In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Traditionally,the president does not fill federal jobs in a state until he discusses them with the senators from that state.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

America's constitution says federal troops cannot be sent to a state unless the state government asks for them.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

There was some question whether Brown should be tried in a federal court or a state court.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

After the storm, recovery and aid efforts by local, state and federal agents were not well organized.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

They would sign a promise not to fight again and to obey state and federal laws.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Earlier this year, a judge in the state of Florida was forced to declare a mistrial after eight weeks in a federal drug case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The federal government has paid most of the money, sharing the cost with the state.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

He realized that this "teach-in" method would be a useful way for the public to express concern about the environment to federal and state officials.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

They had come to Washington to negotiate the future of federal property in their state.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And he ordered the state flag raised over all other federal property in the city.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

But,he admitted, if a state did secede,there was little the federal government could do.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Today,federal spending is one of the most important parts of the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Federal and state financial aid can only go to American citizens.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

That was the most important federal job in Conkling's home state.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He said he would enforce federal laws in every state.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Henning says state and federal agencies don't have the funds to monitor CAFOs, so she taught herself how to do it.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Since the federal law was passed a decade ago, many state and local communities have followed suit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Tribal elders,however, call on state and federal governments to improve their swine flu strategies for Aborigines.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

The state is collaborating with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives, known as the ATF, in cracking down on the cigarette black market.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

That is already being done, says Dr.Bawa Ahmed Abimiku, the president of the Nigerian Cancer Society and the chief medical officer at Federal Medical Center in Keffi,Nassarawa state.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

In this week's Republican address, the governor of the state of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty,said the federal budget President Obama proposed for the 2010 year does not provide the tax relief he promised.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

The target of the combined federal, state and local law enforcement effort is the notorious Mexican cartel known as La Familia, a major supplier of cocaine and methamphetamine to drug dealers in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

This bill doesn't take sides. What it says is that it is inappropriate to have a federal rule that says state governments with their own money can't make these decisions or that individual investors can't press their companies to do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28