Sentences with phrase «other federal systems»

Center for State Constitutional Studies The Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to promoting public understanding of American state constitutions and of sub-national constitutions in other federal systems through research, publications, lectures, conferences, consultation services, and educational initiatives.

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«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

«Although the Federal Reserve generally monitors developments in virtual currencies and other payments system innovations, it does not necessarily have authority to directly supervise or regulate these innovations or the entities that provide them to the market,» Bernanke said in a letter.

To further increase the possibility that all borrowers have a fair opportunity to request a foreclosure review, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should require that servicers include a range of potential remediation amounts or categories in communication materials and other outreach, such as direct mailings to borrowers, public service announcements, the independent foreclosure review website, regulators» websites, and officials» testimonies and speeches.

The Federal Reserve pumps money into the banking system by purchasing bonds and, when the system breaks down, makes enormous bailout payments to cover the bad debts run up by banks and other institutions to mortgage borrowers, businesses and consumers.

These included updates on compensation - related regulations and guidance issued by the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) and other U.S. federal banking regulators, the Financial Stability Board, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority and other regulators around theFederal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) and other U.S. federal banking regulators, the Financial Stability Board, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority and other regulators around theFederal Reserve Board) and other U.S. federal banking regulators, the Financial Stability Board, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority and other regulators around thefederal banking regulators, the Financial Stability Board, the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority and other regulators around the world.

Their proposal incentivizes state and federal agencies to report criminal offenses and other information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Virtually all components identified in the January 2010 Budget (e.g., improved rail system, repair of federal buildings, cleanup of contaminated sites, aviation security, small craft harbors, among others) have received incremental funding.

The United States Federal Reserve System works similarly to central banks in many other countries, with a goal of managing economic growth, inflation, and other economic factors through monetary policy.

Dedicated Defense Company to Deliver the Next - Generation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to the United States Department of Defense and Other Federal Agencies.

[1] The Framework discusses, ``... steps to raise the federal funds rate and other short - term interest rates to more normal levels...» That language, however, is ambiguous as the federal funds market has shrunk dramatically in a financial system awash in reserves.

In a future, hard anchor monetary system, the Federal Reserve could issue and redeem its currency for U.S. treasury bills rather than gold or other anchor goods and services.

The Federal Employees Retirement System comprises three major components, with the Thrft Savings Plan being one of them (the other two being Social Security and the FERS annuity).

The report is compiled based on information provided by a large number of businesses, community contacts, banks, economists, market experts and other sources outside the Federal Reserve System.

This is the short - term interest rate at which U.S financial institutions (such as banks, credit unions, and others in the Federal Reserve system) lend money to each other overnight in order to meet mandated reserve levels.

Along with all other commodities, crude oil enjoyed a nice rally for the next few years as the Federal Reserve injected over $ 2 trillion into the banking system in order to stimulate our nation's economy.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Like others who support the original understanding of the Constitution, I disagree with many of the Supreme Court's decisions under the establishment clause, but in our system of government a federal - district judge like Judge Jones is bound by those decisions.

In an op - ed in USA Today last month, she and two other stated reformers — Mark Dupree, a Kansas district attorney, and Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor — asked for something to be done about the current American justice system.

The number of students who qualify for a free or discounted meal based on income levels also matters because schools and entire school systems may qualify for grants and other federal funding based on the reported level of need among students.

«The federal program, which is known as the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, only required systems that served 10,000 users or more to test for certain unregulated contaminants, and then a really small random sample of other systems are tested,» Hutton says.

CUNY's faculty union and other advocacy and interest groups have estimated it would cost $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the CUNY system's two - and four - year colleges.

As with salaries, the rules governing the retirement benefits of the Vice President, Cabinet members, members of Congress and other federal officials are different than those that apply to the President, with benefits laid - out in the rules of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System federal officials are different than those that apply to the President, with benefits laid - out in the rules of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

He has also established IDNYC, a municipal identification system designed to cater to people lacking other government - verified credentials, and pledged to keep its databases from the hands of the federal government.

Duncan told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the Kanawha County school system was already handing out pink slips in anticipation of the automatic cuts that, among other things, will impact the amount of federal money states get through September.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

This story has been updated to clarify that the state's plan to rebuild the its transportation system includes federal funds and other sources.

«The settlement provides an important example for other correctional systems around the country,» Manhattan federal court judge Laura Taylor Swain said, calling the settlement between the city, the U.S. Justice Department and a group of inmates «groundbreaking.»

«This multi-million naira project which was financed by the European Union (EU) and executed by UNODC, ably supported by Federal Government of Nigeria, comprises 30 pieces of Computer, Scanning Machine, Photocopiers, cooling system, furniture, Internet facilities and other highly sophisticated equipment.

Sturgeon suggests a version of the double majority approach, as seen in some other countries with federal systems, would transform Britain.

Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, says that «whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item (s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $ 100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.»

The measures backed by Schneiderman this week would provide for a system of early voting in the state, consolidate the two federal and state party primaries in a single date and allow for same - day enrollment, among other provisions.

Among its other provisions, the bill would expand what goes into the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, a database of contractors» past performance and other related information.

But better than the federal system, New York's FOIL tool could include counties, cities, towns and other localities.

The Trump administration proposed the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades, outlining a framework that would cut individual and corporate taxes, eliminate widely used exemptions and deductions and tilt the U.S. closer to the type of tax system embraced by other industrialized nations.

The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.

Katko said he has already decided to support two other initiatives: A federal ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster; and a bill in Congress aimed at strengthening the National Instant Background Check System, or NICS.

The military practically abolished Nigeria's federal system in favour of a unitary, distributive economy in which we all shared proceeds of oil; they created more and more states eroding sub-national economic viability; they nationalized and indigenized banks and declared that government would hold the «commanding heights» of our economy, marginalizing investment and the private sector brought in «big government»; they implemented «Udoji awards» and other elements of oil and FX subsidies that Nigeria battles to overcome today; and the about - to - depart government of Murtala / Obasanjo took the first $ 1billion jumbo loan that set Nigeria on the path to debt peonage!

Apple Computer, which has put the plan to the US Federal Communications Commission, says the system would allow people to create their own computer networks or have video conferences with other users up to 15 kilometres away.

Gawande found a receptive audience for his idea that the federal government create a National Institute of Health Systems Innovation to complement the work of the National Institutes of Health, although PCAST members suggested that he consider other administrative solutions.

Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) announced the creation of six UAV testing areas around the country, where researchers will develop the kinds of systems that will allow autonomous craft to join the national airspace, safely sensing and avoiding other aircraft.

NOAA has launched an emergency response and investigation, employing the same approach adopted for other federal emergencies like massive wildfires — complete with an incident command system spearheaded by federal personnel who coordinate a response across state lines.

But the general advice applies to the peer - review systems of other federal agencies and those of private foundations.

Other bills that address the topic focus on shortening the time from discovery to treatment in the U.S. health care system, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or on tweaking specific federal regulations.

(viii) a list of the existing observation and monitoring systems or programs operated by each Federal agency that provide data, observations, and other information that may be used to develop or improve climate products and services;

The report calls on federal agencies and other research funders to support efforts to build the surveillance systems and develop case studies on the health of individual marine mammals and populations.

This effort builds on previous investigations, such as the USGS Central Valley Regional Aquifer System and Analysis (CV - RASA) project and several other groundwater studies in the Valley completed by Federal, State and local agencies at differing scales.