Sentences with phrase «national mandates on»

I would be interested in seeing any studies that might review what effect our previous national mandates on school nutrition have actually had on childhood obesity.

School Nutrition Association is calling on USDA to turn this national mandate on meal prices into a pilot program in a limited number of schools with a report back to Congress before the provision becomes national policy.

With the cap - and - trade option for carbon reduction buried in the U.S. Senate at least until 2011, yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D — NV) began to drive nails into the coffin for a national mandate on renewable energy, known as a Renewable Energy Standard (RES).

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Small - business owners offer health benefits for a variety of reasons: they're genuinely concerned about their employees being taken care of, it's mandated in their state or they want to be more competitive to attract top talent (a large majority of employees consider a health plan to be the most important benefit they can be offered, according to a survey by the National Business of Group on Health).

A bill making its way through the House of Representatives and heavily backed by Big Food would create a voluntary national labeling standard, while preventing states from mandating labeling on their own.

The Trump administration has worked to undercut former President Barack Obama's national healthcare law by decreasing advertising and discussing ending the mandate that Americans have health insurance, which has weighed on 2018 enrollment.

The National Federation of Independent Business, while acknowledging that Mr. Obama has the authority to place conditions on federal contractors, said his latest action was another burdensome government mandate on private firms.

On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5 — 4 vote in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that the mandate was constitutional under the U.S. Congress's taxing authority.

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

In addition to asking a court to mandate that Uber implement fingerprint background checks — a measure the company has vehemently opposed — the plaintiffs are asking a judge to order Uber to perform national criminal background checks on its drivers every six months, and to bar registered sex offenders or people with rape or assault convictions from driving for Uber no matter how long ago it was, along with other measures.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

New info on «fetal pain» national ban, Geneva College vs. HHS contraceptive mandate, Iran house churches, and more.

You still want your kids wearing a helmet with the latest technology though and which meets all of the requirements of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), with a certification sticker that says it meet the NOCSAE standard, since the CPSC does not mandate safety guidelines for football helmets.

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

The court also mandated INEC to recognise the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP headed by Sen. Ahmed Markarfi, former Governor of Kaduna State in all matters pertaining the conduct of Primary Elections for Political Offices and the submission of the PDP List of Candidates for any elections to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on Wednesday mandated its committee on Health to conduct an investigation on the sale and consumption of 42 anti-malaria drugs already banned by the EU in Nigeria.

Botchwey told the appointments committee of parliament during her vetting on Monday that the law mandating national service came into effect a year after she graduated.

«The whole national movement to mandate this kind of reform... if New York got into a position to really lead on this, I think it would help change in Washington, D.C.»

Opponents of the plan, and some ministers, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister Natan Sharansky, called on Sharon to hold a national referendum to prove that he had a mandate, which he refused to do.

Informally, given their electoral mandate, mayors can also lobby national politicians on policy matters that relate to their area — a role that both previous London mayors were effective in during their terms in office.

Union leaders have relied on mandates for action that lack authority — the National Union of Teachers ballot was run nearly two years ago, while other ballots had extremely low turnouts.»

He also acknowledged the efforts of the Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority, Emmanuel Asigri for his efforts in supporting the ministry to deliver on its mandate to Ghanaians.

It would recalled that the lower chamber of the National Assembly, mandated a Joint Committee on National Security and Intelligence and Public Procurement to investigate the Jon - Ode led Presidential Arms probe panel which was recently disbanded by the federal government.

Following claims in some quarters that he may have abandoned the assignment given to him by President Muhammadu Buhari where he was mandated to reconcile aggrieved All Progressives Congress members, national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has insisted that the assignment is ongoing and that he is on the verge of turning in an interim report.

His office has several options on the table, including a proposed Senate Democratic version of the National Football League's «Rooney Rule» requiring interviews of diverse candidates for senior jobs without an enforced mandate to hire them.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

In the USA, in the Commonwealth and in many European countries, a mayor is a local figurehead who has the mandate and power to influence change on both a local and national level.

In December 2008, the Commission mandated her to organize the first ever National Workshop on ADR, focusing on the application of ADR to electoral / political disputes.

Owing to the detection on the part of the Senate, a Committee on Appropriation led by Senator Danjuma Goje was set up and, as such, mandated to identify the discrepancies in the 2016 budget presented to the National Assembly by President Buhari and the other version allegedly printed by Enang.

The Mubarak regime never gave much weight to its popular, democratic mandate, deploying variations on crude Egyptian nationalism as a legitimizing vehicle as and when necessary - most recently in its World Cup altercation with Algeria and the showdown with Hamas over protecting «national sovereignty» on Egypt's Gaza border.

'' Specifically, the leaders were mandated to discuss with the National Chairman of the party on the possibility of an option of Direct Primaries for the conduct of the rescheduled primaries, as provided for in Article 20 of our party's constitution to enable every card - carrying member of the party vote for an aspirant of his or her choice.

Whilst calling on the President to remain focused on delivering on his mandate to the people of Ghana, the Cadres appealed to the National Executive Committee to work hard to resolve all the differences among some of the Parliamentary candidates at the just ended NDC primaries and urged them to work hard to ensure the party's victory in the 2016 general election.

The lawmakers at the plenary on Wednesday resolved to mandate the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission to probe into why the electoral umpire found three of its workers guilty in the registration scandal but chose to issue a new card to Bello.

The National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has mandated eight governors on...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the presumptive GOP gubernatorial nominee and a rising national figure on the right, told an Iowa - based radio show Wednesday night that opponents of a federal mandate for contraception coverage should be willing to «go to jail» to fight the law.

«As I have said on several occasions, the National Orientation Agency will be in the forefront of the campaign, because it is in line with its mandate to positively change attitudes, values and behaviours.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses is hosting its annual small business day in Albany on Tuesday, where thousands of small businesses are demonstrating against the $ 15 minimum wage mandate.

While Sheriff is insisting that he remains the national chairman of the party, Makarfi on the other hand, is claiming to have the mandate of the party which he said was handed to him at its national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on March 19, 2016.

The statement read in part, «The National Judicial Council's committee on the monitoring of alleged corruption cases in court has resolved to actively engage prosecutorial bodies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission in furtherance of its mandate.

In Ghana, the government of the day work and do things on their own in consultation with their political ideologies and manifestos that do not take into consideration any national plan but here we are, the new government takes over and meet a commission mandated to ensure planning of the nation in the next 40 - years which was constituted by its predecessor.

The Senate on Tuesday mandated its committees on Finance, Petroleum Upstream and Downstream to investigate the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company,...

The Senate on Tuesday mandated its committees on Finance, Petroleum Upstream and Downstream to investigate the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, over the non-remittance of $ 3.47 billion to the federation account.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

It asked the lawmakers to concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly

After 9/11, Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop, without the mandated warrant from a federal court, on electronic communication involving terrorist suspects.

The Treasury Department agency notes on its website that its mandate is to «review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person («covered transactions»), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.»

The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has decided to double down on its implementation of a congressionally mandated policy aimed at reducing research misconduct among NSF - funded scientists, despite a new report that notes problems with the agency's approach.

Two windfalls — the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act and the end of the huge National Children's Study — left NIH with an extra $ 150 million and a mandate to spend it on pediatric research.

► Scientists using nonhuman primates in your research, take note: «[I] n response to a congressional mandate, [the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-RSB- will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals,» David Grimm reported on Monday.