Sehar Siddiqi is the National Association of REALTORS ®»
federal housing policy representative.
Not exact matches
«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S.
House of
Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets
policy for NSF and two other
federal research agencies, and the
House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.
In addition to the new online tool, the AAAS R&D Budget and
Policy Program tracks
federal R&D appropriations on a weekly basis, and it issues reports comparing the budget recommendations of the president, the U.S.
House of
Representatives, and the Senate.
The Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic
Policy Council will lead a White
House Interagency Working Group on Offshore Wind, which will also gather
representatives from other
federal agencies, according to a statement from the White
House.
The
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which has identical versions in the
House of
Representatives and the Senate, would expand to other research agencies the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 4 - year - old
policy requiring investigators it funds to submit copies of their peer - reviewed manuscripts for posting in a public database.
Requested by the White
House Office of Science and Technology
Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and
representatives of
federal agencies.
► Wednesday, Republicans in the U.S.
House of
Representatives rolled out a long - expected and controversial «reauthorization» bill covering NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research at DOE, and
federal science education
policy.
Republicans seized control of the U.S.
House of
Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited
federal role in K - 12
policy.
Jack Jennings, author of the new Harvard Education Press title Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform, was witness to the evolution of
federal policy, working closely with Congress, first as a subcommittee staff director and then as general counsel for the U.S.
House of
Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.
Prior to this, Trepeta was the regulatory
policy representative for NAR, handling regulatory and industry relations on issues such as RESPA and
federal housing policy, including FHA.
The Bureau received over 2,800 comments on the TILA - RESPA proposal during the comment period from, among others, consumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State
housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S.
House of
Representatives;
Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of
Policy Planning of the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and academics.