Sentences with phrase «further than the federal government»

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The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

The CPB accounts for far less than 1 % of the federal government's annual budget (it was allocated $ 445 million in 2016).

NDP MP Thomas Mulcair, who represents the Montreal riding of Outremont, further suggested that the federal government was stalling on finalizing the agreement, rather than including it in the budget, for political reasons.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

We are far better off than we were in 1995 when the federal government had a debt - to - GDP ratio of almost 70 per cent.

Altogether, these findings indicate that the federal government might be farther along the regulatory development curve than previously believed.

The federal government has paid more than $ 200 million to corporations through this mechanism so far and is facing active claims worth billions more,» said Blair Redlin, co-chair of the TJN.

The carbon tax has remained at $ 30 / t since 2012 and the previous Liberal government showed no inclination to increase it further other than to match the federal carbon price floor in 2021.

The complexity that federal loans bring to the relationship between private institutions and the government is such that the whole notion of a public accommodation is now potentially far more extensive than could have been imagined a generation or two ago.

The state currently provides more than $ 1 billion for the Tuition Assistance Program, and the federal government provides further assistance through Pell grants that also help students pay for other expenses, like books.

The governor said the federal government must provide more than the out - of - pocket expenses that the Federal Emergency Management Administration that has been provided for federal government must provide more than the out - of - pocket expenses that the Federal Emergency Management Administration that has been provided for Federal Emergency Management Administration that has been provided for so far.

«As we have said repeatedly throughout this process, New York is a net donor state, giving far more in tax dollars to the federal government than we receive,» she said.

Rather than adhere to the law, Andrew thought he was above it, going so far as to taunt the federal government by keeping the signs up, thinking they would never come take them down.

If you read the Constitution, the powers of the Federal Government are limited in the Articles and further limited by the 9th Amendment which basically says that the people have more rights than the constitution says, but they don't want to narrow the scope by listing it all.

When faced with the fact that the federal government — which has far more emails than New York — now has a seven year retention policy, the justification has changed.

Only last October the German federal government tightened up its Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) even further by decreeing that in future properties will have to consume even less energy than before.

«More than just getting the federal government out of the way so that states can legalize without DEA harassment, this new proposal goes even further by actually punishing states that have bad marijuana laws.

Many surveyed also say that, so far, the federal government's efforts to boost the economy and job market have done more harm than good.

Adherents of the Tenth Amendment are skeptical that the federal government, so far removed from the fundamental acts of teaching and learning, is well suited to write laws and regulations governing how one hundred thousand schools educate more than fifty million students.

This means that an employee who worked her way through a low - cost public college in order to minimize her borrowing would receive far less in benefits — both from her employer and the federal government — than a colleague who borrowed heavily to obtain an expensive undergraduate or graduate degree.

Last week's annual Gallup poll on education repeated a frequent finding: Comfortable majorities of Americans agree local school boards should have far more control over what schools teach than state or federal governments.

«Michael's extensive experience in federal policy and government management will further strengthen NSBA's relations with Congress and the White House on behalf of state school boards associations and the more than 90,000 school board members across the country.»

That federal funding shortfall, which has persisted over the past forty years (last year, the federal government only funded 15.7 percent of the excess cost of educating students with special needs, far short of the promised 40 percent), has been passed down to states and local school districts that are required to comply with strict federal requirements related to serving students with special needs — and must shoulder more than 80 percent of the cost of doing so.

Our ideal policy would go even further in this direction, but it's a good start: The federal government would maintain performance standards, but offer more ways for schools to meet them than the current regimen of tests.

For example, bonds issued by the federal government carry far less credit risk than those issued by a corporation with a troubled balanced sheet.

AIG (NYSE: AIG) has come a long way toward selling off noncore businesses and getting the federal government's stake in the company down to a manageable level, and despite big share sales from the Treasury, the stock has jumped more than 40 % so far this year.

While a state registry is far more likely to prevent past abusers from having access to animals than a local registry would be, our judgment is that a registry is best implemented by the federal government.

U.S. energy companies, for example, spend less than 1 percent of their revenue on research, and the federal government allocates just $ 5 billion per year, far less than Americans spend on cat food.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

She views federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna's public statement to her B.C. counterpart, George Heyman, proposing a panel on spills as nothing more than a «public - relations stunt,» further illustrating the approach taken by the Trudeau government on Kinder Morgan's $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Auditors General as far back as 1990 have pointed out that First Nations are required to do far more reporting (the major means of accountability) to the federal government than any local government is required to provide to funding branches of provincial governments.

She views federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna's public statement to her B.C. counterpart, George Heyman, proposing a panel on spills as nothing more than a «public - relations stunt,» further illustrating the approach taken by the Trudeau government on Kinder Morgan's $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

When Parliament repeals the prohibition against drug trafficking (at least with respect to pot) it may become a by - law issue — though, given that the federal government and the provinces continue to heavily regulate the sale of other substances such as cigarettes and alcohol, and if the sale of pot (other than for medicinal purposes) is ever legalized we should expect it to be heavily taxes, the notion that the sale of pot will ever only become a by - law issue seems far - fetched — but until it does it's simply wrong to say this is a by - law issue.

As the Native Title Report 2003 detailed, a common theme of state and federal native title policies as they currently exist is a preference for negotiation over litigation.180 This agreement - focus provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner groups to ensure that native title agreements respond as far as possible to the economic and social development needs of the native title claimant group rather than just the demands of the legal system.

Decisions were made to turn down dollars for both high speed rail — defined by the federal government as trains that move at 110 miles per hour or far slower than the California project and European trains — as well as money for higher speed rail, where trains move slower, but are still quicker than cars.