Sentences with phrase «of federal legislators»

11/19/15 — One science watcher is seeing «fantastic news» in how some Republicans are viewing climate challenges, with separate groups of federal legislators declaring intentions to «protect our environment and climate while also bolstering clean energy innovation» and to be «good stewards of our environment... and base our policy decisions in science.»

«I think it's going to energize the debate and hopefully draw the attentions of our federal legislators,» he said in a phone interview.

Capitol Hill Reception Following on the success of the 2014 Capitol Hill Reception, the 43rd Legislative Action Conference will once again hold its reception in the backyard of our federal legislators.

Not exact matches

Mårtin Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, a bug bounty startup, urged legislators to revise laws used to prosecute hackers and to standardize data breach notification requirements at the federal level.

However, the bipartisan introduction of H.R. 835 at a time when the country is in the midst of a polarized presidential election, can signal legislators on both sides of the aisle to believe that federal regulation of virtual currency and blockchain technology is necessary to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman - Schultz on Friday joined the growing number of state and federal legislators proposing reforms after the deaths of 14 residents in the suffocating heat of a Hollywood nursing home.

Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

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.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Wine Institute and CAWG developed the report to provide an understanding of the industry's contributions to the California and U.S. economies for use in public policy discussions with state and federal legislators and other key officials.

«This site will be a vehicle for our members to engage their employees and customers, and a resource for consumers, state and federal legislators, media and others to gain important information on the health and environmental benefits of choosing glass.»

Write to your state and federal legislators — tell them to support laws that make breastfeeding easier, like licensing of lactation consultants, and the requirement that insurance companies reimburse for lactation care and services.

But for better or worse, private actors — not our federal legislators, who seem inescapably captive to Big Food's dollars — may be the future of food reform.

April recess for federal legislators is today through May 2, and many members of Congress will be hosting Town Hall meetings in their home districts.

In response to a lack of concern by the federal government, cities, states, and legislators have warned and attempted to ban BPA from kids» products.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

The member, representing Shiroro / Rafi / Munya constituency of Niger State, disclosed this in a letter sent to the Niger State, drawing the attention of the APC to the lack of cordiality between the government of Niger and the federal legislators from the state

Cuomo said the stopgap budget would give legislators time to resolve their differences while postponing the decision until after the release of the federal budget, which is expected to contain spending cuts that could drastically impact state finances.

WHITE PLAINS — The Westchester County Board of Legislators Monday night authorized the county to reserve 50 percent of the county's almost $ 7.9 million federal funds for use by local municipalities for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements.

Legislators and business leaders said they will require days to analyze the proposals and many question whether the Internal Revenue Service, Congress or the White House would allow the effort to avoid the provision of the new federal tax law.

Cuomo reinvigorated his push in April of 2013, after federal prosecutors indicted two sitting legislators and announced that a third had been wearing a wire.

And it was seemingly bizarre that a legislator would push to prevent his state from getting federal reimbursements — potentially hurting the state by a tune of more than $ 2 billion.

«The passage of the bill is an indication that our federal legislators are diligent and reform - minded, and are committed to fulfilling the promises our party made to Nigerians.»

Bruno questioned the right of federal prosecutors like U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to look into state legislators» outside employment.

An ad hoc group was formed to bring numbers down, legislators lobbied a state assemblyman from Lindenhurst to move on a bill he's kept in a key committee and, before long, the federal government is expected to bring in a team of sharpshooters to cull the herd and reduce the crisis.

The county executive and his administration had been working with legislators and immigration groups to try and craft a bill that didn't run afoul of federal law, local law enforcement objections and the interest of public safety.

White Plains, NY — The Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) voted tonight to override County Executive Robert P. Astorino's veto of the legislative re-districting plan, and now the new maps of the county's seventeen districts will be in effect until the next Federal Census is completed ten years from now.

(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

Albany — At a time of federal attacks on healthcare funding, New York legislators should take action to protect and expand healthcare access by sponsoring and voting on New York Health this session.

And the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Facility, north of Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg, is already a favorite destination for convicted New York legislators.

How that list has been created in the last few years could be the start of a long thread of inquiry for federal investigators looking into what some legislators have been doing to make outside income.

Mangano has resisted prior calls for the county to dump Armor's contract, including after a group of Democratic county legislators criticized the vendor's care and called for federal intervention at the jail earlier this year.

State Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), Long Island's highest - ranking legislator and majority leader of the Senate, is the focus of a federal investigation into allegations of corruption.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

One person close to him said that there is no other job that would interest him — he doesn't need money, he won't be a legislator, he's served in the federal cabinet — and that he was basically genetically engineered to be King of the Capitol.

The Capitol is beset by federal investigations into corruption and bribery involving at least five lawmakers, one of whom wore an FBI wire to try to ensnare fellow legislators.

Prosecutors on U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's staff noted that at least 14 New York State legislators have been convicted of federal corruption - related crimes in the past ten years.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, says legislators are finding that if they don't change their policies they are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.

In addition to electing club officers and executive committees, members of New York Democratic clubs are extremely influential in nominating and electing unpaid party officials known as District Leaders and members of the New York State Democratic Committee, as well as Democratic legislators at the City, State and federal level.

Beacuse the Legislature hasn't been able to agree on a date on which both the federal and state primaries can be held, legislators who try and fail to run for Congress have, for the past several campaign cycles, had the option of running for their old seats as a Plan B.

On the heels of last month's revelation that now former Assemblyman Nelson Castro had been wearing a wire for federal prosecutors determined to bust some of his fellow corrupt colleagues for almost his entire tenture in office comes the news that yet another legislator agreed to use a recording device at the feds» behest.

Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco told county legislators that federal investigators had to step into the prosecution of former county Conservative Party Chairman Edward Walsh as a result of a «true moral failure» by Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota's office.

To top it off, former Assemblymember Anthony Seminario was recently sentenced to six years on federal corruption charges, and a number of legislators are under federal investigation for their relationships with nonprofits.

Ologbodiyan said, «Rather than offering explanations, the Buhari Presidency, in the All Progressives Congress usual arrogance and disdain, opted to insult Nigerians, including federal legislators as well as the institution of the National Assembly.

Judge Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan noted that even before Mr. Silver's arrest, when some of his fellow legislators had been arrested on corruption charges, he remained undeterred.

In a study conducted by an independent organization that ranks federal legislators, Gibson was rated tops among 400 + members of Congress for his bipartisan voting record.

And as both federal and state legislators grapple with increased restrictions on abortion, a new national poll indicates Americans have mixed reactions to some of the moves being made right now in state houses and the nation's capital.

Smith was brought down by Bharara, who, since being installed as the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in 2009, has charged a dozen legislators.

In their brief, elected officials argued that the variance allowed «one municipal board to defeat over a century of collaborative work and investment by New York and New Jersey citizens, legislators, and courts, as well as by the federal government, to preserve the historic Hudson River Palisades north of the George Washington Bridge.»

ALBANY — A federal proposal to provide two years of free community college for all students could actually save New York taxpayers money, a high - ranking legislator told POLITICO New York.