Sentences with phrase «as the legislature gets»

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Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

Politically speaking, Illinois is about as blue as it gets, with dominant Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

Perry has been getting ample good press lately, and below Pete adds two new favorable stories — one of which adds a new wrinkle by showing his formidable talents as a thrice elected, institutionally weak governor who can effectively deal with a largely simpatico Republican legislature.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Governors have extraordinary leverage over the legislature to get policies passed as part of the spending plan.

«While I am disappointed, as county executive I will work with NIFA, as well as my colleagues in the legislature, to bring real fiscal discipline to Nassau and get our financial house in order,» said Curran, a Democratic legislator from Baldwin, in a statement.

The New York State legislature is fast tracking the budget process, as they try to reach final agreements and get bills printed by the weekend.

The new lawmakers will get to work today as the legislature will consider approval of the 2016 county budget.

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

We thought as a legislature that we backed away from a governor's proposal, made a compromise so the school districts got a enough money, but it never ends,» said state Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse.

Cuomo's campaign theme last week was, as he described in a radio interview, «to put together a coalition that can get an agenda passed by the legislature and overcome the institutional opposition that has stymied this state for a decade.»

Former Broome County Legislator, Kim Myers, says she's at a complete lose for words as to why the legislature is not accepting state money this year to get the drug treatment facility up and running in the Town of Dickinson.

As the state legislature gets ready to interview candidates to fill the sudden vacancy in the state Attorney General's office, they should probably think long and hard before replacing the new woman in charge, Barbara Underwood.

As the sitting chairman of the legislature rarely gets challenged, this face - off brought some heavy hitters to the Kerhonkson firehouse.

But Mahoney closed the night urging the county legislature members as well as the common councilors in attendance to consider moving forward with a merger, arguing that the city isn't getting stronger without one.

As a Democrat I know how you get drummed out of the club if you even question the unions» unholy alliance with the dems in the legislature.

He says his staff is working with the legislature to get bills printed and passed as soon as possible.

Mark John's proposal of a unicameral legislature makes a lot of sense — provided legislators did not get to pick their constituents as was done in the last round of redistricting.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), which has been around since 2002 to help aid GOP candidates running for state legislatures and other state offices, is getting something of a makeover — bringing on former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie as its chairman and former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) as its vice chairman.

Speaking of familiar themes, it seems the executive can't get through a state - of - the - county message without bashing the old legislature (1968 - 2007), which hired him as county administrator in mid-2006.

As senate minority leader since 2007, John was a highly qualified state - government - experienced social moderate and fiscal conservative who was intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our state legislature and eminently qualified to get things done.

«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature before the end of the session.»

In the end, the Governor and the state legislature came together in December and quickly passed a bill restructuring the tax code so that millionaire's wouldn't get as big of a break as they had been expecting — creating roughly $ 1.5 billion more in revenue.

«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature, before the end of the session,» Klein said recently.

«So Mr. Vice President, today I announce that I will propose to the New York state legislature not just $ 15 for fast - food workers, because a fast - food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour, and home healthcare aides deserve $ 15 an hour, and taxi - cab drivers deserve $ 15 an hour, and every working man and woman in the State of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage - and we are not going to stop until we get it done!»

Before we get into picks and guesses, the question should be raised as to how much the legislature, in this era of executive dominance, really matters.

In addition, all families with dependent children will be getting at $ 350 tax rebate check, shortly before Election Day 2014, as part of deal the governor made with the legislature.

Instead, legislators got to listen to six minutes of reading aloud as delivered by the legislature clerk.

He cites as an example a $ 1.5 billion economic development competition that he convinced the legislature to approve, even though some lawmakers object that only three of the state's seven regions will get to share the money.

If the Legislature doesn't approve the measure, Fried said he will personally lead an effort as county executive to gather petitions from Rocklanders to bypass the legislature and get this item on the ballot so that the people could decide.

The attorney general also made note of the governor's plan to use the budget process as leverage in getting concessions from the legislature — something Mr. Cuomo's promised to do in seeking ethics and education reform.

We sit down with the outgoing leader of the Monroe County Democrats in the county legislature, as well as her replacement, to talk county business: taxes, child care funding, and how Democrats hope to get along more effectively with Republicans in this new term.

Our first objective is to get the state Senate and the Assembly to enact appropriate legislation in response to constitutional requirement that political lines for the legislature and Congress be redrawn every 10 years to reflect the changing population, as shown in the decennial federal census.

Things get more interesting as there are grumblings and rumblings that the town's Democratic chairman and county legislator, John Parete, may also be facing an in - party challenge for the legislature despite having received a nomination at the party's county caucus last week.

The newly energized teachers unions appealed to the AFL - CIO for help in getting state legislatures to pass laws that put teachers on much the same footing as those in unions representing workers in the private sector.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.

As budget discussions move forward, we're hopeful the legislature will follow the Governor's lead to fund what works, give teachers a much needed pay raise and support schools that get results.»

But it gets worse: now the CA legislature has passed a new bill, AB 375, as a guise for facilitating the firing of abusive teachers... but it actually makes it HARDER to do so!

We needed to get more involved and directive, and at this point, both the democratic state legislature and republican Governor have come along to see that locals may not know how to do reform and as a result students are being hurt.»

But as the legislature hovers close to joining a handful of other states that have repealed the academic standards, frequently referred to as «Common Core,» McCrory's words, communicated through his education advisor, Eric Guckian, have gotten softer.

Initiative 42 first got its place on the ballot after more than 200,000 residents signed a petition asking the legislature to enforce the 1997 law known as the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), which determines the threshold funding necessary to make schools effective.

Leading up to Algebra Nation's launch, we've had great partners — from the legislature, to the Michigan Department of Education, to the math education professors from Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, and University of Michigan - Flint who helped us align our content to the state's standards — and now we're eager to get into schools to introduce Algebra Nation's many benefits as a «virtual co-teacher» and tutoring tool.

School choice is an increasingly popular issue in state legislatures nationwide as more and more states consider expanding educational options to help children get a better education, spur public school improvement, and save taxpayer dollars.

The uproar over the murders of black men such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers are leading criminal justice reform advocates to push legislatures and governors to enact new policies, including the creation of independent prosecutors for cases involving cops as well as the rewrite of use - of - force laws that allow rogue cops to get off scot - free.

ALEC gets 98 percent of its funding from corporations and sources like the Koch family foundations, and it acts as a conduit for special interest influence in state legislatures.

The state legislature should take note of the fact that we had to take the DOE to court to get the public's voice heard as prescribed by law.»

What happens now is that those charters will simply have to obey the law as it was written or get the legislature to change the law.

In less than a week, they are trying to get a controversial law known as the «parent trigger» through the New York legislature.

If I understand your comment correctly, then I think a simpler scheme, which might have slightly more than a snowball's chance in hell of getting passed by the legislature in my country (USA), would be double taxation as I shall describe.

Proposed laws get a lot of screens, though their application is subject to the political process: public servants in the in - house policy development process, political staff ditto, professional drafters, Cabinet, then members of the legislature and in many cases legislative committeed with witnesses who may well be experts (and who often claim to be)-- and then consultations with experts as regulations are drafted.