Sentences with phrase «blocking key legislation»
According to Ross, there are some 200 people in Albany from Housing Here and Now, a pro-tenants group that is pushing for reform of rent regulations and believes Espada, who chairs the Housing Committee, has been blocking key legislation and is too pro-landlord.
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Scotland's governing Scottish National Party has threatened to try to block the progress of key legislation that will sever legal ties with the EU unless the government does more to account for Scotland's interests in Brexit.
Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.
In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.