Sentences with phrase «federal relief efforts»

Feeding Texas is a statewide nonprofit that works alongside state and federal relief efforts.

From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.

Not exact matches

The spreading fires prompted Brown to issue emergency proclamations earlier this week for Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, while U.S. President Donald Trump issued a federal proclamation that enables agencies to coordinate relief efforts.

U.S. President Donald Trump approved emergency declarations for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts, the White House said.

, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, came as White House and congressional leaders discussed a plan to immediately pump about $ 6 billion into federal disaster relief efforts.

As Congress continues to consider hurricane relief funding, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget re-released its «A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget» proposal with a new plan to help finance disaster relief efforts.

Despite a poor start he eventually went on to marshal the whole country's support behind the federal relief and reconstruction effort.

While President Obama cancelled his Ohio campaign stops to stay in Washington, DC to co-ordinate Federal disaster relief efforts for...

Under the terms of the settlement between Bank of America and a federal task force Mr. Schneiderman co-chairs, the lender will dole out $ 300 million in cash and $ 500 million in assorted relief efforts to New York State alone, with the rest getting spread across the country in the form of both hard currency and assistance to renters and homeowners.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

«Hurricane relief efforts depend heavily on action at the federal level, which can only occur if Texans residing in disaster zones have full and effective representation in Congress.»

«Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children,» Paterson said at the time.

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.

Here's something about it from this morning's LA Times that should shake your tree... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rove29oct29,0,440699.story?track=tothtml «the most significant element of Rove's effort to help four - term Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds keep his job may have occurred behind closed doors, when the White House strategist met with a federal disaster relief official contemplating how to respond to the storm.

Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.

Some home - school advocacy groups have attempted to secure a federal law or Supreme Court ruling that would establish uniform national guidelines grounded in First or Fourteenth Amendment rights, but to date such efforts have failed (to the great relief of home - school advocacy groups that oppose this strategy).

In 2005 two sets of litigants mounted suits with this language in an effort to secure more federal funding or relief from federal requirements, but were not expected by legal analysts to get far (see «NEA Sues over NCLB,» legal beat, Fall 2005).

In his statement, Torlakson said, «Based on a thorough examination of federal and state law, California made a good - faith effort to seek relief from requirements that even federal officials have acknowledged time and again are deeply flawed.»

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

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Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), will likely spend much of his day today on Capitol Hill reporting before a panel of the House Oversight Committee outlining a recently released 260 - page report concerning a laundry list of his concerns linked to the federal government's effort to help struggling financial... View Article

But like most things lead by the federal government, the relief efforts were notoriously slow.

While the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau is expected to scale back on enforcing consumer protection statutes, the FTC has increased their efforts to target debt relief scams.

President Donald Trump on August 25th signed a disaster relief declaration to funnel federal aid and emergency resources to rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast.

He has worked on more than 1,000 unfair labor practice investigations and has successfully tried many unfair labor practices cases, including defending employers against government efforts seeking injunctive relief in federal court.

But back at the office, they'd heave a sigh of relief about not having to aggregate and manage a half dozen small clients for an appeal (as I often do to make appeals and federal court cases affordable) or fritter away valuable billable time blogging or playing on Twitter in a desperate effort to compensate for the kind of credibility and connections that biglaw automatically confers.

Specifically, we allow covered entities to use or disclose protected health information without individual agreement to federal, state, or local government agencies engaged in disaster relief activities, as well as to private disaster relief or disaster assistance organizations (such as the Red Cross) authorized by law or by their charters to assist in disaster relief efforts, to allow these organizations to carry out their responsibilities in a specific disaster situation.

«If Sutton Realtors and their clients donate $ 100,000, factoring in the matching contributions from Scott Shaw and the federal government, the result would be $ 400,000 for the Fort McMurray relief efforts.»

An effort is under way in the Senate to renew legislation that spares underwater homeowners from having to pay income tax on mortgage debt forgiven by a lender, one of the chief supporters of the tax - relief provision told a group of politically active REALTORS ® during NAR's Federal Policy Conference in Washington.

The market got some rate relief recently, when the Federal Reserve decided to continue its policy of buying bonds to keep mortgage rates low, in an effort to stimulate the housing market and the economy.