Sentences with phrase «over federal mandates»

His comments come a week after endorsing a resolution in the Texas state House reasserting state sovereignty over federal mandates.

Thirteen years later, the debate over the federal mandate still simmers.

Not exact matches

In order to keep the tax bill under its $ 1.5 trillion ceiling, Republicans proposed to repeal the ACA's individual mandate — saving just over $ 330 billion in federal spending over 10 years.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

According to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), an inflation rate of 2 % «is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve's mandate for price stability and maximum employment.»

Catholic News Agency: Domino's founder sues over contraception mandate Tom Monaghan, the founder and former owner of Domino's Pizza, is suing the federal government over a controversial mandate that requires him to violate his Catholic faith in his business decisions.

In May it sued the government in federal court in Brooklyn over the mandate, saying it «unconstitutionally attempts to define the nature of the church's religious ministry and would force religious employers to violate their consciences.»

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

Evangelical institutions suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate expected that their legal battle would end when President Donald Trump took office.

Over the years, Congress has mandated federal nutrition standards, funded fresh fruit and vegetable programs and debated, but never acted on, banning various «junk foods» from schools.

Dutchess County Legislature Assistant Majority Leader Donna Bolner said, «With more than 70 % of the county budget mandated by the state and federal government, we must continue to be prudent and wise with the remaining 30 % of the budget that we have direct influence over.

So, to recap: The congresswoman is seeking more spending by the federal government here in New York to help with the post-Irene recovery — a move that would, if she and Cantor had their way, require additional cuts at a time when Washington is already polarized over reductions mandated by the debt ceiling deal passed early this month.

The two sides have spent months haggling, with Cuomo vying for more control over the money and the federal government insisting on a narrow mandate.

Among the solutions county lawmakers are seeking is passage of Senate bill S. 429A, sponsored by Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R - Elma, that would, over a 20 - year period, lead to a state takeover of the full costs of Medicaid, or Assembly bill A. 4072, sponsored by Corwin, that would allow counties to opt out of providing various Medicaid services not mandated by the federal government, but currently mandated by Albany.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

• Federal spending to develop and administer mandated assessments is adequate for now, but will need to increase over time.

Over half these complaints involve the treatment of children with disabilities; often these involve disagreements over the details of the individualized education plans mandated by federal Over half these complaints involve the treatment of children with disabilities; often these involve disagreements over the details of the individualized education plans mandated by federal over the details of the individualized education plans mandated by federal law.

That's in keeping with the mandate from Congress, which just over a year ago updated the major K - 12 law to expressly limit the federal role in education.

They acknowledged the legitimacy of state policy (even if they dislike the notion of federal mandates and bemoan inadequate state funding), and generally find that they are able to use policy to enlarge their own influence over the improvement of education in their settings.

I got to look over the president's shoulder and sign the end of No Child Left Behind's federal mandate to support high - stakes testing.

In 2016, DPPS received a second round of expansion funding from the federal government along with a mandate to educate over 10,000 scholars by the end of the 2020 - 21 school year.

One can not take shortcuts when it comes to safety training and federal mandates, and face - to - face training just won't cut it when you have employees scattered all over the country, or world for that matter.

The regulation would impose Education Department - mandated accountability measures promulgating federal government oversight over student and school achievement.

Over the past decade, educators» expertise has been muzzled by NCLB's unreasonable and unworkable federal mandates.

Rather than a politics that seeks to exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.

However, since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1950 and continuing to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Department of Education's Race to the Top initiative of 2009, the federal government has taken and maintained increased control over schools through mandates, incentives, and funding.

Over the past 15 years, however, a national consensus slowly has emerged among the disparate parties and coalesced into a clear movement toward more sophisticated accountability systems and fewer federal mandates.

Federal judge Judge Lucy Koh, who is presiding over two Apple vs Samsung lawsuits in the Northern District of California, mandated the meeting.

According to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), an inflation rate of 2 % «is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve's mandate for price stability and maximum employment.»

Combined with the sting of the struggling economy, the new Liberal government is already facing increasing pressure to meet its election vows to cap annual deficits at $ 10 billion over the next two years and to balance the federal books in the fourth year of its mandate.

BIOFUELS: Renewable fuels groups are satisfied with President Trump's planned compromise over federal ethanol mandates that would allow year - round sales.

Renewable fuels have been mandated under federal law for over a decade, since the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and current RFS policy is broken, outdated and ineffective.

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Lawmakers grill DOE chief over his rush request for federal cost - recovery mandate in the name of grid resiliency.

(Given the massive subsidies that the coal industry has received over the years, Louie and Pearce suggest that companies should be required to finance a retraining fund — possibly patterned after the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which mandates that companies pay into a federal fund for reclamation of abandoned mine land).

Notable mandates: Represented Halifax Regional Municipality in its 10 - year battle with the federal government over the under - estimation of the value of Citadel Hill pursuant to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act; represented the province of Nova Scotia in the purchase of Bowater Mersey Paper Co. Ltd., and on the NewPage Corp. matter; advised Husky Energy on its South White Rose Extension project; acted for Emera Inc. on the development and transmission of hydroelectric power from Muskrat Falls; acted for Dexter to formulate a 3P bid to complete the twinning of the Saint John to St. Stephen divided highway, and provided legal advice when it won the contract; provided all legal services to establish title to Loblaw Co. Ltd. properties throughout Atlantic Canada as part of the establishment of a proposed REIT; engaged by TransCanada Corp. as local counsel on the Energy East Pipeline Project

U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Christine Stoneman, who works in the federal coordination and compliance section of the civil rights division, said that states had made strides over the past decade in meeting federally mandated requirements for language access in the courts.

In that post I expressed hopes that Samsung would take the design patent issues in that case to the Supreme Court, and a filing made by Samsung with the Federal Circuit on Wednesday (a motion to stay execution of a mandate, i.e., to prevent Apple from physically collecting money before the case is really over) now states clearly that this will happen (this post continues below the document):

Because having car insurance in South Carolina is legally mandated by both the state and federal government, utilizing a price comparison tool can potentially save the consumer a large sum of money over a period of time.

Over the coming years more and more medical billing and medical coding professionals will be needed to enter patient information into computer databases to comply with Federal legislation mandating the use of electronic patient records.

Simonsen's affidavit says the Competition Bureau wants «to allow brokers to use the information from boards / associations» MLS Systems to provide services over the Internet (including, but not restricted to VOWs), without any restrictions, including any restrictions which might be mandated by provincial or other federal regulation.»

According to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), an inflation rate of 2 % «is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve's mandate for price stability and maximum employment.»

The pending rulemakings for the Qualified Mortgage (QM) and Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) rules mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act and the Federal Reserve's recently proposed Basel III international capital standards have the potential to severely restrict already tight credit and reduce mortgage provider choice over the next several years.