Sentences with phrase «under federal bill»

The former owner of an auto body shop in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia was recently charged with criminal negligence causing death under federal Bill C - 45, colloquially known as the «Westray Bill.»

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In order to keep the tax bill under its $ 1.5 trillion ceiling, Republicans proposed to repeal the ACA's individual mandate — saving just over $ 330 billion in federal spending over 10 years.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

But under a compromise negotiated with Governor Jerry Brown, the bill allows local police to notify the federal government if they have arrested an undocumented immigrant with a felony record.

Under a continuing resolution passed last week in place of actual federal spending bills, Pentagon budgets are capped at 2015 levels, severely limiting the service branches» ability to start new programs or even shutdown programs they don't need anymore.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.

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As former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal said when the bill was first debated in the Upper Chamber in 2013, Bill C - 377 is «an expression of statutory contempt for the working men and women in our trade unions and for the trade unions themselves and their right under federal and provincial law to organize.&rabill was first debated in the Upper Chamber in 2013, Bill C - 377 is «an expression of statutory contempt for the working men and women in our trade unions and for the trade unions themselves and their right under federal and provincial law to organize.&raBill C - 377 is «an expression of statutory contempt for the working men and women in our trade unions and for the trade unions themselves and their right under federal and provincial law to organize.»

Republicans are under intense pressure to pass a tax bill or face ending a year of near - complete control over the federal government without a a single major legislative achievement to bring voters and donors.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

This ability to «double - dip» and obtain both state / local and federal tax benefits from a single charitable contribution is, under current (i.e., pre-GOP tax bill) law, undercut by the deductibility of state and local taxes.

Federal law prohibits young adults under the age of 21 from getting a credit card on their own unless they can prove their ability to pay the bill.

Under House Bill 2014, introduced by Representative Mark Finchem (R - Tucson), Arizona taxpayers will simply back out all precious metals «gains» and «losses» reported on their federal tax returns from the calculation of their Arizona adjusted gross income (AGI).

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Wireless carriers — typically known for being paragons of virtue and honesty — are under the microscope today, as the Federal Trade Commission alleges that T - Mobile was knowingly loading customers» bills with «hundreds of...

Under the bill, the federal excise tax (FET) will be reduced to $ 3.50 / barrel (from $ 7 / barrel) on the first 60,000 barrels for domestic brewers producing less than 2 million barrels annually, and reduced to $ 16 / barrel (from $ 18 / barrel) on the first 6 million barrels for all other brewers and all beer importers.

In 2001 Lawrence Summers, US secretary to the Treasury under Bill Clinton, was called in for a chat about the future with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

As residents in high - tax states brace for bigger tax bills under the recently passed federal tax overhaul, a New Jersey congressman is pushing local governments to adopt a strategy that could save homeowners thousands of dollars.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

City Council Member Liz Crowley (D - Middle Village) has come under fire for co-sponsoring a bill that will cut funding for a program that turns the NYC DOC into a flock of stool pigeons for the Federal Government.

At the point of her FBI interviews, she had moved on to other jobs, including consulting for a medical billing company, while Singh was coming under federal scrutiny.

Rabbinical colleges under the federal law had received that proper recognition «PELL grants» but the state did not accept this - until this bill.

For nearly a decade, federal prosecutors said, a former top official at the Staten Island DA» soffice used his agency's American Express card to buy himself and his family more than $ 400,000 in luxury gifts, resort vacations, even an extensive knife collection, hiding the transactions by logging them under the internal billing code his office used to pay informants and conduct surveillance operations.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in an interview on WNYC this morning reiterated his defense of his fundraising activities, which have fallen under the scrutiny of state and federal investigators.

But in Brooklyn, incumbent state Sen. John Sampson, under federal indictment for allegedly embezzling more than $ 400,000 in foreclosure funds, defeated Mayor Bill de-Blasio-backed candidate Dell Smitherman.

Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed his first preliminary budget of the Trump - era today — $ 84.67 billion in expenses for Fiscal Year 2018, and $ 84.6 billion for improving and maintaining city infrastructure over the next decade — a budget devoid of any allowances for federal funding changes under the new Republican order in Washington, D.C.

Cuomo the younger has already been federal Housing Secretary under President Bill Clinton, and a nationally known state Attorney General, and is one of the most popular governors in the nation.

Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino, right, stands with Mayor Bill de Blasio, and other local elected officials and transportation advocates, as they urge increased federal transportation investment in vital infrastructure in New York, on Nov. 24, 2015, under the Amtrak Rotunda at Penn Station in Manhattan.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is supposed to police gun trafficking, and it has been underfunded and Congress has tried to block its function, said Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.

He says, for example, under the bills Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations would not be allowed federal tax deductions for repairs done to their homes after December 31.

Howe, who worked for Cuomo when the current governor was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, was described by the source as isolated from friends and family and disconsolate as Bharara's investigation continues to unfold.

According to Astorino, the bill would have put Westchester at odds with federal law enforcement agencies, ultimately leaving both legal and undocumented residents unprotected under the new law.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday introduced a bill to close the carried - interest loophole, a feature of the federal tax system benefiting private - equity managers that has come under scrutiny.

In addition, beginning in 2017 under a Hannon bill, New Yorkers will be able to register as organ donors when they buy health insurance through the New York health exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare.

Following a heated debate in which Staten Island Republican Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. referred to abortion as «African American genocide,» the Assembly passed a bill that would protect under state law the same rights a woman has to an abortion under federal law.

He said the NYPD, under the leadership of Commissioner Bill Bratton, has retrained its officers in de-escalation tactics — an approach de Blasio insisted should be a «federal priority.»

Orange County Assemblyman Bill Larkin easily defeats one - term incumbent Arthur Gray who, in 1988, defeated a long time Republican who was under federal indictment.

James Johnson, a former federal prosecutor who also served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under former President Bill Clinton's administration, announced his candidacy for governor of New Jersey in late 2016.

Cuomo, a Democrat, specifically noted that Ben Carson, the nominee to lead the department of Housing and Urban Development — which Cuomo helmed in the 1990s under Bill Clinton — had no experience in either housing or urban development and that Andrew Kuzder, the nominee for labor secretary, opposed raising the federal minimum wage.

FAIR LAWN, N.J. — As residents in high - tax states brace for bigger tax bills under the recently passed federal tax overhaul, a New Jersey congressman is pushing local governments to adopt a strategy that could save homeowners thousands of dollars.

Wildfire Funding and Environmental Reviews — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow for a presidential declaration of a major disaster with regard to wildfires, which would allow for the release of funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire funding needs.

The last time the Federal budget was balanced was in 1999 under the Bill Clinton administration, and American debts race towards the 20 Trillion dollar mark.

In 2019 residents of New York would see their share of total federal personal income taxes paid climb to 9.8 percent under the final GOP - Trump tax bill.

Bill Hammond, the health policy analyst for the budget watchdog group The Empire Center, says that under the proposal in Congress, the state would likely lose some federal Medicaid funding, in the best case scenario around $ 2 billion.

Mentally Disabled Veterans and Guns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerous.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Oversight — Vote Passed (425 - 0, 5 Not Voting) The bill that would require that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac comply with the agency requirements of the Freedom of Information Act while they are under the conservatorship of the federal government.

He also charged the federal tax bill under discussion «is basically hurting the economies of those (high - tax) states to finance the tax cut in other states.»

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

He also served as Andrew Cuomo's deputy chief of staff when he was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.