Sentences with phrase «common sense reforms do»

«The bottom line is that having a Republican - controlled Senate means that common sense reforms don't become a reality, sadly,» Rivera said on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

Sadly, common sense is losing and will continue to do so until the masses lose enough services or are inconvenienced enough that finally tort reform becomes a hot political topic.

These common - sense reforms will bring much - needed transparency, modernize practices, and help ensure we do not experience an election day like last week's again.»

I was wrong and now I'm going to fight for what I believe we should be doing: comprehensive immigration reform and ending gun violence with common sense gun reform.»

Flanagan did include «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act on his to do list — a nod to the conservative upstaters who did not support him during the battle to replace Skelos as leader because of his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control law.

Assembly Republicans have criticized Kavanagh and his taskforce for taking nearly a year to recommend a series of «common sense» changes that don't actually reform the power structure of the Assembly.

By all means, we should do everything we can to boost those numbers, starting as early as possible, and including common - sense reforms like reintroducing serious academic content to the elementary and middle school curriculum and replicating «no excuses» charter schools like KIPP.

When the DREAM Act was proposed by Senator Dick Durbin (D - IL) in 2001 in response to a gifted young constiuent being kept from attending Julliard due to her undocumented status, it seemed — as it still does — like «common sense reform.»