Sentences with phrase «critics say the bill»

Some critics say the bill has not gone far enough, arguing that transparency on its own won't bring down drug prices and the bill lacks a mechanism to enforce price reduction.

But GMO critics say the bill fails to adequately protect consumers who want to know if a product contains GM ingredients.

In particular, critics say the bill includes no penalties for companies that don't comply with the law, and that the bill's definitions of GMOs will exempt some ingredients from labeling requirements.

Critics say the bill would violate student privacy.

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Critics say that the bill would allow private companies to swap clients» data without consent or notification.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine worried the bill would harm older Americans, and shift Medicaid costs to states — something critics say a block - grant approach would only make worse.

Georgia governor Nathan Deal struck down a similar bill on Monday, which critics said gave businesses the license to discriminate under the guise of religious freedom, after an outcry from businesses.

NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.

OTTAWA — Canada's insurance industry faces a $ 1 - billion GST bill at the end of this month, thanks to a federal tax move critics say smacks of a «banana republic.»

«Don McRae needs to answer to his constituents, many of whom strongly support the protection of farmland, whether or not he stands with British Columbian farmers, or if he sides with B.C. Liberal MLA Bill Bennett who wants to destroy the Agricultural Land Reserve,» said New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, who noted that McRae is himself a former agriculture minister.

Critics say the seemingly uncontroversial bill would allow republican campaigners a chance to unsettle constitutional arrangements in Commonwealth countries and present new difficulties in the monarchy's fraught relationship with the Catholic Church.

«Our severest critics come from people who say that they represent tenants, and I'm talking about Mr. McKee... And yes, yes I'm talking about my colleague in the Senate, Senator Liz Krueger, who has been directly out there championing, not our cause, but the cause of resistance to this bill,» Espada said.

While NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was at a Texas music festival peddling his national agenda, Cuomo was quick to jump in on some Big Apple issues that critics say the mayor has sorely neglected — agreeing to meet with public - housing tenants over their heat, mold and lead - paint woes.

Among the vocal critics of congestion pricing is Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has said he has yet to see an equitable proposal for outer - bough drivers and is trying to gain state support for his own plan to fund the MTA subway system.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday proposed a tax increase on the city's wealthiest residents to fund an upgrade of the city's beleaguered subway system, a plan that critics say won't bring in the needed funding soon enough.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's foremost Democratic critics, told the Observer today that he was not willing to foreclose on the possibility of running against the liberal incumbent in this September's primary — saying that he doesn't know «right now what may or may not happen.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest attempt to quell a boiler system meltdown at New York City Housing Authority buildings is not sitting well with some critics who say the city's $ 200 million investment is too little, too late.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to add about $ 54 million to the Correction Department budget was praised by inmates» advocates and longtime department critics who said it demonstrated a commitment to rein in the brutality and corruption that have long plagued Rikers Island.

Cole is the first Democrat to publicly announce a bid against Collins, whose fifth year in Congress has been marked by controversy over his investment in an Australian biotech company that critics said could have benefited from his work on a bill aimed at speeding clinical trials of new drugs.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday he's willing to find «common ground» on some of the issues critics have with his «Broken Windows» policing strategy, but insisted he remains opposed...

The only factor that could change the start date in Suffolk is a bill proposed by Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R - Nesconset) that aims to close a loophole critics say would allow level 1 sex offenders to drive for ride - sharing services.

Klein says he hopes they pass bills to reform New York City's «stop and frisk» law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and the immigration bill known as the Dream Act.

NEW YORK CITY — One of the sponsors of legislation that would require police to obtain consent to conduct searches without a warrant or probable cause said he plans to push forward with the bills after Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito negotiated what critics call a «back - door deal» to allow the NYPD to instead implement some of the changes themselves.

Critics are decrying a bill they say is aimed at union - busting, while the measure's sponsor claims it's meant to ensure unions are doing their jobs.

Critics of the bill say it doesn't address the underlying parking problem in the area, where a parking spot is often as tough to find in the evening as the daytime.

