Sentences with phrase «of federal bureaucracy»

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in May proposed creating an additional layer of federal bureaucracy to hydraulic fracturing regulation, even though states have regulated the drilling practice successfully for years without a single confirmed instance of groundwater contamination.

This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.

When schools are viewed as just another government program — or worse, as one observer noted, as little more than outposts of a federal bureaucracy — the sense of local ownership that has been a hallmark of the American education system is weakened if not lost altogether.

«We can not wait any longer for the gears of federal bureaucracy to slowly churn as pedestrians risk life and limb when crossing this intersection,» Stringer said.

President Trump's proposal for deep cuts to the budgets of a broad swath of the federal bureaucracy was billed as a necessary corrective to the growth of the government's power.

«But we hope that without having tons of federal bureaucracies and all kinds of rules and regulations that you have to follow, the net figures will be more than what you're getting now.»

Changes at the top of federal bureaucracies often seem to have little effect on the average person.

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This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the cFederal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the cfederal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

Tina Barkman, manager of human resources at Friesens, has waited up to three years for potential employees to wend their way through the maze of the federal immigration bureaucracy.

Ever since the «disastrous» Trudeau era, the imperial Department of Finance has not - so - quietly re-asserted its domain over the federal bureaucracy.

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

The desire was, rather, to pass something» to create the Federal bureaucracy that would eventually create all the rest of the pieces of a socialized medical system.

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

While the former advocated a weak confederation that would insulate the North against southern administrative hegemony, the southern bloc fought for a strong federal government with checks against majoritarianism, allowing for control of the national bureaucracy without falling victim to the North's larger population.

Iannuzzi says if Cuomo wants to reduce the schools bureaucracy, he should address the State Education Department's denial of some of the federal Race to the Top funds.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

You'd be hard pressed to find any national security issues involved in releasing any of the names in the memo, unless you want to count exposing corruption in the federal bureaucracy a national security issue that needs to be kept a secret.

It is also illustrated in the long list of matters dedicated to the federal government in the exclusive legislative list and in the revenue allocation formula which gives 52 % of national revenue to an incompetent and remote federal government, which in effect operates as a feudal bureaucracy with an «emperor», «sheik» or «king» at its head!

GE had net operating losses at the height of the financial crisis that federal law allows them — and every other corporate taxpayer — to carry over to subsequent tax years so as not to unfairly burden it with the calendar set by bureaucracy.

It grew to the current bureaucracy in several stages throughout history in order to help the president enforce laws and maintain prisons for the punishment of federal laws.

Maffei said that casework has resulted in the return of almost $ 6 million in money owed by the federal government to Central New Yorkers who asked for his help navigating the bureaucracy.

It is often difficult to deal with the bureaucracy of the federal government, and having a veterans affairs commissioners helps ensure the county's veterans have easier access to the federal benefits to which they're entitled.

«Our job is to keep our eye on the ball, to keep focused on what we're doing and then I always love the fact that there are bureaucracies and bureaucracies have a lot of stop gaps along the way,» Fariña said, referring to the federal bureaucracy.

The federal government has slowed the flow of displaced people into the U.S. to a trickle, achieving by bureaucracy what it couldn't by executive order.

Tenny blames the bureaucracy of the federal government which she says has prolonged the process of opening district offices.

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.

They also take a dim view of the idea of giving Washington a bigger role in an area that constitutionally is the province of state and local government, as well as any proposed growth in the federal bureaucracy.

They know what's at stake and what interests are entrenched: the structures, finances, and cultures of hundreds of universities; the laws, regulations, and practices of massive federal bureaucracies; the expenditure of scores of billions of public and private dollars; and the ferocious politics of long - vested privilege.

In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.

Environmental justice has had a very ambiguous place within the huge federal bureaucracy, and it doesn't have a very clear line of authority.

But as a dramatic telling of one woman's fight against equine politics, misguided self - interests and federal bureaucracy, the...

In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.

In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.

But to many, LBJ's Great Society is also synonymous with the excesses of federal activity; it is the voracious, technocratic, disconnected, wasteful, ineffective, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.

That doctrine, he wrote, permits «executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers» design.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

A review of who is paying state education agency (SEA) salaries suggests that many employees within these bureaucracies have competing priorities — and may have to spend more time meeting federal requirements than serving the students in their states.

As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.

President Woodrow Wilson demonstrated this during his tenure in the early 20th century, when he worked to remove blacks from important civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt would deny jobs to black workers (at the behest of labor unions) with the passage of the Davis - Bacon Act two decades later.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

I think that the federal government can best serve Tennessee educators by eliminating unnecessary layers of Washington bureaucracy and returning decision - making power to state and local officials who best know the needs of their schools.

Even big organizations staffed with Ph.D. economists and other bright people like the Federal Reserve are less than the sum of the parts, as the bureaucracy enforces groupthink (and the Treasury is even worse).

Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.

Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt briefed public servants on the dramatic restructure of the federal climate change bureaucracy before the election was called and yesterday confirmed the Coalition was committed to proceeding with the plan.

The Federal bureaucracy has grown through the ages in spite of good intentions to restrain it.

Inhofe considers one of his unique qualifications for office to be the 30 years he's spent in the business community, where he grew tired of being over-regulated by the federal bureaucracy.

So maybe if we got one of Gates» philosopher kings to run the federal bureaucracy, I would be on board.

Adding an additional and unresponsive federal layer of bureaucracy is unwarranted and can only hinder domestic oil and natural gas production.