Sentences with phrase «on federal housing policy»

In addition, Hartnett served on the Federal Housing Policy Committee from 2011 - 12, and on the National Women's Council of REALTORS ® Professional Development Committee in 2012.

By forging this relationship with consumers now, we become a much more potent force on federal housing policy issues in the future.

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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.

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee on...

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).

Appearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 11 to present the Federal Reserve's semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, Yellen said that Congress should make it a priority to pass -LSB-...]

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

To criticize the Reagan housing policy is not to recommend returning to the time when the federal government built or subsidized for - profit developers to build the socially destabilizing, high - rise apartment complexes symbolized by the infamous Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago's South Side.

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.

«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.

«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.

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.»

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 releasOn 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 releason a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

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.

The Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council will lead a White House Interagency Working Group on Offshore Wind, which will also gather representatives from other federal agencies, according to a statement from the White House.

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's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), established under NEPA in 1969 to coordinate federal environmental efforts, is supposed to minimize lapses in federal environmental policies.

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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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 labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research 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.

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.

Congressional Democrats reaped modest gains in last week's hard - fought elections, which some observers here say could step up pressure for a more centrist, bipartisan approach to federal education policy on Capitol Hill next year, regardless of which candidate ultimately wins the White House.

Education's prominent role in the recent congressional elections did not translate into interest in working on the House committee that deals with federal school policy.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Jack Jennings, author of the new Harvard Education Press title Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform, was witness to the evolution of federal policy, working closely with Congress, first as a subcommittee staff director and then as general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.

In May of 2017 in her testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Betsy DeVos declined to say whether she would protect students against discriminatory policies in private schools that receive federal funding through vouchers.3

Trump's recent proposal to eliminate Title II, which was advanced last month by a House Committee on Appropriations, 16 entirely puts at risk these evidence - based reform efforts, which are up to states to implement.17 Advocates must work to minimize cuts to Title II and other federal programs to ensure that states and districts have operating funds and the ability to implement innovative policies and programs with fidelity.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

«Michael's extensive experience in federal policy and government management will further strengthen NSBA's relations with Congress and the White House on behalf of state school boards associations and the more than 90,000 school board members across the country.»

Dynarski has consulted broadly on student aid reform across federal government agencies, and has testified about education and tax policy before the US Senate Finance Committee, the US House Ways and Means Committee and the President's Commission on Tax Reform.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initifederal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiFederal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initifederal policy efforts with local initiatives.

But for school reformers and others, the big question that must be confronted lies not with Clinton's penchant for avoiding transparency, but with what steps she would take on federal education policy if she wins the White House next year.

There have been very few policy efforts to address the segregation problem in the U.S., as «housing policy in the United States appears to be in a protracted, transformative period that combines a lack of strong federal leadership with continued reliance on increasingly uncertain federal funding» (Basolo and Scally, 2008).

But thanks to a policy switch made final last week, charging extra interest payments on loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration will soon be banned.

Homeowners» Insurance: Required for all mortgage loans, protects the home from damage and theft Owner's Title Insurance: Optional policy ensuring the title will not be subject to a claim of ownership, lien or other encumbrance Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI): Required by most lenders when the down payment is less than 20 % Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Mortgage Insurance Premium: Required on all FHA loans Mortgage Life Insurance: Optional policy that protects family and estate by paying off the loan in case of death Disability Insurance: Optional policy that guarantees loan payments will be made in case of disability

Since the financial crisis in 2008, the federal government has introduced stricter rules on banks» mortgage lending policies requiring higher down payments when purchasing a house which have made it more difficult for some homeowners and developers to borrow money.

Bank of Montreal economics published a Special Report last week on the Canadian housing market which seems to provide ample evidence that markets really are in the process of achieving the much sought after «soft landing» after federal policy makers took steps to cool the market last summer.

During a housing policy meeting in 2004, Edward Gramlich (who was on the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve at the time) explained how subprime mortgage lenders were helping the country:

There were a myriad of causes for the current housing problems, ranging from the Federal Reserve's zero interest rate policies, to widespread speculation on housing as an investment vehicle, to lax underwriting standards on subprime and no - doc / low doc loans.

That's why I've charged John Holdren and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with leading a new effort to ensure that federal policies are based on the best and most unbiased scientific information.

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.

Obama also named his appointment of Lisa Jackson as the chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy Sutley as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Carol Browner as head of a newly - created White House position to coordinate energy, environment and climate change policies across federal agencies.

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