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As federal lawmakers continue to try to reach a budget deal, Sheehan and Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with members of the North Country delegation, including Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) and former army secretary and Rep. John McHugh, who now works as a lobbyist.
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Federal Reserve says things are looking up U.S. economic growth has strengthened in 2017, signaling the need for gradual interest rate hikes to ensure a continued recovery, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers Wednesday.
Lawmakers on both the federal and state level have urged the EPA to continue with the project, given concerns there may be more contamination in the river than initially believed.
Mr. Landrieu said the conference would continue to lobby state and federal lawmakers for city priorities, as it has done for years.
In the meantime, he says his office and federal prosecutors will continue to scrutinize lawmakers whose per diem payments and other travel expenses don't add up.
Gov. Rick Scott said federal lawmakers need to keep their word, and continue their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
«Even if the gun industry lobby and its allies in Washington continue to block federal progress on this issue as they have for so long,» said Kavanagh «I believe that New York lawmakers can and will step up.
They expired last week when lawmakers failed to continue a 2008 recession - era federal law providing nearly a year of benefits, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, that kicked in when state jobless benefits ran out.
The federal lawmakers had specifically frowned on the continued occupation of office of Magu as the EFCC boss despite that they had rejected his nomination two times.
State officials continued to lob grenades until Friday's cancelled vote, including Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who said federal GOP lawmakers «sold their votes» and bribed their colleagues in an attempt to ensure passage of the botched healthcare replacement bill.
Delayed from October due to the lawmaker's cancer treatment, the sentencing fell as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's federal corruption case was being considered by a jury, and the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who worked with Libous to plot the June 2009 coup that derailed the Senate for five weeks — continued.
However, mandatory funding expires starting in 2016 and given the push to trim the federal budget there is no guarantee that lawmakers will continue to support enhanced federal funding in the coming years.
This year, we will continue to work with federal lawmakers to ensure those interests are served.
The fallout from the 2009 legislative session continues in state court, as Gov. Sanford and lawmakers battle over whether South Carolina will accept $ 700 million in federal stimulus money that would help pay teachers» salaries and fund public safety.
We failed to mobilize as a unified collective to help our state and federal lawmakers understand not only what society was getting for its investment, but why we should continue to invest in higher education.
During this historic reauthorization process, NSBA, the leading advocate for public education, will continue to work with lawmakers to achieve a modernized ESEA that opposes diverting federal dollars to non-public schools.
And it could damage the fragile economic recovery... Federal lawmakers need to step up and continue funding for the agency.»
Federal Reserve says things are looking up U.S. economic growth has strengthened in 2017, signaling the need for gradual interest rate hikes to ensure a continued recovery, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers Wednesday.
Though the reports achieve questionable results, threats of job loss have proven to be an effective way to pressure state and federal lawmakers to continue the industry's favorable policies — such as NEM.
US lawmakers continue to wrestle with how to approach cryptocurrencies, as a federal judge says the likes of bitcoin can be treated as commodities by the CFTC, FinCEN says money transmitter rules apply to ICOs, and Wyoming's state legislature clears a bill exempting some crypto assets from securities laws.
lawmakers continue to haggle over federal spending and tax policy.
Campaign partners are encouraging state and federal lawmakers to continue to build on the strong investments they have made in evidence - based home visiting and increase investments to serve many more Pennsylvania children and families who would benefit.