Sentences with phrase «behind legislative efforts»

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Not exact matches

Direct - entry midwives have been legal in Colorado since 1993 due to the efforts of the CMA, and the CMA continues to be the legislative force behind maintaining and updating the regulation of direct - entry midwifery in Colorado.

A political novice, Bruso faults the legislative process because of the reluctance of legislators to cross party lines, but he commended the bipartisan effort behind the county's war on opioid addiction.

This comes as the state's Democratic and Republican legislative leaders continue to meet behind closed doors in an effort to reach a budget agreement that Malloy would be willing to sign.

As the protest proceeded in the Capitol hallways, Cuomo and legislative leaders hunkered down behind closed doors just yards away in an effort to hash out their 2014 - 15 budget, due for completion April 1.

Current Democrats like Assemblymen Robin Schimminger and Mickey Kearns still brandish a «C» behind their names, often to counter the perpetual GOP effort linking upstate Democrats to those crafty legislative chieftains from big, bad New York City.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

A more recent legislative effort, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, relied chiefly on block grants backed up by a detailed set of mandates and goals for teacher quality, curriculum, and student performance.

Moreover, South Carolina's investor - owned utilities continue to lobby strongly against any legislative efforts designed to spur solar energy growth in the state, more particularly when it comes to their customers investing in behind - the - meter solar power capacity.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

In tandem with their efforts, the Hawaii Association of Realtors ®» Legislative Committee worked behind the scenes to win over key legislators.