Sentences with phrase «with federal push»

State - level changes coincide with federal push for looser coal ash regulation — even as utility shareholders and activists push for more stringent management.

Not exact matches

But Congress has pushed back against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

But Congress has pushed back hard against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

And with the Federal Reserve pushing its target interest rate higher, bond prices are likely to suffer.

A senior official at the U.S. State Department tried to push the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2015 into dropping its insistence that an email from Hillary Clinton's private server contained classified information, according to summaries of interviews with FBI officials released by the FBI on Monday.

The White House has billed this «infrastructure week» and planned a series of events, beginning with a push by the president Monday to privatize the nation's air traffic control system and separate it from the Federal Aviation Administration.

That expectation, along with recent statements from the Federal Reserve with a more hawkish tone, has pushed mortgage interest rates higher.

They argue that, since 2009, the federal government's plans to balance the budget have been based on «risky projections, optimistic forecasts of revenue growth and unrealistic plans for spending restraint», which have resulted in increases in the projected deficit with each successive budget, and the pushing out of the date that the deficit would be eliminated.

Interest rates have continued to be pushed lower and lower and lower and most of this is because the Fed keeps on adjusting that federal fund's rate and adjusting interest rates down in the way that they do that is by putting cash into the market and buying back bonds or short - term bonds with the federal fund's rate.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to pick Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell as the next head of the U.S. central bank, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, prompting investors to push down yields on Treasury notes.

Various online publishers complained about this business model and opposed it saying that this practice was violating federal laws, but Brendan pushed ahead with his plans.

And now the big push by Washington to boost an economy that's been growing for nearly nine years is adding to the worries, especially with new Chairman Jay Powell taking over at the Federal Reserve.

With the Federal Reserve's balance sheet at $ 3 trillion and rising, it's worth considering that bond investors may not aggressively push inflation expectations lower in the next recession as they have in recent recessions.

«We support an executive order making clear that people of religious conviction will not be pushed aside by the federal government as we seek to serve our neighbors, including those who disagree with us.»

Furthermore, the Obama administration has been pushing the agenda vigorously, with the federal government now aligning all agency policies in line with the Windsor decision - even extending to areas the decision was never intended to reach.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

QAI worked together with Senator Patrick Leahy and other members of Congress to push for a federal organic standard.

In short, he was able to push through the confirmation of a number of federal judges with a simple majority without threat of filibuster.

And Gillibrand — who also faces re-election for a full 6 - year term this fall — herself has been pretty vocal on reproductive rights, pushing back with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal against a Republican - led bill on the federal level that would eliminate tax breaks for insurance premiums on plans that provide abortion coverage.

At that session, Northern People's Congress (NPC), with National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC) partisans pushed for a federal take - over of the West, under the ruling Action Group (AG).

It is rather the combined pathology of ethnicity and politicking, in a vast territory of native communities, which federal system is not robust enough to come to terms with the dynamics of its rippling settler communities, driven by sheer economic push.

Cuomo's schedule, released last night, included a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, at which he was to be joined by three Republican lawmakers from New York — Reps. Bob Turner, Michael Grimm and Pete King, on whom the governor is leaning quite heavily as he pushes for the $ 42 billion worth of federal disaster aid he's seeking after Sandy.

The junior officers were members of an underground political group within the Ghana Armed Forces called the Free Africa Movement (FAM) that they formed in October 1970 with the objective of seizing power in Ghana 1984 and using the country as the nucleus of a military - led push for the unification of the African continent under a single federal government.

«These are crimes that can injure others and make our communities less safe,» said Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who has joined several Republican legislators in pushing a bill in Albany to compel the city to comply with federal detention requests.

MTA board member Veronica Vanterpool, who also works as executive director of the nonprofit Tri-State Transportation Campaign, said that rather than picking a fight with its fellow transportation provider, the MTA and Cuomo should advocate on Amtrak's behalf, including by pushing for emergency financial assistance from the federal government for the summer repairs at Penn, which Amtrak has said will cost between $ 30 million and $ 40 million.

