Sentences with phrase «of federal housing policies»

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But people familiar with the deliberations say Williams» monetary policy expertise became more important, because of the failure of the White House to nominate a vice chairman for the Federal Reserve.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Below are highlights from the question and answer session of a House Financial Services Committee hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifying on monetary policy and the U.S. economy.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other experts talked about the impact of the new federal housing policies on homeownership.

[2] Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan, «The Federal Reserve's semiannual monetary policy,» report before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate July 22, 1997.

Some market participants have argued that housing's contribution to real GDP is but a shadow of its former self (2.6 % in 2015 vs. 3.3 % in 2005), but a substantial decline will still weigh on Federal Reserve's policy reaction function (especially given still - fresh memory of the housing downturn).

I grant that it is difficult to have any semblance of «affordable» housing policy when The Federal Reserve slammed their target rate to near zero for 10 years while housing prices rapidly accelerated.

The time is ripe for an exceptionally broad political coalition to work for a new federal housing policy reflecting what the bishops call «the American pragmatic tradition of reform.»

Her most recent book, Deliberating Monetary Policy, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and SePolicy, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Sepolicy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Senate).

He announced he would «temporarily stand aside» from the Lib Dem group in the House of Lords «to seek to avoid any embarrassment to the party» and withdraw from its federal policy committee, which writes the party's election manifestos.

While those of us involved with the NBDC care deeply about government and policy on the county, state and federal levels, our guiding principle is that all politics are local, as said by the late, great United States House Speaker Tip O'Neill.

It was revealed today that Lord Rennard said he stepped aside from the Lib Dem group in the House of Lords and has quit his position on the party's Federal Policy Committee, which helps prepare the election manifesto.

So Weprin has been put on the defensive about Obama's Middle East policy, while Turner appears to have managed to avoid the drawbacks of his party association, and has largely been taken at his word when he says he would buck the House Republicans on an overhaul of entitlement programs, even though he has pushed, at times, for 30 - 35 percent cuts in federal spending.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today strongly defended the town of New Castle and Westchester County against federal accusations that it has discriminatory housing policies.

«The problem is not the federal tax policy,» said Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican who represents the struggling Southern Tier, and voted yes on the House version of the bill.

«I have had none,» Cuomo said of pressure from the White House, and conceded that his policies may go farther than guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control.

«The plan and the trap goes like this: On the 6th of May 2017 — Saturday night stroke Sunday morning — the EFCC, alongside local and international media, both print and TV and radio, will raid an apartment under the guise of whistleblowing policy of the Federal Government with a search warrant already obtained in the magistrate's court to search an apartment alleging to be one of your guest houses in Enugu State capital or any suitable available apartment in your senatorial district that will serve this evil purpose.

Carey had been a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which controls tax policy and oversees an array of federal entitlement programs.

The variation is so extreme due to histories of de jure residential segregation, federal housing policies until the last thirty years or so, and histories of economic development and migration that vary from place to place.

A federal judge temporarily blocked a White House policy barring military service by transgender troops, ruling that it was based on «disapproval of transgender people generally.»

Lewisboro was one of the seven municipalities named in a federal monitor's report that recommended that the U.S. Justice Department sue the Westchester communities for having zoning policies that prevent racially integrated housing.

Under the Monetisation Policy introduced by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005, official houses occupied by federal civil servants were sold to them by the government to reduce the cost of governance.

From international communications to diplomacy to analyzing science policy and the federal budget in the White House, the new group of expert scholars visiting AAAS comes with a wealth of experience that they can use to help the organization serve society through science.

This year, she and CCS co-chair Jay Benforado worked with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to mobilize 125 of their members to build the Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit.

John Marburger, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, calls it «a pretty good year» for research, given the Administration's priorities of fighting terrorism, defending the homeland, and reducing the federal deficit.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

«The agency's move meant that six federal agencies that provide the bulk of the nation's basic research funding now have public access policies required by a 2013 White House order.

In addition to the new online tool, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program tracks federal R&D appropriations on a weekly basis, and it issues reports comparing the budget recommendations of the president, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Senate.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

Akin sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which is responsible for much of the U.S. federal science enterprise, so he should be aware of what science actually says about key policy issues.

The White House has been a very difficult administrator of federal science policy with making political decisions about scientific matters and not being able to create a long - term plan for how science ought to be supported.

Andrew Hebbeler, assistant director for biological and chemical threats in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smaPolicy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smapolicy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smallpox.

«The suite of bills already passed would increase federal research & development (R&D) funding by an estimated 2.1 % above fiscal year 2016 levels in the House and 3.2 % above FY 2016 levels in the Senate, slightly above the rate of inflation,» AAAS wrote, citing objective analysis completed by the association's R&D Budget and Policy Program.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

In May 2015, on a voice vote, lawmakers approved a bipartisan bill (H.R. 1119) from the science committee that would simply create a working group within the interagency National Science and Technology Council within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to review existing federal policies.

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The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which has identical versions in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would expand to other research agencies the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 4 - year - old policy requiring investigators it funds to submit copies of their peer - reviewed manuscripts for posting in a public database.

Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and representatives of federal agencies.

The Science Committee, meanwhile, wants to see how the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responds to a request in the 2010 COMPETES Act asking for a report on federal policies on public access.

► Wednesday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out a long - expected and controversial «reauthorization» bill covering NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research at DOE, and federal science education policy.

Because of that, adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs), the bete noire of the housing bust, became useful transmitters of the U.S. Federal Reserve's low interest rate policies.

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with Federal agencies and private - sector stakeholders, is announcing a new National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems, and is hosting an event to bring together stakeholders vital to advancing the NMI.

In May, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the National Microbiome Initiative, a collaboration between several federal agencies, universities, and private foundations.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.