Sentences with phrase «failings of the legislature»

«Allowing perpetrators of sexual abuse go unpunished is a great moral failing of our legislature and a stain on the state's proud record of standing up for the voiceless and victimized in our society.

For all the failings of the legislature, most decisions still undergo extensive debate between the members, and for the more complex issues, in depth analysis in committee.

Not exact matches

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

Companies are only subject to legal sanctions for failing to abide by the Code where it has been incorporated into the legislature of a nation state.

If Paterson's proposal fails in the coming days, it will be the second time in two years that the legislature has rejected the idea of wine sales in grocery stores.

«For a legislature to leave, with a million students returning to what we know is a failed management system, is a dereliction of duty,» Cuomo said Thursday.

Unfortunately, the Grand Jury accepted the politically charged testimony of this legislator and claimed «Financial Disclosure forms were used by a county official in a failed attempt to end the legislature's investigation into the ethics commission.»

«Or if after 90 days the legislature fails to adopt their own plan, the reductions to the general fund and state special revenue fund appropriations and related disbursements identified in the division of the budget plan will go into effect automatically.»

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

The legislature failed in 2013 to act on any of the governor's reform proposals, despite several arrests, indictments and imprisonment of lawmakers.

The comptroller's office said it was withholding the rest of the money because ESD had failed to provide all the necessary information mandated by the governor and the state legislature.

He says Cuomo and the legislature have already approved one new budget since President Trump was elected, and they've heard the promises of the Republican - dominated Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, an effort that has so far failed.

A repeal bill introduced in light of the advisory opinion failed to clear the legislature, as did a bill providing for partial implementation (for those offices not affected by the advisory opinion) and a bill providing for a constitutional amendment to allow for full implementation.

The report blames both branches for failing, however it takes a harsher tone with the legislature, seemingly due to the attitude of some leaders in the body.

Reformers were harshly critical of Cuomo and the legislature during the 2016 session for failing to enact more fundamental changes that could curb what they say is a rampant pay - to - play culture.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

Bellone last month also called for creation of a new $ 75 million surcharge on water use, but the administration so far failed to file a formal proposal to the county legislature or the state legislature.

The legislature and governor even took a step backward from the agreement, when they failed to follow through on a deal to take steps to deny pensions to elected officials convicted of felonies.

The split in the SPD is exemplified in another western state — Hesse — where local SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti narrowly failed to oust CDU premier Roland Koch in elections in January, leaving the state legislature without a clear majority and Koch in power at the head of a caretaker administration.

(CNN)-- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will release a new web video Monday that claims his opponent, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Barbara Buono, has been a failed fiscal steward of the state while serving as a key member of the New Jersey legislature.

(CNN)- New Hampshire's move to become the most recent state to legalize same - sex marriage hit a road bump Wednesday, after the legislature's House of Representatives failed to agree to changes made by the governor.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

The legislation included extensions of laws set to expire because the legislature failed to renew them last week.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz's failed effort to qualify to seek the post in 2010 should cause the legislature to clarify the standards.

In June 2001, the task of redistricting passed to the LRB after the state legislature failed to pass a redistricting plan for either the House or Senate.

All of our groups believe that such a limited public financing system fails to address Albany's culture of corruption that has been centered in recent years in the legislature.

«The Governor and legislature should be ashamed of a state budget that provides tax breaks for yachts and private jets while failing to raise the minimum wage,» said WFP Co-Chairwoman Karen Scharff.

While redistricting maps were passed for the House, Senate, and State Board of Education, the legislature failed to pass a Congressional map within the regular session.

After the legislature failed to override the County Executive's veto of the proposed law, it was amended.

Mr. Samuels, along with several good government groups, have criticized Mr. Cuomo failing to push for a redistricting process that is completely independent of the state legislature.

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

Mr. de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, dedicated substantial resources to the State Senate Democrats» failed effort to capture the upper house of the legislature last year — which became fodder for Republican attack ads.

According to Chairwoman Cornell, Vanderhoef issued a letter to the legislature stating that in his opinion the move violated state and federal law by proceeding upon terms materially different from the request for outgoing bids and failing to address the responsibility of all bidders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

If the legislature fails to establish a redistricting plan for state legislative districts, it falls to the secretary of state to draw the boundaries.

As previously reported, Cuomo recently announced it would be «a crisis of our state» if the state legislature failed to extend rent laws beyond their June 15 deadline.

The danger, for anyone interested in putting an end to a process that protects unresponsive officials, is not that Cuomo will fail to get the legislature to go along with him; it is that he will cut a deal, in exchange for something else he wants, that would allow the legislature to keep a firmer hand in the process of drawing electoral lines than the reform proposal currently calls for.

There are majority party sponsors in each house of the legislature for a bill to add greater oversight to the state's economic development contracts, but the measure failed to come to the floor for a vote.

Both bills cleared the Senate during the regular session of the legislature but failed to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives before adjournment at midnight on June 3.

The legislature took steps Thursday to address the issue of failing concrete foundations reported by nearly 500 homeowners in eastern Connecticut.

If the Presidency failed to remove Magu, the Senate said it had resolved to suspend all confirmation requests from the executive until decisions of the legislature were adhered to.

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is considering closing some schools, after the Illinois legislature failed to pass a measure that would have directed $ 12 million in aid to private and parochial schools.

The Maine legislature recently failed to act on a bill that would have provided incentive grants for the preparation of mathematics and science teachers and for the further training of teachers who teach math and science but are not fully qualified.

Rather than proceed with the second half of the suit, which rested on claims that charter schools had failed to comply with statutes and sponsorship contracts, their opponents withdrew it in December and instead appealed for regulatory help from a newly - elected Democratic governor and a legislature whose Republican majority had been reduced.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

A New Jersey judge last week declared the legislature's most recent revision of the state school - finance system unconstitutional because it fails to close the funding gap between poorer and wealthier districts.

Thank goodness the legislature is not failing to fund the Armistad to the tune of $ 359,776.

However, a huge reservoir of stolen time is under the control of the state legislature, particularly when it comes to testing and the many layers of bureaucracy that start piling on when a school fails to meet expectations.

The task for the legislature is to create an education system that benefits all children, and no longer keeps children trapped in failing schools with no way of getting out.