Sentences with phrase «enact meaningful reforms»

«Secretary Tomalis and the Corbett Administration should stop their efforts to game the system, and the General Assembly should enact meaningful reforms which address financial and academic accountability for charter schools,» says Crossey.

«Time is running out and we need to enact meaningful reforms before it's too late.

The legislatures failure to enact meaningful reforms to end NY State's «pay to play» political culture is the strongest possible argument for a Constitutional convention to address legislator outside income, limitations on political donations (bribes), and the end to the LLC loophole.

One has to wonder how many indictments are needed before we enact any meaningful reforms.

«It is time to let our legislators know that they must stand up to the gun lobby and enact meaningful reform to protect students and staff.»

«The HSUS is urging the North Carolina legislature to enact meaningful reform that can prevent puppy mill cruelty in the state.»

«It is time to let our legislators know that they must stand up to the gun lobby and enact meaningful reform to protect students and staff.»

Not exact matches

We rely on the patent system to protect real innovation and this case is one more example of why we feel so strongly Congress should enact meaningful patent reform.»

I believe Andrew Cuomo has the experience to bring change to Albany and he has put forth a real plan, not just bluster, to enact real and meaningful reform for New Yorkers.»

● Enact meaningful campaign finance reform to get big money out of our state and local politics.

In our current legislative culture, however, the chances of enacting any kind of meaningful election reform are slim to none.

I will bring the same fight to Washington that I brought to Albany where I worked with lawmakers to close a $ 5 billion deficit, enacted meaningful tax cuts and championed real reforms, such as creating the STAR property tax program that made a difference for tens of thousands of families in New York.

Flyers sent this week accuse Rivera of «Playing Us For Fools» and excerpts heavily from the June 21 New York Times editorial, «The Old Albany Hustle,» which criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders for failing to enact any meaningful ethics reforms this year.

Given the unions» power, meaningful reforms will be difficult to enact.

«As Democrats, the IDC remains committed to the fight for an equal education for all New York students — which the Dream Act would provide, protecting a woman's right to choose, increasing workers» wages, and enacting meaningful campaign finance reform.

If there ever was a need to address this crime wave of misconduct, the time is now to enact meaningful ethics reform.»

In reality, a convention represents the one chance we have to free ourselves from the corruption of Albany and work outside the normal legislative process to enact meaningful and substantial reforms.

Because state legislators won't enact meaningful ethics and campaign finance reforms.

Commenting on the publication of the Barclay Review of Business Rates, Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT's Scotland Technical Committee, said: «Ken Barclay and his team have today fired the starting gun on the process of reforming Scotland's business rates system and presented the Scottish Government with an opportunity to lead from the front in enacting lasting, meaningful reform.

«When analyzing the legislative session from a macro perspective it is very clear that the high profile issues, like minimum wage and paid leave, negatively impact small business while there are limited efforts to enact real, meaningful reform,» Durant said.

wage, enacting meaningful ethics reforms.

With stakes like these, we better get it right — and we won't get it right unless we enact meaningful pension reform.»

Grounded in our research and policy work, RI - CAN teams with our citizen advocates and key state officials to develop and enact concrete, meaningful education reforms through both legislative and administrative action.

In the wake of a standards reform movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on high standards expectations for all students.

We look forward to working with Secretary - designee Locke, President Obama, Senators Pat Leahy and Orrin Hatch, and Representatives John Conyers and Lamar Smith to enact bipartisan meaningful patent reform legislation that will allow American companies to focus on innovation and job creation, not litigation.