As a result, the IRS has now recognized the Coalition as a 501 ( c )( 4 ) tax-exempt organization, the first time in the agency's history that it has granted a letter of exemption to a group that stated in its application that it would distribute voter guides directly in churches.

In an October 25, 2000, letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, acting in his role as chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, Burton asked the agency's director to get the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to recall all vaccines containing the preservative Thimerosal.

Mr. Reich said in a letter to the inspector general that he agreed with the agency's filings.

At a hearing on the role of science in shaping public policy he charged the EPA with " corrupt the scientific peer review process in order to support certain political agendas and further the agency's self-interest.

The agency's head, Wubbo de Boer, publicly advocated further reducing fees, and from 1 May 2009, the cost of having a Community Trade Mark fell by a further 40 % to € 900 for an online application.

The exposure of Yevno Azef ( who had organized many assassinations, including that of Plehve ) and Dmitri Bogrov ( who assassinated Stolypin in 1911 ) as Okhrana double agents put the agency's methods under great suspicion ; they were further compromised by the discovery of many similar double agents-provocateur.

TVA management objected vehemently to Allen's proposal, stating that it violated provisions of the TVA Self-Financing Act of 1959 which required all of the agency's power operations to be self-financing and unsubsidized, and would further dissuade new large customers from moving into its service area as opposed to adjoining areas where they would not be subject to such a scheme.

The courts further narrowed the agency's authority.

The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act-No Child Left Behind is its ninth iteration-said " nothing in this act " shall authorize any federal official to " mandate, direct, or control " a state's, local educational agency's or school's curriculum ... We have been warned.

Though Ribbentrop had competed with the Foreign Office in the past, his appointment as Foreign Minister was welcomed by the career diplomats who saw Ribbentrop as a Nazi champion who would improve the agency's standing with Hitler.

The project's intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra ( which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence ).

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

In September 2008, the NSF came under scrutiny when the agency's inspector general reported that at least 20 employees had viewed pornography at work.

Instead, functional rather than geographical intelligence requirements came to the fore such as counter-proliferation ( via the agency's Production and Targeting, Counter-Proliferation Section ) which had been a sphere of activity since the discovery of Pakistani physics students studying nuclear-weapons related subjects in 1974 ; counter-terrorism ( via two joint sections run in collaboration with the Security Service, one for Irish republicanism and one for international terrorism ); counter-narcotics and serious crime ( originally set up under the Western Hemisphere Controllerate in 1989 ); and a ' global issues ' section looking at matters such as the environment and other public welfare issues.

In the 1980s, CIA chief Bill Casey had revived the agency's practise of gaining intelligence from traveling businessmen.

Horinko " said Farmer's campaign contributions had nothing to do with the agency's decision ," and Farmer likewise denied he had lobbied EPA directly or contributed to the campaign for the purpose of affecting the EPA ruling.

There was criticism of McGuinty and calls for Health Minister David Caplan to resign after it was revealed that eHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer had approved about $ 4. 8 million in no-bid contracts during the first four months of the agency's operation, while also spending, argued that the McGuinty government spent five years and $ 647 million on the Smart Systems for Health Agency, which used 15 per cent of its $ 225-million annual budget on consultants despite employing 166 people with annual salaries exceeding $ 100000, before the project was shut down and restarted as eHealth Ontario.

Parker made the need for new leadership at METRO a key platform of her campaign, saying the leadership had damaged the agency's relationship with the community.

From November 6, 2006 through November 11, 2006, around 100 of The T's union workers went on strike, citing the agency's policy regarding termination of employees who had used up their short-term disability benefits.

Greenhalgh was much older than Kimball and was semi-retired, and had little to do with the agency's daily management.

She had released a single in November 2003 for a song entitled " Koisuru Soldier " ( Kanojo wa Ijiwaru Girl " was the other song on that CD ; it was released on her agency's label and distributed by Windsong ).

* 2001: David Willman, Los Angeles Times, " for his pioneering exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness.

Beyond the space agency's conclusion that the failed quads would not disable the Skylab 3 CSM, Brand and Lind had already shown during their training as backup Skylab crewmen that a reentry with failed quads was safe.

Reaction to the order was mixed, with the CIA satisfied that it " clearly defined " the agency's authorities, but Human Rights Watch saying that answers about what specific techniques had been banned lay in the classified companion document and that " the people in charge of interpreting document don't have a particularly good track record of reasonable legal analysis ".

By the end of Mrs. Ruppe's tenure she had succeeded in increasing the agency's budget almost 50 percent.

Shortly afterwards, they signed a deal with the Dick Katz / Harold Davidson Ltd agency, though the band had difficulty finding regular work through this, feeling that the agency's attention was being diverted towards other bands.

Sue Simons later resigned as a director and in December 2007 a one-line statement appeared on the agency's website saying the firm had been taken over.

