Sentences with phrase «as the legislature returns»

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The Liberals won 17 seats and 29 percent of the vote, returning to the legislature as the province's Official Opposition (CBC, Alberta Votes).

The governor had scheduled to deliver the annual speech on Jan. 7, the day the legislature returns to session, as is traditional.

Abdurhaman - Kawu told told journalists that the President was complying with Section 145 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which required him to inform the legislature that he had returned to work.

Members of the country's legislature today [Tuesday] January, 23, 2018, returned to the House as Parliament resumed sitting after the Christmas break.

Governor Cuomo could, as good government groups have suggested, compel the legislature to return for a special session to overhaul ethics laws, though the governor has made it clear in the past that he has no intention of doing so.

Governor Cuomo, and one of the Co-Leaders of the State Senate have already taken some preemptive action before the legislature's scheduled return to the Capitol, following federal bribery charges against a State Senator and an Assemblyman, as well as other officials.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

I want to thank you for the resource support we have received from your work as legislatures and assure you that the money you have invested to date in this initiative is having early returns in my district.