Sentences with phrase «roll back federal»

On Wednesday, Moskowitz tweeted criticism of the Trump administration's decision to roll back federal guidelines protecting the rights of transgender students.

You say it would be a mistake for lawmakers to roll back federal testing requirements or go back to the «old days» when there were none.

The man tapped to help helm Trump's voter fraud commission was prepared to roll back federal voter protections before his first meeting with the commander - in - chief.

The proposal Mintz now finds so odious is to roll back the federal rate to 18 %.

Once in power, Trump and Pruitt have moved to delay or roll back federal regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions while pledging to revive the long - struggling U.S. coal mines.

The state would be among the hardest hit as the GOP plan rolls back federal support for the expansion of Medicaid, leaving it to states to pick up the added costs.

Orr, who is also the dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, said U.S. cities and states lead the world in important aspects of climate resilience and mitigation precisely because the Trump administration has rolled back federal ambition.

They include «canceling» American involvement in the Paris climate accord, reviving the coal industry and rolling back federal environmental regulations.

Republicans are hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year — one that could end up dramatically rolling back the federal role in education and trigger national blowouts over standardized tests and teacher training.

The groups lauded reforms to standards, assessments, funding equity and access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, but lashed into the Harkin - Enzi draft for rolling back the federal government's role in policing states» education goals:

Not to be outdone, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the education committee's top Republican, released a competing NCLB rewrite that significantly rolls back federal involvement in education compared to the Harkin bill.

Certainly Petrilli may mean well when he argues for rolling back federal accountability.

From where Petrilli sits, rolling back federal accountability will ultimately allow states to «encourage instructional excellence» and stop states from engaging in «curriculum narrowing» and «gaming» federal law.

Already, the dangers of rolling back the federal role in schools is evident in Illinois» newly proposed state accountability and rating system.

HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS: Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has said he wants to cut the Department of Education budget and return money to the states while rolling back federal assessments of schools.

In the Every Student Succeeds Act, Congress for the first time in decades rolled back federal involvement in K - 12 education and specifically ruled out any incentives or punishments for adopting or getting out of Common Core.

This comes in the wake of a recent federal court decision being appealed to the Supreme Court that rolls back federal regulations to reduce HFCs.

Not exact matches

Bank stocks have benefited from both the anticipation of higher interest rates, which the Federal Reserve is expected to raise next week, as well as the belief that the Trump administration will roll back some of the more onerous financial regulations stemming from the Dodd - Frank Act.

«Just weeks after President Donald Trump signaled he's ready to roll back tough federal vehicle fuel standards, California on Friday affirmed that it won't budge an inch on its own tough standards,» the Detroit Free Press» Brent Snaveley reported.

The 1,603 - page bill, negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators and leaders, drew Democrats» ire when they discovered it would roll back the Dodd - Frank law due to go into effect next year by killing planned restrictions on derivatives trading by large banks, allowing them to continue trading swaps and futures in units that benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reservefederal deposit insurance and Federal ReserveFederal Reserve loans.

To stage another fiscal drama just as the Federal Reserve starts to roll back its quantitative easing policy (which will put upward pressure on interest rates, including those on residential mortgages) would like banging pots and pans in the midst of an already distressed cattle.

The news comes just weeks after federal officials drafted an interim final rule to roll back an Obamacare mandate that religious employers cover birth control as part of health insurance plans.

The confusing stance comes as the Federal Communications Commission under new chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon (vz) lawyer appointed by President Trump to head the agency, is working to roll back the rules.

«I believe we have seen a heightened sense of concern about the possibility of favorable policies being rolled back on a federal level,» he said.

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters)- The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, accused social media company Twitter Inc of being politically biased on Tuesday as he defended his plan to roll back rules intended to ensure a free and open internet.

It's not easy for a president to simply roll back a regulation once it's made its way through a public «notice and comment» period and onto the Federal Register.

President Donald Trump made a splash on Monday with an executive order requiring that for every new regulation in the Federal Register, two get rolled back.

Washington has become the first U.S. state to introduce net neutrality legislation, countering the FCC's federal roll - back of the rule.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai — a former Verizon lawyer appointed by Trump as the nation's top telecommunications regulator in January — is expected to unveil his approach for rolling back the 2015 net neutrality rules during a speech on Wednesday.

He said the Trump administration is enabling innovation by streamlining the federal permitting process, cutting corporate taxes and rolling back rules governing the sector.

But Trump and his pro-business GOP allies on Capitol Hill have made rolling back Obama - era regulations a priority, which makes any new federal rules for protecting data and privacy unlikely in the immediate future.

Those votes highlighted the fervent free - market ideology that has made Hensarling, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the proud leader of the drive by congressional Republicans to roll back tougher federal oversight of the financial system.

President Trump has vowed to help bring back the industry by rolling back environmental regulations, offering tax breaks to invest in infrastructure and ending a moratorium on mining on federal land enforced by President Obama.

The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act rolls back the Obama administration's fiduciary rule and amends federal law to require financial advisors to act in the best interests of their clients.

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Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit by California and 17 other states against the Trump administration to protect national vehicle emission standards from being rolled back by the federal government.

Washington has sought to roll back burdensome regulations at a time when provincial and federal governments here are raising minimum wages and rolling out carbon emission reduction policies.

Some way of rolling back and ultimately ending federal deposit insurance must be found.

As the Trump administration rolls back the greater regulatory scrutiny the for - profit college industry has faced during the last several years, it is private equity that stands to benefit the most, posing continuing dangers to students, taxpayers, and the integrity of the federal financial aid system.

In a joint interview with Marketplace on March 13, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former president of the New York Federal Reserve and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke stressed that while the financial system is stronger now than it was before the 2008 financial crisis, that could change if certain regulations are rolled back.

would roll back the Republican plan after two years if promised economic growth does not materialize and the federal budget deficit continues to expand.

It would also roll back the so - called Volcker Rule, named for former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, which effectively bans banks from making speculative investments that don't directly benefit their customers.

It seems that there are ample opportunities to do that through rolling back some of the federal nutrition standards without reducing services to needy kids.

To be sure, the new federal Smart Snacks and meal standards are a huge improvement in school food, and the passage of those rules is an achievement that shouldn't be diminished (or rolled back — ahem, SNA).

In other words, House Republicans» distaste for federal interference in school food programs suited the SNA perfectly when it came to rolling back nutrition standards — but now that conservatism has gone too far for the SNA to stomach.

This is great news — and also very important data to have on hand as we head into the Child Nutrition Reauthorization this fall, when federal lawmakers will debate whether to roll back some of these same healthier school meal standards.

They said the plan could move forward without increasing the deficit by rolling back recent federal tax breaks to the country's wealthiest people and corporations.

Rep. Chris Gibson, touting new federal education legislation that, if passed, would put many policy decisions back in the hands of the state, urged Albany to roll back the Common Core learning standards, essentially calling out Cuomo.

«We are disappointed that the Assembly decision to ignore the unified voice of New York's environmental, climate justice and neighborhood groups — at the very moment the federal government is rolling back environmental protections,» Lander said.