Sentences with phrase «from federal control»

With the obvious exception of Southern California, it is remarkable how the worst of the drought impacts seem to be upon states of the old South, plus a few from the «New West» that have a recent history of actively distancing themselves from Federal control.

Alabama's Consolidated State Plan should acknowledge Alabama's protection from federal control restored under ESSA, and reflect this statutory return of power to Alabama's education authorities throughout our Plan.

Senator Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is chairman of the Education Committee, said the bill would usher in a new period of experimentation in schools as communities are released from federal control.

Opinion has shifted modestly away from federal control toward local control over the past two years.

In short, opinion has shifted modestly away from federal control toward local control over the past two years.

The bill seeks to remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act and resolve the existing conflict between federal and state laws over medical or recreational use of the drug.

Not exact matches

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

A VimpelCom subsidiary helped fund Wind Mobile's entry into Canada's wireless industry about five years ago but the federal government blocked the European telecom company from acquiring full control last year.

Nevertheless, recent successes by Kurdish peshmerga and federal forces controlled by Baghdad point to a reversal of the jihadist group's offensive in Iraq, likely leading to its containment and eventual eviction from Mosul, Falluja, and Tikrit.

But Trump's assertion that the federal government must start a bidding process for drugs in order to control prices and spending could very well invite similar criticisms from political opponents and the well - funded drug industry.

The White House has billed this «infrastructure week» and planned a series of events, beginning with a push by the president Monday to privatize the nation's air traffic control system and separate it from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit over gun control legislation Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed, saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising the age to buy guns from 18 to 21.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

Some of the data in the figure comes from DR's table 1 showing the number of basis points (hundredths of a percent, so 100 bps is one percentage point) that the Fed has reduced the main tool it controls — the Federal funds rate — over a number of recessions.

The lawsuit has high stakes for both gun companies and gun - control advocates because it is testing a novel strategy to find a route around the broad protections granted by federal law that shield the companies from litigation if their product is used to commit a crime.

Regardless of any Federal Communication Commission justification, the rollback of net neutrality creates a dangerous paradigm where the legal barrier that kept ISPs from controlling content through the speed of its delivery is removed.

But new federal rules for protecting data and privacy appear unlikely from the Trump administration and GOP - controlled Congress.

Money manager United Income analyzed data from sources, including the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Centers for Disease Control, to examine the changing the lives of American retirees.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.

The federal income, FICA and state income taxes withheld from your paycheck are mostly beyond your control in the sense that you are obligated to pay them.

Senate Bill 50 exempted industrial hemp from the state controlled substances act but also mandated that Kentucky follow all federal rules and regulations with respect to industrial hemp.

Or, in Traversian: «The trend line from Pierre Trudeau to Stephen Harper has been steady: Influence over the amorphous, frustratingly horizontal federal machinery concentrates power in the Prime Minister's Office where issues that matter are managed with command - and - control authority.»

It also seems at odds with the federal government's strategy on cloud computing — the purchase of digital storage from third parties — that says all «sensitive or protected data under government control will be stored on servers that reside in Canada.»

Ambrose said emulating the process that saw the federal Conservative party come together from the federal PCs and the Canadian Alliance is a necessity on the provincial level to defeat Premier Rachel Notley's government, which she castigated for raising taxes and not controlling spending.

The pastures are located in Weyburn, Foam Lake, Watrous, Swift Current, Rosetown and North Batteford and will be shed from the federal government's control by late 2013.

Ontario - headquartered ABcann Global Corp.'s wholly owned subsidiary, ABcann Australia Pty. Ltd., has received an import licence from the Federal Office of Drug Control in Australia.

Specific policies include opting out of the Canada Employment Insurance Program and replacing it with an Alberta Employment Insurance Program; withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan and creating an Alberta Pension Plan; assuming provincial control over national parks in Alberta; and asserting provincial (as opposed to federal) control over immigration.

A survey released Tuesday from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that among Catholics who have heard about the issue, 55 % support giving religious institutions that object to birth control an exemption from the federal contraceptive rule, while 39 % oppose exempting those institutions.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Guttmacher is the only source for comprehensive abortion numbers throughout the country because the federal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn't collect the data from California, Maryland and New Hampshire.

Instead, we hear most forcefully and frequently from our bishops» conference and our dioceses regarding the federal budget, border policy, net neutrality, gun control, and the environment.

There are issues with finances (federal law considers marijuana a controlled substance, and therefore banks and credit unions won't accept deposits from these companies).

Real control has steadily centralized from the local level — to the state and Federal level.

Indeed, it's sometimes used when the states want to grant more rights than a proposed federal law (e.g. gun control legislation,) but also for federal regulations on everything from schools to roads to environment regulations to commerce regulations, etc..

De Blasio has angered Republicans in the Senate with his past support for a Democratic - led chamber and actively worked to flip control, which ultimately led to an investigation from federal and city prosecutors without charges.

Bernie Sanders and his delegates used their influence to insert the following sentence in the Democratic Platform: «we encourage the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of «Schedule 1 ″ federal controlled substances and to appropriately regulate it, providing a reasoned pathway for future legalization.»

MIDTOWN — As the federal investigation into his political fundraising activities continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio questioned the political motivations behind the leak of a letter from the State Board of Elections questioning the legality of his effort to raise money to help Democrats take control of the state Senate in 2014.

Gun Control: Gun control legislation should ultimately fall on individual states, with the exception of instant background checks to prevent firearms from finding their way into the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and a federal ban on assault wControl: Gun control legislation should ultimately fall on individual states, with the exception of instant background checks to prevent firearms from finding their way into the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and a federal ban on assault wcontrol legislation should ultimately fall on individual states, with the exception of instant background checks to prevent firearms from finding their way into the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and a federal ban on assault weapons.

The bill would prohibit states from creating or enforcing gun control laws that are stricter than federal laws.

The state of California, where Democrats control all branches of government, also is moving toward establishing sanctuary status, despite threats from Trump that the state would lose federal funding.

Last month, the Republican - controlled Senate passed highly technical legislation that would tweak the state's tax rules to separate it from the federal tax code.

Even though counsel is to some degree «independent» and free from Executive Branch supervision to a greater extent than other federal prosecutors, the Act gives the Executive Branch sufficient control over the independent counsel to ensure that the President is able to perform his constitutionally assigned duties.

One big issue who that almost always there will be some people who benefit from one situation and others who benefit from another and a federal control board is going to have winners and losers.

After working in New York politics in a variety of City Council and state legislative campaigns and on the staff of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rivera came on strong four years ago, defeating Democratic Senator Pedro Espada, long a target of criminal investigation and now serving a federal prison term for theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

He is also supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera — a reformer who ousted Bronx legend Pedro Espada, recently sentenced to federal prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he controlled ---- and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., the scion of another Bronx dynasty who parts ways with his infamous father on gay rights issues.

In federal court, legislative leaders do not get to control anything except maybe what soft drinks they want from vending machines.