Sentences with phrase «drafting bills»

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Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that legislative vetoes are unconstitutional may force legislators to be more precise in drafting bills, but the Congress is unlikely to lose much authority over key education policy issues, according to knowledgeable observers.

The group found 44 or more members of the 2014 Council supporting steps to strengthen committees relative to the speaker and more than three - dozen advocating greater member authority in drafting bills as well as more equitable and transparent allocation of discretionary funds to each Council district.

«People are sitting and drafting bills.»

«I am pleased about the proposed reforms in general, and am particularly excited that we as legislators will be more empowered to participate in the process of drafting bills, and we as committee chairs will be more empowered to oversee our assigned agencies in a way that moves the City forward.

Freeman said he has not consulted with state legislators who are drafting bills that would establish a different retention schedule for various records or mandate their preservation for at least five years.

While they generally applauded Congress for getting involved in the debate about the way broadband and wireless services providers are to be regulated going forward, they also took issue with parts of a draft bill that would weaken the FCC's ability to regulate such providers, experts say.

Both Dickerson and Amazon's Misener also criticized the draft bill for its focus on so - called last - mile operations, which deal with how consumers connect to broadband services at home.

But, on first glance, it appears that the new draft bill won't do much to change the Congressional Budget Office's initial assessments that tens of millions of people would lose coverage and that costs would spike substantially for people who are old, poor, or sick (or all three).

The U.K. government is to present Thursday a draft bill that will affect all kinds of laws that have governed the country for more than 40 years — the so - called Repeal Bill.

When that led to a public outcry and draft bills in Congress, they came up with the idea charging websites for a fast lane to ISP subscribers.

The committee has drafted a bill that will provide funding for the CFTC and has inserted the tweak requested by these companies in legislation.

The draft bill is one of a number of initiatives sweeping across a continent without a unified strategy for tackling the use of cyberspace by terrorists and money - launderers.

Republicans drafted the bill.

Jim Lucas, the assistant majority whip in the Indiana state House of Representatives, has drafted a bill that would require any professional journalist to be licensed by the state police.

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

As part of their ongoing retainer, they have worked with the Ministry of the Attorney General to prepare a draft bill and have continued with industry consultation.

«The student loan debt crisis is having a serious impact on our economy, the largest since the mortgage foreclosure crisis,» contends Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, whose office has been tracking the student loan industry for years and drafted the bill that Rauner spiked.

A group of lawmakers led by a politician from Korea's ruling political party is drafting a bill to legalize the launch of new cryptocurrencies and ICOs in the country.

The House Committee on Natural Resources put forth a draft bill, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management & Economic Stability Act («PROMESA»).

A government spokesperson, however, told the Financial Post they had «extensive consultations» with Equifax and TransUnion, another credit reporting agency, as well as other members of the industry, in the lead - up to drafting Bill 8.

Meanwhile, the finance ministry is drafting a bill to legalize cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and regulate their circulation.

A senior Northern Ireland politician has asked civil servants to draft a bill introducing same - sex marriage... More

In a televised interview after he left the platform in defeat, McCloskey said he had hoped these young Americans would support his proposal (by far the most lenient and reasonable of the draft bills introduced up to now) because it would make our military - defense system more equitable and representative; the present all - volunteer army is made up of more than 40 per cent minority youth.

Health Minister Simon Harris was given permission to draft a bill to be put before the Dail in the event of the Eighth Amendment being repealed.

The ACCC has responded to the draft bill by releasing guidelines proposing how it intends to approach the legislation changes.

The Australian Federal Government has today released its draft bill to change the Competition and Consumer Act and introduce the controversial «effects test».

Submissions on the Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2011 (Exposure Draft Bill) are due today.

Exposure Draft Bill for comment - Criminal Penalties for Serious Cartel Conduct (January 2008)(with Caron Beaton - Wells) First draft bill - modified bill passed in 2009 with significant amendments

Alison Thewliss conducted a consultation prior to drafting the Bill and published the results on her website.

When drafting the bill, Cheh pulled together dozens of national and local health and fitness experts.

Members of Congress are under pressure to pass Nestlé's draft bill and have been told jobs will be lost and hundred of millions of pounds of investment will be affected if it is not passed.

The companies have the Department of Trade and Industry lobbying legislators on their behalf, while the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have said in joint statement that the draft bill: «aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»

Even after a contract agreement through November 1994 was reached between the union, Service Employees International Local 106, and management, the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, the effort to draft a bill continued.

But she insisted the government would consult widely on the draft bill, hinting at a softening of some of Mr Reid's more controversial proposals.

«We are confident that the safeguards already in the draft bill, together with our recommendations to strengthen those safeguards, will do just that.»

In September Clegg told his party's conference in Brighton he would block the draft bill if MPs opposed it.

«The breadth of the draft bill as it stands appears to be overkill and is much wider than the specific needs identified by the law enforcement agencies,» committee chair Lord Blencathra said.

The Joint Committee on the draft bill concluded that the case for the bulk surveillance powers it contained, hadn't been made — and that those powers had the potential to breach human rights.

Published today, the draft bill has been hailed as the first of its kind in any country and legally commits the government to a low carbon economy and addressing climate change.

With just a few days before an anticipated vote, Senate Republicans released a revised version of their Obamacare repeal legislation that adds a continuous coverage requirement to the draft bill they unveiled last week.

«Your Right to Know» proposed a strong freedom of information regime which attracted widespread support, but the Government promised only to publish a draft Bill in 1998 - which in turn was delayed until May 1999.

The fact that there was only nineteen bills (15 bills and 4 draft bills) does not bode well.

Despite the three Committees» conclusion that the powers in the draft bill were too broad, safeguards too few, and crucial investigatory powers entirely missing — these issues simply haven't been addressed.

Today, the Senate received draft bills from the Executive for discussion and potential action when we reconvene next week.

I've written the following using accepted common definitions of the phrases involved, a close reading of the key passages of the draft bill and a little bit of logic.

David Cameron made a speech this morning in which he addressed some of those concerns and implicitly accepted the timetable put forward by Gordon Brown which would see a draft bill by January.

The draft bill banning «homosexual propaganda» was passed by the St Petersburg City Duma tonight.

A draft bill would give MPs and others the chance to make sure that the final proposals are strong and effective.

In a draft bill, animal sentience is enshrined in UK law and five - year jail sentences for animal cruelty are introduced.