Sentences with phrase «where federal government»

Transportation is also where the federal government should play a key role.

She cites also the campaign by green groups and Traditional Owners against the $ 21 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine in Queensland, where the Federal Government sought to remove the right of most environmental organisations to challenge developments under federal laws unless they can show they are «directly affected».

This the type of finance area where federal government helps prevent market failure by overseeing distribution of resources, of income, and economic stabilization.

Twenty of the counties were in Ohio, where the federal government runs the exchange.

The federal government joined the Conference in the 1940s, in part as a forum for criminal law changes (administration and law), and in part for civil - side initiatives where the federal government has an interest.

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, addressing whether a cost of future care award for a First Nation's plaintiff can be reduced where the federal government's health benefits program for Aboriginal persons may cover the needed treatments.

Especially in the U.S., where the federal government is seizing the assets of companies that employ undocumented workers and imposing felony charges, it is critical that employers understand and resolve the issues related to employment eligibility and documentation.

Some may recall the aftermath of the south Asian tsunami where the federal government said they couldn't name victims or survivors because of the Privacy Act.

These changes have broadened my perspective of what my customers need; a service provider that can manage their filings regardless of where the federal government is currently in terms of staying open or approving a budget, and reduced overhead so they can spend money on growing their business.

Where the Federal government has been inactive in reforming this area of law, some of the provinces have been making progress in this respect.

which is to say, we have a case where the federal government was prohibited from enforcing a drug prohibition involving religion.

Before that, St. Anne's survivors faced hearings for compensation under the settlement agreement's Independent Assessment Process where federal government lawyers denied the existence of documented evidence of abuse at the school.

States and cities can also experiment and create new models where the federal government can not.

A July 10, 2000 letter from Barry McCaffrey (ONDCP) to Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink shows where the federal government is coming from, and I quote in part from Mc Caffrey's letter:

Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.

There are now thousands of acres of public land «where the federal government doesn't dare tread, because of the threat of violence,» says Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Birmingham, Alabama - based nonprofit that tracks extremist groups in America.

Where the federal government can help is in mapping hazard zones and getting this information to local citizens to act upon.

We'll need to redouble our efforts to secure adequate protections and enforcement in relation to puppy mills, one of the few companion animal issues where the federal government has a role.

Corinthian Colleges, including Everest, Heald, and WyoTech, are examples of borrower defense situations where the federal government is willing to consider student applications for forgiveness based on the misconduct of the school.

I'm for higher standards — state created, locally implemented — where the federal government has no role in the... content or curriculum.»

Under ESSA, the long - delayed revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, state departments will be charged with more of the hands - on work in a variety of policy areas where the federal government increasingly called the shots in recent years.

Is this a place where the federal government can step in?

Where the federal government maintains the power of the purse — as it does with Title I programs aimed at supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds — Congress should direct it to let states use that funding in a flexible manner to meet the goal of the programs.

The former Florida governor then described what he does favor: «I'm for higher standards, state - created, locally implemented, where the federal government has no role in the creation of standards, content or curriculum.»

Mitt Romney will approach retraining policy with a conservative mindset that recognizes it as an area where the federal government is particularly ill - equipped to succeed.

«We are moving into a partnership mode with the states rather than this one where the federal government is telling states you have to do this, this, this and this,» Harkin said.

As in Washington, D.C., where the federal government agreed to send $ 2 in aid to the public schools for every $ 1 it spent on the voucher program, Spence found it politically necessary to continue sending 15 to 25 percent of the per - pupil funding to the school districts for each student who chose to use a voucher.

This has led to a range of proposals for dramatic changes in how we finance and govern higher education, which is an area where the federal government does play a large role through Pell grants and student loans.

«There is only one program in America where the federal government allows parents to choose the best schools for their kids, it is right here in Washington, DC, and it is working,» Boehner said.

As pioneers moved into the wilderness, they could settle land where the federal government had already...

So in 1965, Congress opted to move the program to the private banking sector, where the federal government guaranteed the loans but any federal payments on the defaults would be several years down the line.

You know, that's the way cancer research works in this country too, where the federal government sponsors the initial research and then the pharmaceutical companies take advantage of what's been learned through drug screenings and they go and develop the drugs for profit.

The report described an environment where the federal government and other major employers found it «increasingly in their own best interests to offer some combination of benefits programs that can assist employees in meeting their personal needs and obligations while still becoming or remaining a productive member of the workforce.»

First is President Buhari's determination to break from the past where the federal government only supported states where the party in office was their own.

But for the state to step in where the federal government is stepping out isn't feasible given a looming $ 4 billion budget deficit.

New York state is stepping in where the federal government has not.

Do you have any examples where the federal government implemented policy and it did not limit the power of the state government?

Making good on his promise to step up where the federal government refused aid, Cuomo announced $ 16 million in assistance to flood - stricken individuals in the Mohawk Valley and other upstate counties battered by recent storms.

Anthony J. Picente Jr. said «It has been only two days since Governor Cuomo was in Herkimer announcing that the State would step up where the federal government had failed to do so.

I would not be surprised there are other issues where the federal government is trying to trample states rights and impose their political dogma on the states.»

It is thought to be a much less common problem than in the US, where the federal government had to intervene with the Prison Rape Elimination Act last year.

«We are living in time where the federal government is being dismantled on behalf of special interests and the powerless are being victimized by the powerful,» Kaplan said.

So, if state and federal law disagree on a matter where the federal government has power to make that law, the federal law wins.

We want a country where the federal government does not adopt short sighted policy for political gain, but acts in the best interests of the whole country with a long term vision of what Canada can and should be.

«The chances of economic growth slowing a lot in an environment where the federal government is literally putting a lot more money to work in the economy is pretty low.»

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets.

In essence, that bill gives individuals a way to opt out of federal laws that restrict religious practices, except in cases where the federal government has a compelling interest.

It is a call for universal basic income, where the federal government writes you a check every month.

Not exact matches

The reversal of the Cole Memo, written by then - Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole in 2013 means that there will be more confusion about the legality of growing, selling, and using the drug in places where state and local laws clash with the federal government.

The complex is home to the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.