Sentences with phrase «majority rules reform»

Assemblyman says Majority Rules Reform features a «Sudden Death» provision for reform bills; fails to disperse power among rank and file members to stop corruption in Legislature

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Senate Democrats are trying to push the Republican majority into supporting a host of ethics reform measures and are attempting to force the issue by using a Senate rule to get a hearing on the matter.

And yet Northern Ireland still stands aloof - a majority is voting for reform there and yet the Assembly, under the complex rules of Stormont, has not yet enabled same sex marriages to take place.

When the British Columbia considered the question of whether to reform its electoral system from majority rule election of legislators to some form of proportional representation, the Government of British Columbia created a body called the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly, composed of citizens from throughout the province.

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.»

Won't work past 2 pm: «Making good on Sen. John McCain's threat to withhold all Republican cooperation from Democrats in the Senate in retribution for the majority party using reconciliation to pass health care reform, the GOP used the rule that states committees can only meet when the chamber is in session with the unanimous consent of all members.»

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.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

Bcause Baby Boomers remain in control of leadership posts within both unions (and thanks to rules that allow retirees to vote in union elections), the NEA and AFT end up defending seniority - based privileges and layoff policies that hurt the younger, more reform - minded teachers who make up the majority of their respective memberships.

The Adoption Support Fund is part of a wider package of reforms introduced by the government through the Children and Families Act, including a faster approval process so the majority of people are approved within six months and new rules so prospective adopters and children are placed on the adoption register within three months.

While the Court ruled that the health reform act's individual mandate provision requiring all Americans to have health coverage could not be supported under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, the majority held that the tax imposed on those who don't buy insurance is constitutional under the taxing powers granted Congress.

In its 5 - 4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the health reform act's individual mandate provision, requiring individuals to have health coverage, could not be supported under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, but the majority held that the tax imposed on those who don't buy insurance is constitutional under the taxing powers granted Congress.