Sentences with phrase «ongoing federal effort»

Consequently a major and ongoing federal effort has been to try and cram these numbers into the box imposed by the theory that gives the government the most power — i.e., strong global warming.

Case in point is the ongoing federal effort to encourage hospitals and other providers to protect patients from potentially deadly infections from antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

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«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,» Shah said.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a statement.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the federal government to end reign of terrorism in the North - Eastern part...

Gillibrand sent a letter urging the agency to expedite its response and take immediate federal action to support and add to the state's ongoing efforts.

Indig — who held a fundraiser for de Blasio in 2013 and, according to The New York Times, is now a focus in the ongoing federal probe into de Blasio's fundraising efforts — forwarded Kaff and Kornitzer's request to the mayor's deputy director of intergovernmental affairs Avi Fink and senior adviser Lincoln Restler.

«At these visits, the Vice President will lead high - level delegations of the Federal Government that will interact with leaders and representatives of the oil - producing communities in continuation of ongoing outreach efforts of the Buhari administration towards a long lasting and permanent resolution of the Niger Delta crisis.

Also at 10 a.m., arguments in the ongoing effort by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's attorneys to overturn his federal corruption conviction will be heard, federal courthouse, Foley Square, Room 1703, Manhattan.

Howe is an intersecting figure in the ongoing state and federal investigations into economic development projects, including the signature western New York effort known as the Buffalo Billion.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, on Wednesday, said regardless of the federal government's effort to end the ongoing fuel scarcity across the country, queues might not disappear from filling stations until about two months.

I commend all those involved with this project and the ongoing effort within our State and at the Federal level to invest in New York's long term future with high speed rail.»

«I give the Sheriff a lot of credit for the ongoing effort to identify grant opportunities from the state and federal governments so we don't have to go to the property tax line.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

On Monday, Kaloyeros filed court documents asking a judge to compel Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road to pay his legal expenses and fees connected to the state and federal charges, as well as his ongoing effort to retain his SUNY Poly faculty position.

He also said the Federal Government had begun the implementation of the second national action plan to firmly establish the successes of the last one year, even as he said efforts were ongoing around physical infrastructure, especially transport connections and power.

Federal agencies need to patch some scientific holes in their ongoing efforts to protect struggling bee populations, according to the nonpartisan watchdog agency of Congress.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

It's part of an ongoing effort to persuade federal policymakers that making a bigger investment in graduate education will create more jobs and strengthen the economy.

They have even vowed to stop ongoing government efforts to protect grouse on federal lands, which hold about 65 % of its key remaining habitat.

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.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

As part of ongoing efforts to determine the root cause, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (the equivalent of the U.S. federal government's Department of Education) called for a regrading of a subset of standardized tests administered during 2010 and 2011.

Yet ongoing efforts to improve public education focus primarily on the role of teachers, principals, and superintendents and, to a lesser extent, on state and federal policymakers.

WHEREAS, the ESEA Discussion Draft repeals the long - standing Title I Maintenance of Effort (MOE) and the Title IX General Provisions MOE requirement, and without them, state and local education funding could be lowered by states with no consequences to the state's ongoing receipt of federal aid; and

The Permitting Council is responsible for leading ongoing government - wide efforts to modernize the Federal environmental review and permitting process for major infrastructure projects and work with Federal agency partners to implement and oversee adherence to the statutory requirements set forth in the FAST Act.

WASHINGTON — As the next step in its ongoing efforts to increase safety at railroad crossings, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today released a list of railroad crossings in the United States where multiple incidents have occurred in recent years.

Summarizes GAO's prior and ongoing work examining (1) actions that federal, state, local, and international authorities are taking to adapt to a changing climate, (2) the challenges that federal, state, and local officials face in their efforts to adapt, and (3) actions that the Congress and federal agencies could take to help address these challenges.

There's been an ongoing attack on the credibility of federal climate monitoring efforts that has been partly inspired by Anthony Watts.

The event featured a keynote address from the Honourable James Gordon Carr, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, who outlined his government's efforts to ensure Canada will compete and thrive in the ongoing global transition to a low - carbon economy.

Its special section, Reporters and Federal Subpoenas, provides in - depth and frequently updated coverage of efforts to enact a federal shield law as well as of ongoing legal controversies involving reporters» subFederal Subpoenas, provides in - depth and frequently updated coverage of efforts to enact a federal shield law as well as of ongoing legal controversies involving reporters» subfederal shield law as well as of ongoing legal controversies involving reporters» subpoenas.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association today filed their written brief to the Ontario Court of Appeal, as part of its ongoing efforts to stop the unconscionable federal practice of indefinite solitary confinement, particularly of the indigenous and mentally ill.

The potentially significant commercial impact of the order is evidenced by Samsung's ongoing efforts to get a US federal judge to block its enforcement.

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system,» the White House said in a statement Monday morning.

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»

Today's roundtable convened by the Federal government is a welcome step toward acknowledging the ongoing suicide crisis in Aboriginal communities and the need for an urgent concentrated effort to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal people and address the transgenerational trauma impacting on our communities.

long - term funding for the national effort to close the gap, as currently delivered through national partnership agreements, and the quarantining of close the gap programs and related initiatives in ongoing reviews of the health system at state, territory and federal levels.

Efforts by the federal government including the FHA and FEMA are ongoing.