Sentences with phrase «of federal representatives»

While you might never know it if you only followed cable news, social media, and many of our federal representatives, the majority of America, and more specifically Erie County, is not made up of left - wing or right - wing fringe.

--RRB- Basing the number of electors on the number of Federal Representatives plus two Senators for each state prevents the dreaded one - man - one - vote which despite the just sound of it, only works in small, homogenous populations.

Not exact matches

Local government representatives from Perth's suburban north - west have visited Canberra in an effort to spark federal support for the growth of the region.

U.S. authorities could have prevented the bombings by acting on these warnings, senior members of the Russian Federal Security Service told U.S. Representative William R. Keating of Massachusetts.

Bernier said the decision was reversed following meetings of federal and provincial tourism ministers and industry representatives.

Rather, this huge sample is fairly representative of the U.S. commercial bank population on the whole — which totaled under 4,900 in the latest quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

U.S. Senator Dean Heller from Nevada, New York Representative Tom Reed and North Carolina U.S. Senator Richard Burr — all vocal proponents of renewables — together accounted for more than 40 % of the Solar Energy Industries Association PAC's total federal campaign donations.

Conspicuously absent from Tuesday's funding announcement, which included much of the Tory government's 35 - member caucus, was any representative of the federal government.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

Yet in December, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called for a «do - not - track» system, and several privacy bills affecting the collection and use of personal data were introduced in the House of Representatives this year.

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives recently passed a resolution asking the federal government not to crackdown or interfere in any way with states that have legalized marijuana of which, of course, Alaska is one.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Richard Neal said they were concerned that the U.S. Treasury could be pressured to adopt tax withholding tables that take too little federal tax out of employee paychecks to make good on White House predictions of a middle - class windfall.

The head of the House of Representatives» tax - writing committee said he would not accept elimination of a federal deduction for state and local taxes.

«The wireless industry has done everything it can to persuade federal regulators and state regulators not to require that backup power be put in place,» said Regina Costa, chair of the telecommunications committee of the National Association of State Utility Advocates, which speaks for consumer representatives.

A tax plan approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday would sharply curtail a federal deduction that millions of Americans can now claim for tax payments to state, county, city and town governments.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives forged ahead on Tuesday with legislation to reshape the federal tax code, while a top credit - ratings agency said the bill would balloon the budget deficit and give only a temporary boost to the economy.

OPINION: With federal governments seemingly in campaign mode 24 - 7, calls for fixed four - year terms for the House of Representatives make sense.

[2] «News conference with Representative Bill Thomas, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,» Federal News Service Transcript, March 15, 2001.

The Alternative Reference Rate Commission, a group of industry representatives convened by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has established a timetable for transitioning away from the use of...

The panel consists of the heads of federal agencies, including the departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Other attendees included academics, federal and provincial civil servants, and representatives of business and professional organizations.

In a letter dated April 24, Representative Alex Mooney (R - WV) wrote to Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, raising concerns about their formal policy to devalue the Federal Reserve Note (e.g. «inflation targeting») and requesting information about the United States» use -LSB-...]

As the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives return to session, a new survey from The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated and Future Workplace reveals it can cost organizations as much as $ 100,000 each time a federal, state, or even...

Yet there's a lack of action in the government, from the federal level all the way down to local representatives.

E.J. Burke, Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), today issued the following statement on the confirmation of U.S. Representative Mel Watt to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA): «MBA commends the confirmation of Mel Watt as the next Director of

BOEM coordinates Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) renewable energy activities offshore New Jersey through its Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force, which is made up of representatives from federal, state, local and tribal governments.

Edmonton, AB — Matt Jeneroux, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend and co-chair of the Alberta Jobs Taskforce, today joined Nathan Cooper, interim leader of the United Conservative Party, and representatives from Restaurants Canada in Edmonton to highlight how Alberta's restaurant industry is being negatively impacted by federal and provincial policies that are increasing costs for local businesses.

WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to name the Federal Reserve as the primary regulator for the «Volcker Rule,» which bars banks from speculative trading.

Under House Bill 2014, introduced by Representative Mark Finchem (R - Tucson), Arizona taxpayers will simply back out all precious metals «gains» and «losses» reported on their federal tax returns from the calculation of their Arizona adjusted gross income (AGI).

Organized by APF Canada with the generous support of the Government of Ontario and Export Development Canada, ABLAC 2018 will include Council Members from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, alongside representatives of Canada's federal, provincial and municipal governments, and the presidents and CEOs of leading Canadian businesses and institutions.

But during the firwt years of television, organized groups could scarcely expect to achieve any results at all, because the Federal Communications Commission refused to recognize representatives of the public as «parties of interest» in license procedings.

Two Republican representatives in North Carolina filed a resolution Monday that would permit the state to declare Christianity its official religion and reject any federal laws or court rulings regarding how the state addresses the establishment of religion.

After the disaster and criminal charges, representatives of various tribal nations stepped into the legal fray, filing a federal lawsuit last March against Ray and those who run the Angel Valley Retreat Center, where he had leased land for his program.

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic sisters that speaks out on social justice issues in particular, will be hitting states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in order to reveal «how federal budget cuts proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, (R - WI), and passed by the House of Representatives will hurt struggling families in these states,» a release by the group reads.

The House of Representatives is working day and night in its effort to cut more than $ 60 billion from the federal budget.

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

The American Beverage Association Fly - In is a time when representatives of our member companies travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with their Congressmen, Senators and other federal government representatives.

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a public meeting Tuesday in Clovis, California regarding the proposed California Federal Milk Marketing Order (CA FMMO).

First, it managed to bring together, in the same room and quite often around the same discussion table, representatives of the biggest corporations in food and agribusiness (e.g. Coles and Woolworths); state, federal and local government officers; individual farmers; scientists and academics; and members of the growing community food sector.

Specifically, GAO reviewed relevant federal laws, as well as USDA regulations, guidance, and studies; interviewed USDA officials and groups of food service officials and relevant industry representatives; and visited eight school districts.

The only problem, industry representatives say, is that current federal rules on such products require prominent «reduced calorie» labeling on the front of the package, which is «not attractive to children» and contributes to an «overall decline in milk consumption.»

But now Representative DeLauro has just introduced the Safe Chicken and Meat for Children Act of 2015 which, if passed, will permanently ban Chinese meat and poultry from federal child nutrition programs, including school meals.

RACHEL JACKSON: So it was mentioned before that, there is federal legislation so there's friendly airports of mothers that was introduced by representative Tinny Duckworth and that's basically requiring all federal airports to implement lactation rooms.

Patrick Farrell Pinto, 65, of Arlington Heights, a customer service representative with Federal Express, died of a heart attack Wednesday, May 9, in Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

O'Brien and her colleagues met Friday with representatives of the U.S. Department of Education in talks about incorporating standards in the federal levels for emotional learning programs.

«We are hopeful that this report will get favorable response from the Federal Government especially given the fact that the Honourable Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) was a passionate advocate of this issue during his tenure as the Governor of Lagos State and is also now a representative of Lagos State in the Federal Cabinet.»