Sentences with phrase «long federal effort»
It also set into motion a decades - long federal effort to better understand highway safety.
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And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.
Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.
A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement — another setback for the president in what is shaping up to be a long season of litigation surrounding the clash between the White House and so - called sanctuary cities.
Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.
Meanwhile FEMA Adminstrator Brock Long named Justo Hernández as the Federal Coordinating Officer to lead the recovery effort for Hurricane Irma in the affected areas.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria) has announced a federal grant of $ 552,000 for volunteer mentoring and tutoring in an effort to increase attendance and graduation rates in Long Island City schools.
The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, and the state official, Alain Kaloyeros, were the culmination of a long - running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's efforts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York's limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany.
«At these visits, the Vice President will lead high - level delegations of the Federal Government that will interact with leaders and representatives of the oil - producing communities in continuation of ongoing outreach efforts of the Buhari administration towards a long lasting and permanent resolution of the Niger Delta crisis.
He also charged the federal government through the minister to intensify efforts at rehabilitating the Ilie - Ikirun - Iragbiji Road, stressing that it will be a major break as it will go a long way in Opening a lot of agricultural communities in the area.
As released by the attorney general's civil rights bureau, the policies outline the limits local law enforcement can participate in federal immigrant enforcement efforts, including refusing to enact non-judicial warrants in civil cases, denying requests by federal officials in holding people longer than 48 hours and limits on the access Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border protection officers can have with those currently in custoy.
The filing is a big haul for a mayor who has spent the last six months, and longer, under the cloud of state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts, and who had pledged this spring to follow the example set by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised the majority of his presidential campaign's funds from donors giving small amounts.
After year - long investigations into a potential pay - to - play scheme involving his definition political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for State Senate Democrats by now - former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — eventually taken over by acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the pair decided not to bring federal charges against de Blasio or his aides.
I commend all those involved with this project and the ongoing effort within our State and at the Federal level to invest in New York's long term future with high speed rail.»
Improving commutes through Penn Station will require a sustained years - long effort with the Governors of both New York and New Jersey working together as well as federal funding.
Long Island Congressman Peter King had previously been the only Republican to join New York Democrats in demanding the federal government pay for local efforts to shield the president - elect and his properties.
Our $ 20 billion Gateway Partnership - a project long overdue - is now a reality - it is a coordinated effort among the federal government, New Jersey and New York.
Three federal lawmakers are urging Amtrak to better cooperate with the MTA's efforts to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal as part of its East Side Access project.
The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison.
Despite their comparatively modest share of federal R&D funding, colleges and universities have long played a key role in the nation's R&D effort.
The federal government and its partners must coordinate efforts to increase student interest in math and science long before they reach college age in order to boost the number of STEM graduates entering the workforce.
Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and two congressional representatives commending their efforts to end a long - standing federal freeze on gun violence research.
If passed into law, the federal budget for 2011 that lawmakers will vote on this week will harm key efforts in daily weather forecasting, search - and - rescue operations, and long - term weather prediction, says a top U.S. government official.
It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»
That is because California has often set standards more stringent than the federal government's — for example its decades - long efforts to rein in pollution from automobile exhaust, including being the first state to mandate catalytic converters in 1975.
Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.
Researchers looking to tap into the treasure troves of long - term student - achievement data that states and districts are starting to pile up say their efforts are increasingly running up against a decades - old federal law designed to protect student privacy.
In addition, we must emphasize that the Common Core has long been a state - led effort, and the federal government has had no role in the creation of these academic standards.
President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.
But in an effort to rectify long - standing inequalities, federal involvement expanded slowly during the second half of the twentieth century, culminating in 2001 with the bipartisan passage of NCLB.
Would expansive federal action on school choice constitute a rare and hard - earned opportunity for proponents, or would it threaten to federalize and politicize what has long been a remarkable bottom - up effort?
Another long - running testing effort is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a project of the federal Education Department.
The proposed cuts in long - standing programs — and the simultaneous new investment in alternatives to traditional public schools — are a sign of the Trump administration's belief that federal efforts to improve education have failed.
An even greater possibility for reform lies in the move by the Obama administration to allow American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, which have long complained about being left out of these efforts, to participate in Race to the Top so long as they operate schools under the purview of the federal Bureau of Indian Education or through their tribal education department in partnership with districts.
And her repeated attacks on the federal government have laid the groundwork for potential future efforts to abolish the Education Department, a long - cherished goal of many conservatives.
The four - year - old guidance, a keystone of federal efforts to spur school discipline reform, has long been the bete noir of so - called conservative reformers everywhere.
WHEREAS, the ESEA Discussion Draft repeals the long - standing Title I Maintenance of Effort (MOE) and the Title IX General Provisions MOE requirement, and without them, state and local education funding could be lowered by states with no consequences to the state's ongoing receipt of federal aid; and
At the federal level, the Department of Education could promote the use of ESSA funding for expanded school schedules, encouraging high - poverty schools to use funds from Title I, Part A to pay for longer school days as part of a larger effort to boost student achievement.
Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.
With new federal guidance allowing rural schools to replace one requirement of the federal models — as long as that modification meets the original intent and purpose of the grant — states may want to explore improving rural school leadership through efforts similar to those of NW RISE.
NHTSA is establishing a long - term coordinated effort across industry, academia, non-governmental organizations, Federal and State governments to eliminate the estimated 6,000 yearly drowsy driving - related motor vehicle crash fatalities and the more than 500,000 injury crashes.
After lowering short term interest rates to near zero in 2008, the Federal Reserve said at its March meeting that it would buy up to $ 300 billion in longer - term Treasury securities over six months as part of its efforts to increase the money supply and ease the credit crunch of the past two years.
President Bush signed federal legislation mandating a decades - long shift toward more efficient vehicles, and rejected states» separate efforts to set stricter, quicker standards on their own.]
Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.
President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American efforts to shrink our carbon footprint.
The endangered Steller sea lions, while still victims from large - scale, intensive trawl fishing, are no longer victim to a hostile effort from Stevens to suspend federal environmental laws for the sake of industrial fishing special interests.
It was initiated because the ERA impedes efforts by lawyers in the federal public service to address long existing concerns about salary.
A pretty large volume of the entire U.S. Court of Appeals docket involves sentencing decisions where guilt is not disputed, and surely panel sentencing in cases with potentially long sentences would reduce that and might even be money saving for the federal judicial branch as a whole despite the extra effort invested at the trial court level, in addition to furthering justice by balancing out extreme stances.
Washington Hospital Center, Recruitment & Employment, Human Resources February 2003 January 2005 Provided direct support for recruitment in a 6,000 employee healthcare organization that include recruitment efforts Processed over 100 new hires on a monthly basis that include assigning employee numbers, scheduling pre-employment physicals, background and reference checks, verification of education and credentials / licensures Ensured that the employment process is in compliance with hospital philosophy, policies and procedures and Federal and District of Columbia laws and coordinates and facilitates new hire orientation Recruit candidates for various department positions and ensure that the application process meets standards Duties included maintaining long - term customer relationships and act as primary liaison between employees and outside vendors Verified identification and the authorization to work in the United States for new employees, requisition employees, and rehires Screened resumes and applications and conduct preliminary interviews for entry - level and nursing positions to identify qualified applicants Generated monthly queries for management review; administer HR tracking system for new hires and terminations Coordinated and participate in job fairs / open houses and maintain calendar for upcoming events
Following a period of uncertainty and frustration in Indigenous tobacco control, there's hope that recent myth - busting research and signs of some long - awaited Federal Government commitment will inject new momentum into efforts to further reduce smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.