Sentences with phrase «federal legislators for»

We lobby state and federal legislators for funding to protect open space for conservation, recreation, and responsible uses like sustainable forestry, farming, and fishing.

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For example, legislators have proposed legislation that would limit information sharing with the federal government about immigrants.

AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

Wine Institute and CAWG developed the report to provide an understanding of the industry's contributions to the California and U.S. economies for use in public policy discussions with state and federal legislators and other key officials.

«This site will be a vehicle for our members to engage their employees and customers, and a resource for consumers, state and federal legislators, media and others to gain important information on the health and environmental benefits of choosing glass.»

Write to your state and federal legislators — tell them to support laws that make breastfeeding easier, like licensing of lactation consultants, and the requirement that insurance companies reimburse for lactation care and services.

But for better or worse, private actors — not our federal legislators, who seem inescapably captive to Big Food's dollars — may be the future of food reform.

April recess for federal legislators is today through May 2, and many members of Congress will be hosting Town Hall meetings in their home districts.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced continued widespread support from federal, state and county legislators as well as other former and current elected officials, community and business leaders for current plans to build a new bridge to replace the Tappan Zee.

WHITE PLAINS — The Westchester County Board of Legislators Monday night authorized the county to reserve 50 percent of the county's almost $ 7.9 million federal funds for use by local municipalities for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

The former Nevada state legislator who has been unsuccessful in several bids for federal offices announced this and plans to produce a documentary in an e-mail sent to supporters by her political committee, Our Voice PAC.

And the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Facility, north of Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg, is already a favorite destination for convicted New York legislators.

How that list has been created in the last few years could be the start of a long thread of inquiry for federal investigators looking into what some legislators have been doing to make outside income.

Mangano has resisted prior calls for the county to dump Armor's contract, including after a group of Democratic county legislators criticized the vendor's care and called for federal intervention at the jail earlier this year.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

The federal legislator, in a statement, condemned the kidnap attempt and called on the police authorities to provide adequate security for traditional rulers and the citizens across the country.

Beacuse the Legislature hasn't been able to agree on a date on which both the federal and state primaries can be held, legislators who try and fail to run for Congress have, for the past several campaign cycles, had the option of running for their old seats as a Plan B.

On the heels of last month's revelation that now former Assemblyman Nelson Castro had been wearing a wire for federal prosecutors determined to bust some of his fellow corrupt colleagues for almost his entire tenture in office comes the news that yet another legislator agreed to use a recording device at the feds» behest.

To top it off, former Assemblymember Anthony Seminario was recently sentenced to six years on federal corruption charges, and a number of legislators are under federal investigation for their relationships with nonprofits.

Several months ago our newspaper, through this column, successfully lobbied our Republican County Executive, Ed Day, as well as our Democratic State Legislators, Ken Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee, to write letters to President Donald Trump, urging him to supply the 50 percent federal backing needed for the $ 24 billion Gateway project (with New York and New Jersey splitting the remaining 50 %).

New York legislators want to postpone until next year the deadline for doctors to issue only electronic drug prescriptions, saying many still lack needed federal approval.

Earlier in the day, former State Assemblyman William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for taking bribes and stealing public money, the latest state legislator sent to prison.

In a study conducted by an independent organization that ranks federal legislators, Gibson was rated tops among 400 + members of Congress for his bipartisan voting record.

Smith was brought down by Bharara, who, since being installed as the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in 2009, has charged a dozen legislators.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Prosecutors want disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to spend at least 14 years in prison — more than any jail term given to other convicted New York state legislators — for his conviction on corruption charges, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.

ALBANY — A federal proposal to provide two years of free community college for all students could actually save New York taxpayers money, a high - ranking legislator told POLITICO New York.

Some legislators have offered little sympathy for Ganim's efforts, based on his conviction that sent him to federal prison for seven years.

DiNapoli, speaking at a lunch for Italian - American legislators, could not comment on whether he's been in contact with the U.S. Attorney over the ongoing federal probes.

The legislators also called for the governor to decouple the federal and state Historic Tax Credit programs.

Republican state legislators Tuesday blasted a state Democratic Party plan to pay for part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort with money raised for federal congressional campaigns, saying it would destroy the «last remnants of «clean campaign laws»» in Connecticut.

Democratic county legislators recently called for an end to Armor's contract and asked federal officials to investigate what they called an «ongoing civil rights crisis» involving poor medical care at the jail.

Three sitting legislators — William Boyland Jr., Malcolm Smith and John Sampson — are currently on federal trial for corruption, and a felony conviction would automatically force them to resign.

It responded aggressively to legislators who advanced bills that would require the state to keep emails for at least seven years, like the federal government does, by wondering why the lawmakers exempted themselves from the state's Freedom of Information Law.

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

After state legislators failed for two years to comply with a federal law requiring that military voters stationed overseas get their ballots 45 days prior to the general election, a federal judge set the beginning of the congressional election calendar at March 20.

Now, though, with the state planning to slash funding for Medicaid and education, legislators, particularly in the Assembly, were pushing for its extension, arguing that the state's wealthiest had already received a federal break when the Bush tax cuts were continued this past December.

In little more than a month, three state legislators were arrested on federal charges; one of them was accused of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot, and another had sold legislation for cash.

Part - time work by legislators has long been a focus of federal investigators because corrupt lawmakers have used payments for ostensible part - time jobs or consulting work to mask political payoffs.

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday asked the Accountant - General of the Federation to ensure that federal legislators were made to refund the money collected for the number of days they failed to sit in the National Assembly.

JULIE LANE PHOTO County Legislator Ed Romaine pointed a finger at federal legislators Tim Bishop and Charles Schumer for a lack of oversight on helicopter routes along the North Fork.

Several federal legislators also think that private companies could do the survey for much less money.

When 250 scientists descended on Washington, D.C., last month to urge federal legislators to boost funding for the physical sciences and engineering, they also made a pitch for training more scientists.

Now a committee of ethicists has devised a set of recommendations for federal and state legislators that could help protect people like DeMark from genetic discrimination.

Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal agencies will result in funding cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's research enterprise.

It was supposed to be a chance for legislators to discuss the Obama administration's 2015 federal budget with presidential science adviser John Holdren.