How to Use federalize in a Sentence

federalize

verb

• The measure federalizes several state programs.
• The mayor said the proposal to federalize D.C. police and the Secret Service clashed over the protests.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Republicans find this rhetoric ridiculous, and see no need to federalize any part of our election system, even though Democrats want to.
  — Scott Jennings, CNN, 22 July 2021
• What Zinke is doing, by ordering a new review, is re-federalizing the process.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
• The president could also federalize the National Guard using what’s known as Title 10 and take control of the troops himself.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2020
• This attempt to federalize our elections and strip away states' rights would make cheating easier than ever.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2022
• The 1807 law was used at the request of California’s governor, to federalize the California National Guard units to quell the riots.
  — Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2022
• There are also bills that would federalize elections, force unionization of America’s workforce, and make the District of Columbia a state.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• Many Democrats are pressing for even more aggressive action to federalize the medical supply chain.
  — Author: Anne Gearan, Mike Debonis, Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020
• The House of Representatives has already passed one bill that would federalize election rules and another that would undo state right-to-work laws on union membership.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• Their solution was to standardize and federalize the system.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2021
• Democrats proposed a new effort Wednesday to federalize the nation’s medical supply chain.
  — Time, 29 Apr. 2020
• Republicans cast the Democrats' bills in Congress as self-serving and expensive attempts to federalize elections.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2021
• The Democratic narrative behind H.R.1, an 800-page House bill that would (among other things) federalize election administration, has been mostly cheered on by the press.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Bobby reported the standoff with Wallace to the president, who issued the order to federalize the Alabama National Guard.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Since Virginia has the death penalty, however, federalizing the prosecution might not trigger any greater set of penalties for a conviction.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2017
• As Congress delves into the next round of aid, Democrats are putting forward their own priorities, including a new effort Wednesday to federalize the nation’s medical supply chain.
  — Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• There have been howls for decades from conservatives about federalizing law enforcement.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2017
• Republicans view it as a power grab that would limit free speech, federalize elections, and gut commonsense laws meant to avert fraud and bolster confidence in election integrity.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 17 July 2021
• Under limited circumstances, Trump could federalize them, but in that case, they would generally be barred from doing law enforcement.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• No factories have been seized, no supply chains federalized — although governors have complained that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has hijacked purchases by jumping to the front of the line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Wouldn’t federalizing these social programs undermine the role of the states as laboratories of democracy?
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 5 Dec. 2017
• The Insurrection Act, which dates to 1807, allows the president to call up active-duty military units or federalize the National Guard under certain circumstances.
  — NBC News, 5 June 2020
• As currently worded, the Insurrection Act allows the president to call up the active military or federalize the national guard under three circumstances.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2020
• Republicans also argue that the legislation is part of a partisan strategy for Democrats to federalize election rules to their advantage.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• Their initial proposal, H.R.1, aimed to federalize U.S. elections, and parts of it looked unconstitutional.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2021
• Durham’s contribution to combatting the drug violence that continues to plague Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven was to federalize investigations.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• The Insurrection Act of 1807 also gives a president authority to deploy the military or federalize the National Guard in states that cannot control insurrections or that defy federal law.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020
• These bills are really a power grab that would circumvent and federalize our entire elections process, stripping states of their constitutional authorities.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• Bringing Medicaid costs under control would be a much easier sell if Congress moved to federalize the cost of providing for elderly Medicaid beneficiaries.
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024