Sentences with phrase «colleagues over the legislation»
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) in an email to supporters last week, per BuzzFeed, slammed her colleagues over the legislation.
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Espada Jr. also teed off on his majority conference colleague, Sen. Liz Krueger, and Housing Here and Now's Michael McKee, with whom the majority leader is at odds over housing legislation that advocates have accused him of blocking.
Harper's task over the past two years has been to pilot legislation that has been anathema to many of his Tory colleagues but vital to the Liberal Democrats and therefore essential for keeping the coalition alive.
Over the remaining months of my term it is my intention to devote my energy to working with my colleagues in government to pass the critical legislation that is needed to ensure that our State maintains critical services, and protects the quality of life for New Yorkers.»
Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, told colleagues that the legislation contains too much «gray area» over who is defined as an employee and fails to clarify how investigations of sexual harassment in the executive and legislative branches of state government will be conducted.
«Over 100 Conservative colleagues and I have urged the prime minister to bring the enabling legislation forward into this parliament,» Baron said.
Despite his anger over three of his Democratic colleagues seemingly changing their minds just two months after voting for the legislation, Morton said he was open to working with the county executive.
«I have advocated and educated colleagues in close to 40 communities in Florida and helped pass legislation in over 35 of those cities, saving residents heartache over sick and ill puppies while at the same time helping to stop massive animal cruelty,» she said.
In Australia, our colleagues report that scarcity of professionally qualified financial advisers will be a persistent problem facing the advice sector over the next couple of years due to the proposed legislation to raise education requirements and professional standards.