Sentences with phrase «more federal control»

Markey is the typical liberal Democrat who thinks there is no problem that can't be solved by more federal spending and more federal control over every aspect of society and the economy.

It might be that further centralization would yield more benefits, but it is doubtful that more federal control is politically possible, and, in any case, any additional yield is uncertain.

The voucher proposal, which Trump advanced during his campaign, seems an open invitation for more federal control in schools, said Joy Pullman, an education writer for The Federalist.

The next swing he felt was in 1980, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government introduced the National Energy Program, seeking more federal control over the energy industry.

Not exact matches

• The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will seek to stop the merger of DraftKings and FanDuel, because the combined company would control more than 90 % of the U.S. market for paid daily fantasy sports contests.

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.»

Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló has introduced a fiscal proposal that will cope with the island's debt and balance the budget, and our decisions are being disciplined by a federal fiscal control board, we need to start thinking about what it will take to create a sustainable economy where more companies like Señor Paleta can grow.

«The little - known federal agency [the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration] charged with monitoring the system... is chronically short of inspectors and lacks the resources needed to hire more, leaving too much of the regulatory control in the hands of pipeline operators themselves, according to federal reports, and examination of agency data and interviews with safety experts.»

A federal judge has rejected Massachusetts» challenge to new Trump administration rules that would allow more companies to not provide insurance plans that cover birth control; previous decisions by other judges in California and Pennsylvania went the other way, issuing injunctions against the new birth control rules.

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.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

Reining In Rates O'Neil, one of the managers of the $ 26 billion Fidelity Total Bond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasuries.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

We supervise state chartered banks that choose to be members of the Federal Reserve System, trust companies, data processing centers that service state member banks, and bank and financial holding companies, which control one or more commercial banks.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

The Federal Reserve is imposing more penalties on Wells Fargo, freezing the bank's growth until it can prove it has improved its internal controls.

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.

But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

They hear the offer of an opportunity for the black church to control more of the resources hitherto handled by federal and local government.

Miller also said that federal nutritional restrictions should also be changed to give more control to local school districts.

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..

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

«It is critically important, now more than ever, to make sure government controls spending in light of the federal cap on deductions for state and local taxes,» Law said, referring to the $ 10,000 limit on deductions of local property taxes and state income taxes on federal returns.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for stepped - up efforts to control nutrient pollution responsible for algae blooms in Lake Erie, but isn't proposing more federal regulations to accomplish the task.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

State control provides more avenues for self - determination than does federal control, because there are considerably fewer people in a state than the nation (so you can have more control over the outcome).

Despite lax federal gun control laws, de Blasio said, he credited the NYPD for «rapidly» making more gun seizures and arrests.

New state Assembly committee looking at ways to take more control from federal government Kenosha News: January 24, 2017

He also proposes that the rates by which hospitals are reimbursed be set in a non-political way, not «micromanaged» by legislators, that the state «control costs through programs that identify those individuals whose complex needs utilize many expensive resources and more carefully manage and coordinate their services,» working to consolidate where possible with the federal Medicare program and negotiating to buy pharmaceuticals in bulk.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to do more to stop «ransomware» cyberattacks in which hackers seize control of a business's or government's computers and demand payment to release them.

Ambode said that «Governors are the owners of the land in their states but underneath the land and even inside the water, the Federal Government is structured in a way that it controls those potentials adding that In a situation where the states are being spoon - fed, because I call the federation account more or less like spoon - feeding.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed his call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured.

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«In the face of unprecedented uncertainty from the federal level, your partnership is more important than ever,» Mr. de Blasio told his audience, making a plea for unity to a legislative body that — on the Republican - controlled State Senate side, at least — has never had much use for him.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

An audit by a federal inspector general has turned up problems ranging from lack of management controls to questionable expenses in the way New York's vast homeland security apparatus handled a chunk of more than $ 750 million in grants several years ago.

The federal education department has already issued draft regulations, but Elia expects that a new administration will tweak the regulations, most likely to give states more local control, particularly when it comes to testing and learning standards.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed a call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured Wednesday.

«It gives more emphasis and supports for states and local control, as opposed to the federal government determining what you have to do,» Elia said.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico's finances authorized up to $ 1 billion in local funds to be used for hurricane response, but the governor said he would ask for more.

While federal gun control legislation has gone nowhere in recent years, certain states have had more success.

The two sides have spent months haggling, with Cuomo vying for more control over the money and the federal government insisting on a narrow mandate.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

By smaller margins, they want to keep and improve, rather than repeal and replace, Obamacare (by 18 points); consider themselves gun control supporters, rather than 2nd Amendment supporters (by 15 points); and, want the federal government to do more to stimulate the economy, rather than lessening its role (by nine points).

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation, which controlled the water coming out of Lake Mead, might let the Las Vegas Valley take more, but not while the valley's utilities remained as disorganized as they were.

The meta - analysis, published online Jan. 20, 2013, in Annals of Internal Medicine, pools results from 15 investigations, slightly more than half of which were done after a 1996 federal law prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from funding research that could be seen as promoting gun control.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

In light of the growing opioid crisis, the Federal Drug Administration in October 2014 reclassified all hydrocodone products in a way that makes them more carefully controlled, including limiting prescriptions to a 30 - day supply with no refills.