Sentences with phrase «federal election reform»
Dr. Fitrakis testified at the Election Assessment hearings in Houston, Texas in 2005, which became part of the Carter - Baker Commission Report on federal election reform.
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As I have explained elsewhere, many of the policies put in place by the Federal government since the election of President Obama in 2008 — banking reform, business regulation, tax policies, and the Affordable Care Act to name a few — have made entrepreneurship more difficult to undertake.
Since the November 2012 elections, they see a willingness of Silicon Valley executives to go along with a bigger, more comprehensive reform bill, Emily Lam, senior director of federal issues for Silicon Valley Leadership Group, says.
Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.
While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.
The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.
OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.
At a meeting of federal and provincial ministers of finance on Monday, the federal government punted CPP reform well into the future, certainly beyond the 2015 election.
Rigaux was the chief organizer for the Reform Party in British Columbia ahead of the 1997 federal election.
A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.
But Lavine's election did not end up sparking a massive reform wave at the Capitol, (he actually backed then - Speaker Sheldon Silver, who since has been toppled by a federal corruption scandal).
The Electoral Reform Society has released its initial findings on the latest Australian Federal Election.
In the divisive 5 - to - 4 decision, the Court's ruling on Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission endorsed the view that the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act restricted First Amendment rights.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R - Calif., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday that it was «perhaps too soon» for his committee to look at how federal prosecutors» allegations that Mayor Vincent Gray knew about a shadow campaign scheme in the 2010 election might have contributed to his loss to Muriel Bowser.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.
The Progressive Conservatives would never play a major role in federal politics again, eventually merging with the Reform Party (which at this point had been renamed the Canadian Alliance) prior to the 2004 election.
Ann Ravel, a Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, submitted her resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday with a plea to embrace campaign finance reform.
By prohibiting government from restricting people and corporations from creating unlimited independent expenditure campaigns capable of funneling billions of dollars into election cycles, this decision undid a century's worth of state and federal campaign finance reform.
«So, with the kind of election conducted in April this year, I think we're hopeful that the electoral reform promised by the Federal Government will come to pass.
None of the Reform Party candidates has filed a campaign finance report with the Federal Election Commission, and they've run low - profile campaigns.
Ann Ravel, a Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, submitted her resignation letter to Trump yesterday with a plea to embrace campaign finance reform.
Republicans and election reform advocates object to the Democrats using federal funds for a state race.
He is the first Reform Party member to announce his candidacy for the 2014 Federal Elections.
In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.
In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Kennedy pushed campaign finance reform; he was a leading force behind passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which set contribution limits and established public financing for presidential elections.
In a Journal News op - ed, Lawrence Norden and Frederick A.O Schwarz of the Brennan Center, wrote that Governor Cuomo's refusal to pass meaningful reform in the state budget was especially disheartening in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.
He said members of Congress are talking about reforms after the record $ 7 billion spent on the 2012 federal elections, including at least $ 1 billion from super PACs that can raise unlimited amounts of money from anonymous donors.
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Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham has said he «hopes» to avoid a political campaign against them in the lead up to the 2019 election, after the Government successfully got its Gonski 2.0 reforms through the senate.
President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.
We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.
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Labor's commitment to (once again) fund the final two years of the Gonski school funding reforms signals a strong intent by the party to position education as a wedge issue in the upcoming federal election.
The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»
Last year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend local school board elections.
Sadly, what is truly needed is aggressive financial reform at the federal level, which is impossible as long as The Legislative and Executive branches of government are allowed to profit in any way, i.e., contributions to political parties & candidates in elections, personal investments, and the insider trading laws that they are exempt from.
The 2015 federal election saw promises by the NDP and the Liberals to expand the CPP, leading Canada's finance ministers to get back to work in examining CPP reform after the dust settled from the election.
As president of London, Ontario based Thomas Crncich & Partners, Bryan Thomas was authorized agent for purchase of broadcast time for the Reform Party in the 1997 federal election [36], as well as for the Canadian Alliance in 2000 [37].
Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a Washington, D.C. - based interest group dedicated to campaign finance reform, said in a press release that the court is threatening to «take a radical step» that would undermine a century of law limiting corporate involvement in federal elections.
It's too soon to tell what Jones» election means for federal sentencing reform.
In fact — based on a recommendation from nobody at all, and no evidence beyond Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre's nasty slander about Elections Canada wearing «team jerseys» — the Fair Elections Act moves the Commissioner out of Elections Canada and into the office of a federal public servant, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The major affecting events this year could be the jewellers strike against PAN card registration, the prediction of an interest hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Brexit vote, wedding season, festive season, Trump's victory in the US Presidential election, PM Modi's demonetisation reform to name a few.
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 («BCRA») continued the long - standing prohibition on the use of corporate treasury funds in federal candidate elections.
The Supreme Court of the United States has considered a challenge to the Federal Election Commission's («FEC») enforcement of the political advertising restrictions contained in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 («Act»).
NAR Government Affairs says: The new campaign finance reform law, which takes effect after the 2002 elections, will continue to allow individuals (and PACs) to fund a print or broadcast «electioneering communication» that refers to a federal candidate within 60 days of a general election or within 30 days of a primary election or convention.