Sentences with phrase «vos said»

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference in Blackpool, alongside shadow attorney general Dominic Grieve MP, Vos said: «Lawyers provide a crucial public service.

Vos said critics of the proposal should see past school superintendents» «demagoguery.»

Vos said the funding formula passed in the budget is a «drafting error» that resulted in higher property tax hikes in some districts.

«To say somehow it's going to reduce their ability to raise property taxes, well that's the point,» Vos said.

«There has to be community input,» Vos said.

This time Vos said he expects to introduce a more comprehensive proposal that would allow voucher programs in multiple cities.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday that he is pursuing legal remedies to avoid paying the full cost of the state's new test for elementary and middle school students after technological glitches delayed and scaled back the exam this spring.

It's possible,» Vos said.

Last month, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he wouldn't support statewide school vouchers unless the Legislature also passed a school accountability bill.

Vos said his priorities include continuing tax cuts, pushing for school accountability and expanding the state's voucher program, overhauling the state Government Accountability Board, and changing how secret John Doe investigations are conducted in Wisconsin.

Asked for more details about possible changes to the school funding formula, Vos said it's still early in the process.

«The governor has proposed excellent options to help students succeed at every level; removing barriers for those don't want to settle for anything less than a top - notch education,» Vos said in the statement.

Vos said Senate and Assembly Republicans are meeting to discuss differences in their approaches to school accountability and standards.

«Our position is pretty aggressive in saying we want sanctions to be built in,» Vos said.

Vos said the sanctions for D - rated schools should include things like more teacher training, rather than punitive measures.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday that new legislation will allow school districts to keep those standards if they like them.

«It's really about improving the school, it's not about being punitive,» Vos said.

Vos said the ability to convert public schools to independent charter schools makes the bill «tougher on the choice schools and charter schools than it is on public schools,» but said the measure's goal is to ensure all schools receiving taxpayer dollars are treated the same way.

Representative Robin Vos said his caucus supports the move being pushed by voucher lobbyists, even though it's been rejected by Senate Republicans.

It's possible,» Vos said in a press conference.

«The Legislature owes it to the taxpayers that if schools are failing for years and years, there should be ramifications to protect their interests,» Vos said.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the lawmakers behind it see it as a school improvement effort.

Kids should not drink more than 8 ounces of these drinks per week, Dr. Vos said — yet they are currently drinking the equivalent of their age in weekly servings.

Dr De Vos said: «Our study provides compelling evidence that the C9orf72 protein is required for the initiation of autophagy, a pathway essential for the survival of nerve cells.

Vos said he was still optimistic the spending plan could be passed by July 1, the start of the new budget year.

Like other state lawmakers who have declined to run in the past three days, Vos said he wanted to concentrate on his own re-election and continuing his work in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Republican legislative leaders trying to break an 18 - day impasse over the state budget are focusing on cutting borrowing for road projects by $ 800 million, while negotiations are still going on over how to spread those reductions across the state, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.

Nothing has been finalized, including the amount of borrowing for transportation projects to be cut, Vos said during a briefing on the status of the budget talks.

Vos said Thursday that the bill's chief sponsor, Majority Leader Jim Steineke, is working on changes in response to concerns raised at a public hearing last month.

Vos said if a Democrat - controlled Legislature could not muster the votes to pass the sales tax increase, it would be even less likely if Republicans gain control of the governor's office, Senate or Assembly after the November elections.

«We will actually be balanced and in the black for the first time in my legislative career and almost every legislator inside the building,» Vos said.

Vos said Wednesday that he couldn't be more supportive of the idea and he was confident Walker could get behind it.

«All of us can walk away saying if the Legislature does nothing else this session we have accomplished our most important task,» Vos said.

Vos said he hopes to have the Assembly complete most of its work for the year in February and return for maybe one additional day in March.

Vos said he was disappointed with the road funding — he had pushed for raising more revenue by raising the gas tax or raising vehicle - registration fees rather than borrowing more money — but pledged that the Assembly would not return to the floor next week to adopt any Senate changes.

Given that prisons are already 30 percent over-capacity, and the Legislature is passing tough - on - crime bills that are likely to put even more people behind bars, Vos said it's a foregone conclusion that a new prison will be needed.

Vos said Monday he was willing to negotiate with Senate Republicans on small parts of the plan, but he hasn't talked with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald about it yet.

Vos said he did not know if Walker would be proposing an income tax rate reduction in addition to changing income tax withholding tables.

Vos said replacing money generated from the property tax levy with state dollars is a better approach to property tax relief than trying to do it through the school aid formula, which he said results in winners and losers across the state.

Replacing a portion of the technical college property tax levy with state money is the most equitable way to provide property tax relief statewide, Vos said.

«My hope is that property tax relief will come in the form of buying down the (technical college) levy,» Vos said.

Dr Vos said: «Search and destroy is not evidence - based - it is a package of measures.

Dr Vos said one of the main reasons for success was search and destroy which involves the early detection, early identification and early containment of infection and encompasses patients, healthcare workers and the healthcare environment.

British Athletics Chief Executive Niels De Vos said: «We are delighted to be giving David the opportunity of a farewell track race at the Müller Anniversary Games in the London Stadium, where he had so much success at London 2012.

«The more efficient you can be about mapping the better overall from a performance and cost standpoint,» De Vos said.

A fully autonomous car will need far more computing power than Delphi now has in a semi-autonomous driving system that's being rolled out by Audi soon, De Vos said.

De Vos said it will help Delphi and Mobileye get the autonomous system ready for use on real roads sometime in 2019.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a bill that would allow developers to fill state wetlands without a permit should pass the chamber but the proposal could look different than what lawmakers have presented so far.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a bill that would allow developers to fill state wetlands without a permit should pass the chamber but the proposal could look different than what lawmakers have presented so far.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Republicans are considering no borrowing to pay for highway projects, which would delay $ 1.3 billion worth of projects.