Sentences with phrase «by blocking reforms»

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Rep. Henry A. Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating allegations from former officials that Carmona was blocked from participating in the breast - feeding advocacy effort and that those designing the ad campaign were overruled by superiors at the formula industry's insistence.

«For decades, Republicans controlled the State Senate and blocked every single piece of reform legislation proposed by the Assembly and Democrats in the Senate — campaign finance reform, election reform, ethics reform and budget reform,» the speaker said.

What Brodsky was referring to was actually a series of press releases from the state DAs Association, which vehemently opposed, and lobbied to block, drug law reform both in 2004 when the first changes were signed into law by then - Gov.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

But the challengers note a range of issues, from the Dream Act, to criminal justice reform, public school aid and others were blocked by a Senate effectively controlled by Republicans with the IDC as a key block.

But it may prove to be the reform that, while making Labour more electable, does the opposite for Miliband himself by reducing the influence of his strongest support block.

«For decades, Republicans controlled the State Senate and blocked every single piece of reform legislation proposed by the Assembly and Democrats in the Senate — campaign finance reform, election reform, ethics reform and budget reform.

Politics.co.uk's report that Chris Grayling has blocked research into sex in prisons by the Howard League for Penal Reform fits this pattern of behaviour.

These were previously blocked by their former Liberal Democrat coalition partners because of the failure to secure House of Lords reform.

«Because of repeated efforts to block this reform by the Senate Majority, we request that you once again include closure of the LLC Loophole in your Executive Budget proposal and ensure that it is included in the final enacted budget.»

Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader of the Lords, ostensibly supported the measure in a tongue - in - cheek interview in the Financial Times, but then stoked the rebellion by saying a reformed second chamber would be expensive, possess greater power and, if it had existed in the 1980s, would have blocked Thatcherite privatisation.

In previous years, similar voting reforms were passed by the Assembly and backed by Senate Democrats, but were ultimately blocked by the GOP Senate Majority.

Key figures who have previously been seen as potential obstacles to reform by the leadership, such as the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, and Corbyn - sceptic unions, did not block the changes.

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

(The Salisbury Convention made it difficult for the Lords to directly block abolition of hereditary peers; but prior to the agreement on Lords reform they could, and did, delay and frustrate many other Acts of Parliament proposed by the Blair government.)

Writing for Politics.co.uk, the shadow justice secretary said Chris Grayling was «burying his head in the sand» when he blocked an inquiry into sex and rape behind bars by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed during a police encounter on Staten Island two years ago after being placed in a chokehold, said the reforms are being blocked by Bratton and politics, adding that her son would be alive today if the NYPD could be trusted to follow rules on its own.

From around 2013, the party started blocking attempts by the Conservatives to impose further cuts to welfare, having grown disillusioned by the lack of progress on proportional representation and House of Lords reform.

Former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who signed Connecticut's landmark campaign finance reforms into law, called Thursday for lawmakers to block plans by legislative Democrats from cutting the public financing system.

Losing Lords reform was a humiliation, only just rescued by blocking the boundary changes.

Ed Balls is to launch a bid to bolster Labour's credibility with business by promising to keep a low rate of corporation tax and attract long - term investors to Britain, as he brushed off criticism from the policy chief Jon Cruddas that a «profound dead hand» within the party is blocking bold reforms.

Over the holiday weekend, with just a week to go before the primary, Quinn announced plans to take historic legal action to ensure reforms made to stop - and - frisk are not blocked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

«We look forward to working with Governor Cuomo to push a number of issues that are important to him but have been blocked by the Senate Republicans including raising the minimum wage, real campaign finance reform and passing common sense gun control measures like microstamping,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Cuomo and the state Legislature must prove to the voters before November they believe in actual democracy, by enacting significant reforms that block the big - money billionaires and lift up the voices and votes of everyday New Yorkers.

Alliance executive director Tom Stebbins said trial lawyers have profited handsomely while driving up the cost of doing business in New York by blocking needed reforms to provisions such as the «scaffold law,» which holds contractors and property owners fully liable no matter what if workers are hurt in falls from heights under unsafe conditions.

In an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schools.

He says new life has been breathed into initiatives like early voting, same day voter registration, ethics legislation and campaign finance reform traditionally blocked by the Republican Senate.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

But Mr Clegg criticised his counterparts for failing to take action, claiming Liberal Democrat plans for recall powers and reform of party funding had been blocked by the other parties.

Nick Clegg will next year outline plans for the most far - reaching changes to the House of Lords since landmark reforms 100 years ago by a Liberal government ended the upper house's ability to block Britain's annual budget.

Previous attempts at reform have been blocked by disagreement between CDU and SPD over whether to lift the ban just at the university level — the CDU preference — or whether to allow federal funding for preschools through universities, as the SPD wants.

Outside of NIH, the budget proposes a Federal Emergency Response Fund for outbreak response without specifying funding size or mechanisms; and would «reform» the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by establishing a $ 500 million block grant program for state public health challenges.

Recognizing the potential implications of a general method of altering the traits of entire populations, Kevin and colleagues have detailed ways to control, block, or even reverse changes made by gene drives and emphasized the importance of careful evaluation and regulatory reform.

Top - down reforms, by contrast, are the most popular on the day they are adopted and decline after that, leaving them vulnerable to being blocked, diluted, co-opted, or repealed.

Federal Work - Study (FWS) is on the chopping block: the Trump administration's recently - released budget summary seeks to cut program funding by nearly 50 percent, from $ 990 million to $ 500 million, and to «reform the program to ensure funds go to undergraduate students who would benefit most.»

And this is how the teachers unions have used their political power in shaping the nation's schools: not by imposing the policies they want, but by blocking or weakening those they don't want — and thus preventing true reform.

The establishment forces aligned against reform filed suit in King County Superior Court July 3 to block the charter school law approved by the voters last November.

By controlling districts, schools, and classrooms, union leaders can block or even sabotage reforms that they do not like.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

By examining the diversity of internal groups and theories of social change within unions, I contest the assumption that teachers» unions are unitary actors simply «blocking» education reform efforts.

Under intense pressure from the teachers union, Los Angeles Unified School District officials reversed themselves Friday and agreed to reinstate a teacher who was transferred from Crenshaw High for allegedly blocking reform efforts by the school administration.

In 2006, he was involuntarily transferred from Crenshaw for allegedly blocking reform efforts by driving out a highly regarded principal at a time when the campus was struggling to regain its long - term accreditation.

It is hard to imagine anyone having a problem with this, so, of course, Shavar Jeffries of «Democrats» for Education Reform laced into the changes saying that the platform had been hijacked by the national teachers» unions, and DFER tried, unsuccessfully, to block the language.

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

These reform measures were long overdue, having been blocked for many years by Dr. Chester Gipson of the USDA, who was in charge of the Horse Protection Act (HPA) and the federal Animal Welfare Act.

Embarrassed by the outcry in favor of Oreo's Law (now CAARA), they immediately scrambled to write their own shelter reform law — one that they could claim made a difference for the better in the lives of NY animals while actually quietly blocking actual reform and expanding NY shelters» power to kill.

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Emmett Macfarlane argues that the architecture language used by the Court in this decision is highly ambiguous, but could be broad enough to block any unilateral electoral reform.

The committee then turned to the ultimate goal of the reform proposals, the adoption of a market - based system where legal aid rates would be determined by competitive tendering for block contracts.

The welfare reform law embodied in a new Title IV - A of the Social Security Act, recently enacted by Congress and signed by the President, replaces AFDC with a new block grant program called the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.