Sentences with phrase «change legislation even»

To make a long story shorter, we can with high levels of confidence, that no ethical system would condone the justifications for non-action on climate change that have been offered in opposition to proposed climate change legislation even if there is disagreement about what perfect justice requires.

Not exact matches

The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.

Even if the Republican - controlled Congress passes legislation to halt the DOL rule - making process, President Obama will veto it, enabling the biggest changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) since it was drafted 40 years ago.

Proposed changes to the legislation introduced on Monday may actually lead to even more widespread coverage losses.

A leading conservative voice in the House, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, is still opposed to the legislation even with the proposed changes, according to an aide.

Yet even if federal and provincial finance ministers agree to enhance the CPP at their meeting this December, it would take at least until 2016 to implement the requisite legislation and begin phasing in the premium rate changes.

The government's controversial health and social care bill came under even more scrutiny today as Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords requested sweeping changes to the legislation.

While he's no fan of the bill, he expects the Senate to make major changes to the legislation — if it even passes at all.

Even though Republicans control all branches of government, in order to get any real legislation passed they still need support from 8 Democrats / Independents in the Senate to avoid a fillibuster, barring any changes to the Senate rules.

In terms of economic policy, speaking on BBC's Breakfast yesterday morning Clegg said he was adamant that his party would «stay the course», thus indicating that even relatively minor changes in economic legislation may not be forthcoming in the next 12 months either.

That change is likely to be that the Lords will have their power to vote down statutory instruments removed, thereby allowing governments even further powers to sneak through legislation with a minimum of scrutiny.

Clegg said that, even though the vote was on an opposition day motion and not on a piece of legislation, the government would have to change its policy.

The plan, which Silver presented to his top lieutenants on Sunday evening, is short on specifics would have five members responsible for negotiating legislation ranging from the state's budget to changes proposed for the teacher evaluation system.

The only apparent concession to some of the member's suggestions was an amendment to a rule to allow members to make changes or amendments to bills even if they are not signed on as sponsors or cosponsors of the legislation.

Even conservative politicians who support climate change legislation have been targeted.

Here's the problem: even if our nation fully implemented most of the recommended legislation in the next decade, we still would be far behind other nations that made bolder changes years ago.

In Tennessee, Republican State Representative Harry Brooks didn't even bother changing the name of ALEC's Virtual Public Schools Act before introducing it as his own legislation.

Even in states where system change has not been prominent in legislative initiatives, it has begun to seep into the working assumptions of SEA leaders who are tasked with responsibility for translating legislation into action.

Even if the formula changes for A-F school letter grades, however, what many may still be left scratching their heads over, however, is that the legislation mandating the letter grades for all schools comes with no path forward.

«Should the legislature attempt to comply with these broad directives, even if it were to be given time extensions, by enacting new legislation, then it would have made these broad changes based solely on the views of a single Superior Court judge, without review or consideration by higher judicial authority,» the appeal says.

Relying on the percentage change in tax liability makes the tax cut appear to be tilted toward the low - income household even though the legislation provides the high - income household with a percentage increase in after - tax income that is 1,000 times larger than the low - income households, whose change in taxes is miniscule.

So far, four bills have been introduced to change or even repeal the legislation which we all worked so hard to pass.

Even conservative politicians who support climate change legislation have been targeted.

As you allude to in a later question, the very nature of cap and trade legislation (highly complex, few perceived benefits) fails to elicit strong intense support from among even those alarmed by climate change.

It has carried on this engagement even to this day through its continuing association with ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Counsel — an organization that writes model conservative legislation, and which continues to argue that anthropogenic climate change is scientifically uncertain at best.

Still, despite a host of climate change bills introduced in both the House and the Senate in the 113th Congress, the passage of meaningful climate legislation was not yet in the cards, and is even less of a possibility today given the current political climate.

House Democrats pressing for action on climate policy are having to resort to various work - arounds, in a situation where it is difficult even to get a meaningful climate change hearing, and for now impossible to move significant legislation.

Even within the US, those who would force social change through legislation or court activism must be mindful that some fellow citizens «don't want our [proposed] form of government and don't share our cultural values.»

The different policies being introduced specifically to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions vary from international treaties, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol (2005), to national laws, e.g., the UK's Climate Change Act, 2008, and even regional legislation e.g., California (USA)'s Global Warming Solutions Act, 2006.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

Building on the available economic data and the larger historical record, the ACEEE diagnostic review indicates a large opportunity for climate change legislation to open up an even greater potential for efficiency improvements that can power a small but net positive gain in the nation's economy while substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Perhaps, such a scenario will never come to pass since change has even come to Capitol Hill: recently, a bipartisan group ranging from liberal Democrat to right - wing Republican reintroduced legislation which would require the federal government to respect state laws allowing for the cultivation of hemp.

Dhogaza: When you ask why we won't be honest and admit we just «don't care» and won't change our political positions «even though the science is really true», I wonder why you won't admit that this climate legislation is at best an uncertain and expensive shot - in - the - dark.

The City of Toronto clarifies that there is no legislation regarding countdowns, but that where there is, it is being changed make it legal to cross even when the counter has started.

«The payments industry continues to undergo dynamic change along many dimensions — for example, the macroeconomic environment, product design and value propositions, tender types, technology, the identity and number of market participants, corporate and portfolio transactions, the role of the networks, legislation and regulations, and even the underlying regulatory paradigm.

Changing legislation will not only take months, but it also seems like an impossible dream, and if the citizens strongly support their rights to bear arms, they won't be handing in their weapons so easily; in fact, it could even cause an uproar resulting in civil war, with police forcing citizens to drop their weapons.

Proposed changes would also mean that the period of one year's separation required by current legislation, before proceedings on that ground can be commenced, should not preclude, as it currently does, the parties spending even one night together in an effort to explore reconciliation.

Even if the legislation is tabled in the spring it is widely anticipated that the changes will not be implemented overnight, with some predicting that the Canadian recreational marijuana market may not be fully open and legal until as late as 2019.

The contract contained a clause that would permit Altrom to terminate Wernike with the greater of 30 days» notice or the minimum amount he was supposed to receive under provincial legislation and a clause that the contract would continue to apply even if Wernike's job later changed.

The plaintiffs allege that the changes were made following other court decisions in an attempt to obscure the fact that it was an employment contract, even though players were never compensated in compliance with employment standards legislation.

«It would be even more surprising if it were then made mandatory for member states to adopt any such changes into their national legislation; it being more likely that member states would be given the opportunity to adopt the changes if they so wished.

Even if European / German legislation develops slower than many economic innovations / changes, constant progress is being made and can be ascertained.

Cities have tried innumerable measures to keep pedestrians» eyes off their phones when they cross the street, and there have even been some state - level attempts at legislation to force a change in behavior.

That's the central problem, and in Apple's defence, there's very little that the company can do to actively change Canada's, or the U.K.'s, or even the U.S.'s privacy legislation — which was outdated when Touch ID launched on the iPhone 5S in 2013 and that has changed very little since then.

Technically, no formal change in the governing legislation is necessary even in those states that have adopted a joint - custody presumption.

Liddiard said that even if the two houses of Congress can't craft legislation that can pass both houses, if any paring back of home ownership incentives is included in bills that at least make it through one house or another, that sets a precedent that will make it easier in later years for harmful changes to pass.

Liddiard said that even if the two houses of Congress can't craft legislation that can pass both houses, if any paring back of home ownership incentives are included in bills that at least make it through one house or another, that sets a precedent that will make it easier in later years for harmful changes to pass.