The recent federal government's student-loan program is another step in the direction of making higher education more available to lower-status youth.

Populations recovered and stabilized, so the species was removed from the U. S. federal government's list of endangered species and transferred to the list of threatened species on July 12, 1995, and it was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.

Transport Canada is under the direction of the federal government's Minister of Transport.

Fear of a nuclear war spurred the production of public safety films by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch that demonstrated ways on protecting oneself from a Soviet nuclear attack.

Maritime trading patterns shifted considerably from mainly trading with New England, Britain, and the Caribbean, to being focused on commerce with the Canadian interior, enforced by the federal government's tariff policies.

He said he was displeased with the federal government's decision to allow United States missile testing in Canada and had wanted to " graphically illustrate to Canadians " how wrong he believed the government to be.

The paper breaks down IQ averages by U. S. states using the federal government's National Assessment of Educational Progress math and reading test scores as a source.

" To the dismay of states ' rights proponents, he was willing to accept the federal government's financial assistance to emancipate and transport freed slaves to other countries.

She serves in the honorary position of ambassador for the program leading the federal government's effort to give women a " wake up call " about the risk of heart disease.

The NTSB was established in 1967 as the federal government's primary accident investigation agency for all modes of transportation – aviation, highway, rail, marine and pipeline.

McVeigh and Nichols cited the federal government's actions against the Branch Davidian compound in the 1993 Waco Siege ( shown above ) as a reason they perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing.

They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege — a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.

In a well-publicized 1982 case, Giuliani testified in defense of the federal government's " detention posture " regarding the internment of over 2, 000 Haitian asylum seekers who had entered the country illegally.

Section 1 is a vesting clause, granting all the federal government's legislative authority to Congress.

One of them brought suit in federal court, arguing that Rhode Island's government was not " republican " in character, and that his arrest ( along with all of the government's other acts ) were invalid.

The federal government's layout is explained in the Constitution.

In the area of federal spending, Taft initiated reforms which would revolutionize the Executive's role in the federal government's budget process.

Albury-Wodonga was selected as the primary focus of the federal Whitlam government's scheme to arrest the uncontrolled growth of Australia's large coastal cities ( Sydney and Melbourne in particular ) by encouraging decentralisation.

During Washington's presidency, Hamilton had been able to influence the federal response to the Whiskey Rebellion ( which threatened the government's power to tax citizens ).

From 1933 to 1939, even as he greatly expanded the scope of the federal government's policies and powers in response to the Great Depression, Roosevelt muddled through: his " brains trust " of top advisers, although working directly for the President, often were appointed to vacant positions in agencies and departments, whence they drew their salaries since the White House lacked statutory or budgetary authority to create new staff positions.

These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair.

In 1946, the Grazing Service was merged with the General Land Office ( a product of the country's territorial expansion and the federal government's nineteenth-century homesteading policies ) to form the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior.

It was during the 1850s when the United States federal government's attempt to grasp control over the Native Americans reached an entirely new level of severity.

The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

* 1969 – The " Chicago Eight " plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Similarly the National Atlas page showing federal lands in Nevada does not distinguish between the Groom block and other parts of the Nellis range.

Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Federal Court, the Superior Court of Justice and other Superior Courts, the National Justice Council and the regional federal courts.

The National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) was the first federal agency to assume regulatory responsibility in the United States.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

In 1936 the federal government established the Cape Breton Highlands National Park covering across the northern third of the Highlands.

The largest federal agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

In federal Australian politics, the conservative Liberal, National, Country Liberal and Liberal National parties are united in a coalition, known simply as the Coalition.

** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway

When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

National banks are, however, corporations formed under federal law, not Delaware law.

Other federal agencies, such as the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service pursue primarily conservation missions, while still others, such as the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tend to focus more on beneficial use of natural resources.

After that the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Executive Committee was established by presidential directive in 2004 to advise and coordinate federal departments and agencies on matters concerning the GPS and related systems.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.