Sentences with phrase «senior federal officials»

«The regulator always has to worry about finding the right point in that balance,» says a former senior federal official who spoke on background.

Those top 60 companies initiated almost 1,100 meetings with senior federal officials last year alone, while their five most active trade associations initiated another 729 meetings.

Senior federal officials met with Silicon Valley executives recently in what's been viewed as a bid to get high - tech firms to cooperate with government requests for data and, possibly, introduce encryption backdoors.

NYC mayor and NY gov both say they've heard from senior federal officials, but have not heard from President Trump directly.

You will recall that over a year ago the Prime Minister informed the House of Commons that a special committee of senior federal officials had been formed to examine and to prepare studies on particular constitutional questions.

Don McCutchan, an international policy adviser at the Toronto law firm Gowlings and a former senior federal official, calls Carney «tough, effective and the smartest guy in the room.»

Given the scope of work that lies ahead for the provinces, the timeline of legalisation by mid-2018 is ambitious, a senior federal official told Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.

Sure, senior federal officials might try to jawbone states that have stuck with those new academic standards into abandoning them, but the executive branch has no formal leverage.

But Powell's remarks last month is the first time a senior federal official has candidly admitted that he can not explain why the Federal Bankruptcy Code makes it very difficult for overburdened college debtors to discharge their student loans through bankruptcy.