Sentences with phrase «federal efforts take»

Perhaps Rockland's towns would consider using this as a guide in helping their residents «protect» their SALT deductions if the federal efforts taken by Nita Lowey and Peter King prove unsuccessful.

Not exact matches

A spokeswoman for Shoppers Drug Mart delivered a similar take in February in its efforts to persuade the federal government to allow pharmacists to sell medical marijuana.

Net neutrality supporters are focusing their efforts in part on the Congressional Review Act, a once - obscure law that allows Congress to overturn regulations enacted by federal agencies within 60 days of when they take effect.

The Trump administration has invoked the shooting in its effort, unsuccessful so far, to strip federal funds from cities and states that refuse to take part in immigration enforcement.

While some state - level authorities have taken action including the Texas State Securities Board and NY Attorney General's Office, there have also been major actions on the federal level, including efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

The Trump administration has invoked Garcia Zarate and the slaying in its effort, unsuccessful so far, to strip federal funds from cities and states that refuse to take part in immigration enforcement.

Borrowers with private student loans may wonder if they are able to convert their private student loans to federal student loans in an effort to take advantage of the inherent benefits.

This will take a lot of effort but acting in a disrespectful ways in front of the federal building only brings harm and not good.»

Without taking anything away from the Court's uphill and important effort to bring federal and state authority into better....

Silver said he believes there will be changes in the way redistricting takes place after the 2010 Census numbers come in, but he stressed this reform effort might be easier said than done, adding: «There are a whole bunch of things that are recognized either by law, federal law or the Supreme Court that go into this.»

«As our federal government continues to flounder, New York is taking action to deliver critical housing assistance, resources, and the workforce needed to accelerate rebuilding efforts and construct more resilient homes for residents throughout Puerto Rico.»

MIDTOWN — As the federal investigation into his political fundraising activities continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio questioned the political motivations behind the leak of a letter from the State Board of Elections questioning the legality of his effort to raise money to help Democrats take control of the state Senate in 2014.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- President Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to lash out at the mayor of San Juan after she criticized federal recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Gillibrand sent a letter urging the agency to expedite its response and take immediate federal action to support and add to the state's ongoing efforts.

But Clinton has taken a more nuanced position, saying that although she supports local efforts to reach $ 15, she wouldn't commit to that nationally, aligning herself instead with legislation establishing a $ 12 hourly federal rate.

Now, in Tuesday's town board meeting, Santino will attempt to blatantly redefine machine politics in a way that takes every taxpayer hostage, and booby - traps efforts to restore honest governing, all the while waving a red flag for federal prosecutors.

While commending the current administration for the efforts at tackling corruption and recovering looted funds, saying through the law on forfeiture, the federal government last week, took possession of $ 437 million belonging to a looter, who is on the run.

He helped run the redistricting effort for the Senate GOP as far back as 1991 in a once - a-decade process that occurs after the federal census is taken.

After year - long investigations into a potential pay - to - play scheme involving his definition political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for State Senate Democrats by now - former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — eventually taken over by acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the pair decided not to bring federal charges against de Blasio or his aides.

Nicholas A. Langworthy, the Republican Party chairman in Erie County, N.Y., said he's taken aback by Clinton's repeated references to what he described as «small bore» efforts, such as securing federal money for a Buffalo project called Artspace that created residential living space for artists.

In urging the Federal Government to desist from taking the loan of $ 2 billion from China or any other country we are compelled to advise the Federal Government to intensify efforts to recover the nation's wealth which has been criminally diverted by a handful of local and foreign looters.

She said she thinks the federal Education Department's letter should be taken seriously, and it's one more motivation in her effort to win over parents and educators on the benefits of testing.

Pointing to insufficient efforts on the part of the Federal Aviation Administration, New York City Council members are taking regulation of the city's skies into their own hands.

«I want to take this opportunity to urge the Federal Government to expedite action and leave no stone unturned in the effort to recover the remaining girl from Dapchi and 112 from Chibok,» Lawan said.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

Pushing for federal Sandy relief aid Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) vows to continue efforts to push the House to take the final votes needed to approve the federal disaster aid to Sandy victims.

They took to the Senate floor on Monday to push a proposal that would have prohibited the Port Authority «from supporting the federal effort in any way,» including the use of staff, money and facilities — even the use of electricity and air - conditioning in areas where detainees are held.

Taken together, the maps showing intensity of recreational use as well as environmental stress provide federal and regional officials with an unprecedented scientific foundation upon which to sustainably manage the Great Lakes, where current restoration efforts exceed $ 1.5 billion, the researchers conclude.

Biomedical research productivity perhaps has fallen because after receiving a large infusion of federal funding in the past decade it may take time for new or expanded research efforts to become efficient.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

February 2013 — A four - year stalemate in federal efforts to reintroduce Mexican gray wolves to the Southwest took another step backward last week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recaptured a male wolf only three weeks after his release into the wild.

The Republican congressional majority that took office in January 1995 built its agenda around an ambitious effort to reduce the scope and reach of the federal government.

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell last week called for a «Manhattan Project» to develop computer software for schools, but he stopped short of saying how much money the federal government should devote to the effort or what form it should take.

Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.

Michael Kirst's essay on the ups and downs of California's accountability efforts should give pause to any who take for granted that the new federal law will be implemented.

Districts and states should take these lessons to heart, but the simplest fix supported by Levenson's findings must occur at the federal level: End maintenance - of - effort requirements that are both inefficient and ineffective.

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

Within six months of his taking office, both houses of Congress had passed bills that imposed new federal standards for the states» accountability efforts.

But between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, federal education accountability efforts have taken a very, very, very wrong turn.

Policies that promote school integration by race and class took a significant hit last week when the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was killing a small but important federal program to support local diversity efforts.

You'd think the respondents would be more concerned about that, given their very negative take on Washington's efforts to improve teacher evaluation — with 81 % strongly believing that federal policy should not «support teacher evaluation systems that rely significantly on» student test scores.

The next federal effort to increase support for children and their families will likely take the form of an expansion of the Child Tax Credit, [1] which is currently worth $ 1,000 per child at tax filing time for qualifying families that would otherwise have at least that much due in taxes (details below).

Save for a few instances, such as the initial efforts of Southern governors (including Alexander during his tenure as Tennessee's governor) and chambers of commerce during the 1970s that spurred what became the modern school reform movement, it has been the federal government that has been the driving force in coaxing states to take full responsibility for the districts they control as part of their constitutional provisions requiring them to provide education.

When I was at the Department helping to craft this grant, we took the necessary time and energy to meet with districts who wanted and needed federal support to pursue diversity strategies in their schools as part of their effort to close the achievement gap and uplift ALL students.

In 2009, the United States» accountability efforts took another turn, this time led by the National Governor's Association (NGA) rather than the federal government.

In a letter sent to superintendents and heads of charter schools on Friday, they implied that California will take the path of least resistance to federal sanctions, focusing instead on the state's effort to revise its own accountability system, using the Academic Performance Index.

The «maintenance of effort» (MoE) provisions are intended to ensure education funding is cut as little as possible in tough economic times and that federal funding does not take the place of other money that should be coming from state and local coffers.

The federal government's stimulus effort was designed to persuade states to take on such complex improvements.