The news agency's request for documents on Diana, held by America's National Security Agency, had been rejected, but the rejection notice itself revealed that a total of 1, 056 pages of documents is held by the National Security Agency ( NSA ), Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), State Department, and the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

In May 2009, there were opposition calls for Caplan's resignation after it was revealed that eHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer had approved about $ 4. 8 million in no-bid contracts during the first four months of the agency's operation, while also spending $ 50000 to refurnish her office, and paying consultants up to $ 300 an hour.

Pumas, Bell 205s, 206s and 212s from the 209th were also deployed, however, FAM's helicopter assets were scarce and the Mexican Army had to rely on almost every other government agency's helicopters for general support tasks.

Established by the old regime in 1988, the agency's post-Soviet responsibilities have been described in a series of decrees beginning in 1991.

Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's inception in 1905.

Allegations have been made that throughout the agency's history that its personnel have discriminated against African-American farmers, denying them loans and access to other programs well into the 1990s.

The agency's mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently in December 2000 when Congress passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which instructed the Securities & Exchange Commission and the CFTC to develop a joint regulatory regime for single-stock futures, and the products subsequently began trading in November 2002.

John Howard announced the agency's abolishment on 15 April 2004 saying that " the experiment in elected representation for indigenous people has been a failure ".

Their names have been etched on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial wall and to a Postal Inspection Service plaque at the agency's national headquarters, both located in Washington, DC.

Major proposed projects have been blocked because of an agency's failure to prepare an acceptable EIS.

Jack Rosen, AJCongress ' chairman has been accused of keeping the appointment from the agency's board and breaching protocol in doing so.

While courts generally offer significant deference to the agency's technical expertise, they do review closely whether the regulation exceeds the rulemaking authority granted by the authorizing legislation and whether the agency properly followed the process for public notice and comment.

The Born brothers were kept in a known Argentine State Intelligence safehouse for nine months until their June 1975 release, something made possible without public suspicion of outside involvement by the agency's numerous contacts inside the Montoneros ( including the leader, Mario Firmenich ).

Developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the algorithm was submitted to the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) following the agency's invitation to propose a candidate for the protection of sensitive, unclassified electronic government data.

When John Stossel accused USAID of not funding DDT because it wasn't " politically correct ," Anne Peterson, the agency's assistant administrator for global health, replied that " I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT ...

When Ribbentrop recovered, he sought a chance for increasing the agency's influence by giving Croatia independence.

In 2008, the suppliers of the custom fuel failed to tender for a renewal of the transit agency's contract, leading to a negotiated contract at a significantly increased cost.

The defense was allowed to enter into evidence six pages of a 517-page Justice Department report criticizing the FBI crime laboratory and David Williams, one of the agency's explosives experts, for reaching unscientific and biased conclusions.

Though the pod's equipment was removed after initial tests, NASA decided to leave it in place, mainly to save costs, along with the agency's plans to use it for future experiments.

The current Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at the Department of Commerce and the agency's administrator is Jane Lubchenco, who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U. S. Senate on March 19, 2009.

Despite his agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man.

the agency's budget was US $ 960, 000, 000 for 2010 ($ 3. 79 per surface acre, $ 9. 38 per hectare ).

The 1907 Act paved the way for the eventual creation of the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and is generally considered to be that agency's founding date, though the agency existed before the law was passed and was not named FDA until later.

The EPA has its headquarters in Washington, D. C., regional offices for each of the agency's ten regions, and 27 laboratories.

A most wanted list, maintained by a law enforcement agency, is a list of criminals and alleged criminals who are believed to be at large and are identified as the agency's highest priority for capture.

In addition to this, FEMA provides funds for training of response personnel throughout the United States and its territories as part of the agency's preparedness effort.

Marshall is today the agency's lead center for Space Shuttle propulsion and its external tank ; payloads and related crew training ; International Space Station ( ISS ) design and assembly ; and computers, networks, and information management.

On December 17, 2011 another Soyuz was launched from Kourou carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

* 17 December 2011-A Soyuz carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

The Mossad recruited Cohen after Director-General Meir Amit, looking for a special agent to infiltrate the Syrian government, came across his name while looking through the agency's files of rejected candidates, after none of the current candidates seemed suitable for the job.

Various departments of the OSS survived the agency's dissolution, however, and less than two years later the Central Intelligence Agency was founded, a realization of Donovan's hopes for a centralized peacetime intelligence agency.

The agency's motto is Intelligence for the defense of society, of the democratic Rule of Law and of national interests ().

George Allen, Carver's deputy, laid responsibility for the agency's capitulation at the feet of Richard Helms, the director of the CIA.

In 2002, SAIC was chosen by the NSA to produce a technology demonstration platform for the agency's Trailblazer Project in a contract worth $ 280 million.