Sentences with phrase «acting as legislators»

Speaking at the Commonwealth Africa Summit in London on Wednesday, Mr. Mahama said young people were capable of acting as legislators in Parliament but were restricted from contesting for the Presidency.

Speaking at the Commonwealth Africa Summit in London on Wednesday, Mr. Mahama said young people were capable of acting as legislators in Parliament but were restricted...

During law school Jeremy was a Student Ambassador and held numerous chair positions while acting as a legislator for the Student Bar Association.

Not exact matches

Again and again, legislators asked Zuckerberg how he would like them to act, as if they were working in partnership.

«Research has shown that life - affirming laws do have an impact on lowering the number of abortions, and with all the life - affirming laws passed since 2010, we have a reason to celebrate the number of lives saved and women protected as legislators worked to defend them from a predatory and rarely accountable abortion industry,» AUL Acting President Clark Forsythe said in a written statement.

As I've often noted, the Time for Lunch site is invaluable for learning more about the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act and for finding ways to get involved, from donating money for their lobbying efforts to contacting your own legislators.

So long as legislators are acting in the sphere of legitimate legislative activity, they are protected not only from the consequence of litigation's results but also from the burden of defending themselves.

Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney and New York's Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood are among 16 people state legislators plan to interview to take over as New York's top law enforcement officer through the end of the year.

«It's outrageous that the chairman of the Democratic Party acts that way with Democratic candidates,» said Rick Montano, a former Suffolk legislator who had a similar issue with Schaffer as a State Senate nominee in 2012.

The cost of Empire Zones could have been vastly reduced if state legislators had acted more quickly to tighten the rules after shirt - changing was identified as a problem, said David Catalfamo, former communications director for Pataki.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano says he hasn't formally nominated acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter as top cop — even though he said he would nearly five months ago — because he hasn't met with legislators tasked with voting on the appointment.

Much of the discussion centered on campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, but state races came up constantly as well, and for good reason: the state legislators and governors elected in three short months will oversee the single most important political act in our system of government, the redrawing of state and congressional district lines based on the results of the census.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

Democratic legislators would have liked Cuomo to have acted on rent regulation earlier in the year when he could have used the budget as leverage.

As a VBN board member, I am well aware of the consequences of not having ridesharing, and I know the effort that VBN has already put into advocating legislators to act.

However, the criminal acts of one person should not be reflective of all legislators, particularly as we continue to work toward and pass stronger ethics laws.

As part of the newly adopted state budget, legislators approved the reappropriation of $ 28 million to fund a gun database and another $ 3.2 million in new money for SAFE Act staff.

And by stuffing so many substantive decisions into budget bills — which he and the legislative leaders will inevitably hash out as Albany's infamous three men in a room — Cuomo is enabling the Assembly and Senate's bad habit of never allowing rank - and - file members to act like real legislators.

If he can get Ed Koch not to denounce him (Koch forced a majority of legislators in Albany to sign a pledge to reform redistricting, and well, he just proved to David Weprin he still does shrill as well as anyone) and a few goo - goos to stand next to him at his announcement of whatever compromise he ends up agreeing to, and calls it the Clean Redistricting Act or something, maybe he'll be OK.

We need to act as responsible legislators and consider all aspects of an issue.

Mr. de Blasio, who has relied on the liberal Mr. Silver to act as a powerful voice for New York City in Albany, said he believed the Manhattan legislator's character to be unimpeachable.

On Monday, he offered the proposal as an amendment to his state budget plan, which legislators are supposed to act on by April 1.

The Democratic governor offered it as an amendment to his state budget plan, which legislators are supposed to act on by April 1.

John Duane said he will draw from his Albany experiences but act as a «citizen legislator» if elected this fall as a replacement for state Assemblywoman Ann - Margaret Carrozza (D - Bayside).

UPDATE 3: The governor urged reporters not to view the fact that three legislators abstained from today's vote as a «hostile» act, suggesting that they all would vote at the «appropriate time» — in other words, when they vote on the budget.

In other county news, the biannual passion play known as the sales - tax extension goes into its final act after legislators return from spring break next week.

Law professor Marci Hamilton (at mic) at the state capital in Albany as part of a two - day lobbying effort calling on legislators to pass the Child Victims Act.

