It also established federal responsibility for defense, trade, and legal matters.

Local officials may dismiss the immigration-related problems as a federal responsibility.

All federal responsibility for the environment, including air, land, water, wildlife, fisheries and forestry were transferred to the new Department.

Nuclear power is generally regarded as a federal responsibility.

Police, defense and coast guard are a federal responsibility.

Of course, neither law enforcement nor education is principally a federal responsibility.

"Ultimately we feel protecting them is a federal responsibility."

Furthermore, in the end health care should be a federal responsibility.

Critics say the administration proposal is an effort to limit federal responsibility for the program by converting part of it into a block grant.

That is a great deal for New York, especially if drug costs become a federal responsibility, as proposed in Washington.