Sentences with phrase «elected assembly»

De Blasio's advocacy, combined with the efforts of newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, should pave the way to tougher rent laws, Johnson said.

Today's meeting also marks the first time newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx will sit in on the meetings.

Not to mention the Freedom of Information Act, the Human Rights Act, devolution to Scotland, Wales; elected assembly for London, mayor of London - these are an incredible set of changes.

Yesterday, the newly elected assembly members met in the chamber for the first time to register new members and re-start salaries.

In contrast, the Icelandic model of a directly elected assembly of non-politicians simply would not translate into the British context.

A directly elected assembly, a convention consisting exclusively of civil society representatives and a citizens - only selection process are all options, but the most attractive model might be that used by the Irish in the last two years.

Newly - elected Assembly speaker Carl Heastie says he expects education to be the most challenging part of the budget.

Power should reside in a unicameral elected assembly, with the necessary checks and balances provided by independently - minded representatives.

I had thought that the new president was much less interested in HADOPI than was Mr Sarkozy, and the newly elected assembly likewise.

I was thrilled to be elected your Assembly Member for the Fifth Assembly on May 5, 2016 with 16,766 votes — the highest number of votes cast for any Assembly Member in Wales.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco has called Cuomo's latest budget negotiating tactic «bizarre», while newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie — albeit in a slightly more low - key way — has also questioned the governor's approach.

Annual parliaments were about creating a democratically elected assembly that could be trusted to govern in accordance with the popular will, just as Magna Carta sought to subjugate monarchical will to parliamentary authority (as the Chartists confidently believed).

For the third time since he was elected Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie will embark on a statewide tour this month with stops in The Capital Region, Central New York, Hudson Valley, Long Island, North Country, the Southern Tier and Western New York.

But there is no directly elected assembly to hold them to account, like that of the London mayoralty.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and newly elected Assembly Member Michael Blake also participated.

This was done via extra-legal means: the royally appointed governors refused to countenance the elected assemblies treasonous (to them) declarations, so the assemblies met as «provincial» congresses and declared themselves the lawful assemblies and independent States.

The government authorised an elected assembly that considered online input by citizens and produced a draft constitution over a period of just 3 to 4 months.

Carl Heastie was elected the Assembly's 119th speaker on Tuesday, the first African - American to hold the post in the state's history.

They offered an elected assembly for Scotland, and, as usual, for Wales as an afterthought.

Newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie this week vowed to enact a «zero - tolerance» policy for sexual harassment cases, which in the last several years engulfed three state lawmakers no longer in the Assembly.

Newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was a previous co-sponsor of the bill that would legalize the sport.

He added: «The most important thing was, after arguing it as I had done and many others had over a 30 - year period, we had for the first time an elected Assembly for Wales.

Supporters of MMA have renewed hope, however, given that newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie had backed the legalization bill in the past.

The coalition's junior party has been arguing that proportional representation is how the elected assemblies of the devolved institutions are chosen; the Tories respond by saying they refuse to accept any reduction in their influence in the Commons.

65th Assembly District (Manhattan): The newly - elected Assembly Member, Micah Kellner, who submitted a questionnaire is a former officer of 504 and a strong advocate for disability issues.

Heastie was elected Assembly Speaker earlier this year to replace Sheldon Silver, who stepped aside after his arrest on federal corruption charges.

Newly - elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made clear one of his top priorities in his first news conference, where he called for passage of the Dream Act, which would offer college aid to children of undocumented immigrants.

Newly - elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx, waves to the Assembly after his election at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. Heastie is the first African - American Speaker.

Unlike in London, no directly - elected assembly will scrutinise the mayors» action.

It's the first time all sixty newly elected Assembly Members will meet at the Senedd.