Sentences with phrase «fighting federal efforts»

Today, he reiterated his commitment to «keeping families together» — fighting federal efforts to deport undocumented immigrants unless the individuals have committed violent crimes — and asserted foreign - born business owners are «fueling our economy.»

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Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight opioid abuse more difficult.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.»

For a while there, it looked like Netflix was on its own in fighting the Federal Communications Commission's bone - headed and double - speaking effort at institutionalizing «net neutrality» rules, but on Wednesday the floodgates burst open.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

Couple that rising pressure with hard - fought efforts to maintain compliance with the federal government's Affordable Care Act, and some employers have chosen to waive benefits, placing more responsibility onto their employees, who pay more both in premiums and out - of - pocket costs.

GLEED, Wash. — Potato growers are fighting back against efforts to ban or limit potatoes in federal child nutrition programs, arguing the tuber is loaded with potassium and vitamin C and shouldn't be considered junk food.

As a supporter of Planned Parenthood, Doran said she will fight against federal efforts to limit women's access to health care.

This year, in a speech that included applause for Cuomo's criminal justice reform efforts such as strengthening state oversight of jail and his plan to fight the federal government on the tax law, Cuomo sought to give shootouts to individual members of the Legislature and praise Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as well as DiNapoli.

Convicted ex-State Senator John Sampson looks to be heading for prison after a federal appeals court denied his last - ditch effort to avoid prison while fighting his case.

The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.

Environmental groups that vowed to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's plans to curb global warming made good on their promise, teaming up with an American Indian tribe to ask a federal court to block an order that lifts restrictions on coal sales from federal lands.

Human Rights Organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project had called on the federal government to boost its efforts in fighting for Nigerians on death row in foreign countries.

Unidentified supporters set up a «Skelos Family Legal Defense Fund» in an effort to fight off federal corruption charges against the lawmaker and his son, Adam.

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New York City now has over $ 5 billion in overall reserves — the highest amount ever — but it is not enough to cover the more than $ 7 billion in federal aid that the city relies on to fight terrorism, provide affordable housing and fund the NYPD's anti-terrorism efforts.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that the Federal Government's efforts in fighting corruption and deepening good governance in the nation were being applauded worldwide.

The report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology was released on September 18 in conjunction with a new executive order that directs certain federal agencies to amp up their efforts to combat antibiotic resistance and a new national strategy to fight resistant bacteria.

NEW ORLEANS — Vice President Biden called on the nation's leading cancer researchers to accelerate progress in the fight against the disease by sharply boosting collaborations and data sharing and by giving him advice on how to make the federal government a forceful ally in the anti-cancer effort.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

That's the scenario that the California State Board of Education has been bracing for and why the Brown administration has so vigorously fought off efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to use the results for federal accountability purposes.

And so, brushing right past the fact that Common Core was created by states rather than the federal government and does not impose specific texts or lesson plans, Jindal vowed to fight any efforts to impose a «national curriculum.»

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

These fights matter because states are the battlegrounds from which reform efforts, especially at the federal level, are ultimately won or lost.

Maryland Hunger Solutions leads advocacy and public policy efforts in Maryland in support of efforts to fight hunger by strengthening the federal nutrition programs.

The former governor said the legal effort was about fighting the encroachment of the federal government on states» rights.

Bezos has fought that effort, saying that only federal legislation can overrule a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 1992 that retailers with no physical presence in a state should not have to pay sales tax there.

Watchdog agencies announce debt collection crackdown — Federal and state regulators announced a coordinated effort to fight a growing tide of debt collection abuses... (more)

While much progress has been made among the industry's manufacturers and distributors, it seems that retailers are often underrepresented in efforts to present a unified voice for the industry — for example, in fighting harmful legislation and regulatory action at the local, state and federal level.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

More importantly, the Midwest, in forming their own coalition similar to those in the east and west, puts further pressure on the federal government to match the states» efforts to fight global warming and develop domestic clean technologies.

For several years, Berman fought efforts by the voter registration / community organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal levels.

Friends of the Earth's nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new reactors that use federal funds to underwrite such initiatives.

East Orange is funding its pre-crime efforts with federal grant money that has also permitted it to add other crime - fighting technology such as squad cars that automatically scan the license plates of all passing cars and cross-check the plates against databases of people on terrorist monitor lists, or with unpaid parking tickets or outstanding warrants.

October 7, 2016 — «Criminal justice agencies across Michigan will receive more than $ 6 million in federal grants to strengthen anti-drug and crime fighting efforts, Gov. Rick Snyder announced today.

We fight for these policies on both a city and state level, as well as federal legislative efforts that affect our communities.