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Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, finally read a letter by the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, and sent to the senate over three weeks ago, seeking the confirmation of the federal lawmakers, for the appointment of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

She is among a number of federal lawmakers from New York City and the suburbs making such a call.

A coalition of federal lawmakers has spoken out against the new duties, including U.S. Reps. Brian Higgins and Elise Stefanik, who issued a joint statement on Thursday citing concerns over costs for consumers and potential job cuts for employees of newspaper and book publishers.

Several members of Connecticut's congressional delegation are among a group of federal lawmakers that met with President Barack Obama on Monday about his executive actions tightening the nation's gun laws.

Now, the shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school in February has prompted a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers to take another look at the restrictions.

The Governor of Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode, who declared the joint working retreat of the federal lawmakers open, said there was need to fix the 1999 constitution before the 2019 election.

Rivers PDP chairman, Bro Felix Obuah described the alleged directive by Mr Abe, that lawmakers elected on the platform of the APC should invade the Assembly without being subjected to the oath of office as demanded by law, as unbecoming of a federal lawmaker.

«I really enjoyed working with many candidates over the years, including Elise Stefanik,» McBrayer said, noting the committee was an early supporter of the federal lawmaker's first run for office in 2013.

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Furthermore, our lawmakers should require all federal agencies to seek the OK of Congress before putting any major regulations into effect.

In fact, that's why prosecutors on each end of this flight, in both Houston and New York, are apparently conducting their own investigations: criminal investigations, which go far beyond what lawmakers at the federal level and in New York state have proposed in the wake of this tragic incident.

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

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.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

There are multiple reasons why lawmakers have opposed mixing banking and commerce, including expanding the federal safety net of deposit insurance in effect to cover another large part of the economy and creating too many possible conflicts of interest in lending and investing decisions.

WASHINGTON, March 23 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he shares the concerns of U.S. lawmakers about espionage threats from Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co and plans to take «proactive steps» to ensure the integrity of the U.S. communications supply chain.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

Jan 18 (Reuters)- Investors have shrugged off the latest threat of a federal government shutdown, saying they are not worried about a major pullback in shares even if U.S. lawmakers fail to strike a deal.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

U.S. lawmakers are close to delivering a draft of the Federal Aviation Authority's reauthorization bill, which will include rules for nonmilitary drones, and drone opponents are lobbying hard against the unmanned flying machines, The New York Times reports.

He was among lawmakers critical of Comey's decision not to prosecute Clinton in the email server investigation, saying other government officials would have been prosecuted if they handled classified information like Clinton did, but federal officials disagree with that assessment.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 - The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress was approaching a major test on Thursday of its ability to overhaul the federal tax code, as lawmakers prepared for their first full - scale vote on sweeping tax legislation.

The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (including those in the White House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.

And the vote is just the start of lawmakers» attempts to target years of federal agencies» decisions through the Congressional Review Act, the GOP's new favorite deregulatory toy.

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Clayton, who testified alongside Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said the agencies were coordinating with the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve on the matter, but added that lawmakers may have to clarify and enhance regulatory powers.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

The General Services Administration, which manages property owned by the federal government, including the Old Post Office housing the Trump International Hotel, has said the lease would violate federal conflict - of - interest rules once the Republican businessman is sworn in on Jan. 20, according to a letter to the agency from lawmakers.

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

Facebook's senior executives have been summoned to account for the platform's privacy issues in hearings with UK lawmakers, while the US Federal Trade Commission is launching its own investigation into the platform's use of people's personal data.

The politics of the coming November midterm elections will consume the Capitol for much of the rest of 2018, as lawmakers debate a farm bill, possible new disclosures for social media companies and federal spending beyond Sept. 30.

Veteran Republican lawmaker Tom McClintock was again outraised by his leading Democratic challenger, Jessica Morse, in the first three months of 2018, new federal fundraising reports disclose.

NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member - only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

Our members got a lot out of this meeting, and I would encourage every HBA to host meetings with their federal lawmakers.»

The nation braced for a partial shutdown of the federal government, as time for Congress to pass a budget before a Monday midnight deadline grew perilously short and lawmakers gave no signs Sunday they were moving toward a resolution.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tied the Sony attack to North Korea, and was followed by an outage of the Asian country's internet that a U.S. lawmaker considered a retaliatory act.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has been playing a kind of regulatory Pac - Man as European lawmakers start to impose serious fines for data breaches and The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Facebook's privacy practices.

Without support from the U.S. federal government, «Puerto Rico may have to choose between paying its creditors and providing essential services to the island's 3.5 million American citizens,» the Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, told lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Thursday.

We are encouraging all members of the Federation to schedule meetings with your federal legislators while Congress is out of session and lawmakers return to their home districts.

The disclosures come on the heels of last week's proposals by Republican lawmakers to provide several new tax benefits for multinational companies, including cutting the federal corporate income tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent.

Ingraham had previously been critical of March for Our Lives, which formed in response to the Parkland shooting to push federal lawmakers to pass new restrictions on firearms.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.

But government regulators, lawmakers and consumer advocates have voiced a host of concerns about the practices of companies that collect payments on student loans on behalf of the federal government and private lenders.

One of the biggest changes came on Friday, when lawmakers agreed to a demand by Mr. Rubio to expand the child tax credit by allowing families who owe no federal income taxes to still claim up to $ 1,400 of the $ 2,000 child tax credit, up from $ 1,100 in the original version.

CNBC.com — Market Outlook: Bernanke May Set Tone for Rest of Summer While many traders hope for talk of more Fed easing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely tell members of Congress in the coming week that it's the lawmakers who need to act.

Because of the surprising nature of the rollout, the administration wasn't able to notify senior officials in multiple federal agencies, State Department officials who needed to notify other countries of the drastic measures, or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

«OTA's leadership betrayed the more than 90 percent of Americans who support mandatory labeling of GMOs by working behind the scenes with federal lawmakers to craft a federal law that ensures food corporations will never have to reveal, in plain English on product labels, the GMO ingredients in their products,» Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association, said in a statement.