Sentences with phrase «house rules reforms»

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The Manhattan Institute's Jim Copland's written testimony to the House in 2016 gives an excellent explanation of how the rule gets abused and ways it could be reformed.

«I haven't ruled anything in, I haven't ruled anything out,» Jeffries said in an interview Wednesday, noting he's been tied up trying to push his prison reform bill through the House.

The House on Thursday voted 211 - 186, on a party line vote, to table the privileged resolution that would have implicated the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with violating «Clause 1 of Rule XXIII of the Code of Official Conduct, which states that «A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, Officer or Employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.»

Rochester - area Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter delivered the opening statement for the minority as the House Rules Committee approved the Republican tax reform plan last night.

Before the debate starts Jacob Rees - Mogg, a Conservative, asks John Bercow, the Speaker, to rule on whether the House of Lords reform bill is hybrid.

The White House and the Blue Dogs would both like to squeeze more money out of reform — for example, by giving more power over setting Medicare reimbursement rules to an independent commission instead of Congress.

Tuesday Questions — Deputy prime minister; attorney general Ten minute rule motion — Local services Legislation — House of Lords reform bill, second reading Adjournment — Modernisation of credit unions

However, the motion calls for future reforms to «include the status of members of the upper House who have been convicted in a court of law and that the same rules that apply to honourable members in such circumstances should apply to members of the upper House».

Hopefully there will be some administrative reforms at HCR that will benefit minorities who had encountered a financial setback as he go along in his new post.To many rules in housing ususally can be a disservice to people in need of housing...

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

The Mayor's new housing strategy offers ambitious and smart ideas, but rules out the reform which would have the greatest impact — building on the green belt

Adopting a line taken by ministers throughout the week, a spokesman for the parliamentary under - secretary of state for pensions reform said: «All her claims were in line with the relevant House of Commons rules and guidance and have been approved by the Fees Office.»

However, Rules Committee reforms and others were carried out following this landslide, as liberals saw that House procedures «still prevented them from using that majority.»

A report by MPs in the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform committee, have discussed «modest» rule changes to the House of Lords, but at present, suggests «there may be no compelling reason to alter an historic system of inheritance», due to the fact that «aristocratic titles no longer confer any particular rights, duties or privileges».

A provision of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. § 7353, prohibits federal employees, including members of Congress and staff, from soliciting or accepting anything of value from anyone who seeks official action from the employee's agency, does business with that agency, or has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties.105 House Rule 23, clause 3, similarly provides:

To gasps from the Labour benches, the chancellor announced «tough but fair» reforms that will lead to extra changes for housing benefit and on the rules for the mobility and care arrangements for disability living allowance.

Hounded by public pressure, the Illinois House used a one - day special session last week to pass a broad school reform bill that raises spending on poor students and amends teacher - licensing rules.

Washington — If the House - approved tax - reform bill becomes law with its rule on contributory pensions intact, the measure would change the tax status of the vast majority of school employees who retire in the next few years.

As part of the «Historic Agreement» 12 brokered by Obama Environment Czar Carol Browner, California and other states agreed to consider compliance with EPA's greenhouse gas emission standards as compliance with their own.13 But in return, auto manufacturers and their trade associations had to support both the Tailpipe Rule and the California waiver.14 In a September 30, 2011 letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa summarized the terms for auto makers under the «Historic Agreement»:

This sharp partisan divide will make it hard, at least in the short term, for YCER and other groups to successfully advocate for sweeping greenhouse gas rules and clean - energy reform, suggested Paul Bledsoe, a White House energy and climate aide in the Clinton administration.

Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California and new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has asked lobbyists and trade organizations to identify the federal rules they would most like to see overturned, and the E.P.A.'s air quality regulations were high on the list.

The Consumer Credit Appeals Tribunal Rules 2008 (SI 2008/668)-- no credit token for guessing what they do — has also been brought into force on the same date — as has the Consumer Credit (Exempt Agreements)(Amendment) Order 2008 (SI 2008/645) which exempts from regulation by the CCA 1974 credit agreements entered into by the Urban Regeneration Board under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 for the purpose of assisting first time residential buyers.

[FN171] One of the benefits of the new law, and one that must be reached to feel any sense that we as a society are meeting our obligation to the poor under this welfare reform, is that states now have the flexibility to eliminate the rule that disqualifies a family from receiving cash assistance when there is a second parent in the house.

Regulations like The Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Volcker rule, and The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 require financial institutions to secure stronger capital and liquidity positions, and have spawned new regulatory bodies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

A good example is the outpouring of REALTOR ® letters to members of Congress early last year urging opposition to a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reform the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

A decision by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to withdraw its draft final rule for reforming settlement procedures marks a new day for efforts to improve the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® President Walt McDonald says.

Given serious concerns with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's proposed reforms to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the National Association of REALTORS ® has urged officials in HUD and the White House to rework key aspects of the rule and beef up its analysis of the impact on consumers and industry players.

, a member of the House Financial Services Committee who has championed reforming FHA rules to make condo financing more widely available.

The reelection victory of President Barack Obama over Republican challenger former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney yesterday means initiatives begun in the last four years to address past housing market excesses and help boost the market recovery, including proposed Dodd - Frank banking rules and reform of the secondary mortgage market, could command attention going into the president's second term.

Right out of the gate, the House took a stab at regulatory reform, passing a measure that would give Congress more say in the rules federal agencies propose.

The bipartisan bill introduced by House Financial Services Committee members Rep. Robert Pittenger (R - NC) and Rep. David Scott (D - GA), would clarify and reform the HVCRE Rule (part of the Basel III framework), which affects capital requirements for certain ADC loans.

Multifamily Tax Items • Extends the 9percent LIHTC credit rate for allocations through the end of 2013; absent the credit fix, the LIHTC program would suffer a loss of equity investment for affordable housing projects • Extension through the end of 2013 of base housing allowance rules for affordable housing Also noteworthy are items that are not in H.R. 8, including an itemized deduction cap or a defined fast - track tax reform process.

Other causes contributing to uncertainty in the marketplace include the looming «fiscal cliff» that will trigger mandatory budget cuts and tax increases at the beginning of next year, pending Dodd - Frank Act regulations that are making financial institutions hesitant to lend since they don't know how the new rules will affect them, tax reform, and the future role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the nation's housing finance system.

It is the first of two rules that came from the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that will impact the housing market.

In some cases, this difficulty is not for lack of developers who are willing to invest, or construction workers wanting to get back to work — it's because localities have not gotten around to reforming outdated, decades - old rules on housing development.