Sentences with phrase «said acting federal»

«The work continues to rebuild broken transportation links in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria,» said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Brandye L. Hendrickson.

«FHWA is committed to working with the state to accelerate the construction of this bridge,» said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau.

Not exact matches

«A majority of states have legalized and regulated marijuana despite the prohibitions in the federal Controlled Substances Act,» says Thorburn.

The Canada Pension Plan Act says that once a sufficient number of provincial governments have indicated support, the federal government can move forward and lock in the reform with an Order in Council — no new Parliamentary debate or legislation is required.

TORONTO — The Liberal government will not «act in an impulsive way» in response to U.S. corporate tax cuts that economists say pose a threat to Canada's competitiveness, the federal finance minister said after a pre-budget meeting Friday.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

The federal appeals court in Boston said only people who work for public companies are protected by the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

A summary of the forthcoming orders, seen by Reuters, say past administrations «overused» the Antiquities Act, putting more federal areas under protection than necessary.

Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

But, based on a provision of the federal Stored Communications Act, the government said it does not need probable cause to obtain customer records.

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone were among those being looked at by federal investigators, reports said, amid the FBI and congressional probes into whether any Trump associates acted as agents of the Kremlin, wittingly or not.

A CFPB spokesperson said in an email to Vox that the bureau is authorized to take «supervisory and enforcement action against certain institutions engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, or that otherwise violate federal consumer financial laws,» including the failure of institutions to engage in «reasonable data security practices» in connection with consumer report information.

«Sites such as Whitecoat treat healthcare as a commodity, and act as a barrier to encouraging a genuine conversation between health practitioners and patients about treatment needs and the treatment process,» ADA federal president Hugo Sachs said.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

«We have talked a lot with the DOL, and we've tried to coordinate and work with them, but they have to operate under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which is quite a different statute than the federal securities laws,» Schapiro said.

He said the federal and provincial governments need to act to shore up companies and avoid a repeat of the early 2000s when it took more than a year for Ottawa to react with an aid package.

Rick Arney, co-author of the proposed California Consumer Privacy Act, said support for the measure widened when federal officials opened an investigation into how a data firm, Cambridge Analytica, accessed the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge to help elect President Trump.

«I maintain that the implementation of something meaningful is an intractable problem given the concerns surrounding the Federal deficit, the [state and local tax] deduction, and the Affordable Care Act,» Klein said.

And Sousa says the federal government has a co-operative agreement with the Quebec Pension Plan and made legislative changes to the Income Tax Act to allow higher contributions to the Saskatchewan Pension Plan.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Airbnb says the new ordinance violates two federal statutes: the Communications Decency Act and the Stored Communications Act.

In normal times, Section 18 of the Act says the Bank can only buy (or sell) certain types of assets — coins, foreign currencies, federal and provincial / territorial debt, debt issued by the U.S., Japan or the European Union, International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights, and bills of exchange or promissory notes issued by a bank or authorized foreign bank provided they have a maturity of no more than 180 days.

Democrats also say that the dossier was not the only evidence that federal officials used to obtain the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Page.

Finally, Cook says that the FBI is proposing what Apple is calling «unprecedented use» of the All Writs Act of 1789, which authorizes federal courts to issue all orders necessary or appropriate «in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.»

Leon said the federal regulations for coverage of contraception violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unbornact in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unbornAct, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn...

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn babiact in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn babiAct, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn babies.

Nevertheless, acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim called it a win for New York City, saying that it represented «one of the first federal racketeering charges ever brought against a Russian vor,» another name for «mob boss.»

American Bakers Association (ABA) says the newly - proposed bill to synchronize the Fair Labor Act's definition of «employee» with that stated by federal law could benefit independent contractors in the baking industry.

«While the standards will not take effect until the 2014 - 2015 school year, schools should begin implementation and act now to ensure a smooth transition and federal compliance,» said Kelly.

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

The commission «s resolution authorizing the subpoenas said the investigation is to determine if any of the infant formula companies «have engaged in or are engaging in unfair methods of competition in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

«Today, the New York State Senate acted on an important bill sponsored by Senator Felder that will protect hardworking New Yorkers from $ 1.5 billion in new and higher taxes, and prevent the state from receiving a windfall from recently enacted federal tax changes,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said.

MENY PAC lauded Rice, saying she has «come out swinging in her support for LGBT rights» by becoming the first AG hopeful to promise to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act.

AG Eric Schneiderman applauds President Obama's replacement of Edward DeMarco, who served as acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but says more needs to be done to resolve the foreclosure crisis.

He said the indefinite delay buy the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is illegal because the agency acted without notice or public comment and violates the 2015 Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act.

The county is appealing to the Federal Emergency Management Agency but Sen. Chuck Schumer, D - NY, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - NY, said it could take up to 90 days for FEMA to act.

«After careful deliberation, given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question,» said Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Cuomo is right to draw attention to over a billion dollars in potential health care cuts to the state, now that Congress and President Donald Trump have postponed acting on a new federal budget.

In addition to potential changes to the Affordable Care Act, which could cost the state billions in federal funding, Cuomo said there likely could be cuts to housing programs and energy assistance for the poor.

«I will fight to ban PFOA and similar toxins on the state level because I for one have very little faith that Washington, D.C., will be able to get its act together to pass meaningful protections from the federal level,» said Francis.

«The Federal Election Campaign Act's prohibition on foreign contributions is the broadest prohibition in the entire statute,» said Brett Kappel, a partner in the government affairs and public policy practice of the law firm Ackerman in Washington, D.C.

Davis, a former Syracuse ball boy, said that if Syracuse officials violated the federal law, called the Clery Act, they should be held accountable.

«We hear from members who say, «If there's going to be a paid leave mandate, the more it looks like the provisions of (the federal Family and Medical Leave Act), the less concerns that we have because we know how to deal with that.

That's more saying it's important to avert a shutdown now than in September 2013, just before a budget fight over federal funding for some portions of the Affordable Care Act led to a partial government shutdown.

The New York Times didn't act with malice when it mistakenly suggested in an editorial that Sarah Palin incited the 2011 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, a lawyer for the paper said in Manhattan federal court yesterday at the first hearing on Palin's defamation suit.

Cuomo, in the second day of attacks on the Collins amendment, said Republican leaders in Congress are trying to «buy votes» in exchange for support on the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, and he said if that's the case, then the federal government should «pay for it.»