Sentences with phrase «as the legislature moves»

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves said Nassau's contracting process «is the most transparent in the state» as the legislature moved to drop the threshold for legislative approval of personal service contracts from the current $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

A compromise was rumored as the legislature moved to rubber - stamp the executive's budget this week which would allow Auerbach to retain one of his auditors.

We thank the House — especially Representative Tom Quigley — for their leadership on school choice issues, and look forward to working with the Chamber as the legislature moves forward with efforts to provide Pennsylvanian's with more educational options than they have ever had before.»

Not exact matches

Since he moved to federal politics from a career in Ontario's legislature in 2006, he has promoted himself, in public and in private, as Stephen Harper's fiercest defender.

As TPP moves from the negotiation stage to ratification, the agreement will be introduced in the national legislatures of the participating countries.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

This move to a full - time legislature could be and should be appropriately paired with higher pay to attract talented New Yorkers to public service, as good government groups have suggested.

Muoio says if the county legislature president doesn't move the proposal ahead quickly as a matter of urgency, the Democratic lawmakers will bring it up during the usual committee process later in April.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

Convening extraordinary session of the legislature, or the Senate alone, as well as moving the location of the legislature's meeting under special circumstances (§ 16)

As a result, I plan to move to discharge the resolution from the committee at our next legislature meeting on April 14.

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.

«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»

That move came as part of a deal with the state legislature to shut down the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, which then had its work taken up by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.

Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as flights of fancy.

As the deal moved toward the finish line in June, members of the state legislature who represent Oswego County helped by applying political pressure.

During last year's address to the legislature, Malloy also mentioned teacher tenure in a statement that surprised some observers as a bold move by a Democrat.

And, legislators and good government advocates say there may be no one more familiar with the challenges associated with moving ethics reform through the legislature, as Schneiderman was a prodigious and prominent sponsor of ethics bills during his time representing Manhattan in the state Senate.

Mr. Cuomo went on to characterize the move as a marker that state lawmakers are entering election season, while endorsing the concept of a bipartisan legislature continuing.

Minnesota has plenty of models as it moves to set a policy on stem cell research and cloning, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The issue has been the only major sticking point to emerge as the sweeping reform package, hammered out in months of bipartisan negotiations, moves quickly4through the legislature.

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments...

As Wisconsin moves forward to expand the state's voucher program, a bill has been introduced in the state legislature called the Wisconsin Voucher Taxpayer Transparency Bill.

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.»

The move today by Louisiana's legislature to approve the expansion of the state's voucher program can only be seen as a success for children in that state.

7) Wisconsin: As the budget moves to the legislature this week, lawmakers will be considering a number of education issues.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

Last year, Maryland lawmakers approved a $ 5 million private - school voucher program as part of the state's $ 42 billion operating budget — a surprising move for a Democratic - controlled legislature.

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments to doing the most with their dollars.

(Washington, D.C., March 29, 2013) Despite public opposition, the Florida legislature is moving towards approving legislation that would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists, in the face of potential public health and property value impacts, as well as predicted high mortality for native animals.

February 22, 2015 — «A law meant to ensure Tennessee counties fund their prosecutors and public defenders offices at roughly the same rates is on the legislature's chopping block, a move touted as long overdue by prosecutors behind the movement but lamented by public defenders as a potentially dangerous blow to justice.

As I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few yearAs I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few yearas several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

Opponents claim it is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

It says the groups supporting the move to introduce an amended bill have also identified some members of Parliament and the Ontario provincial legislature to act as sponsors.