Sentences with phrase «even as the legislature»

Campaign finance reform and public financing have gained renewed momentum in New York even as the legislature is out of session.

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«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Even as it came to crunch time in the legislature on this issue, a bulk of the work was done behind the scenes.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel's executive vice president, congratulated the Governor and the legislature for «their recognition, even in these challenging times, that including rabbinical colleges in the state TAP program — just as they are included in the federal Pell program — is a matter of simple equity.»

NEW YORK (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered a 10 percent cut in personal service contracts to shrink a yawning deficit, even as he and the legislature agreed on a higher revenue estimate.

It is also important to point out that a veto can only reject the full bill as it is written and passed by the legislature, even if there are parts of it the president likes.

Even in Rivers state, the governor's wife imposed her pet project on d legislature as their constituency project, no house of Assembly member came out to cry that Mrs Amaechi was doing X and Y.

On an even more basic level, there's the question of whether the state will actually reimburse the M.T.A. when it comes time to do so, when the governor and legislature inevitably come under pressure to find money from somewhere, as they do every time they have to make a new budget.

As illustration, even if the legislature were to impose $ 4.2 billion in new tax and fee measures - as recommended by the Executive Budget — it would still leave the state with $ 11 billion in an accumulated structural budget gap over the next five years; a figure that will likely grow given the ongoing deterioration of state tax collectionAs illustration, even if the legislature were to impose $ 4.2 billion in new tax and fee measures - as recommended by the Executive Budget — it would still leave the state with $ 11 billion in an accumulated structural budget gap over the next five years; a figure that will likely grow given the ongoing deterioration of state tax collectionas recommended by the Executive Budget — it would still leave the state with $ 11 billion in an accumulated structural budget gap over the next five years; a figure that will likely grow given the ongoing deterioration of state tax collections.

Curran has touted her vote with legislative Republicans last year to approve borrowing for capital projects as a sign she'll work in a bipartisan way, even if the GOP maintains control of the legislature.

Even if Silver loosens his grip on the legislature, it looks like he's a long way from letting go; there's no talk of him resigning as assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The Percoco conviction should serve as a wakeup call to the governor and the legislature that they must act to curb corruption at all levels of government, even in the offices of the governor himself.

As a Democrat I know how you get drummed out of the club if you even question the unions» unholy alliance with the dems in the legislature.

The legislature will never even consider an idea like that as it is totally unconstitutional.

However, to have law enforcement become the poker chip in this disagreement is troubling to all of us, and even more so for me as the only member of the law enforcement community serving on the county legislature.

The state legislature was preparing to end their 2012 session Thursday evening as lawmakers had promised, but they did not manage to finish everything on their list before they left.

King's Democratic challenger, DuWayne Gregory, presiding officer of the Suffolk legislature, had not filed his campaign report as of early evening.

But most Republicans in the legislature want the governor to resign and several are ready to begin the impeachment process, even as the results of a state Ethics Commission investigation into the governor's travel expenses are still pending.

The President said the judiciary was his problem, while the legislature holds the judiciary in disdain, even as lawyers who lose their cases condemn the Bench.

The state legislature ended their 2012 session Thursday evening as lawmakers had promised, but they did not manage to finish everything on their list before they left.

He cites as an example a $ 1.5 billion economic development competition that he convinced the legislature to approve, even though some lawmakers object that only three of the state's seven regions will get to share the money.

While state legislative sessions in most states are longer and more active in odd years, almost all state legislatures meet in even - numbered years as well.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Today, American teachers want to be viewed as professionals, but their experience tells them they need their membership in the union and the clout that they have in the state legislature, even in states that do not allow them to organize.

First, only the legislature has the power to amend a statute and even then it must comply with our state constitution as reviewed by our Supreme Court.

And you'll see class sizes going up and up, because it's the unions - you know, vilify them if you want, as many do - but they're the ones who are standing in the way of the legislatures cutting the budgets and raising class sizes, and making it even worse for teachers.

As we mentioned earlier, most veterinarians no longer offer this procedure, and some state legislatures have even floated bills outlawing it.

Yet, even as advocates and clean energy business leaders in Virginia position our state to capture the benefits of offshore wind power development, influential decision - makers in Congress and in the Virginia state legislature are still pushing to bring us the risks of offshore drilling.

I point out as an initial point that this is unlikely to take place, in any event, for two main reasons: first, the Charter of Values would have to be adopted by the legislature — not an easy task in light of the minority position of the PQ; second, even if it is adopted, Quebec could still invoke the Canadian Charter's section 33 notwithstanding clause, to shield the new provisions from judicial review.

Notably, however, even the dissenting judges recognized that the «historical common law right to strike is a fundamental component of our legal system insofar as it reflects the idea that employees have no obligation to continue to work under conditions they consider to be unsatisfactory: no legislature can force an individual or a group into servitude».

As the author of the article correctly points out, any attempt by the Illinois legislature to modify the retirement benefits of existing employees entitled to those pensions will almost certainly raise serious legal and constitutional questions that the Illinois, or perhaps even Federal courts, will ultimately decide.

That the legislature, by failing to include common - law spouses, regards them as less worthy of protection offered (by law) as married couples and those in a civil union, even if common - law unions are similar to these two types of unions.

By analogy, when a state legislature fails to adopt a redistricting plan that complies with the constitution, which is normally a political question, this failure to act allows a federal court to craft a redistricting plan as a remedy for the failure of the legislature to act, in order to protect the constitutional rights of voters and candidates in future elections, even though no express language of the constitution or statute addresses the remedy when a state legislature fails to pass a redistricting plan.

Illinois legislature rewrote their family court laws to direct the entire family court system to be more child - centric in reality as of Jan 2016, but even that domino legislated may take an act of God to fall.

Thus when the parties decide instead to act as a two - person legislature, they can put their future planning into a written agreement, even though a court might lack the power to achieve the same result.