Sentences with phrase «federal politicians did»

Dithering on the part of policymakers on a cohesive digital strategy by federal politicians didn't help either, the Internet Association suggests.

They know, as apparently many of our Federal politicians do not, that «clean, beautiful coal» is a lie.

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When federal politicians finally did intervene in health care with the passage of Medicare in 1965, the insurance company model had been developing for decades.

British politicians aren't exactly known as paragons of good decision - making right now, so Canadian regulators and the federal government may want to do the opposite of anything that's happening over there.

Apple doesn't have a corporate political action committee that gives to federal candidates, so Cook has acted as the company's ambassador to leading politicians.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

The Federal Reserve Act set staggered terms for the Federal Reserve Board members (selected by local business and financial leaders, not Washington politicians) so that the President could not «pack the bench» as Jackson had done in 1833 by removing Secretary Duane in favor of Taney.

-LSB-...] Kristi Noem (R - SD) recently introduced a federal bill which would not only lift the calorie caps (a frequent target of conservative pundits and politicians), but also allow school districts to waive any and all requirements of the HHFKA if doing so would -LSB-...]

DES MOINES — Former New York governor George Pataki brought his effort to repeal the newly passed federal health care reforms to Iowa Tuesday, saying politicians did not listen to Americans who did not want those reforms.

If the politicians didn't appoint all the judges, this would be a great subject of a federal lawsuit on equal protection grounds.

A close associate of former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio testified before a federal judge Tuesday that the corrupt Richmond Hill politician used her organization to bilk funds from other groups and ruined not only their friendship but her business when he did not get his way.

Carter laments that Washington politicians don't share this view, pointing to a federal budget that has reduced or eliminated funding for arts, civics, economics, foreign languages, geography, and history programs.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

What we do about pricing and dealing with climate risk — and how politicians argue about it in federal election cycles — may be very much in play.

The fact that the federal government gives multibillion dollar handouts to some of the nation's most profitable companies doesn't sit well with anyone except the oil industry and the politicians who love it.

Most federal employees do not call themselves bureaucrats, but if you get your paycheck from any government, you are either a politician or a bureaucrat.

The SCOTUSblog short list is mostly federal judges with a few elite professors and politician thrown in, though I do see a handful of state judges, too.

Politicians and their advisers do not seem to have contemplated either a more comprehensive federal approach, relying on either its inter-provincial trade power or the national dimension branch of the «peace, order and good government» power, or a more co-operative federal - provincial approach.

If there is anything I desperately want to believe it is this: The great majority of federal district judges do not act like politicians in black robes.

Becoming the somebody that somebody sent will work for you as it did for Abner J. Mikva, who enjoyed a career as a Chicago politician, a judge, a federal judge and a U.S. representative.

CREA noted the engaging work that NSAR does to equip its more than 1,700 members with knowledge of federal government issues — including monthly updates, a new and expanded government relations committee and expanded engagement with local, provincial and federal politicians.