Sentences with phrase «other congressional acts»

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The Bush family make the bulk of its wealth supporting the Third Reich through Union Banking Corporation of NYC (and about 20 other companies that they owned or controlled), which had it assets seized by the US Congress for violations of the «Trading with Enemies Act», and that is a historical fact that can be verified by a search of the Congressional Record.

Kids In Danger commends Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL - 9), Representative Bobby Rush (IL - 1) and US Senator Dick Durbin (IL) along with other congressional leaders and consumer groups who worked to pass the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) to improve children's product safety.

Getting supporters to click and then to donate is clearly already becoming an issue, and if the campaigns they think the problem's bad now, wait until the spring and summer, when senatorial, gubernatorial, congressional, and other state and local campaigns get into the list - building and fundraising act.

Other members of the congressional delegation from Maryland have yet to sign on in support of the Respect for Marriage Act.

And of course congressional acts must also be consistent with other laws passed by Congress as well as the constitution.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on Washington Democrats to «show us what you're made of» by pushing back hard against President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans on the Affordable Care Act and other issues, appearing to position himself as a national leader as rumors of his potential 2020 presidential bid run rampant.

Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Regarding Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines [March 28, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Bill Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]

Those problems, and others, ended last October with congressional passage of S. 2045, the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act, signed into law by President Clinton on October 17, 2000.

In general, groups and individuals acting on behalf of AAAS will comment on specific legislative and budgetary issues only upon the request of some congressional committee, subcommittee, or other congressional bodies.

The National School Boards Association is organizing a national call - in day for school board members and other local officials to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

July 22, 2015: NSBA and National Education Groups Joint Letter to Congressional Leaders on ESEA NSBA and nine other national education organizations sent this letter to House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid urging them to proceed to conference with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization as soon as possible.

The DOT Order directs the Department to consider EJ objectives when administering the requirements of NEPA; Title VI and related statutes; the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (URA); Congressional authorized planning requirements; other laws, regulations, and executive orders, that address or affect infrastructure planning and decisionmaking; social, economic or environmental matters; public health; and public involvement.

Under Section 1442 of the FAST Act and congressional guidance on Nonmotorized User Safety accompanying the proposed FY 2017 Appropriations bill, DOT released a Safety for All Users report that identifies eight multimodal policy and program areas that can be implemented to help improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and other users.

A movement based on the above principles could protect millions of acres of wilderness more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation of the Grizzly and other threatened life forms better than could an army of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat of industrial civilization from large areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance of native diversity than to the production of raw materials for over consumptive technological human society.

At the same time, GAP conducted 40 in - depth interviews with federal climate scientists and other officials and analyzed thousands of pages of government documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and inside sources, regarding agency media policies and Congressional communications.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.

The other, submitted by David Cicilline (D - RI), co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, would reintroduce the Equality Act, prohibiting discrimination against the LGBT community in credit, education, employment, federal funding, housing, jury service and public accommodations.