Sentences with phrase «campaign against the legislation»

The relentless campaign against the legislation has proven effective as it appears virtually certain that the government will now delay its implementation.

For their part, Republicans have campaigned against the legislation over the years, saying a state with limited resources should help those who come to the country through legal channels first.

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This includes recent legislation that discriminates against the LGBT community, as stated in a recent letter released by the Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina and signed by numerous CEOs, including Howard Schultz.

Amazon has been a champion for the LGBT community as early supporters of the Equality Act, backers of marriage equality campaigns, and active voices against legislation that discriminates against transgender people in states across the country.

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

When the Philippines was defending stronger legislation in 2007, Nestle USA was part of a campaign against the UNICEF and WHO country heads for speaking up in favour of the regulations.

The NASUWT continues to campaign against abuses of health and safety and the watering down of legislation

This problem has not been contained in one region, but has proved to be a much broader phenomenon, from campaigns against media freedom in Egypt and Turkey to homophobic legislation in Africa and sustained conflict in Iraq and Syria.

But Dignity in Dying campaigns for dying people to have the right to die well, not for an unfettered right to die, and we believe legislation must balance the rights of the individual against the needs of society.

Both Cuomo and Pelosi committed to campaigning against the six New York Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the House GOP's proposed legislation: Reps. Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin, Chris Collins, Claudia Tenney, Tom Reed and John Faso.

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violence.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

Topics in a post-announcement press Q&A included whether Cuomo will support Bronx Borough President, and Cuomo ally, Ruben Diaz Jr. in a 2017 mayoral run against Bill de Blasio, details on a state program to fund the green card application fees of 2,000 applicants, delays in the Cuomo administration response to the still unfolding Hoosick Falls drinking water catastrophe, whether Cuomo will work to turn control of the state senate to the Democrats, whether Cuomo will sign recently - passed AirBnB legislation, the State's response to increasingly severe occurrences of K2 / spice overdoses and whether he will support 2014 gubernatorial opponent Zephyr Teachout in her congressional campaign.

New Yorkers for Clean, Safe and Livable Streets, a prominent animal rights group that helped propel Mayor Bill de Blasio to victory last year, has begun a Twitter campaign against Mr. Weprin after he introduced legislation that would curb the city's power to end the controversial horse - drawn carriage industry.

After Gov. Cuomo's executive action to curtail the «BDS» movement against Israel, New Jersey has also approved legislation to stop the boycott, divest and sanction campaign.

Mr. Cuomo has already campaigned aggressively against the Republican health care legislation, in particular a provision in the House - passed bill that would cost the state more than $ 2 billion.

Schreibman's television advertisement campaign targeted senior citizens and women with promises to protect Medicare and women's rights while leveling criticism against Gibson's votes in line with Republican legislation that included funding cuts for Planned Parenthood and measures that would change the way Medicare is operated.

New York Democrats launched an advertising campaign to push back against the federal tax legislation.

He campaigned against civil rights legislation pending before Congress, stating that he believed it gave too much power to the federal government.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

Rebellion's co-founder Jason Kingsley discusses plans against the crippling legislation as his studio joins campaign for reform

The United States» dual pledge to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and to support legislation that would stop U.S. states from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global Witness.

In the late 1990's, Wallace and other activists led a resistance movement against a vigorous campaign by business interests to curtail the national Resource Management Act, a piece of legislation that provided important protection for natural resources.

Note: This an October 2014 blog post about an oil industry PR campaign against the implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, part of California's global warming legislation.

The ABC also asked Rinehart if she had been funding campaigns against the country's carbon legislation and mining tax reforms.

There are growing signs that the campaign against climate change legislation is finding traction, with Barack Obama slipping in approval ratings and focused on the struggle to preserve his healthcare reform plans.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Thinking of the U.S. legislation about campaign financing leads me to wonder if making a contribution to a Canadian political party is an inducement to anybody to vote for or against candidate.