Sentences with phrase «enforcing laws passed»

But the last many years have been a joke as far as enforcing laws passed by our legislative bodies.

Not exact matches

Many members indicated a desire to pass new privacy laws or to strengthen the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) authority to enforce privacy.

Earlier in the week, Athens passed a set of laws that will enforce the budget targets imposed upon it.

Recall Anscombe's caution that a counterfeit sense of «moral obligation» passes by exceptionless moral prohibitions and that the divine law conception above all preserves and enforces those requirements.

Because the National, Mandatory Sunday Law that is talked about in Revelation has not been passed yet in America and it is not yet being enforced by the United States worldwide... only after this happens... then the Time of Probation will close... and then beware everyone... stand by...

My friends, Greggory Peccary, Father O'blivion, Alien Orifice and The Illinois Enema Bandit will be assisting me as I go forth into the real world to enforce the laws that haven't been passed yet.

When the law was passed last week, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler issued a strong warning to any deviants who would think to continue to be kind and decent to their fellow man, telling reporters that «Just because of media attention we don't stop enforcing the law... We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale.»

Christians would almost be pleasant if they would stop worrying about what other people believe and stop trying to pass laws to have their beliefs enforced on all of us.

To me separation of church and state also means laws and regulations are passed and enforced for the good of the country and should not be modified for one religious group or another.

CSPI supports the recently passed federal law for mandatory disclosure of GMOs, and believes there should be a national standard for non-GMO labeling enforced by the USDA and not a consensus - based standard such as the Non-GMO Project Verified seal seen on many labels.

Two years after passing an organic standards law, Canada's organic certification is now being fully implemented and enforced.

Send a quick message to the Egyptian Minister for Agriculture (via the Egyptian Ambassador in Australia), urging the Egyptian government to pass and enforce laws protecting animals from cruelty.

But even here you need to write the law giving them the power, get it passed through parliament, and then hire and train the people in those organisations to be able to oversee and enforce it.

«The problem is, [the government is] happy to pass tough laws in order to get a good headline only to simply not enforce them - allowing the situation to deteriorate at great risk to the public,» Mr Davis said.

I am pleased that my bill to prohibit sex offenders from residing near a pre-kindergarten or kindergarten has passed the Senate, and that this legislation will also go a long way towards ensuring that the law is properly enforced.»

The bureau met with lawmakers again on Friday to reiterate yet again that Congress needs to pass a law on bump stocks before the ATF can enforce it.

On September 7, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the state not to enforce the ballot access law passed earlier this year by the legislature.

Speaking to reporters after a summit on youth crime, Mr Brown vowed to vigorously enforce existing laws, but said the government would consider passing new legislation if required.

If Congress passes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) during Feldblum's term, she will be one of the commissioners responsible for issuing regulations and enforcing the law.

First of all, what the Senate passed is a law that allows the POTUS to enforce the sanctions.

While a federal lawsuit unfolds, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has agreed not to enforce certain provisions of a new state ethics law passed requiring charitable organizations giving money to lobbying campaigns to disclose far more of their donors, according to the plaintiffs in the suit.

Rather than passing a new fee, the city should enforce the existing recycling law, and should use positive reinforcement to encourage recycling, Felder said.

Under former Governor David Paterson, the state passed a law requiring teacher evaluations, but it wasn't enforced.

Under sparsely enforced New York election laws, it is illegal for a donor to «earmark» donations to a PAC, with the understanding that money will be passed from one committee to another.

The NYC Council's Committee on Immigration voted unanimously to pass a bill prohibiting local law enforcement from entering partnerships with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce immigration laws.

Governor Cuomo's proposal of a new «anti-creaming» law does absolutely nothing to enforce the existing laws that the Legislature passed in 2010.

He argued that rather than pass a new law, the focus should have been more on how to get the law enforcement agencies to enforce the existing laws.

Under the amendment, passed Monday by the City Council's sanitation committee, the law will go into effect on Feb. 15, 2017, and won't be enforced until August 14 of that year.

Finance Commissioner, Howard Rattner, reassured the group that the law passed would not be enforced until June l. James O'Toole, who had voted against this parking restriction, wanted to make sure all the business owners knew about the change.

«They do not enforce it at all,» said Paul Brown, president of the Buffalo Building Trades Council, who lobbied the Common Council to pass the law in 2006.

(Those amounts have increased since the bill was passed into law, due to indexing, but no worker has received the higher pay since Bloomberg refused to enforce it.)

He urged lawmakers to properly fund the County Weights and Measures Department, which will be tasked with enforcing the law if it does pass.

«Finally, to ensure that the preparation of the Appropriation Bill is based on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, passed by the National Assembly, signed into law by the President and implemented by the Executive arm of government Section 51 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act has specifically clothed every citizen with the necessary locus standi or legal capacity to enforce the provisions of the law by obtaining prerogative orders or other remedies at the Federal High Court, without having to show any special particular interest.»

Shortly afterwards, the local content and local participation law was passed to enforce that vision.

«Mudbound» takes place at a particular time in American history, when poor white men felt their standing threatened by their hard - working black neighbors, when laws were passed to keep blacks down — or mudbound, if you will — and the Ku Klux Klan arose to enforce additional restrictions that never found their way into the books.

John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing «a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing stricter gun control laws.»

The state legislature passed a law limiting test prep to 2 percent of instructional time, but it was difficult to enforce.

The law, known as the Stull Act, was passed in 1971 with bipartisan support although neither school district officials nor teachers unions ever pushed to enforce all of its provisions, with their potential for conflict.

Because under the Constitution, only Congress can pass laws; the president and his administration is only allowed to enforce them.

But isn't it much moredramatic to say the DoJ is acting like it is working for the big bad Amazon's best interest than to say it is simply trying to enforce the antitrust laws passed by Congress?

I don't actually expect the government to pass any new laws, but I thought I would send an e-mail to see if at least the Premier would think about enforcing the existing rules.

«There's no point in passing laws we don't plan to enforce.»

«The main thing is that if the law is worth passing, it needs to be enforced,» she says.

Just nine days after the charter was granted by the New York State Legislature, Bergh convinced the Legislature to pass an anti-cruelty law that granted the new Society the authority to enforce it.

The commission wants local governments to pass and enforce strict leash laws that include cats, as well as dogs.

Lobby your local autoritys to pass laws outlawing pens on laegs, lobby for police to enforce current animal cruelty laws, lobby for tougher cruelty laws and tougher sentences.

The Doris Day Animal League works to improve the humane treatment of animals by lobbying to pass new laws and enforce existing laws that reduce the suffering of animals.

Phoenix passed an anti-puppy mill ordinance in 2013, but a temporary restraining order prevents the city from enforcing the law.

Springboarding off the public awareness and outrage generated by these and other Virginia puppy mill exposés, the following year we worked closely with Teresa Dockery, who at the time was the chief operating officer of the Margaret B. Mitchell Spay / Neuter Clinic in Bristol, Virginia, to help pass a state law that tightened up commercial breeding operations and empowered local animal control officers to enforce the new codes.

Dog control laws are passed and enforced at the state and local level.