Sentence examples for federal function from inspiring English sources

Immigration regulation is a federal function.

"To me as a conservative, I look at a problem and ask, Is this a federal function?" Mr. Barr said.

"Security should be a federal function, and it should be funded as such".

As with any federal function, an after-action report will be done on the dogs for lessons learned.

But he said there is a "federal function" since states set voting laws and certify the tallies.

During the period since World War II, the balance of state and local expenditure has shifted somewhat, with education increasing in importance (today it accounts for more than one-third of the state and local budget), while highways have increasingly become a federal function, carried out with either direct federal funding or grants-in-aid to state and local governments.

Argument Presidential electors "exercise federal functions under," and discharge duties pursuant to, "authority conferred by" the Constitution.

Still others, like the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Account, are said to be duplicative with other federal functions.

Mr. Romney has a long list of other core federal functions that he wants to dump onto the states.

The contractors have expanded in size and power in recent decades in a push by small-government conservatives to outsource federal functions to the private sector.

In Burroughs v. United States, we said: "While presidential electors are not officers or agents of the federal government, they exercise federal functions under, and discharge duties in virtue of authority conferred by, the Constitution of the United States.