Sentences with phrase «make federal buildings»

The Public Buildings Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (S. 992) helps make federal buildings more energy efficient and cost effective, and includes $ 100 million dollars in EPA grants for local governments to make their buildings more energy efficient as well.

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a striking holiday missive last year: If you're thinking of buying an at - home DNA testing kit, make sure to consider the privacy implications: «Although most tests require just a swab of the cheek,» the agency wrote, «that tiny sample can disclose the biological building blocks of what makes you you.»

Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal funding for «sanctuary cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.

And he built on that concept on Thursday, announcing that his firm will bolster its patient assistance programs for more than 40 drugs, including by helping people who make up to four times the federal poverty level buy their treatments for free.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

Going green is typically associated with elevated costs, but federal tax incentives can actually make going green financially appealing for real estate developers and owners of private buildings.

During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C., in private jets to seek federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.

Well that brings to mind Bill Ayers who said he will never apologize for blowing up U.S. federal buildings and injuring people (along with HIS wife Bernadette Dohrn) Then, of course, Obama keeps talking about the «Holy Quran» and making ridicule of the Christian Bible..

WASHINGTON - October 1, 2008 — In response to the passage of Senate Bill 1492, which directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to build a public awareness campaign to promote online safety tactics to protect children on the Internet, while also setting up a working group on the issue, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), Stephen Balkam, made the following statement:

Also, not sure where you are, but at least in Minneapolis, you can make appointments for passport services at the federal building.

Despite New York City's status as a sanctuary city, federal agents can not be banned from public buildings and continue to make arrests despite outcry from local elected officials.

He knows the difference it makes to unite action at the local, state and federal levels, and why it is important to build strength among City Council members and other local elected officials.»

Three Vermont towns will get a total of $ 1.8 million from a federal grant to help replace municipal buildings made unusable by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

In July 2013 — three months after the expiration of the fiscal commitments to the Birches at Fishkill — DHCR Commissioner Towns issued a letter making what's called a «Commissioner Determination» granting the Birches at Schoharie both $ 960,000 in annual federal low - income housing credits and $ 716,000 in annual state low income housing credits for 10 years once it's built and operating.

After «design - build» legislation didn't make this year's state budget, AbTech suspended its $ 10,000 monthly payments to Adam Skelos, but had already paid him a total of $ 198,000 since late 2012, federal prosecutors said.

If the Supreme Court wasn't functional for an extended period then various different and contradictory decisions made by the appeals courts would build up and there would be different «laws of the land» in each federal judicial district.

Hundreds of high school students from across the five boroughs cut out early today to rally and march from Foley Square to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in the wet cold afternoon weather — a disruption they asserted President Donald Trump's administration has made necessary.

«The challenge is now to build on our result at grassroots level and begin to make ourselves known,» federal executive member Dr Tom Rogers said.

Making sure airports are as secure as possible was the focus of a congressional subcommittee hearing held at the federal building in Syracuse Monday.

Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott recently rejected $ 2 billion in federal funding to build an 85 - mile high speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando, arguing that cost overruns would likely leave Florida taxpayers making up billions of dollars for something they don't need.

«We're at a remarkable moment in biomedical research and its potential for making advances,» said Collins during a March 27 presentation on federal agency priorities on the opening day of the 42nd AAAS Science & Technology Policy Forum held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

The Administration has made no announcements about turning off or dimming lights at the White House, major federal buildings, monuments, or U.S. government facilities.

She identified development of national flood building and disaster resiliency standards as two examples that could «drive locals to make better decisions,» and noted the president just announced that all international development programs will have to undertake a climate risk assessment going forward to qualify for federal funds.

Using enrollment of thousands of people in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers that included Erez Yoeli, a researcher at the Federal Trade Commission, Moshe Hoffman, a visiting researcher at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), David Rand, formerly a post-doctoral fellow at PED (now a professor at Yale University), and PED Director Martin Nowak, showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable — through the use of sign - up sheets posted in apartment buildings — produced a three-fold increase in sign - ups.

In addition to charging its current customers $ 3.73 a month for the construction of this reactor until costs are recovered Southern received an $ 8.3 - billion loan guarantee from the federal government to help make up the cost difference compared with building a natural gas — fired turbine, for example.

Our casks and canisters are designed, built and licensed with abundant thermal, structural, radiological and nuclear safety margins that, combined with their configurations make them economically and expeditiously adaptable to federal needs.

Well first of months i have to welcome very one in this site, My name is Chika / Nikki 45 yrs old from Afica, as a matter of fact am very sorrious sport man later moved in to Education which i have my degree in Civil Engineer and make my master degree in Building techniloge in Federal University Nigeria...

Goodman's film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement of 1855 but stretching to the mischief - making of two of McVeigh's forefathers.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

Insiders say Boxer must also make sure quality and implementation issues don't undercut support for the federal after - school effort, as happened during the 1990s with equally popular initiatives to reduce class size and modernize school buildings.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

Like any federal grantee, Smarter Balanced must operate within the requirements of its federal grant; however, there is a great deal of latitude built into the grant for state decision - making.

But rather than threatening the funding that compensates for federal activity in local school districts, policymakers should build on efforts such as the Military Interstate Children's Compact Commission that seek to make school transitions for military families easier.

That's why I've introduced comprehensive legislation, the Trauma - Informed Care for Children and Families Act, to bring federal resources to help equip our teachers to recognize the signs of trauma, build this knowledge into their classroom and make the workforce investments to support our children.»

Lusher Charter School intensified its cries for basic building renovations and Sophie B. Wright supporters made a full - court press for a gym Tuesday night at the second town - hall meeting Uptown on the allocation of federal money for New Orleans schools.

Some states had already started down this path, broadening the measures they used to assess school quality in response to federal education policy changes made in 2011 through the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers.2 Building on this progress, ESSA requires all states to rethink their school classification systems in consultation with community members.

The proposal, from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Tom Wheeler, provides the most sweeping upgrades since the program's inception and builds on decisions made earlier this year to increase program transparency and streamline the application process.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is encouraging projects to make the Build America Bureau their first stop when thinking about accessing federal credit programs, or if they are interested in pursuing other innovative finance strategies a public private partnership.

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

«To achieve the President's vision of an America that's built to last, we'll continue to support local decision making about the best ways to bring more transit to communities nationwide,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.

Dell has stated the built - in security features make the tablet comply with the Sarbanes - Oxley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Federal information Processing Standard (FIPS).

But by claiming a tax break known as the Saver's Credit, singles and heads of households who contribute to a 401 (k), IRA (traditional or Roth) or similar retirement account may qualify for a tax credit of as much as $ 1,000, while married couples filing jointly may be able to snag a credit of up to $ 2,000, in effect making the federal government a partner in building your retirement nest egg.

By borrowing from Navy Federal Credit Union, you will also be able to build up your credit history as you make payments on your loans.

With private or federal loans, forbearance lets you reduce or stop making payments for a set amount of time, but interest continues to build on the loan while payments are halted.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FORGES AHEAD WITH STUDENT LOAN SERVICING OVERHAUL: The Trump administration has signaled it will move ahead with an Obama - era plan to select a loan servicing company to build a new streamlined platform to collect all federal direct student loans to make it easier for students to make monthly payments.

Alcatraz Island offers a close - up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off - limits to the public, and the history making 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes.