and withhold federal grant money for local law enforcement agencies.
Cuomo, in his prepared remarks released last night, said he plans today to urge President Obama to issue a disaster declaration for the area and free up aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Today, this Committee holds an important hearing to examine the operations of the Department of Justice - the federal agency entrusted with ensuring the fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about today's primaries across the state and three members of Congress calling on federal health agencies «to help educate and assist» residents exposed to PFOA.
In today's challenging fiscal environment, federal agencies need the right partners who can help them advance mission goals through the use of efficient and innovative IT, engineering, administrative and program management solutions.
The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland) today announced a $ 178,063 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for East Ramapo Central School District.
In today's Congressional Corner, Vermont representative Peter Welch tells WAMC's Alan Chartock that budgets for federal intelligence - gathering agencies need better oversight.
As the South Bronx reels in what the city is calling the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in New York history, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration today announced that state and federal agencies were getting involved in the fight — which up until now has been in the hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Mary Bassett.
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that Rockland County has been awarded $ 1,624,950 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding.
The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.
The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.
That agency, later re-formed as the Federal Communications Commission (today's FCC), assigned specific frequency bands to different users.
A review launched in August 2014 has resulted in a 3 - page memo (plus 184 pages of attachments and related reports) sent today to federal agencies from the president's science adviser, John Holdren, and Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today strengthened the federal public health standard for nitrogen dioxide pollution, a limit that has been in place for nearly four decades
The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.
Federal research agencies were greeted with varying degrees of fanfare when they finally fired up their Twitter accounts again today.
The lame - duck House of Representatives today accepted a stripped - down Senate version of the America COMPETES Act, a bill to strengthen research, education, and innovation at several federal agencies.
No federal agency, Bronzaft says, is properly enforcing the law today.
In a bid to restart discussion of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, four U.S. senators today unveiled a draft plan to create a federal agency that would oversee short - and long - term storage of the highly radioactive materials produced primarily by commercial power reactors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Bill Clinton today sent a memo to federal agencies prohibiting them from funding experiments on human cloning.
Despite some grumbling, today's NSF announcement marks a milestone: It means that essentially all of the major U.S. federal science agencies now have a public - access policy.
Fattah relinquished his position on the Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee today and was replaced by Representative Mike Honda (D — CA), a former high school principal who has been a reliable vote for additional federal funding of research and education.
Congress has averted a government shutdown on 4 March by approving a temporary spending bill today that funds federal agencies for another 2 weeks.
«In the meantime,» he said, «inaccurate Federal Emergency Management Agency flood frequencies based on the assumption that today's river will behave as it has in the past greatly underestimate our real flood risk and lead to inappropriate development in floodways and floodplains.»
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with Federal agencies and private - sector stakeholders, is announcing a new National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems, and is hosting an event to bring together stakeholders vital to advancing the NMI.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published today in the Federal Register its plan for the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today a small business that wants to fight an agency decision can sue in federal court and go bankrupt hiring lawyers, or use an agency's own appeals process staffed by its own bureaucrats.
More than a dozen federal departments and agencies support microbiome research today, and the magnitude of investment has recently grown: A 2015 report released by the National Science and Technology Council noted that annual federal investment into microbiome research tripled over fiscal years 2012 — 2014, with more than $ 922 million invested during this three - year period.
AAU today thanked Senator Durbin for introducing the American Innovation Act, legislation that would help close the nation's innovation deficit by bolstering funding for several federal research agencies.
Today, more than 300 federal laboratories, facilities and research centers and their parent agencies make up the FLC community.
Today, Education World highlights some findings from a collaborative effort by 20 federal agencies.