Sentences with phrase «back coalition plans»

A senior Liberal Democrat peer has warned Conservatives that they must back coalition plans to reform the House of Lords - despite a threatened revolt by Tory backbenchers.

AUSTRALIANS have turned on the carbon tax, with almost two - thirds of people opposed to pricing greenhouse gas emissions and an overwhelming majority backing Coalition plans to unravel the policy.

Not exact matches

As promised, members of a coalition created to oppose Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan for a longer school day will be back at City Hall this week.

That's one reason why, back in 2013, I helped lead a coalition of 29 leading health experts and organizations to block a dairy industry plan to get artifically - sweetened flavored milk into schools on a widespread basis.

She may not be an everyday New Yorker, but actress Cynthia Nixon is touting a video from the coalition backing Mayor Bill de Blasio's universal pre-Kindergarten approach that features parents backing the plan.

The publication of a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) brought the Chancellor's emergency budget back to the fore of the agenda, and said the coalition's budget plans were «regressive».

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics in January rejected disclosure exemptions for Family Planning Advocates and New York Women's Equality Coalition, which back abortion rights.

A coalition of liberal groups is releasing new polling to show that health care could be a key issue in the midterms, and that a vote for the Republican health care plan last year could come back to hurt GOP incumbents.

Mr Cable insisted that electoral reform would be back in the picture quickly in the shape of the House of Lords, which would need a new voting system once coalition plans are followed through.

In a significant speech, he will outline Coalition plans to ensure teaching is based on «excellence», saying that controversial reforms are needed to «bring back the values of a good education».

Following of week of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and surrogates pushing for a statewide universal pre-Kindergarten plan funded out of the budget, the coalition backing universal pre-K in the city is distributing a flyer this Caucus Weekend pushing Albany officials on the proposal backed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Assembly has long backed public matching, the most recent example being last year when Silver introduced a plan that's now touted by the coalition of groups pushing for a broad campaign finance overhaul.

The coalition of advocacy groups backing publicly financed campaigns in New York is happy that Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to include a donor - matching system in his 2014 - 15 budget proposal.

Cuomo's clemency program is being backed by a coalition of national clemency groups who are endorsing the plan.

The coalition, dubbed Let NY Work, singled out the usual suspects blamed for the state's high property - tax burden, and called for scaling back the Triborough Amendment, an end to state mandates, cheaper construction through design - build and a defined benefit program under a proposed Tier VI plan for public employees.

Almost two thirds, 65 per cent, say they back «on balance» the coalition plan to cut spending and reduce the deficit, with 31 per cent opposing it.

But as Britain slips back into recession, and as voters in Europe tire of austerity, Labour is uniting around a message that the coalition's deficit reduction plan is fast becoming a liability.

He traveled the state with his message, took to the Web, and had backing from a coalition of business interests who bankrolled an ad campaign in favor of his spending plan.

Though voters in the constituency are on balance pessimistic about prospects for the economy over the next few years, they back the coalition's «Plan A» for deficit reduction by a wide margin.

As such these plans would have clearly violated both Lib Dem party policy passed just weeks ago, and both the letter and spirit of the Coalition Agreement that states «We will implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»

«In supporting this amendment, this side of the House is offering no endorsement of the health policies of the coalition agreement,» Mr Burnham warned, as he encouraged Labour MPs to back the Lib Dem rebels» plan.

The coalition backed down on its original plan for a 55 % bar for the dissolution threshold, announcing instead that two - thirds of MPs will be required to trigger a general election, a move Mr Straw branded «the first major U-turn of this government».

Several hours earlier, a coalition of left - leaning and labor - backed groups unveiled a five - point plan that included hiking some taxes to increase spending, while providing income - based property tax relief.

Amid the rancorous back and forth, a coalition of transportation advocates put out a statement urging the governor and the mayor to «move expeditiously» towards an agreement, one that includes «significantly» more city funding, and significantly more details on how Cuomo plans to fund his own promised $ 8.3 billion contribution.

The coalition government has urged MPs to back a 1 % cap on annual rises in working - age benefits and some tax credits, But some Liberal Democrat MPs are planning to vote against the plans.

It was part of a sweeping plan released by the Chinatown Working Group, a neighborhood coalition, back in 2014.

A coalition of groups called the Harlem Fight Back Against Wars At Home and Abroad plan a protest this evening on Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

With a state committee edging toward wrapping up its budget deliberations, lawmakers are seeking to slash transportation borrowing while a diverse coalition pushes to scale back planned expansions of major highways.

A Pelosi spokesman disputed that characterization and noted that Pelosi was set to meet Wednesday evening with members of the moderate New Democrat Coalition — several members of which plan to back the trade package.

The strong backing for a change in the law comes after the archbishop of Westminster queried the democratic legitimacy of the coalition plans.

Opposition Education spokesperson, Christopher Pyne has warned that a coalition Government would wind back any national plan, unless overwhelming agreements are reached from all States and Territories.

PHILADELPHIA Organizers with the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools are planning a back - to - school Week of Action starting on Labor Day.

It also was backed by the state teachers union, a coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, leaders of both political parties, and Gov. Jack Markell, who helped present the plan in person to the review teams that chose the winners.

This includes the Take Back The Bronx, the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network, Arts & Labor, People's Cultural Plan, ICE FREE QUEENS, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, East Harlem Preservation Coalition, SPARC, People Power's Assembly Queens, and People Power's Assembly Manhattan, Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place, Equality 4 East Flatbush, Defend Corona, Queens Anti-Gentrification Project, and Mothers on the Move.

Groups like ICE FREE QUEENS, Queens is not 4 sale, Mothers on the Move, Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network, Equality for Flatbush, People's Cultural Plan, Take Back the Bronx, Brooklyn Hi - Art Machine, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, East Harlem Preservation Coalition, East Harlem Anti-Rezoning Project, East Harlem No Se Vende, Defend Corona, Queens Neighborhoods United, SPARC, Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place, People's Power Assembly Queens, People's Power Assembly Manhattan are all trying to solve problems that artists and gallerists haven't even figured out how to articulate, because the violence against working - class neighborhoods is palpable to us.

Which provides reason enough for Labor to slam the door on the Coalition's offer to wind back the LRET: the Coalition's plan brings with it an inevitable collapse in the price of RECs.

Exaggerating scientific uncertainty around the climate change threat was one of the planned tactics of the oil industry's Global Climate Coalition formed in the 1980s to push back against the Kyoto Protocol, and continued to be a recurrent theme at Exxon headquarters.