Sentences with phrase «on executive branch»

Clement's courageous actions and words to date highlight the urgent need for critically important checks and balances on Executive Branch overreach.

The Senators» push on the executive branch to move faster to ramp up natural gas exports doesn't seem likely to meet resistance in the Obama administration.

The new Ecuadorian Constitution, as I have read it, is an authoritarian, centralist and abortionist one: It concentrates most powers on the executive branch by controlling, in an undemocratic way, inalienable rights such as freedom of speech, right to privacy, and freedom of the press.

Instead of a sequester, we need to get a handle on the executive branch's discretionary spending and establish a balanced budget.

Putting aside comparisons between Woodward's earlier books on the Bush administration and looking just at State of Denial, most reviewers agree that it offers a valuable nonpartisan primer on the Executive branch of the United States in the early years of the 21st century.

«I think we should stick with the standards as they are rather than weakening them and instead focus on the executive branch, particularly OSSE and DCPS, and figure out how we can do it.

The teenager on computer 6 was working on a module on imperialism for the same course, and the student on computer 7 was doing a review and practice test on the executive branch of the U.S. government.

Under the option's new rules, a simple majority would be required to move forward on executive branch and judicial nominations (excluding those to the Supreme Court).

The panel is charged with investigating and imposing penalties on executive branch employees and lobbyists.

JCOPE has jurisdiction to investigate and impose penalties on executive branch employees and lobbyists.

So there would still be a check on the Executive Branch from the judiciary.

He also frequently vetoes bills that would impose mandates on the executive branch, and opposed bills this year to strengthen the state's Freedom of Information Law and let various local governments impose hotel occupancy taxes.

At least one commission member defended the lack of focus on the executive branch.

Last April, Bharara pledged to concentrate on the executive branch, and subsequently brought federal charges against some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top donors and aides, securing indictments in November.

In its haste to pass this legislation, the Congress included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions» — such as restrictions on executive branch ′ s authority that limited its flexibility in foreign policy.

If judges can declare laws unconstitutional at will and impose - or block - policy decisions on the Executive branch with their verdicts, you're no longer living in a democracy but in a oligarchy.

ICYMI: One of the 25 Moreland Commission members, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, said during a CapTon interview last night that the corruption - busting body is unlikely to train its sites on the executive branch, despite multiple calls (largely from legislators) to do so.

«The Legislature is a check on the executive branch,» Loughran said.

If that were not in place, the War Powers Act, which, ironically, was meant to set boundaries on the Executive Branch use of military force, would still allow for this action, in all probability.

On November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Court.

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court.

After toppling both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Dean Skelos with public corruption last year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he has his eye on the executive branch, too.

In office, Lincoln gave effect to his position against judicial supremacy by consistently refusing to treat the Dred Scott decision as creating a rule of law binding on the executive branch.

Trump's objections to the bill stem from his belief that it encroaches on the executive branch's authority to negotiate.

Traditionally, judges have been extremely cautious about stepping on the executive branch's authority in such matters, legal experts said.

Not exact matches

By 30 he was managing the largest branch in Toronto; by 40 he was Scotia's most senior executive in the United States, running its corporate lending business on Wall Street.

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

Several people have asked me why the federal conflicts of interest law, which bars every lowly executive branch official from acting on matters that affect their personal financial interests, won't apply to President Donald Trump.

«We're not accusing them (the FBI) of anything at this point,» Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said.

DiGenova, whose comments were rebroadcast on Tuesday night on Hannity's Fox News program — which Trump is known to watch regularly — also said that a series of questions purported to come from Mueller's office were an «intrusion» on the president's constitutional right to «fire any executive branch employee.»

Russia's executive branch has weighed in on a proposed bill to regulate ICOs, offering several suggestions on how to improve it.

Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida - based branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said his group would by the end of this week file a request for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice to review Todashev's death.

Karen Holdhouse, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, asked executives on the corporation's first - quarter conference call what they would do from an operational perspective if changing the company's communication strategies were not successful, and in particular, if the company planned to extend «an olive branch» to Canadian Tim Hortons consumers or to its franchisees.

Under the law, if Cohn sells his Goldman stock to avoid a conflict of interest as a member of the Executive Branch, he will be able to indefinitely defer capital gains taxes on the sale, providing he invests the proceeds from the stock sales in government securities or an approved government securities mutual fund.

Under Article II of the Constitution, only Officers of the United States may bring litigation on behalf of the Executive Branch.

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, gives the executive branch the ability to conduct investigations to «determine the effects on the national security of imports.»

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

There has been a statement issued by the Russian government's executive branch which pledges their support for a bill that has the goal of implementing regulations on the ICO market.

As Richard Rubin pointed out to me on Twitter, section 1043 of the Code is designed to help with similar situations when the certain executive or judicial branch members are required to divest to avoid a conflict of interest.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

However, Congress has lagged far behind the executive branch in embracing this shift, and the courts have not made a firm ruling on the issue.

For our part, we, the people, will do well to remember that every constitutional restraint, textual or judge - made, on the powers of the legislative and executive branches is ipso facto and necessarily a transfer of power to the Court and the courts.

@Ukko: Basically, the intelligence the memo is based on is owned by the Executive Branch, and thus POTUS is the ultimate authority.

If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»

Are there clear, cut and dry rules on when a president can take executive action, or is it all up to the judicial branch's arbitrary discretion?

They seem so pleased with their heady humor, and completely unwilling to consider that the image on the cover will be spread far and wide beyond their usual readership, and their briliant social commentary has consequences in the contest for the Executive branch.

The legislative pay panel is expected to make its decision on salary increases for lawmakers as well as officials in the executive branch after Election Day this year.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Last week on Capital Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said ethics reform should include the executive branch, and today, Speaker Sheldon Silver called the effectiveness of the governor's tour across the state «irrelevant.»

But the President is the head of the executive branch, so if he and an executive branch official disagree on need - to - know, the President wins (it's less «checks and balances» and more «the boss can tell his subordinates what to do»).