Sentences with phrase «comprehensive package of reforms»

I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Assembly to swiftly pass a comprehensive package of reforms.

If those additional safeguards turn into a comprehensive package of reforms, perhaps voters will see Cuomo as an anti-corruption crusader.

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The package includes dozens of smart tax changes that belong in any comprehensive tax reform package.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling spoke out yesterday on the need to enact comprehensive housing finance reform and acknowledged that a final package would likely contain some kind of federal backstop.

Quick to say they found the root - cause of the crisis — a banking system thats massive financial leverage and global interconnectedness created profound systemic risks to our modern economy — they swiftly passed Dodd Frank, a comprehensive regulatory reform package dressed up as the antidote to our sick financial system.

However, in the absence of catalysts for an acceleration of growth — for example, the introduction of a comprehensive package of tax reforms — we think the rate of expansion is likely to remain around current modest levels.

The governor reiterated that he's planning to introduce a «comprehensive package» of criminal justice reforms that «will restore and improve confidence» in the criminal justice system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - NY, is introducing a comprehensive election reform package as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda.

The proposals are largely based on the recommendations of Lord Turner's three - year inquiry into pensions, and were described by work and pensions secretary John Hutton as a «comprehensive, integrated package of reform».

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

Could he advance a comprehensive reform package that was commensurate with the unprecedented ethics, campaign finance and elections failings of the state?

Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) leader Senator Jeff Klein said his conference has repeatedly put forth a comprehensive package of ethics reforms.

«Therefore, we welcome the opportunity to review and discuss the Governor's proposal as part of our effort to arrive at a comprehensive reform package that rebuilds the public trust, and includes action on issues previously raised by members of the Senate Republican Conference.»

He has shown spine by introducing a comprehensive Albany ethics - reform package and withholding state payments to keep New York out of bankruptcy.

«Today, we are leading the way for CPS reform statewide with a comprehensive package of proposals that is common - sense, easy to implement, and long overdue.

Nevertheless, if the Conservatives are serious about their manifesto commitment of continuing «to seek agreement on a comprehensive package of party funding reform», there is further evidence that it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

And don't forget implementing one of the most comprehensive welfare reform packages in the country and, likely, the finest and most cost - effective health care program for uninsured youngsters in the entire country.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

«The costs of pensions are exploding all across the state, so it's not just a problem for New York City... We will be working on a comprehensive reform package as soon as we get the budget done.»

The #HALTsolitary campaign of NYCAIC released the following statement on February 12, 2018, following the Assembly majority's introduction of a comprehensive criminal justice reform package that includes the HALT Solitary Confinement Act:

Sixty - nine percent of registered voters say they don't think members of Congress will be able to break through the partisan gridlock to pass a comprehensive reform package this year, while 27 % have more faith in their elected leaders, according to the Quinnipiac University survey released Friday.

«This comprehensive package of criminal justice reforms places a spotlight on the current system's flaws and the need for strong reforms to New York's criminal discovery, bail and speedy trial statutes.

► Economist Heather Boushey's new book Finding Time: The Economics of Work - Life Conflict «offer [s] a thorough, systematic, evidence - based case for a comprehensive package of institutional reforms» to address today's workplace expectations, which «have left millions of working Americans perpetually stressed, conflicted, economically insecure, and time - poor,» wrote Janet Gornick of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City in a review (subscription required) in this week's issue of Science.

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«Through the work of hundreds of educators, policy makers, parents and other education stakeholders, Wisconsin developed a comprehensive education reform package,» Evers said.

If the administration pushes for a new program to help states expand pre-K without addressing the need for a comprehensive reform of the existing total package of federal pre-K spending, a chance for real reform will have been lost.

With today's announcement of a «comprehensive reform package» for Cooper Union, the Attorney General is essentially placing his official seal of approval on the post-Bharucha era at the school.

Welcoming the review as «a balanced package of reform», David Cooper, council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL), said: «It has long seemed inevitable that the fast - track would be covered by a comprehensive fixed recoverable costs regime, but Sir Rupert is right to recommend that any extension beyond that be done is careful and measured way.»

If this sounds familiar, that's because a similar reform was introduced in the House of Representatives as part of the Innovation Act, a more comprehensive patent litigation reform package.

Although not certain, passage of a comprehensive reform package looks more promising than it has in many years.

The House leadership and Ways and Means Committee began working on a comprehensive tax reform package right away in 2017, convening working groups to examine different areas of the tax code.