Cuomo, along with George Gresham — the president of 1199 SEIU — took about half a dozen questions from participants, who asked how the governor reached the $ 15 figure, why was he able to raise the wage for fast food workers, and why the state is pushing to increase the minimum wage and not the federal government.

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

De Blasio spoke with state lawmakers for several hours and is due to meet with Cuomo later in the day for a news conference to push the federal government to grant a Medicaid waiver that the governor's administration says his vital to save several Brooklyn - based hospitals.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito says she's prepared to engage in civil disobedience while pushing the federal government to assist Puerto Rico with its fiscal crisis and that such a strategy may make sense.

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.

Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever female district court judge.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says he pushed through a lot of bureaucratic red tape to secure federal investment, and worked with HUD to reallocate funds to fulfill unmet Hurricane Irene recovery needs.

According to the complaint, which cites eight Success schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, the Success Academy network violated federal laws protecting individuals with disabilities when it denied accommodations to the students or, in some cases, pushed them out.

Poloncarz and Higgins have written to the Federal Reserve System, pushing for a complete review of the transaction before KeyCorp can move forward with First Niagara.

One year after entering office with a mandate for change, Mayor Shayne Gallo has pushed ahead with an agenda centered on revitalizing the city by battling blight, forming partnerships with state, federal and county government and ending what he calls a «culture of entitlement» at the highest levels of municipal government.

CATO Institute Associate Director with the Center for Education Freedom Neal McClusky says in order to understand the push for Common Core, you have to go back to 2009, when the federal government created the Economic Stimulus package.

After several years where Cuomo's reform pushes always ended with lackluster, half - loaf settlements, nobody expects a serious effort — unless the pending federal case against his political allies demands it.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (D - N.Y.) said Friday that he intends to force a vote on a bill that would preserve Obama - era net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to repeal this week.

«I thank the Trump Administration for its commitment to Western New York, with both federal assistance and in our push to replace the International Joint Commission with individuals that will repeal the disastrous Plan 2014 that got us into this mess,» the congressman said.

Independent Democratic Conference Pushes for Erin Merryn's Law with New Federal Funding Backing Program

Now, though, with the state planning to slash funding for Medicaid and education, legislators, particularly in the Assembly, were pushing for its extension, arguing that the state's wealthiest had already received a federal break when the Bush tax cuts were continued this past December.

Senate Republicans had pushed for August in order to comply with a federal law.

She did participate in a roundtable on Monday with U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who is pushing federal legislation to require colleges maintain confidential advisers for sexual assault victims, institute better training processes for employees who adjudicate assaults and stiffer fines for institutions found to be out of compliance.

U.S. Sen. Gillibrand (c.) pushes for federal legislation to help women - owned business with U.S. Rep Grace Meng (l.) and state Sen. Toby Stavisky (r.).

During the gathering at the Hilton Long Island, the party framed the election not as a direct contrast between the incumbent and his challenger, but between Cuomo's Albany and Washington, where Republican clashes with Barack Obama led to a federal government shutdown, pushes to restrict abortion rights and opposition to items that have passed in New York.

«There is a federal push to learn our numbers, our letters and our words, but a focus on the content, without a focus on the skills required to use that content, will end up with children being left behind.»

As a result, Simon says he and other U.S. supercomputing experts have been pushing the executive branch for years to come out with a plan for coordinating research across the federal government.

And while becoming leaders in bioinformatics allows universities to push academic research forward, federal funding can also help forge relationships with industry: «It is critical to have universities collaborate with industry,» stresses Cyrus Harmon, president and CEO of Neomorphic, a West Coast - based company that designs tools to scrutinize genomic information.

That center began with a $ 500,000 donation from the Coastal Conservation Association, a group that has pushed to change the federal fishing law.