Sentences with phrase «for federal investment»

One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative fuels and advanced automobile technology.

Currently in Step 2, CSE, SoCalGas and PG&E are compensating large - scale energy storage projects at $ 0.40 per Wh for projects that have not qualified for the federal investment tax credit (ITC), or at $ 0.29 / Wh for those that have.

«I will continue to work for a federal investment to support the innovation that has the power to save lives, create prosperity and protect the homeland.»

I will continue to fight for a federal investment in these policy recommendations.»

Since its release, Chairwoman Mikulski has fought for a federal investment to implement the recommendations.

The President's FY 1999 budget request would provide $ 77.7 billion for the federal investment in R&D, an increase of 2.2 percent or $ 1.7 billion above the current FY 1998 estimate (see Table 1).

As Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, I will continue fighting hard for federal investments in projects like the New NY Bridge that bring jobs and economic growth to the Lower Hudson Valley.»

Chairwoman Mikulski has been fighting for federal investments that will strengthen America's innovation economy for the past several years.

Not exact matches

«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.

Federal employees such as Kushner are required to disclose artwork if it is held for investment purposes and is worth more than $ 1,000, according to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

In a February address to Congress, Trump called for a $ 200 billion federal investment intended to spur at least $ 1.5 trillion in spending from state and local governments over 10 years on roads, bridges, ports and other projects.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

Dunderdale said the federal government would cover $ 280 million of the investment for research and marketing, while the province will kick in the rest.

In addition to tax reforms to help pay for the measure, she'd develop a national infrastructure bank to help shore up private investment in federal projects.

For instance, last fall his council urged the federal government to ante up $ 40 billion for the CIB, in hopes of luring four times that much in private investment for infrastructure projects like toll bridges and highways, ports and power transmission networFor instance, last fall his council urged the federal government to ante up $ 40 billion for the CIB, in hopes of luring four times that much in private investment for infrastructure projects like toll bridges and highways, ports and power transmission networfor the CIB, in hopes of luring four times that much in private investment for infrastructure projects like toll bridges and highways, ports and power transmission networfor infrastructure projects like toll bridges and highways, ports and power transmission networks.

«But, because the business is so highly regulated on a state level and the threat of federal as well as state prosecution for violation remains, potential investors will want to take a long, hard look at the operations and the people involved in any investment opportunity.»

British Columbia has one and we hoped one would be put in place on a federal level, helping angel investors of early stage companies to get a credit for that investment, but it wasn't mentioned in the budget.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Federal minister of employment and social development Jason Kenney has declared his admiration for Germany's co-op system and made noises about emulating it here, but there has been no action or investment yet to accompany his endorsement.

It is not clear what percentage of metal held in Henry Bath was owned by JPMorgan's traders, but it was high enough to alarm the Federal Reserve and to make it difficult for JPMorgan to classify the asset as a strictly passive investment.

My plan would make significant investments in reentry programs for those formally incarcerated and I will ban the box in the federal government.

I'm a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investments to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

Back in 1986, the federal government introduced the Immigrant Investor Program, which offered permanent residency in exchange for a three - year investment of $ 150,000.

«For a very small investment in EDC, the federal government got a huge payback.»

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

«What the market may be reflecting is the possibility that the [Federal Reserve] could still be on the table for this year,» said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.

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.

There are several reasons for the recent volatility, says E. B. Tucker, an analyst at Baltimore's Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, but the main culprit is the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program.

Prominent Republican lawmakers are already coming out against raising the federal gas tax to pay for the president's promised $ 1 trillion investment in infrastructure.

He incurred a comparatively measly fine of $ 656,000 from the Federal Trade Commission in October for failing to properly report his investments in the company.

Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

In a report likely to jolt the red - hot market for so - called «Initial Coin Offerings» (ICOs), the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday found that the «coins» in one prominent ICO were in fact securities — meaning the transactions fell afoul of federal investment laws.

We've already made modest progress: in February, Canada and China signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, which the federal government claims will make doing business in China safer and more predictable for Canadians.

Created in 1997 with support from the federal government and Alberta, AVAC Ltd. is a venture capital investor that provides investment funding for research and commercialization for Alberta - based companies in the areas of agriculture, renewable resources, and industrial technology.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

«The fact that we have a patchwork of provincial policies and haven't had new federal policy support for renewable power caught up to Canada last year, with investment dropping 46 per cent.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to the federal budget released Wednesday: «We're pleased that the new federal budget makes smart investments for clean energy and climate action in Canada.

«We're pleased that the new federal budget makes smart investments for clean energy and climate action in Canada.

At the same time, we faced a progressive tax system where we had to pay a 39.6 % Federal tax rate plus a 3.8 % Net Investment Income tax plus a 0.9 % Medicare tax plus an Alternative Minimum tax plus a 13 % State tax plus Social Security tax plus Sales tax plus retroactive State taxes to pay for government overspending.

Moreover, the Investor and Entrepreneur immigration programs operated by the Federal or Quebec governments offer excellent opportunities for obtaining Canadian permanent resident status through investment or entrepreneurship.

As was documented by The American Prospect in April, the Trump Organization has repeatedly benefited from federal funding; for example, Trump owns part of a low - income housing development in Brooklyn that has received numerous grants from HUD (and that the president once called «one of the best investments I ever made»).

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

Assumes cost basis of $ 5,000, that the investment has been held for more than a year, and that all realized gains are subject to a 20 % federal long - term capital gains tax rate.

A federal district court judge has found that claims against Intel Corporation's Investment Policy Committee for its retirement plans is time - barred under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA)'s three - year statute of limitations.

In summary, the likely results of sales - tax harmonization would be: huge savings for business, mostly unrelated to productivity - enhancing investment; slightly higher consumer prices;  lower provincial revenues; and $ 5 billion less for important federal programs.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

Aaron Brickman, senior vice president for strategy and development at the Organization for International Investment (OFII), a nonprofit trade association, also founded SelectUSA, a federal program to promote foreign direct investment Investment (OFII), a nonprofit trade association, also founded SelectUSA, a federal program to promote foreign direct investment investment in the US.

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Investments in 529s can grow tax deferred; withdrawals are exempt from federal and state income taxes — provided you use the funds for qualified expenses.

This example doesn't reflect the 10 % federal penalty tax on earnings for withdrawals before age 59 1/2 or the fees and charges that would reduce the investment performance shown.