Sentences with phrase «questioning over the agency»

With the Administration for Children's Services having suffered several high - profile child deaths in recent weeks, Mr. de Blasio faced sharp questioning over the agency's performance.

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The IRS launched the investigation in part because the price of bitcoin soared from $ 13 to over $ 1,100 during the years in question, and because only 802 people reported their bitcoin gains or losses in 2015 to the agency.

As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

There isn't much about the new text that's radically different than the initial proposal the FCC released in late April — it still aims to reverse the Title II classification that gives the agency broad authority over internet service providers, and still questions whether rules that ban those ISPs from slowing down or speeding up certain sites for payment are even necessary in the first place.

Earlier this year, he notoriously tussled with U.S. National Security Agency director Michael Rogers over the question of whether law enforcement should have access to peoples» private communications, a debate now raging between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley.

The two aides to the embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief left their posts this week, following two congressional hearings last week where Pruitt was questioned over his ethics scandals and deregulatory agenda.

During the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator faced tough questions from House Democrats over his myriad ethics scandals and deregulatory fervor.

But what is most troubling to me is that, despite the widespread attention yesterday, and despite my questioning of the agency over a two week period starting on September 11th, as of this writing the FSIS's website still provides a «no» answer to the question «Will chicken processed in China be included in school lunches?»

Two top aides to Scott Pruitt, the chief of the EPA who is facing an array of questions related to his spending and management of the agency, have resigned under increased scrutiny over their roles at the agency.

The company has brought 50 or so tank cars to the line over the past few weeks and put them in storage in the town of Minerva, a move that has drawn the ire of environmental groups and state agencies, which have questioned the legality of storage there.

Escalating the tension on Tuesday, DiNapoli issued a report that was critical of the pension proposal that was baked into the budget and questioned Cuomo's desire for more control over how money is moved between agencies, warning it could lead to an erosion of oversight.

«Lin Homer, who was in charge of the agency for much of the period in question, has repeatedly misled the committee over the size of the asylum backlog and still refuses to take responsibility for her failings,» MPs stated in their report.

The factsheet covers a range of issues on which workers are likely to have questions including holiday entitlement and other employment right issues, the availability (or otherwise) of travel expense relief and why they may have been handed over to an umbrella company by an agency in the first place.

Rifkind's committee faces question - marks over its handling of the revelations about the US National Security Agency's Prism programme and its cooperation with the British eavesdropping service GCHQ.

Over the last few days there have been a series of media disclosures of classified US documents relating to the collection of intelligence by US agencies, and questions about the role of GCHQ.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has come under increased scrutiny as questions have arisen over the agency's ability to oversee Hyrdraulic Fracturing, should the process of extracting natural gas from shale be legalized in the state.

Mayor de Blasio — who is under heavy fire over everything from a federal corruption probe to his beleaguered child - welfare agency — shut down a press availability Tuesday rather than answer questions about his upcoming meeting with US Attorney Preet Bharara.

But Ms Harman said MPs would be able to have their say following her statement next Wednesday, adding: «Do you actually think that it's right that this House should pick over the questions of our allowances when we've already decided to actually make that the responsibility of an independent agency?»

Fowler made the remark in reaction to a question over insinuations that VAIDS may have been introduced to target political opponents, the same way anti corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is being perceived of late.

The larger questions looming over this controversy are whether the county - appointed Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has the authority to override local objections and if so, whether in this case it will.

Saul kills his chance of working under Lockhart when he questions how a senator who made his career bashing the spy agency can suddenly win over the hearts and minds of those in harm's way.

The MPs also want more clarity over funding, raising questions as to whether the Education Funding Agency can be both the funder and regulator.

«There is a question mark over the extent to which examination boards are profit - making businesses and how much they are disinterested agencies of evaluation and accreditation, and this needs to be scrutinised,» he says.

These are all questions that Agency by Design Oakland fellows tackled in the Thinking Routines and Capacities inquiry group, which I had the opportunity to facilitate and coach over the past few months.

Glance over at Explaining the Agency Model for E-Book Pricing in Layman's Language for a super-quick overview of what the agency model actually means, since unless you're a writer or otherwise connected with the publishing industry, most of the brouhaha in question actually won't mean much tAgency Model for E-Book Pricing in Layman's Language for a super-quick overview of what the agency model actually means, since unless you're a writer or otherwise connected with the publishing industry, most of the brouhaha in question actually won't mean much tagency model actually means, since unless you're a writer or otherwise connected with the publishing industry, most of the brouhaha in question actually won't mean much to you.

I'd be prepared to wager that consumers are more than happy to choose an e-book over a more expensive hardcover, but I question whether that preference holds up when the price point is the same for either format, as with agency - priced * paperbacks.

The cat in question here is [company] Amazon [/ company], which controlled over 90 percent of the ebook market in early 2010 when Apple and the publishers introduced «agency pricing,» which lets publishers set an ebook's retail price and pay the publisher a commission.

Your question caught my eye because two of the agencies keep delaying and delaying the report claiming (1) they need more verification, when none of my information has changed in over a decade, or, (2) just the other day an agency claimed my SSN doesn't match?

The million - dollar question Over the past year both Annaly and American Capital Agency's net interest income has fallen, 10 - 2 year Treasury spreads are trending downward, and the Federal Reserve Bank — which controls short - term interest rates — has suggested it will raise rates sometime in 2015.

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

The relationship of the television production to a United Nations agency and an environmental group can prompt questions about objectivity, but the package, over all, appears robust.

Summing up: My question for sTeve is: why would you choose the GISS estimate of temperatures, which shows parts of the past decade as higher than 1998 and considerable average warming, over the other three monitoring agencies, which show much less or no warming for the decade?

FERC is unlikely to take up the proposal as written, analysts and former regulators agreed, but regulators currently at the agency have indicated they plan to address plant compensation and reliability questions — making the NOPR the Trump administration's opening salvo in what is likely to be a long and contentious regulatory battle over the future of the fuel mix and competitive electricity markets.

This week, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke fields questions from Members of Congress over his agency's proposed budget.

B has agreed to what they consider a full refund and what I consider the return of money that was never theirs to begin with so this is purely an academic question: If I have given a rental agency authority to act as landlords over my property, can they transfer that authority to another person or agency without my consent?

«Judges Press C.I.A. Lawyer Over Withheld Documents»: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, «A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan questioned a lawyer for the federal government yesterday as to whether the Central Intelligence Agency had a legitimate national security interest in refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas.»

To obtain Yuma insurance quotes you can make the long, hot drive all over town, visiting individual agencies and filling out countless forms that ask the same questions over and over.

During a meeting with Taiwan's legislative arm Monday, central bank governor Yang Chin - long was questioned over how the banking authority would address the current «opacity» in bitcoin trading in the country, as highlighted by the recent price plunge, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency.

«We are declining comment,» said an SEC spokesman by email, in response to questions regarding whether the agency had a position on the currency or if it had jurisdiction over Bitcoin trading in the first place.

Answering questions at a Senate oversight committee hearing this morning, FBI Director James Comey has hinted at growing consensus between technology companies and intelligence agencies over the controversial issue of how to access encrypted data.

The credit reporting agency, which made in excess of $ 3 bln last year, has been called into question over vastly subpar information protection for consumers.

Question: Alan, I have been employed for over one year in a temp staffing agency.

Is it fair that the courts should resolve over a period of time the many unanswered questions of agency on the backs of hapless Realtors?