Sentences with phrase «federal research into»

Start with the repeal of the so - called «Dickey Amendment,» 1996 legislation that has blocked federal research into gun violence.

If passed, the legislation would substantially increase federal research into threats from hormone - disrupting chemicals and require the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the environment.

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U.S. «The economy isn't in imminent danger of relapsing into recession [according to the Federal Reserve, most private economists and Wall Street strategists]... but the Economic Cycle Research Institute, an organization with an excellent track record, says the U. S. is actually heading into another recession.»

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

Still, Paul Boothe, director of Western's Lawrence Centre, points to some intriguing ongoing research he's overseeing into Ontario's manufacturing sector, which strongly suggests Canada could be making it far easier for foreign companies to sort out the wide range of federal and provincial programs and policies that might lure their investments.

«Rising U.S. yields will cause volatility in capital flows into emerging markets, and with the Fed still likely to hike rates in December, the risk is for further outflows,» said Khoon Goh, head of Asian research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Singapore, referring the Federal Reserve.

Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.

Main Street Views highlights the diverse range of economic research and programs of the Kansas City Fed, including the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium; analysis of macroeconomic, banking, and payments issues; and insight into the seven states and industries of the Tenth Federal Reserve District.

The research provides insight into the policy options under consideration in Ottawa and how federal officials are testing various ways that those ideas could be sold to the public.

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

In the 1990s the scientific study of sleep and dreams catapulted into public awareness because of a federal initiative that funded brain research.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a survivor of Lyme disease, says the federal government is falling behind in its effort to battle the tick - borne disease, despite a move by Congress to boost research into a vaccine.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.

According to Pew Foundation and other research into federal programs dating back six years now, about half of all that was promised was never used due to timeline stipulations and other controls placed on things by Congress.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Commending the Nigerian Army for responsively keying into the federal government policy of research, innovation and ensuring a politically stable nation, he said the present administration has given priority to research development through enactment of realistic policies that will re-position the armed forces towards attaining excellence.

The state is also pumping $ 10 million into research for the now - fledgling industry, State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball said, after the federal government in 2014 relaxed rules governing the growing of the crop.

By allowing states to regulate marijuana without federal interference, we can ensure better safety and control while allowing for greater research into its possible harms and benefits.

Holt also wrote an editorial in Science on 17 November addressing the uncertainty of federal support for scientific research under the new administration and advocating for better integration of science into policymaking.

«Depending on whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, passage of the Scientific Research in the National Interest Act (HR 3293) is either a simple reminder that federal dollars should be spent wisely, or an unwise and unwarranted intrusion into NSF's grantsmaking process.»

Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a spending panel that shapes the budgets of several federal research agencies.

Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, wrote to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on 6 March saying that he is looking into how Hughes «violated a ban on federal funding of human embryo research.»

But new federal spending initiatives, such as the Canada Research Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life into scientific research inResearch Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life into scientific research inresearch in Canada.

Under federal regulations, universities and research institutions are required to look into every misconduct allegation that comes to them, regardless of how substantial (or insubstantial) it seems at first glance and regardless of where the allegation comes from.

Under President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal, federal research spending into all three areas — and many others — would decline abruptly.

Compared with other leading causes of death, research into gun violence is among the least funded, an analysis of U.S. mortality data and federal funding from 2004 to 2015 reveals.

Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research had been backed by federal funds for more than a decade, but a surprise August injunction by a federal judge threw the field's future into question.

Maloney's announcement about the bill, co-sponsored by an array of congressional representatives, said it would «release federal agencies from the restrictions placed on them in 1996 that have prohibited these agencies from conducting high - quality, peer - reviewed research into gun violence prevention.»

Among the highly publicized events was a series of spectacular and potentially lethal slip - ups involving such gold - standard federal research establishments as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration, and a hearing looking into those agencies» safety shortcomings by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Along with its sister institute, the EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) is a true heavyweight when it comes to translating scientific research into novel business ideas.

Outraged that reality was not falling into line with presuppositions, then representative Jay Dickey of Arkansas added language to federal law in 1996 that barred the CDC from conducting research that might be used «to advocate or promote gun control.»

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

Along with Paul Anastas, the co-founder of green chemistry and now the assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Research and Development, he helped create a federal awards program that brought the field into the mainstream.

A federal investigation into animal research labs at the University of Utah has flagged several infractions, but concludes that overall the labs are «in good order.»

The real action likely will be with countries such as China that are pumping money into projects with federal dollars, said Joe Ralko of IPAC - C02, a Canadian - based research organization.

(Recent examples include the Federal University of Para and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro which have done important research into mercury pollution.)

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

All federal spending on research and development (about $ 140 billion in 2015) fits into the relatively small «discretionary spending» portion of the federal budget.

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

In the piece Zuber and Holt wrote, «Federal agencies, with bipartisan support, are the primary investor of cutting - edge basic research that fuels industry's ability to harness that knowledge into innovative products and business.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

January 18, 2016 Comer Children's doctor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin call for federal research funding into gun violence A University of Chicago Medicine physician Catherine Humikowski joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D - Ill., at a press conference Jan. 14 as he continued to push for federal funding for research into the causes and implications of gun violence.

The researchers published the results of the project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in the specialist journal Plant Biology under the title «Functional characterisation and cell specificity of BvSUT1, the transporter that loads sucrose into the phloem of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) source leaves «(doi: 10.1111 / plb.12546).

He said increasing federal research dollars to fight the disease «is both going to be certainly one of my priorities, but I also think it will be National Institutes of Health's priority as we move into the coming years.

Congress has yet to cut off federal payments to Planned Parenthood (payments that only cover non-abortion services), but the controversy over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has made its way into congressional negotiations over the federal budget.

The federal, Ontario and Quebec governments say they will spend $ 200 million to help fund research into 5G wireless technology, the next - generation networks with download speeds 100 times faster than current ones can handle.

He has been a member of various federal research panels, served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for DOE on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels.

Federal officials are proposing to end a moratorium on funding for research that involves transplanting human stem cells into animal embryos, a controversial practice that produces organisms know as «chimeras.»