AG Eric Schneiderman is backing a new bill aimed at regulating the use of so - called payroll cards, whose fees, critics say, can severely cut into the paychecks of low - wage workers.

Speaking to Sky News, he said the bill contained sufficient provisions and urged critics to read the bill before «rushing to judgement».

Critics say the tax bill looms like a «dagger» over New York City — particularly the real estate industry — reducing breaks that many in the region heavily lean on, despite cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

«I will respect the decision of Commissioner [Bill] Bratton,» said Ms. James, who in the past has been a staunch critic of the city's police department.

Still, the reason why critics are right to say Trump should release his taxes — that voters should be able to gauge his tax bill and charitable donations, and that the returns might expose financial conflicts of interest — apply as much to City Hall as to the White House.

David Drew, the MP for Stroud and a long - term critic of Brown's leadership, said: «It just seems schadenfreude that the very person who set this up gets handed with a # 12,000 bill.

«Bill de Blasio wants Melissa Mark - Viverito to get as many votes as possible so that he can claim not only a win but a huge mandate and have even more leverage and power to push his agenda and diminish the power of critics and skeptics,» said one labor insider.

AG Eric Schneiderman opposes two bills critics say would weaken the landmark I - STOP law that makes it difficult to obtain multiple opioid prescriptions and makes it easier for authorities to investigate the misuse of the highly addictive painkillers.

As Cuomo ponders a bill to curb Airbnb, the online booking service said it's policing its website to remove commercial operators in the city, addressing a chief complaint of critics who say it promotes illegal hotels and effectively takes scarce apartments out of circulation.

However, critics say it could lead to increased unemployment as employers will be unable to afford higher wage bills.

Now, Lazio's ties to Wall Street and his congressional votes to deregulate the nation's banking system - a bill that critics say helped lead to the nation's recent financial crisis - are an issue in his battle for the GOP gubernatorial nomination against Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Buffalo developer Carl Paladino.

Critics say that falls far short of the goals of a program billed in the state budget as universal pre-K.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

ONE POLICE PLAZA — Critics who want to go back to using the stop - and - frisk tactics of the previous adminstration to address the recent uptick in murders need to «get over it,» NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday.

The veto prompted criticism from Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci, a prominent Mahoney critic, who said the county executive's failure to convince the governor to sign the bill shows that she's wasting her time in the volunteer Thruway board position.

«Anybody who would sign on would know that this is a board that has faced considerable criticism, and will face considerable criticism until its structure is changed,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, one of the board's most vocal critics.

Jeffries — who has been an outspoken critic of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and aggressively pushed for a national ban on chokeholds following the death of Eric Garner — said he supports Kaepernick's right to protest the anthem.

THE BRONX — Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who has been an outspoken critic of Mayor Bill de Blasio's citywide rezoning changes, said Tuesday that he supported the plans, but is concerned they did not do enough to help low - income New Yorkers.

Liberal donor Bill Samuels, a frequent Cuomo critic, said, «It's the only way to win, with Cuomo — is to attack.»

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, an Airbnb critic and the sponsor of a bill that would impose fines of up to $ 7,500 to people who advertise illegal units on the site, said she isn't interested in playing games with «hardworking New York families» lives.»

Klein says he hopes the new coalition will ultimately be judged on policy, by passing bills to reform New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and by passing a bill known as the Dream Act.

Critics have said the bills would encroach on techniques that have decreased crime and would hamper police.

The problem, critics said, is that the bill does not do enough to repair what they see as a severely flawed system a system that shortchanges the Bronx and Queens.

Malliotakis argues that her critics take her votes out of context, such as her vote against a 2011 bill to bar discrimination based on race, gender, or national origin, which she said she opposed because it is redundant to existing state and federal law.

State Senator Tim Kennedy's bill was drafted and submitted one day after President Donald Trump took action that critics say makes potentially sensitive personal information available to the highest bidder.