Sentences with phrase «costs on their constituents»

First, they oppose the legislation because it will impose unacceptable costs on their constituents.

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Sen. Martin Golden of Brooklyn said the proposal is «an additional cost» on his constituents that is akin to a tax hike.

But when state legislators ignore the will of their constituents and keep churning out wonderful sounding ideas without a thought to costs, we need to draw a line and call them out on it,» said Legislator Day.

Instead, local government officials must hold a series of hearings on reducing costs and explain their positions in writing to constituents.

According to the report in the Telegraph newspaper Mr Lyon wrote to Mr Hands saying: «Given his understandable wish to inform his constituents about the handling of constituency cases during the election period, and that he did not intend to breach the rules of the House in sending out his letter, and given the scale and costs involved, I consider that the matter can be resolved on the basis of Mr Khan's response.

Another business lobbyist said, «It's hard to imagine that the Senate, with its Long Island and upstate members whose constituents depend on heating oil to stay warm on these frigid days, would consider mandating additional costs to benefit a well - connected New York City billionaire.»

In the end, Republicans captured the default position on tax and spending policy at relatively limited cost to their high - income constituents.

Rather than acknowledging the fact that next year's class - size requirements remain a $ 300 - million - plus - untold - capital - costs unfunded mandate, and that districts continue to spend all of their classroom teacher money on teachers, General Assembly members are pretending the mandate is fully funded, and sending out inaccuracy - filled emails to constituents.

That is, while VIG yields a mere 2 % at current prices, as the fund's constituents hike their payouts over time, holders of this ETF will enjoy a better yield based on their original buy - in cost.

Of course, there is a cost for that: most robo services charge 0.5 % a year on assets (this may decline with rising amounts), plus the underlying cost of the constituent ETFs.

He responded to director questions on costs and effectiveness of various programs, actions being taken to train staff and plans to make constituents aware of changes in the programming.