Sentence examples for governors request from inspiring English sources
Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor, is trying to rationalise interstate taxes, and has so far refused state governors' request to reintroduce a financial-transactions tax.
But in the absence of such big changes, Dr. Frist said, Congress may accommodate some of the governors' request for short-term assistance.
"One of the things I've seen happen is that governors request a lot more information from the management team than they did in the past, and that can cause tensions," explains Mackenzie.
While it is too early to expect a detailed federal response, comments today by Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, suggest that he supports the governors' request for more freedom in operating Medicaid.
He released a statement yesterday in response to the governors' request: The rules, which were agreed to by the full DNC including representatives from Florida and Michigan over 18 months ago, allow for two options.
Among the governors requesting waivers were two Republicans, including the Republican governor of Utah.
In 2005, 29 Republican Governors requested more flexibility in implementing welfare work requirements.
"To provide just a quarter of what the states' governors requested is nowhere near good enough, and will leave business owners, homeowners and municipalities that were devastated without the resources they need.
The governors requested from the feds increased access to naloxone -- used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose -- as well as Medicare coverage of methadone treatment for seniors and a requirement that drug prescribers go through substance abuse training.
Twenty years after that, Congress approved a law including a provision that he wrote requiring the federal government to provide the drug to state and local governments for people within 20 miles of reactors, if the governors requested it.
Maximinus told his praetorian prefect Sabinus to write to provincial governors, requesting that they and their subordinates ignore "that letter" (Galerius's edict).
