Sentences with phrase «use of federal money»

Their promise was so great that when President Obama announced last March that he was lifting the ban on the use of federal money for research on human embryonic stem cells, critics on the right were apoplectic: iPS cells, they said, made such a move scientifically unjustified.

This is not the first time Rosnauka was accused of inappropriate use of the federal money.

Representatives Jay Dickey and Roger Wicker proposed banning the use of federal monies for any research in which a human embryo is created or destroyed.

Not exact matches

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

Since early 2009, the U.S. Federal Reserve bought roughly $ 2 trillion in U.S Treasuries and mortgage - backed securities using money created out of thin air.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

As usual, some of the respondents expressed a fair degree of cynicism about the ability of the federal government to use the money responsibly.

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

Boston and Washington, D.C., for example, use a mix of federal, state, and city money to fund their programs, while New York City's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private means.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issues these securities to raise money the federal government uses to run its operations.

A number of operational features were required to implement such an overnight reverse repo, or ON RRP, facility: It would need same - day settlement; 16 the operation would need to be run predictably, every day, and as late in the day as possible, to give lenders time to bargain with other counterparties using the outside option of investing with the Federal Reserve; 17 an appropriate spread below IOR would be required to ensure that the facility neither induced large changes in the structure of money markets nor lost the ability to support interest rate control; 18 and the operations would need enough unused capacity that lenders could credibly propose to leave borrowers that did not offer an adequate interest rate.19

Their underlying worth is determined by the central banking system and the government, through a series of federal guarantees, the setting of interest rates and so on (money used to be backed by physical gold in Fort Knox, but that hasn't been the case since the 1970s).

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

* The Taper Tantrum refers to the 2013 surge in U.S. Treasury yields, which resulted from the Federal Reserve's use of tapering to reduce the amount of money it «fed» into the economy.

While the early - 2017 Federal Reserve minutes «expressed concern [about] the low level of implied volatility in equity markets,» it is worth noting that the SPX implied volatility levels at both 80 % and 90 % moneyness (corresponding with out - of - the - money puts used for portfolio protection) generally were much higher than the VIX levels.

To refer specifically to the dollars that the Fed itself creates, including both bank reserves and Federal Reserve notes circulating outside of the banking system, they use the terms «high - powered money,» or «base money,» or «the monetary base.»

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

A federal grand jury from the District of Columbia has indicted Firoz Patel, age 43, and his brother, Ferhan Patel, age 37, on multiple charges of using their payment processing company, Payza, to launder money from various criminal enterprises.

By federal law, NO public tax money of ANY kind is to be used for ANY..

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

«It is also the same stupid thinking that Planned Parenthood gets hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money, but claim that none of it is used to fund abortions.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

But they could be made realistic, if the price of the federal duck stamp was raised and the extra money used for more sanctuaries and stricter law enforcement to increase diving and puddle duck populations.

Hats off to them for doing that, but the cost of building a central kitchen is not something which every community can bear, and it should be counted as part of the «outside money» used to support the meal program because it is outside of the money the federal government provides for running meal programs.

However, the $ 335,000 set aside for the renovations comes from a special bond fund that must be used by the end of the year or the Park District could lose the money because of federal laws.

A regulatory change that allows schools to use federal lunch money to buy hormone - free milk, and one achieved without arousing the ire of farm - state congressmembers who might be inclined to block a measure not as agribusiness - friendly as much of U.S. ag policy has become.

Freshman Rep. Kathleen Rice is co-sponsoring a bill that would prevent the Federal Emergency Management Agency from clawing back overpayments to victims of Hurricane Sandy, many of whom have used the the money to rebuild.

Slumlord and Cuomo campaign finance chairman Andrew Farkas was caught red - handed taking nearly $ 8 million in illegal kickbacks using tax money earmarked for the maintenance of federal housing projects.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

The campaign in Oregon drew a lot of national attention over accusations that federal taxpayer money was being used to fund anti-legalization events.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.

«We have lost a tremendous source of funding that used to go to municipalities with the state as a pass - through by not having sufficient money out of the federal government,» Hochul said.

Strong black voter support for Spitzer — who resigned as governor amid a federal probe of money laundering and prostitution and who once used the State Police to smear a political foe — has mystified many New York Democrats, although Wright said he wasn't surprised.

Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged that President - Elect Donald Trump's proposal to implement the use of stop - and - frisk nationwide are not going to fly with him — noting the federal government can threaten deny New York City money, but can't force it to change its policing methods.

This is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to Federal Election Commission (FEC) and released on April 27, 2016.

Based on what the commission said in last month's decision, it could consider the Democrats» use of the federal account to be an impermissible «coordinated expenditure» with the state account, or an illegal contribution to the state account that's not allow to accept money fromo state contractors.

The state Republican Party countered with a complaint against Mike Michaud that accused the U.S. House member of using federal campaign money for his gubernatorial campaign.

In the second case at an Abuja Federal High Court, Adoke and Abubakar were alleged to have on September 16, 2013 conspired to commit money laundering when they directly took possession of the sum of $ 2, 267, 400 and converted it to the Naira equivalent being the sum of N345.2 million using one Usman Bello, a bureau de change (BDC) operator.

Suffolk Police Commissioner nominee Geraldine Hart said she wants to work closely with authorities in El Salvador to help fight the deadly MS - 13 gang's activities in the county and plans to use her knowledge of federal programs to push for more grant money.

We want to keep the money in the states, reduce the federal taxes, eliminate that need to send that money to the federal government only to have it sent back to the states, and we will have more money and a more efficient way of using our money within the states.»

If we reduce our federal taxes so that money is not paid to the federal government and kept in the states we will see a better use of our money within the states, a more efficient use of our money, and our federal taxes will be lower.»

Briefing journalists after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said Jonathan, who presided over the meeting, insisted that he did not want any of the projects initiated under his administration to be abandoned as such not only traps money belonging to the country but also denies them the use and benefit of such projects.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors say that Meng promised to use his influence quash the tax fraud probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for an acquaintance, but in reality only intended to bilk the businessman out of money and pocket it for himself.

State leaders lost a chance to make this transition less wrenching when they used federal «stimulus» money to sustain existing levels of spending, rather than to ease the changes that must come now.

SURA uses federal money from its Community Development Block Grant to buy insurance for its employees, a cost of about $ 50,000, said DelVecchio.

Galesi received tax breaks for environmental remediation at the new Golub headquarters; $ 583,162 a year in tax exemptions for the new Center City building, and was recently rolled into a federal package to receive money to demolish a former county department of social services building so the land could be used for apartments.

Legislator Brian May (R - Baldwinsville) said the good news is 80 percent of the money being spent would be reimbursed by the federal government, and the remaining balance, or local match, would be covered by tobacco asset money used for infrastructure projects.

The state Democratic Party is pushing an already controversial campaign - financing issue to a new level, asking the Federal Election Commission to comment on the legality of the party using money from a federal campaign account to pay for a planned campaign mailing asking voters to re-elect Federal Election Commission to comment on the legality of the party using money from a federal campaign account to pay for a planned campaign mailing asking voters to re-elect federal campaign account to pay for a planned campaign mailing asking voters to re-elect Gov....