Sentences with phrase «as early voting»

The budget did not include voting reforms such as early voting or the Child Victims Act, which would extend the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases.

Many individuals and groups propose improvements in voting access such as early voting period, same day registration, and even Election Day held on weekend as remedies for the lack of voting participation.

Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed some tighter ethics rules as well as early voting and easier voter registration.

But the budget is also notable for what it did not include: a measure that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, voting reforms such as early voting and gun control legislation Democratic lawmakers had pushed in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead.

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

The conference is in the minority, though, and there is limited likelihood that the Republican majority will advance the reforms being sought, such as early voting.

But as early voting ended Friday evening, Stein, the political science professor at Rice, said early voting was higher than expected.

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

As the polls showed the race tightening, he says, «reporters frequently focused on other factors, such as early voting and Democrats» supposedly superior turnout operation.»

As early vote tallies were rolling in, Dan Durett, a member of the party's executive committee, took to the stage to cheer, «Hip, Hip, Hooray.

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Congress could vote as early as next week.

The House is scheduled to vote on the TCJA on Tuesday and the Senate will take up the bill immediately after, meaning President Donald Trump could sign the measure into law as early as Wednesday.

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

He knows it's an uphill battle: Republicans appear to have the votes to pass the legislation through the House and Senate, and are aiming to get the law on President Donald Trump's desk as early as Wednesday.

A vote in the House and Senate on the final bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is expected as early as Tuesday.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Republicans said on Sunday they expected Congress to pass a tax code overhaul this week, with a Senate vote as early as Tuesday and President Donald Trump aiming to sign the bill by week's end.

Despite the hassles, Traina says that he will still be happy with his decision to pursue a SPAC, as long as the merger wins approval during a proxy vote slated to take place early this year.

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters)- Top U.S. Republicans said on Sunday they expected Congress to pass a tax code overhaul this week, with a Senate vote as early as Tuesday and President Donald Trump aiming to sign the bill by week's end.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

Following the House Ways and Means Committee's approval, the full chamber could vote on the tax plan as early as next week.

Republicans said they expected Congress to pass a tax code overhaul this week, with a Senate vote as early as Tuesday and President Donald Trump aiming to sign the bill by week's end.

You are, therefore, urged to vote by telephone or by using the Internet as instructed on the proxy card or, if so requested, by executing and returning, at your earliest convenience, the requested proxy card in the envelope that will have been provided.

The hastily called vote poses significant logistical challenges that make it doubtful it could be held as early as next Sunday, experts said.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

In early February, the House and Senate voted to repeal the so - called «stream protection rule» — using a regulation - killing tool known as the Congressional Review Act.

In addition, Didi made no comment on an earlier report that new investors will not have traditional voting rights as Didi's management reserves voting control under a proxy arrangement.

[20] In essence, this was an early version of the conflict of interest argument made below: promoters were using nonvoting common stock as a way of maintaining voting control for themselves.

You are, therefore, urged to vote by telephone or by using the Internet as instructed on the enclosed proxy card or execute and return, at your earliest convenience, the enclosed proxy card in the envelope that has also been provided.

If a majority of the Commission votes to move a proposed rule forward, it could appear on the SEC's website as early as April 18.

And finally, we will argue that sometimes voting support is modest in early years but later garners significant shareholder backing as knowledge about an issue accumulates.»

A three - day sell - off has taken the Australian sharemarket back to levels last seen in early May, as falling commodity prices and upcoming events such as a US interest rate decision and the «Brexit» vote take their toll on investor confidence.

Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.

After the EU Parliament vote, some had optimistically voiced that the agreement could be provisionally implemented as early as April 1.

An initial bill is set to be released as early as next week, with a vote possible by late November.

It's entirely possible that the House of Representatives could vote today, the Senate Tomorrow, and the President could sign the bill as early as Wednesday.

Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez was joined by Hillary Clinton at a free concert in Miami Saturday night, where the Democratic presidential candidate urged supporters to head to the polls for early voting as her campaign was rocked by a renewed FBI probe of her emails the previous day.

In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.

Even worse, separate primary elections are held in each state over six months, meaning states that vote early have far greater influence over the outcome as underperforming candidates drop out

Religion has been been used and misused too often, but as earlier stated look at the individual and see how they votes on issues and don't just hear what they say but listen to what they say then cast your vote.

Rhode Island's Senate has voted 26 to 12 to allow gay couples to get married in the state, in a law that could go into effect as early as August, provided the House falls in suit.

Washington's Senate could vote as early as today on a bill that would allow gay marriage in the Evergreen State.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

Atheists are so appalled and panicky that these deluded Christians vote and affect us all and Christians just can't understand why atheists just can't or won't delude themselves as they have so successfully done since indoctrination from an early age.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

I say that as if it were a continuing process because I live in a state with early voting and despite what polling and the Obama campaign says, pollsters only get to talk to people who will talk to them and get to choose who they poll.

I love that study, it shows how the manuscripts of the OT were put together into what we now have as the OT by the scribe Ezra, and also shows the science of manuscripts, and how the NT that we now have was circulated whole as early as 100AD, and that no council ever voted on what was to be «in» the Bible, because the books of the Bible were dictated by the apostles themselves.

Although we are early into the new year, it seems as those the readers of the magazine are carrying that assessment in their voting records.