Greenberg, who was abused as a child in 1966 by a hospital aide while visiting his sick father, said Eachus, an Orange County legislator, recently put in a resolution in support of the Child Victims Act.

Justice Wiggins was particularly critical of the governor's use of a procedural maneuver that allowed legislators to vote on the Marriage Equality Act immediately after the bill was drafted, rather than waiting for three days, as is normally required.

The Feb. 11 resolution went on to say that the legislators felt that part of the SAFE Act was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.&raqAct was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.&raqact were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.»

In this role - play activity from SocialStudies.com, students act as elected legislators who have accepted significant campaign contributions from a list of companies and special - interest groups.

Legislators should support the passage of the Charter School Students with Special Needs Act, as well as other common - sense measures to expand how many students they are able to serve.

As per a recent article in our local paper — The Arizona Republic — Arizona «legislators want to gag school officials» in an amendment to Senate Bill 1172 that will prohibit «an employee of a school district or charter school, acting on the district's or charter school's behalf, from distributing electronic materials to influence the outcome of an election or to advocate support for or opposition to pending or proposed legislation.»

The apotheosis of educational romanticism occurred on January 8, 2002, when a Republican president of the United States, surrounded by approving legislators from both parties, signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which had this as the Statement of Purpose for its key title:

Perhaps in response to Illinois having been named the third most corrupt state in the nation, and maybe also just having watched former governor Blagojevich head off to prison for 14 years, our state legislators have begun acting uncannily as though they are listening to us instead of the power elite.

Luckily, a few legislators (find out names) listened to their suggestions and worked with them to write what because known as House Bill 6835, «An Act Concerning English Language Learners.»

OU Advocacy worked with legislators in Pennsylvania to include non-public schools in its Safe Schools Act, which provides funding for safety officers and other measures such as electronic monitoring and conflict resolution programs.

As Tennessee PTA State President, Landers led that organization in working with the State Board of Education and several legislators to write what would become the Parent Involvement Act.

If you would like to take this action a step further, you can schedule a meeting with your state legislators to discuss implementing a recommended amendment drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) which would «enable prosecutors to charge dogfighters under the respective state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (commonly referred to as «RICO») statue.

«But the real importance of today's event is that so many Arizonans from across the state will be here to act as humane advocates, meeting face to face with their legislators.»

«The Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions remains steadfast in its commitment to send a strong message to state legislators that dog auctions serve as a major distribution channel for buyers and sellers from 15 states, many of whom have long standing repeated violations of the Animal Welfare Act and / or have been convicted of animal cruelty.»

They urge legislators to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to read, «Military dogs shall (not may as it is currently worded) be returned to the United States after their service ends.»

Sometimes the artists act as «legislators» inventing their own rules of engagement for specific social, political or economic problems.

The effective manner in which the US has dealt with air pollution in cities since the passage of the Clean Air Act is a point of pride for environmentalists as well as legislators.

For these and other reasons, conservative and libertarian intellectuals who embrace what is known as «free market environmentalism» have long argued that pollution is a trespass on private property that is best dealt with whenever possible by common law action — not by legislators acting to referee such trespasses via sweeping environmental laws with (heavily politicized) utilitarian calculations in mind.

Within ALEC, every state has a legislator partnered with a lobbyist, who together act as state co-chairs to raise cash for the organization and promote the ALEC agenda through «model» legislation.

Senjem sees the Clean Energy First Act as a «motivational bill» to get legislators thinking about making renewable energy an even greater focus on the future.

Attempts to legislate for particular technologies tend to fail, too, because legislators do not act as fast as technology evolves.

Ministers in their role as Union legislators are legitimated to act both in accordance with the constitutional requirements of their own domestic legal order (in the UK the Royal prerogative to conduct international relations) in addition to being legitimated to act from the perspective of the Union legal order by the constitutional Treaty, specifically Article 16 (2) TEU's stipulation that «The Council shall consist of a representative of each member state at ministerial level, who may commit the government of the Member State in question and cast its vote.»

Therefore, the situation you propose would probably not qualify as a valid grant of citizenship for Australian legal purposes unless it was voluntarily accepted by the legislator in question, or by someone with the legal authority to act on that legislator's behalf at the time the citizenship was granted.