Sentences with phrase «desperately needed reforms»

«The CFPB tramples on the fundamental economic rights of American citizens, taking away their choices and opportunities... The resignation of the Bureau's director is an excellent opportunity to enact desperately needed reforms.»

Join and tell Congress to take action and pass desperately needed reforms today.

Hope for desperately needed reforms of ethics and election laws is fading.

The NYT editorial board comes out against a con - con — a reversal from 1997 — citing a concern that «the likelihood of a con - con yielding the most desperately needed reforms is disappointingly low, and the possibility of its accomplishing nothing at significant cost, or, worse, setting New York back even further, is worrisomely high.»

This is the reason, beyond questions of perceived unfairness or inefficiency, why the British electoral system desperately needs reform.

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I would've done the corporate tax reform, which we desperately needed — both sides of the aisle, really, knew that we needed corporate tax reform.

And a reform of that system is no less desperately needed to limit the Fed's capacity for doing mischief to the U.S. economy.

Teaching of the catechism is not a cure for the ills currently besetting the church, but it can represent the starting point of a movement toward reforms that are desperately needed.

These reforms will definitely be a deterrent to new farmers, at a time when we desperately need to be encouraging people to enter the industry.»

These same midwives are desperately in need of comprehensive education reform.

«It is on that basis that The Post today endorses Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for governor — in the hope, if not necessarily the full expectation, that he will be the strong, reform - driven chief executive the Empire State so desperately needs.

The TU hopes Bruno's sentencing sends a message to his former colleagues that reform is desperately needed in Albany.

No, it desperately needs a baseball bat (a metaphor, of course, for uncompromising, very hard - hitting reform).

In revenge, Clegg sank the boundary reform the Conservatives desperately need to iron out structural bias in the election system.

«My background both in the private sector and as a sex crimes prosecutor and inspector general makes me uniquely qualified to deliver on the real reforms we desperately need in Albany.

He warned that the government had invested almost # 500 million into the CSA but had «completely failed to demonstrate the political leadership required to push through the reforms that are desperately needed by so many single parent families».

«The Working Families Party is a out - of - touch group that opposes a hard property tax cap, real pension reform, and a spending cap that New York families and businesses desperately need.»

«We as a city should be grieving and should be figuring out how to continue to get on that road to reform because it's desperately needed and I understand the mayor is working aggressively with the commissioner to that end.

I urge Governor Cuomo to be the champion of reform that we so desperately need, and I'm proud to join Senator Squadron, Assembly Member Kavanagh, and my other colleagues in calling for the Governor to make LLC reform a line in the sand in his Executive Budget,» said State Senator Liz Krueger.

Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Nick Clegg is at the mercy of an «open market» for vexatious litigation and an upper chamber desperately in need of reform

The establishment of the Reform Party will be another force in the fight to enact desperately needed changes in New York, chief among them repealing Common Core and enacting term limits for legislators,» Astorino said in a statement.

The reform legislation we secured remains the basis of the current 421 - a negotiations that we are hopeful will revive this critical tax abatement program and spur the development of affordable housing our city desperately needs.»

«Senator Marcellino's longtime support of these two corrupt officials — both of whom should resign immediately — means he can't be relied upon to bring the reform and change we so desperately need.

That the lane closures appear to have been ordered by the governor's office's Bridget Kelly, who famously wrote in an email, «Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,» only highlights how desperately reform is needed.

New York State's pension system offers an open invitation to political corruption and is desperately in need of reform.

That is why we must continue to pressure our state legislators and new governor to keep their campaign promises and deliver the reforms we so desperately need.

«Such a scheme violates the fundamental checks - and - balances principle that underlies our state constitution, as it does not establish the independence required of a procurement watchdog and therefore will not achieve the real accountability and reform our State desperately needs.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

So while the Electoral Reform Society and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Kingdom.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and constant advocate for reform, told Gotham Gazette he thinks a special session on ethics reform is desperately needed.

Speaking in East Harlem, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito agreed that reform is «desperately needed,» adding that the city lockup is a microcosm of what's wrong with the «criminal justice system» nationally.

The whole thing feels more like a TV movie due to the pedestrian writing and direction, and although it's worth seeing for Smith's passionate performance, «Concussion» isn't compelling enough to incite the kind of reform within the NFL (and the sport as a whole) that's desperately needed.

«Reform is desperately needed here,» tweeted journalist and Oscar expert Mark Harris.

The city desperately needs structural reform to clean up its financial mess and to ensure adequate benefits for its teachers and municipal workers.

We want this to inform the Government's green paper on children's mental health to deliver the long - term root and branch reform it so desperately needs and ensure the system speeds up, rather than delays, children asking for help.

It's possible that in districts such as Newark, Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Kansas City and Dallas, there are no Michelle Lite reforms likely to move student achievement numbers in the direction this country desperately needs to see them move.

In that way, he can demonstrate his willingness to support sensible education reform in a state that desperately needs it.

«This desperately needed school funding reform will position Illinois students to be more competitive nationally and globally.»

The Center for Education Reform issued a statement sharply critical of the three groups» report, saying it «exemplifies precisely why the education reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education today.&Reform issued a statement sharply critical of the three groups» report, saying it «exemplifies precisely why the education reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education today.&reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education today.»

But we seem unaware of how desperately we need to consider real education reform as a national priority.

This adequacy cost study is desperately needed to provide the hard, real - world data necessary to get education finance reform done right in Connecticut.

Opinions on schools: A team of journalists from the Orlando Sentinel demonstrated last week beyond any doubt whatsoever that dramatic reform in Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program is desperately needed, and that it should be implemented quickly, before any more students in the program are damaged any further.

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

Reforms are desperately needed for the student loan system.

Real sentencing reform is desperately needed.

Sometimes, the reform that you so desperately need can't be found all at once.

It demonstrates that reforming our patent law will enable American companies to dedicate more resources to innovation and create the new jobs that our economy so desperately needs.