Sentences with phrase «coalition of groups urging»

Blair Horner of NYPIRG speaks with a newly formed coalition of groups urging reform of state government in Albany Monday.

A coalition of groups urging a «no» vote on the constitutional convention, which they call «New Yorkers Against Corruption,» disclosed that it had raised $ 635,000 so far.

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France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

The Unite union, Labour's most important financial backer, wrote to the 100 - strong Unite parliamentary group of MPs urging them to back a coalition today.

A coalition of good - government, advocacy, labor and labor - aligned groups are urging U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to enact fillibuster reform in the chamber, writing in a letter sent today that the delay tactic has hurt the legislative process in Washington and blocked federal judges from taking their seats.

A coalition of groups on Monday urged the state Board of Elections to prohibit the practice of allowing individual donors to give unlimited campaign contributions through a network of limited liability corporations.

A coalition of groups had sought to end the practice of LLC contributions, a campaign that had grown to include Attorney General Eric Schneiderman urging the loophole be closed.

A broad coalition of environmental groups, good - government organizations and transit advocates are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to approve new funding for public transportation in New York City.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) >> A broad coalition of environmentalists, anti-hunger advocates and agriculture groups is urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving farmers a tax break...

Thursday afternoon, more than 100 New Yorkers, led by a coalition of environmental activist groups, delivered 11,000 signatures on a petition to the Comptroller's office in Manhattan, urging Thomas DiNapoli to overhaul pension fund investments.

A coalition of good - government groups on Monday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to not stock a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators with the «usual suspects» who will rubberstamp any findings.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

Also at noon, a coalition of groups opposed to Trump's agenda, including Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, 350 NYC, 350 Brooklyn, WE ACT for Environmental Justice urge Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to join their effort, 780 Third Ave., (Schumer's NYC office), Manhattan.

Ron Deutsch, executive director of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness — a coalition of labor and progressive groups — urged more hearings on the report, and said it was a «smorgasboard» that offered something for everyone.

A coalition of good government groups and former elected officials are urging Governor Cuomo to use his veto threat as leverage to achieve lasting reform of the process for once and for all.

The announcement comes as a coalition of affordable housing advocacy groups urge de Blasio to fire Glen on the grounds that she is bringing a for - profit investment model from Wall Street — she headed Goldman Sachs» urban investment division — into the de Blasio administration.

Irked by the development, a group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Justice and Equity, petitioned the National Assembly, urging it to intervene in order «to save our democracy and insist on rule of law.»

Last year, the Coalition for Queens worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City Regional Economic Development Council to incorporate Queens tech companies and the area's start - up community into the state's long - term planning, and the group is urging Cuomo to make the borough the site of a business incubator and an Innovation Hot Spot.

The Judson Church demonstration, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), convened immigrants, advocacy groups and clergy members, who urged the Supreme Court to proceed with the DACA / DAPA case and help eliminate the fear of deportation for millions of people.

And for weeks now in New York City, people have been turning on their television seeing Andrew Cuomo with his daughters and his girlfriend all urging the voters not to vote for him as a Democrat or as a member of the Working Families, but as a member of the Women's Equality Party — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coalition.

In the waning hours of the session, the women's coalition appeared to break up, with several groups making a 180 degree turn and urging the Assembly to act on the nine other provisions.

A group called Rebuild New York Now is creating a coalition of government leaders, organized labor and private business to urge Albany to spend the windfall on fixing the state's declining infrastructure.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined a coalition of labor, business and political groups urging New Yorkers to vote yes on Election Day on Proposition 1, a referendum on a casino plan that would bring to the state new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue for public schools.

In a 25 November letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D — NV), the Energy Sciences Coalition, an alliance of science, university, and industry groups, urged Kastner's confirmation, calling the move «vital to the direction and oversight of the important scientific and energy research.»

Forget everything government officials, many media outlets, and «activist scientists» have warned about the damaging effects of carbon dioxide, because in reality there's no cause for alarm, a group called the CO2 Coalition urges.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

A new report complied by a coalition of local nonprofit groups is urging Denver Public Schools to press for better data and to evaluate reforms more closely.

E4E - Los Angeles is part of a coalition of over 40 community and advocacy groups urging the district's school board to allow individual schools to decide how to...

A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a federal appeals court opinion that denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual disability was being sexually abused at home.

«A coalition of six of the state's leading education and business groups — CAPSS, CAS, CABE, CBIA, CCER, CONNCAN — urge legislators not to back down from key pillars of last year's education reform law»

A broad coalition of more than 40 community and advocacy groups is jumping into LA Unified's prolonged spending debate, urging the board to allow individual schools, rather than centralized administrators, to decide how to spend the billions of dollars coming into the district from Gov. Jerry Brown «s Local Control Funding Formula program.

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

A coalition of major environmental groups delivered a letter to the White House urging the Clinton Adminstration to oppose any attempts by Congress to undermine critical Endangered Species Act protections for Steller sea lions in Alaska.

A coalition of conservative groups lead by the Koch - affiliated American Energy Alliance (and including the Koch - affiliated Americans for Prosperity, the Koch - affiliated Competitive Enterprise Institute, among others) are showing up in force against renewable energy, urging congressional Republicans to allow a key wind energy tax credit to expire.

With Rio +20 now a month away, a coalition of 22 green groups, representing some 5 million people, is urging President Obama to confirm his attendance at the environmental conference (like 130 other heads of state have done).

In October, a coalition of environmental groups met with the White House Office of Management and Budget and DOI officials and urged them to consider the government's own research before finalizing the rule, warning that the proposed change was «inappropriate, unwise and illegal» (PDF).

Groups are urging the coalition negotiators to support European climate targets that would make a fair and adequate contribution to the global efforts of preventing catastrophic climate change, while putting the EU on track to become a climate friendly economy.

Prior to the vote, a coalition of civil liberties, professional and campaign groups urged MPs to protect judicial review.

TECH GROUPS: NOT SO FAST ON FOSTA - SESTA: A coalition of tech and other groups is urging House and Senate leadership this morning to slow down before taking up a new version of anti-sex-trafficking legislGROUPS: NOT SO FAST ON FOSTA - SESTA: A coalition of tech and other groups is urging House and Senate leadership this morning to slow down before taking up a new version of anti-sex-trafficking legislgroups is urging House and Senate leadership this morning to slow down before taking up a new version of anti-sex-trafficking legislation.

A coalition of consumer, educational and privacy groups has urged the IETF to adopt the proposal.

A coalition of privacy advocacy groups are urging federal regulators to recall Google's new $ 50 smart speaker, after a malfunction in some early units caused it to secretly record conversations.

In a recent letter sent to Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NAR joined a broad coalition of lenders, investors, housing professionals, consumer advocates and civil rights groups to urge for a broadly defined Qualified Mortgage (QM) that covers a wide range of traditionally safe products and underwriting criteria.

NAR and a coalition of 60 groups sent a letter to the Senate leadership this week, urging a vote on Pam Patenaude to be Deputy Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

NAR and a coalition of 60 groups are urging a vote on Pam Patenaude to be Deputy Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

NAR worked iwth a coalition of commercail real estate groups to assist in crafting the legislation, and urged for its passage in the House.

Among those praising the new law was the National Association of Realtors, who joined a coalition letter with other industry groups urging its passing.