Sentences with phrase «pro-limiting federal influence»

His real estate empire is now under a national microscope, its every deal scrutinized for hints of federal influence.

I think gone are the days when the citizens would vote for a candidate because of federal influence.

«My point is that there should be nothing like federal influence or power in elections anymore.

Both factions would like to remove the taint of federal influence from state - based reform.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

Conservatives complain it opens the door to federal influence in local schools.

The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015 federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether federal funds for education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive grants citing a desire to reduce federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven education policies.

Washington Watch Congress looks at CTE, student data as Trump team continues push for school choice, less federal influence

In a letter submitted to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the senators state that the changes are clearly an example of federal influence, «if not direct control,» over standards.

Randy Weber (R) supports stemming federal influence over anything he considers a state issue, and education, and thus higher education, falls under that description.

With that in mind, Rep. Randy Weber voted for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, a current law that stemmed federal influence on student loans in 2013.

In 2013, he helped keep interest rates low while skimming down federal influence by voting in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

His principal of limiting federal influence is backed up by his support for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which removed politics from defining interest rates.

Judging by this voting history, he most likely supports the private market over federal influence in student aid.

He supports limiting federal influence on education, namely in the spirit of budget cuts, but this includes defunding the Pell Grant program and other higher education programs.

Although Jeff Duncan (R) does not issue many statements on student loans, his congressional record shows that he supported limiting federal influence in the past.

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At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

Unfortunately for the current federal government, the power of the provinces today vastly exceeds their influence in Macdonald's day.

DN: I think the Federal Reserve policy is the single biggest overriding influence in the public markets today.

Powell said individual Fed members will be crafting new projections at the central bank's meeting in March, which would be influenced by federal government's ambitious fiscal policies including tax cuts.

A federal judge found congressional districts were drawn to limit influence of Hispanic voters.

Trump's support for an increased federal gas tax could influence the gas tax repeal effort in California.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

Kevin Gaudet, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, laments EDC's growing influence.

Because of how the Bank of Canada has incorporated federal fiscal projections in its forecasts, there's a risk markets might over-read any tension over rates and interpret the government «as having more influence on the governor than it would past Bank of Canada governors,» he said.

One way to gauge what the market expects in terms of short - term rates is to look at Fed Funds future contracts, which allow investors to place bets on what where the federal funds rate will be in the future (This long - term view can influence short - term rates).

That rate changes as the Federal Reserve influences the Federal Funds Rate (the Wall Street Journal publishes this rate by polling the major banks — more info can be found here).

In that case, monetary policy's ability to get in all the cracks of the financial system — to paraphrase former Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein — would give it a more powerful influence on financial stability.8

Before 2008, bank reserves were scarce, and the Federal Reserve influenced overnight interest rates by making small adjustments in the supply of reserves.

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

The federal funds rate influences the prime interest rate, or the rate banks give to their best customers.

According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»

Cohn's exit is, in its way, normal: He passed his signature policy effort, he didn't get the promotion to Federal Reserve chair, he was losing influence internally, he was burnt out, and so he is leaving.

The expansion in the Federal Reserve's balance sheet during and after the financial crisis means that reserves are now abundant, and small adjustments in the quantity of reserves will not have much influence on overnight interest rates.

Moreover, this latest action from the Swiss regulator may have been influenced by the recent visit of Johann Schneider - Ammann, Swiss federal councilor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency developmefederal councilor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency developmeFederal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency development hub.

But under federal campaign finance rules, a contribution is «anything of value given, loaned or advanced to influence a federal election.»

The Fed has a dual mandate to maximize employment and stabilize inflation, which it tries to achieve primarily by pushing up or down the federal funds rate, the benchmark short - term financing cost for banks that influences a wide range of borrowing rates for households and businesses.

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Nevertheless, while the post-1972 federal taxation system bears little resemblance to that advocated in the Carter report, the report's influence is reflected in the partial taxation of capital gains and changes in tax administration.

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

Central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) use monetary policy tactics, including interest rate moves and increasing or decreasing the monetary supply, to try and influence the level of inflation, stimulate the economy and spur employment.

Consequently, the Fed can no longer target the effective federal funds rate, and influence other short - term interest rates, just by making modest changes to the stock of bank reserves.

At least two complaints to the Federal Election Commission allege that the money was meant to influence the presidential election and therefore amounted to an illegal in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

Specifically, by altering the supply of bank reserves, the Fed could influence the federal funds rate — the rate banks paid other banks to borrow reserves overnight — and so keep that rate on target.

Influenced by the weakness in financial markets and indicators such as «financial conditions», the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (FOMC) postponed a widely anticipated interest rate hike in March.

For that reason, MillerCoors will take its turn at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on Tuesday in a long line of disgruntled subjects of banking oligarchy.According to the major US brewery, the Federal Reserve ought to toughen oversight of big banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan due to their negative influence over commodities like aluminum for beer cans.

As all central banks meetings, the Federal Reserve's meetings are also causing a lot of turbulent movements in the market, whereby the USD is moving sharply during and after the meetings and also influences all other USD - related currencies to move as well.

The Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy has robbed it of the ability to influence interest rates as it has in the past.