Sentences with phrase «after reform groups»

Monday's vote will come after reform groups and some legislators failed in an attempt to get the State Board of Elections to reverse its 1996 interpretation of state law that created the loophole.

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The SEC's review comes after the agency put together a dedicated group earlier this year to examine private equity and hedge funds that had to register with it as part of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law, Reuters first reported in April.

Indivisible, a progressive organizing group founded after the 2016 election, is backing the April 20 walkout and helping Murdock and some of her fellow students organize — and some students indicated that the April 20 event is a bit more of an open political push for gun reform.

The group — which includes Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the anti-immigration Northern League and the far - right Brothers of Italy party — vowed to eliminate the «damaging effects» of a landmark 2011 pension reform named after then Welfare Minister Elsa Fornero and passed at the peak of Italy's sovereign debt crisis.

Religious leaders that attended the meeting said the president spent more than an hour with them, and after making a few remarks at the top of the meeting he let each group discuss their priorities and problems with comprehensive immigration reform.

Glasgow's Archbishop Philip Tartaglia was speaking after the first meeting of the Scottish Leaders» Group on Welfare Reform.

Beck's comments came after a group of 400 rabbis, many from the Reform movement, took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal blasting him for comments he made about the Holocaust.

The referendum drive began earlier this year after a series of park district board decisions drew the ire of Citizens for Tax Moderation, a tax reform group composed mainly of longtime Gurnee residents.

He was part of a group of reform - minded senators who advocated against accepting Espada and Monserrate back into the conference after the ’09 Senate coup.

The police organisation has typically been decidedly hostile towards the home secretary, after her police reform fell foul of officers» lobby groups.

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

The group, NYCLASS, «feels very good» about the chances of a new measure being unveiled as early as January, as pressure has been mounting for a compromise after Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito failed to corral enough votes for an outright ban or other reforms.

In a 129 - page report, the New York Public Interest Research Group lists 30 specific problems and initial measures that Cuomo, who has promised reform, could take immediately after assuming office Saturday.

The pension forfeiture amendment had been a key reform for lawmakers and good - government groups after a spate of corruption arrests engulfed the Capitol.

The coalition government is facing the prospect of its first major Commons defeat after a 70 - strong group of Tory rebels signed a letter opposing House of Lords reform before a crucial vote on Tuesday.

Six months after he gave that speech, campaign finance reform is stalled and a new public integrity commission he has championed is seen as flawed by watchdog groups.

Because lawmakers would still have to approve the lines — and tweak them after two rejections, with limits — other reform groups are opposing the measure.

Meanwhile, government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

The founder of the Tory Reform Group, Lord Walker was appointed a life peer after his retirement as an MP in 1992.

Business groups estimate the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) assessments, if they were counted as normal state taxes, are the third highest tax the state levies after personal income and sales and use taxes, and the single biggest business tax.

Government reform groups in Albany want state lawmakers Cuomo to strengthen the state's contracting and procurement system after nine people were arrested on charges of bid - rigging related to a lucrative economic development project.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is warning a number of groups of tax credit claimants that they need to contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if they want to continue receiving working tax credit after this week.

The Bronx assembylman's focus on ethics changes comes after a group of reform - minded Democrats in the chamber have pushed speaker candidates to backa host of reforms that would decentralize some of the power of the speakership and give more clout to rank - and - file members.

After last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws.

The executive director of a leading government reform group has been replaced, after he turned himself in for possession of addictive illegal drugs.

Mr Kaminski, a senior right - winger close to Poland's President, is now leader of the Conservative and Reform Group, formed by the Tories after Mr Cameron took his MEPs out of the mainstream, pro-EU, European People's Party (EPP).

Representatives for the group testified in favor of Cuomo's education agenda before the State Joint Committee on Education earlier this month, and praised his «bold blueprint» for education reform after the State of the State address.

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

A group of government reform groups received a slap on the wrist after sending a political letter to the government offices of state senators.

He quietly put an end to the commission in April after winning a series of ethics reform concessions from the state legislature, irking good government groups and Mr. Bharara because they believed the Moreland Commission was terminated prematurely.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

Government watchdog groups and others have been calling for ethics reform after.

Indeed, study after study by watchdog groups, the state comptroller's office and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax - reform commission has reached the same conclusion: the way agencies track the subsidies they hand out makes it difficult to determine whether the programs are effective and companies have lived up to their promises.

Government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

The above timetable ties in with the timetable for choosing London's mayoral candidate, agreed by the party reform implementation group and the organisation committee after consultation with the regional board.

The decrease is likely also driven by the changed political calculus for both unions and charter groups after most of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sweeping education reform proposals failed during last year's legislative session.

The group was formed immediately before the 2010 general election, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, hoping that there would be opportunities to push for electoral reform after the eleReform Trust, hoping that there would be opportunities to push for electoral reform after the elereform after the election.

Cuomo, despite saying that the so - called Moreland Commission was independent, dismantled it after legislators agreed to a package of ethics reforms that good government groups say did not go far enough to end the historical corruption in Albany.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

Deadline reports that Peele and his company, Monkeypaw Productions, are shopping around a series titled The Hunt, about a group of diverse hunters who want to track and kill the reformed Nazis who «escaped justice and embedded themselves in American society» after World War II.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

But Lam was fired when teachers engineered the election of her sworn enemies, and the Memphis school board abandoned House's initiatives soon after she resigned, voluntarily, to lead a national school reform group.

After being matched by more than $ 600 million in goods and services from the local communities that were recipients, the money was given to nine large city school systems, a consortium of rural schools, and two national school - reform groups, among others.

More than two years after governors and business leaders endorsed the idea of reforming schools through competitive academic standards, the group they created to carry on their agenda says it is ready to show states whether they are meeting that challenge.

After numerous listening sessions and tribal consultations, the study group released a «Blueprint for Reform,» a comprehensive plan to redesign the BIE...

Teacher Evaluations At Center Of Chicago Strike NPR: In California, after the state legislature mandated the use of student progress benchmarks to rate teachers, an education reform group sued the Los Angeles Unified School District to force the issue.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.