New York City has forfeited hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars because union and city officials haven't agreed on a new evaluation system that would judge teachers, in part, on student test scores.
And Senator Bayh said the President may propose a freeze in most federal discretionary spending in the State of the Union.
He was promoting an issue that he called for in this week's State of the Union address: federal spending and tax breaks to improve the nation's competitiveness.
"Nikki believes it is critical that South Carolina speak with as much unity as possible on key federal issues facing our state, such as labor union powers, Obamacare, and deficit spending, " said spokesman Tim Pearson.
Tuesday's State of the Union Address will take advantage of this state of affairs to call for more federal spending.
Unless, of course, the industry gets yet another boost from the federal government, after President Bush's State of the Union address, a distinct possibility.
There will be state governments and a union government, like in America or the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Last month, President Obama energized the national dialogue by highlighting cybersecurity in his State of the Union address and by issuing an executive order that directs federal regulators to provide better cybersecurity for banking, telecommunications, energy and other industries.
As early as next week, the court could rule whether a federal labor law pre-empts California's prohibition against employers using state money to deter union organizing campaigns.
So does the President hope to be able to point his federal workers towards the leadership that they're going to have by the State of the Union address?
That statute protects marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine marriage for other states.
Its one-size-fits-all attempt to regulate marriage defining marriage for federal purposes as a legal union between one man and one woman takes away state powers in violation of the Tenth Amendment (power not delegated to the federal government remains with the states or the people).
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The lawsuit was filed by the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), Luis Inacio Lucena Adams, to a federal court in the state of Goias.
Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union intervened on behalf of anonymous customers in a federal lawsuit Amazon had brought in Seattle against the state of North Carolina.
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More recently, in his State of the Union address, the President proposed to align his signature revitalization initiatives to ensure that federal programs and resources are focused on 20 communities that are suffering the most from the effects of the recession.
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