Sentences with phrase «as legislators in»

As legislators in several states are launching all - out attacks on women's health by restricting access to birth control, medically accurate sex education, and abortion, FOCA is needed now more than ever.

Trivial observations (e.g., long lists of Member States that have at any one time been involved in access to documents litigation without any convincing conclusion following from such an enumeration) are succeeded by confused conceptualisations (e.g., the EU institutions are introduced twice as a distinct category of actor), or even outright overdramatization, such as when the authors argue that «[a] t one stroke, any authority of the Member States -LSB-...] over the release of documents transmitted to the EU was set aside [by Regulation 1049/01]» (p. 216), but neglect to mention that the Member States as legislators in the Council agreed to this revision themselves, or that the Council engaged in successive internal negotiations to settle the question of what was to be considered a «Member State document».

As legislators in Illinois and other states face similar dilemmas about who pays the costs of pension payments, they should keep in mind issues of fairness, equity, and transparency.

But his confirmation comes as legislators in both the House of Representatives and Senate push for changes to FDA's review process to speed the approval of new drugs and devices.

Lawmakers finding extra revenue for the budget is not wholly surprising as legislators in both parties tend to seek more spending, especially for education and school aid in an election year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

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...

It's the best deal I've seen as a legislator in 33 years.»

He was first appointed as legislator in 2009, filling the seat vacated by the retirement of longtime representative Bob Sears.

After he and Bernardo engineered a cross-endorsement to assure Terry Bernardo her first election as legislator in 2009, Bernardo split his endorsements between Republican and Democratic candidates.

Seminerio was indicted in December on charges he set up a fake consulting firm to take in more than $ 1 million in illegal payments from clients who sought his influence as a legislator in Albany.

He also served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.

Not exact matches

When Tom Davidson served as a state legislator for a small district in southern Maine two decades ago, he became intimately familiar with the byzantine, bureaucratic, and often, frankly, subpar sausage - making that goes into bankrolling education at a local level.

Even as legislators and presidential hopefuls discuss gun control measures, investors worry that a year - long surge in firearm sales is losing steam.

The DW - NOMINATE score was developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal as a way to determine where legislators voted in relation to each other.

Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

Escobar went along with Colombia's democratic system and won a seat as a backup for a legislator in the National Assembly.

Without saying as much directly, the ESRB is adding the label in an attempt to assuage the concerns of legislators.

Senator Johnson has been in some hot water with constituents and local media lately for failing to answer citizens» calls to hold listening sessions or meet with them, as other legislators around the country have.

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

Both the legislators and some in the Bitcoin community have touted the bill as a positive step towards bringing the cryptocurrency to the mainstream.

Geopolitical risks also remained as of late 2017: tensions surrounding North Korea, the potential for heightened discord among US legislators, developments in the Brexit process and Catalonia's secession efforts in Spain.

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

Nonetheless, legislators at the House hearing voiced concern about a price tag they described as unprecedented in Maryland.

And as the president increasingly recognizes how much Congress controls his fate, Marc Short, the legislative affairs director, has sought to educate him by appealing to Mr. Trump's tendency to view issues in terms of personality, compiling one - page profiles of legislators for him, the congressional equivalent of baseball cards.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

«It is your moral duty as a legislator to put the needs of the poor and most vulnerable foremost in your considerations,» the letter stated.

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

Meanwhile, the governor of Caquetá made the same point to our delegation, as did members of a morning - long symposium in which we heard from departmental legislators, nongovernmental organizations, educators and church groups.

«There has only been one member of Congress in the history of the United States who has come out and said he doesn't believe in God,» Speckhardt said, identifying the legislator as Rep. Pete Stark, D - California.

What these legislators and their religious supporters don't understand is this: Evolution is not controversial within scientific circles, and so it should not be taught as controversial in science classrooms.

Christian vice-president Mike Pence, Sheldon Adelson, the hotel magnate and Zionist donor, and Jewish Republican legislators were among those who attended and ate kosher lamb chops, just as in past years, for White House Hanukkah parties.

Thomas More, as the supreme legislator was bound to uphold the law of 1489 (which Henry repealed, and Mary reinstated), «Every officer of justice through the realm for his rate, right especially bounden, not in reason only and good congruence but also by plain ordinance and statute.»

Fellow legislator Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, referred to the ongoing debate over immigration in Congress as «a unique opportunity for us to carry out our moral and ethical responsibilities at the same time as we carry out our legal and political responsibilities.»

What began as an effort by legislators to expand judicial accountability for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has grown to cover people in every walk of life.

Americans United for Life (AUL), the country's leader in helping state legislators pass pro-life laws, cited such policies, as well as technology, in explaining the trend.

Pro-life advocates welcomed the report, and pointed to the work of pro-life citizens and legislators as a reason for the dramatic decline in abortions and their rate.

«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.

And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God - granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate.

Even the partial democracy used in New York and D.C. is itself an exception, as judges — not the people or their elected legislators — have been the primary instruments of policy change in this social revolution which now has touched nineteen states.

Here, as Bishop John J. Myers of Peoria observed in his Pastoral Statement on the Obligations of Catholics and Rights of Unborn Children, the voter or legislator need will only the law's protections, while accepting, though not willing, the injustices that he is powerless to remove.

Hill Climbs: Just as important as email outreach is face - to - face contact with the legislators and staff who are working on the issues in D.C..

After a recent spate of children dying in an Idaho religious community opposed to medical interventions (the Followers of Christ), state legislators proposed opening parents up to prosecution for relying on faith - based healing as the only treatment when a child's condition could kill or permanently injure them.

PATS President John Moyer stated «With the recent elections, the main goal of the «Hike To Harrisburg» event was to thank those legislators who have been PATS supporters and to enlighten the freshman legislators about our Society, as well as, our role in concussion and sudden cardiac arrest management and other recent health care issues that we have supported.»

«(I) f we conclude these proposals that are really being brought to a close, I think this will be probably the finest session in my 21 years as a legislator,» Morelle told me.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's administration has hired a compliance chief to improve accountability in the county's contracting system — even as some county legislators argued that the position couldn't be independent.

Here's an observation I've been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action: if you want to change the direction of your party in Congress, or of Congress as a whole, fund challengers» staff early.