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Under the law as it existed until 1943, the Federal Government made grants to the States on the basis of population, matching State expenditures on a 50-50 basis.
The following table shows, for selected years, the authorizations, appropriations, allotment base, Federal grants to States and State matching funds for this part of the grant program:
The provisions for determining a State's unadjusted Federal share are designed to reflect the varying financial resources among the States.
Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.
Should the requirement, which must therefore be Federal in nature, be legislated by the United States Congress??
Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
* 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
Avionics plays a heavy role in modernization initiatives like the Federal Aviation Administration's ( FAA ) Next Generation Air Transportation System project in the United States and the Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR ) initiative in Europe.
* USAM 9-16. 000 Pleas — Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, United States Department of Justice
Administrative law in the United States often involves the regulatory activities of so-called " independent agencies ", such as the Federal Trade Commission (" FTC "), whose Washington D. C. headquarters are shown above.
For each market area, the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) allowed two licensee ( networks ) known as " A " and " B " carriers.
The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.
In 2011, the very high level of public sector debt prompted the Stabilitätsrat von Bund und Ländern ( Council for Fiscal Stability of the Federal and Local States ) to declare a possible fiscal emergency for the city.
A government agency ( such as the Federal Communications Commission in the United States ) may apportion the regionally available bandwidth to broadcast license holders so that their signals do not mutually interfere.
He also served as a Nazi spy in the United States and, in 1941, he was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the largest espionage case in U. S. history: The Duquesne Spy Ring.
The United States federal courts are divided into twelve regional circuits, each with a circuit court of appeals ( plus a thirteenth, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals in patent cases and cases against the federal government, without geographic limitation ).
The mid-tier Federal Court of Appeal is a single court that sits and hears cases in multiple cities, and thus mid-tier decisions have precedential value throughout Canada ( that is, unlike the United States, Canada is not divided into appellate circuits ).
Examples of common law being replaced by statute or codified rule in the United States include criminal law ( since 1812, U. S. courts have held that criminal law must be embodied in statute if the public is to have fair notice ), commercial law ( the Uniform Commercial Code in the early 1960s ) and procedure ( the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the 1930s and the Federal Rules of Evidence in the 1970s ).

Federal and introduced
* 1969 – The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U. S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act was introduced by congressman Ron Paul in order to obtain a more detailed audit of the Fed.
In 2002, a one-tenth hour bill was introduced, partly due to the encouragement and funding from Alternatives Federal Credit Union and feedback from retailers who complained about the awkwardness of only having larger denominations to work with ; the bills bear the signatures of both HOURS President Steve Burke and the president of AFCU.
It was introduced to U. S. Congress by Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
* The University of Germany's Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg was renamed Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in 2003 in honour of the politician whoas minister of defencehad introduced obligatory academic education for German career officers.
Federal laws titled after Tulia have twice been introduced in the United States Congress, but not enacted, to increase the evidentiary standard required to convict a person for a drug offense and to require screening of law enforcement officers or others acting under color of law participating in drug task forces.
The Federal Marriage Amendment has been introduced in the United States Congress four times: in 2003, 2004, 2005 / 2006 and 2008.
The original Federal Marriage Amendment, written by the Alliance for Marriage, was introduced in the 107th United States Congress in the House of Representatives on May 15, 2002, by Democratic Representative Ronnie Shows ( D-MS ) with 22 cosponsors.
On January 24, 2005, Senator Allard introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment, which was the 2004 version of the Federal Marriage Amendment verbatim, with 21 Republican co-sponsors.
As Attorney General, Jackson supported a bill introduced by Sam Hobbs that would have legalized wiretapping by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), or any other government agency, if it was suspected that a felony was occurring.
The first version of a bill to establish a commission to regulate trade was introduced on January 25, 1912, by Oklahoma congressman Dick Thompson Morgan, once known as the " father of the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2009 it was reported that Blum's wife Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $ 25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband's real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called " a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
The Federal Statistical Office was not introduced until 1860, after Franscini ’ s death, along with a law on federal population censuses, which were to be held every ten years henceforth.
On January 26, 2005, the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 ( S. 190 ) was first introduced in the Senate by Sen. Chuck Hagel.
At the same time, the House also introduced similar legislation, the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005 ( H. R.
The Constitution of 1973 introduced a new institution known as the ' Council of Common Interests ' consisting of Chief Ministers of the provinces and an equal number of Ministers of the Federal Government nominated by the Prime Minister.
The Federal Accountability Act in response to the sponsorship scandal, President of the Treasury Board, the Honourable John Baird introduced the bill to the Canadian House of Commons on 11 April 2006.
He introduced a bill to fund the structure, recommending that native Sioux quartzite be used for construction of the state's first Federal building.
The flag was finally introduced as the national flag on December 12, 1889, when the Federal Council defined the 1 / 6 proportion of the cross's members, while the ratio of the cross to the square field, or the shield in the case of the coat of arms, remained unspecified.
On March 11 of that year, he introduced the Broadcast Decency Responsibility and Enforcement Act, that would have created a Council of Decency to advise the Federal Communications Commission on standards of decency in broadcasting.
The FTC ( Federal Trade Commission ) in fact found that in US businesses an alarming number of testimonials were in fact fictitious and misleading that in Dec of 2009 they introduced a new set of rules governing testimonials.
This was followed two years later by the first Federal Coinage Act, passed by the Federal Assembly on 7 May 1850, which introduced the franc as the monetary unit of Switzerland.

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