Sentences with phrase «federal standards in»

Off - exchange plans, so called because they are not sold on government - run exchanges, must also cover the ten essential benefits and meet certain federal standards in order to be considered qualifying health coverage.

TTIP could «harmonize down» effective European chemical regulations so that they approach low federal standards in the U.S..

EPA Administrator Johnson denied California's request to a waiver to federal standards in order to implement its carbon dioxide pollution standard for vehicles.

«Air quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the ATS,» said ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

«We have federal standards in America for everything... except the one thing we value most, and that is our health.»

You have to make sure that they meet all of the safety guidelines and the federal standards in order to keep your baby safe for the first year or his or her life.

In - store labels on their products (Seafood should only be labeled organic if it meets the USDA organic standard in the US, or the Canadian federal standard in Canada).

Not exact matches

More than half of those surveyed say that Jones, a former federal prosecutor, has higher standards of personal moral conduct than Moore, who is facing multiple allegations that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward teenage girls while he was in his 30s.

Separately, the Federal Communications Commission in 2013 asked for comments on whether U.S. standards need to be updated to protect people from mobile - phone radiation, and it hasn't acted.

While the standard deduction on federal tax returns was nearly doubled to $ 12,000 for individuals, the average SALT deduction on federal returns for New Yorkers in 2015 was $ 22,000, according to the Tax Policy Center.

Standard and Poor's estimates the federal government's partial paralysis cost $ 24 billion, and consultancy IHS Global Insights said on Wednesday that the spike in short - term interest yields witnessed in the week of Oct. 14 alone will add $ 114 million to the federal debt.

In a federal trademark infringement case, for instance, a plaintiff seeking a quick injunction would encounter at the threshold the high hurdle of showing «irreparable harm» — a standard that won't be met if money damages will provide the plaintiff with adequate recompense for any damages incurred — and it might also have to post an expensive bond (a major hurdle for a nonprofit).

And that, in turn, would considerably delay an approval, especially if NAS recommends new rules — which might or might not be essentially the same as the 57 safety specifications above the federal standard to which TransCanada has already agreed.

In his dissent, Pai's main complaint was with what he saw as a double standard: He said that the order unfairly stuck ISPs with stricter rules than internet companies like Google, which are able to harvest and monetize personal data more freely under looser guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission.

Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

Law seeks to create a unified, federal breach - notification standard that would streamline the requirements for companies in the face of a breach.

Reducing fuel efficiency goals for vehicles March 16 Trump ordered a review of federal fuel - efficiency standards for vehicles, which Obama finalized in January, well ahead of schedule.

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

Just days before that group published its recommendations in June, the federal government announced plans to introduce mandatory standards within two years.

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

Each member of the Audit Committee shall meet the independence standards and expertise requirements of the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rules promulgated thereunder, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), and other applicable laws and regulations, in each case, as of the Firm's most recent annual meeting.

The Trade Agreement Act of 1979, Public Law 96 - 39 (July 26, 1979), prohibits Federal agencies from engaging in any standards or related activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.

The federal government is expected to release a draft framework of the Clean Fuel Standard in the months ahead, with plans to design the regulation in 2018.

For the time period in question, the federal funds rate was low (by historic standards), leading the Fed to dismiss the yield curve's «prediction» of recession.

10 The Firm calculates its Tier 1 capital ratio and risk - weighted assets in accordance with the capital adequacy standards for financial holding companies adopted by the Federal Reserve Board.

In addition, the Federal Reserve developed a term deposit facility to drain banks» reserve balances.14 This playbook of draining reserves back to reserve scarcity to support the transmission of interest on reserves into market rates is standard among central banks.

With the passage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in 1970, the Federal Government enacted standards to improve the quality of credit reporting.

In addition to federal employment taxes like FICA and FUTA also applying, independent contractors are subject to the same self - employment taxation standards.

In an era when the toy industry can pinpoint the overall value of all dolls sold domestically each year and the federal government tracks the number of trucks sold in any given month, data on gun sales is obscured by foggy reporting standards and loopholeIn an era when the toy industry can pinpoint the overall value of all dolls sold domestically each year and the federal government tracks the number of trucks sold in any given month, data on gun sales is obscured by foggy reporting standards and loopholein any given month, data on gun sales is obscured by foggy reporting standards and loopholes.

109 For most of the last century, enforcers reviewed vertical integration under the same standards as horizontal mergers, as set out in the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Crapo, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, emphasized that the Federal Reserve would still have the authority to apply tougher standards for banks with between $ 100 billion and $ 250 billion in assets.

The standard deduction in Nebraska matches the federal standard deduction.

In fact, to support virtual currency businesses, Coin Center strongly advocates for a federal licensing system for money transmitters rather than the state - by - state licensing that is currently standard.

«Because it is such a massive economy and so important, it has the power to create what becomes, in a way, a global standard,» former Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Bill Kovacic told me.

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It reduced the cap on borrowing subject to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) from $ 1 million to $ 750,000, and capped deductions for state and local taxes, including property taxes, at $ 10,000.1 These changes, in combination with a doubling of the standard deduction, mean that many homeowners will experience a loss of tax benefits associated with homeownership, and the changes represent a significant shift in the federal government's willingness to promote and subsidize homeownership.

States tend to allow fewer deductions and credits than the federal government does, but especially in states with state - level Earned Income Tax Credits, eliminating deductions and credits outright (perhaps except for a standard exemption, but even that could be hard to implement) would be a significant change, and potentially a tax hike on poor families.

(2) The prohibition in paragraph (u)(1) of this provision does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312 (Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement), Form 4414 (Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement), or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information.

On Friday, Apple filed a lawsuit in a San Diego federal court alleging that Qualcomm is charging too much for «standard essential» patents and is withholding nearly $ 1 billion in royalty cap «rebates» in retaliation for Apple's cooperation with anti-trust investigators in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.

Federal student loan borrowers are enrolled in the Standard Repayment Plan, which has a repayment term of 10 years.

That would be a relatively low level by historical standards; in the past two tightening cycles by the Fed, the federal funds rate peaked at around 6 per cent.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

For federal student loans, borrowers are automatically enrolled in a Standard Repayment Plan of 10 years.

The Canada Health Act is a case in point: the provinces deliver health programs, and the federal government provides resources and, to some degree, sets national standards.

He weighed in with a call for a federal «breach notification standard» to replace data notification laws that vary by state.

[fn.3] As a result, this taxpayer previously taking the standard deduction but now itemizing could donate $ 10,000 to the state infrastructure program and save at least $ 11,120 — $ 10,000 in state taxes and $ 1,120 in federal.

Take Sanders's statement and reverse it: This is not remotely standard operating procedure; the taking of medical records in this fashion arguably violated federal law.

In the middle of a showdown over the federal debt ceiling, Standard and Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time, from AAA to AA + with a negative outlook.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.