Sentences with phrase «scaling back of government»

AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo teamed up in a letter to Congress to push for a dramatic scaling back of government - surveillance programs.

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Whitney is campaigning on a platform of abolishing stormwater fees, lowering taxes and scaling back government.

After trading in line with US yields for much of 2004, movements in European and Japanese government bond yields have decoupled from those in the US in recent months, largely reflecting the scaling back in the outlook for economic growth in both economies.

A number of commentators, led by the right - leaning C.D. Howe Institute think tank, have argued the government should scale back CMHC's role in the mortgage - insurance market.

The central bank obediently issued GKOs (government treasury bills) paying interest rates higher than 100 per cent annually, subsequently scaled back to a more «Latin American - type» level of about 25 percent.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

He could meet with Republicans and Senator Reid and work out a way to scale Obamacare way back to meet the desire for reform of the American people without accruing so much power to the federal government.

Cuomo, who was running on a platform of scaling back spending in state government and pension reform, still balked at accepting the WFP line until he was assured they would back his proposals.

There would have been absolutely no point the National government sacrificing its seals of office on the altar of rearmament only for Labour to scale back the modest plans already in place.

Those measures, which had included lowered campaign contribution rates, a cap on the amount of money lawmakers can earn outside of their government work and reforms to the constitutional convention process, have been seemingly scaled back.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

Cuomo has long sought to consolidate and scale back the size of local governments in New York, which he has blamed for the state's high property taxes — an assertion budget watchdogs say is more tied to the cost of programs like Medicaid or employee pensions.

«A government elected on a promise to scale back the database state should be an opponent of this type of policy, not its biggest cheerleader.»

Lib Peck also backed the idea of no faking as she spoke of being honest about the scale of cuts local governments face and the transparency that must exist.

This week, at an American Legion post in Colonie, New York, Faso opened the «Tax Relief Now» tour, highlighting his signature issue of stimulating the lagging upstate economy by cutting taxes and scaling back intrusive government regulation.

Ending Whitehall meddling - radically scaling back the detailed involvement of the Government in areas such as timetabling and buying new rolling stock; and

But Sheffield Hallam MP Mr Clegg hit back, accusing the opposition of being in «complete denial» over the scale of the deficit inherited by the coalition government.

The government is set to scale back plans to give the right to vote to thousands of prisoners, in continued defiance of a European court ruling.

Could election of a new government this year lead to it being scaled back?

They also agreed to a scaled - back block - grant proposal that would have allowed 7 states and 25 school districts to sign a performance contract with the federal government that would free them of most federal education regulations in exchange for a promise to improve student performance.

His push led to a backlash from Congress, which just passed a new federal education law that scales back the role of the federal government in K - 12 education.

The ESSA has scaled back much of its direct oversight of accountability measures, leaving that to state governments — a move that has been praised by many education experts.

In Arizona, Higley Unified school district is scaling back its sports program back by 60 % because of budget cuts, says Janice Palmer, director of government relations at the Arizona School Boards Association.

Tesla faced intense scrutiny after news broke of a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S using Autopilot in May, with Consumer Reports pressuring the company to scale back Autopilot functions until they can be perfected, and more recently the German government urging Tesla to change the Autopilot name.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong says the government is scaling back the amount of money it expects to collect from the tax in this budget year based on the new figures.

We've essentially traveled full circle back to the halcyon days of global government price controls / fixing — except this time» round we've achieved it on a far grander scale, in effect compressing decades into mere years.

Now, in a way, the concept is back, and it's being carried out on a national scale — with no involvement from government, and no use of tax dollars, it should be noted.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

But now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back, now is the time to roll up our sleeves and start implementing the agreement at all levels of government and ensure we have political leaders who will ensure these national commitments are scaled - up and fulfilled.

In all, nine new climate instruments on the next generation of satellites were canceled or their capabilities scaled back in 2006, according to the Government Accountability Office report.

A number of European governments have already been down this road, including Spain, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the UK, but are now trying to scale back because of the substantial adverse effects on electricity rates and taxes, which voters do not appreciate.

The statement comes after the central government scaled back its plan earlier this month to convert northern cities to natural gas from coal for heating, because provinces across China had warned of gas shortages.

Acutely aware of the car industry's recent sales plunge and weaker domestic demand, government officials are hoping this new initiative will boost sales and new investment once again and discourage carmakers from scaling back their production by shifting to a new market.

While chasing the mirage of a game - changing renewable energy source in the form of industrial - scale solar plants capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes, the federal government has turned its back on a better, cheaper form of energy from the sun: distributed solar power generation, sometimes known as rooftop solar.

According to the CBC, the new UK government plans to scale back many of the grossly intrusive surveillance measures adopted and planned by the previous government.

Patricia Cole, director of Government Relations at Zero to Three, said «it's doubtful the state would be able to take up all the slack; most likely, home visiting programs in New Jersey, and many other states, would have to scale back their efforts.»

But after nearly a year and a half of a government tax credit program, sellers have scaled back on marketing gimmicks and buyer incentives, largely in an effort to limit their losses.

President Donald Trump's Friday directive that set in motion a scaling back of the Dodd - Frank Act was more pageantry than policy, said lawyers and former government officials who worked on the 2010 law.