Sentences with phrase «in federal bureaucracy»

President Woodrow Wilson demonstrated this during his tenure in the early 20th century, when he worked to remove blacks from important civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt would deny jobs to black workers (at the behest of labor unions) with the passage of the Davis - Bacon Act two decades later.
He also brings considerable managerial talent which is deeply needed in the federal bureaucracy.
They also take a dim view of the idea of giving Washington a bigger role in an area that constitutionally is the province of state and local government, as well as any proposed growth in the federal bureaucracy.
You'd be hard pressed to find any national security issues involved in releasing any of the names in the memo, unless you want to count exposing corruption in the federal bureaucracy a national security issue that needs to be kept a secret.
This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

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Budget cuts, in other words, take a long time to work their way through the federal bureaucracy and into the real economy.
McDonald has overseen a turnaround evident in dramatically improved consumer - satisfaction marks — proof, he says, that the federal government's second largest bureaucracy can and should be run like a business.
A compassionate - conservative approach to governing would result in a different and smaller federal role — using free - market ideas to strengthen families and communities, rather than constructing centralized bureaucracies.
A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.
He is presiding over a vast federal bureaucracy, with majorities in Congress and across most state governments.
It is also illustrated in the long list of matters dedicated to the federal government in the exclusive legislative list and in the revenue allocation formula which gives 52 % of national revenue to an incompetent and remote federal government, which in effect operates as a feudal bureaucracy with an «emperor», «sheik» or «king» at its head!
Trump is planning to overhaul US federal bureaucracy by creating a new division headed up by his son - in - law Jared Kushner.
It grew to the current bureaucracy in several stages throughout history in order to help the president enforce laws and maintain prisons for the punishment of federal laws.
Maffei said that casework has resulted in the return of almost $ 6 million in money owed by the federal government to Central New Yorkers who asked for his help navigating the bureaucracy.
In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.
In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.
In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.
That doctrine, he wrote, permits «executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers» design.
Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»
A review of who is paying state education agency (SEA) salaries suggests that many employees within these bureaucracies have competing priorities — and may have to spend more time meeting federal requirements than serving the students in their states.
As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.
Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.
The Federal bureaucracy has grown through the ages in spite of good intentions to restrain it.
Inhofe considers one of his unique qualifications for office to be the 30 years he's spent in the business community, where he grew tired of being over-regulated by the federal bureaucracy.
It just takes putting accomplished scientists in charge — who understand both science and the federal bureaucracy.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in May proposed creating an additional layer of federal bureaucracy to hydraulic fracturing regulation, even though states have regulated the drilling practice successfully for years without a single confirmed instance of groundwater contamination.
With the help of federal bureaucrats willing to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy — by surrendering regulatory power to the marketplace — emissions trading would become one of the most spectacular success stories in the history of the green movement.
Even before the election, according to one former employee, Cambridge employees attended sessions about soliciting government business in the United States — where Mr. Trump now oversees the federal bureaucracy and Mr. Bannon is arguably the White House's most powerful staff member.
In contrast, when the BIA and the Indian Health Service provide direct services or manage Self - Determination grants or contracts, the program design and funding level decisions are made by the Federal bureaucracy.
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