Sentences with phrase «for executive branch»

The remarks are notable given that the OMB, which is headed by Congressional Blockchain Caucus co-founder Mick Mulvaney, is responsible for carrying out the president's vision for the executive branch of government — a core tenet of which is streamlining bureaucracy and improving responsiveness to citizens through technology.
While it is for the executive branch to decide what information is classified, the guide concludes, it is for the judiciary «to protect the rights of parties in civil and criminal cases while keeping government secrets.»
It galvanized Congress in opposition to the president's budget priorities and solidified bipartisan coalitions in support of specific programs and agencies, proving once again that bullying Congress on funding is not an effective strategy for the executive branch to take.
As Clean Air Watch president Frank O'Donnell explained to E&E News, instead of serving as a «shield for the executive branch,» as it does under current chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.)
But that hasn't been a problem lately for the executive branch when it finds more wrongs to right.
Cuomo also said in November 2016, «I will also appoint a Chief Procurement Officer for the Executive branch.
One of Mr. Perdue's first acts after he was sworn in as governor in January 2003 was to sign an executive order establishing a new code of ethics for executive branch employees.
Secondly, the idea that exercising a check on the budget for the executive branch absolves the executive himself from responsibility including legal responsibility for his actions here is SHEER NONSENSE to which I can say «tell it to the judge!!»
But I've always believed during my tenure, when I was in this house for 13 years, that this is an opportunity for the executive branch to share the vision of the county to the legislative branch.
They included putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.
Executive orders only have force of law for executive branch agencies or other situations in which Congress has given executive orders legal significance by statute (and even that may not be quite constitutional).
Bomboy points to the Constitution's «Advice and Consent» clause, which grants the president power to hire people to work for the executive branch, with congressional approval.
Cuomo's budget proposal includes some $ 2.4 billion in so - called «lump sums» for the executive branch, $ 902 million for the Senate and $ 775 million for the Assembly, Citizens Union said Thursday.
The White House has issued more than a dozen ethics waivers to administration aides, allowing them to work on issues they dealt with before they started working for the executive branch.
Cuomo also said he will appoint a «Chief Procurement Officer for the Executive branch
Given that this is a constitutional mandate, this makes ensuring that the validity of the debt (i.e. whether or not it will be repaid) the top priority for the executive branch.
But since neither this source nor I currently work for the executive branch, the exchange is not subject to the purge policy.
The Brennan / Golden bill would make it slightly harder for the executive branch to raid transit funds.
«I was shocked to not see a lot of the recommendations for the executive branch in the agreement,» Skelos said.
A November report from the reform group Reinvent Albany listed 11 measures Cuomo could take by executive order to make the state government more accountable, including putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.
Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».
Speaking to reporters in Buffalo today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said an ethics overhaul for the executive branch, which Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos suggested to Liz yesterday, isn't necessary.
They seem so pleased with their heady humor, and completely unwilling to consider that the image on the cover will be spread far and wide beyond their usual readership, and their briliant social commentary has consequences in the contest for the Executive branch.
The «Affordable Care Act» is a «Social Doctrine» waver for the Executive Branch to mandate upon the American people conduct and economy.
The president acknowledged that the federal government's IT infrastructure is outdated, and called for executive branch agencies to move some services to the cloud.
That pushes the real budget showdown into 2012, an election year not only for the executive branch but for a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

Not exact matches

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.
Leroux overhauled the whole organizational structure at Desjardins so that, for example, females would make up at least 30 % of the talent pool at all levels of the company — from executive to branch.
As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription drug crisis are beginning to target the pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive drugs.
For example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignoreFor example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignorefor three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignored).
Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida - based branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said his group would by the end of this week file a request for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice to review Todashev's death.
Shortly before his inauguration, The Washington Post noted several additional ways employees in Trump's executive branch could do so: Trademark disputes, for instance, will be adjudicated by judges appointed by his Commerce secretary, while the EPA could roll back environmental regulations that reduce profits at his golf courses.
He previously was the head of the firm's London branch and U.K. country executive for the parent bank.
«Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization.
Reforming the taxation of international businesses has been a priority for U.S. politicians, and key members of the legislative and executive branches have proposed a wide variety of potential changes.
In 2017, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, but unified GOP control of the legislative and executive branches didn't lead to a burst of lawmaking.
There has been a statement issued by the Russian government's executive branch which pledges their support for a bill that has the goal of implementing regulations on the ICO market.
Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.
The transition from monetary policy to fiscal policy has begun in the U.S., and the baton has now been passed to the executive and legislative branches of government, which are responsible for enacting policies that can carry growth further.
The times prsonal views should not affect public policy is when A) It's illegal; B) It is for purely religiou reasons; C) It oversteps the power granted to the executive branch.
Actually anyone who administers laws including legislators give a choice and those who enforce those laws like under the executive branch would make you suffer for breaking those laws.
For our part, we, the people, will do well to remember that every constitutional restraint, textual or judge - made, on the powers of the legislative and executive branches is ipso facto and necessarily a transfer of power to the Court and the courts.
Marsha is the executive director of the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy: Research, Education, and Legal Branch (NABA REAL).
If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»
As described in the letter, the proposal from Cuomo provides more detail to what the governor has publicly called for in recent weeks, namely the creation of a «chief procurement officer» to oversee state contracting within the executive branch.
The legislative pay panel is expected to make its decision on salary increases for lawmakers as well as officials in the executive branch after Election Day this year.
Skelos told Capital Tonight that he is considering the introduction of ethics guidelines for the governor's office and executive branch.
For example, adding $ 1 - 2 to the cost of every copyright application to fund these programs would be content neutral and appropriate, and would have the added benefit of funding it out of the legislative branch (the copyright registrar operates out of the Library of Congress), rather than the executive branch.
Anyone working in the executive branch of the government (with the possible exception of Vice President and any special prosecutors) work directly for the President because that is what the Constitution makes them.
Now, with Percoco under the microscope, lawmakers may call for ethics measures that impact the executive branch — a maneuver we've seen before from Senate Republicans.
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