Sentences with phrase «first comprehensive reform»

Harkin's rewrite, the first comprehensive reform to the legislation, came out of negotiations with Sen. Mike Enzi (R - Wyo.)

The legislative reforms under Bill C - 24, The Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act are the first comprehensive reforms to the Citizenship Act since 1977 and they come at a time when demand for citizenship is rising, people are inquiring about Canadian values and other countries are finding our rules for entry into Canada and are citizenship process lax.

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First, the reform should be comprehensive enough to deal with the fundamental issue of punitive marginal tax rates on high - income earners.

Immigration: Clinton plans to push for comprehensive immigration reform within her first 100 days in office.

In recent years, the senator has shifted from advocating comprehensive immigration reform to a stance that puts border security first, though with the possibility of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants after 10 to 12 years.

In this, there are three options: 1) a comprehensive reform strategy, 2) a secure the border first strategy, and 3) an amnesty first strategy.

This isn't the first time a majority party has had trouble passing comprehensive healthcare reform.

She is «committed to introducing comprehensive immigration reform and a path to legitimate citizenship within the first 100 days of [her] presidency.»

«Today's House vote is a major milestone towards passage of the first comprehensive tax reform legislation in more than 30 years.

«I would first start by freezing direct payments to private industry until and unless we adopt comprehensive procurement policies and reforms.»

DOWNTOWN — Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and his successor as attorney general Eric Schneiderman are planning a comprehensive ethics reform agenda that will likely include an independent ethics watchdog and an independent prosecutor, Cuomo said after the pair's first official meeting Friday.

Upstate Newspapers: Ethics Reforms Insufficient to Address Corruption The Rochester - based Democrat & Chronicle called Governor Cuomo's inability to pass comprehensive campaign finance reform his administration's «most notable first - term failure.»

'' The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure; passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades, resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle - class New York taxpayers; approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods; and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.»

The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure, passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers, approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods, and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.

It's time for New York state to put the interests of taxpayers first by passing comprehensive reform to ensure that hosts, guests, small businesses and local governments can benefit from the economic engine of home sharing.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A commission charged with investigating public corruption in Albany said in its first report Monday that deep and comprehensive reform can not wait.

«We need comprehensive voting reform in New York State, and early voting is an important first step.

The bill was first introduced by Democratic senators around the time Cuomo began a big push for comprehensive campaign finance reform, at the tail end of the 2013 legislative session.

First ever comprehensive studies of life expectancy, causes of death, and child mortality at provincial level in China suggest that localisation of policies will be crucial to government health reforms

There are tips and downloadable guides, practical advice, and videos that show how to get started on a high school transformation that some are calling the first comprehensive high school reform in more than century.

During his tenure in the district, the high school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school reform.

Published for the first time last year by the AIR's Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the consumer guide rates 22 schoolwide - improvement models on the strength of their research track records and other program characteristics.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

The report covers six federal programs: Title I, Part A; Reading First; Comprehensive School Reform (CSR); Title II, Part A; Title III, Part A; and Perkins Vocational Education State Grants.

As documented under Section 1114 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESEA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «that desires to operate a schoolwide program shall first develop (or amend a plan for such a program that was in existence on the day before the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001), in consultation with the local educational agency and its school support team or other technical assistance provider under section 1117, a comprehensive plan for reforming the total instructional program in the school that describes how the school will implement the components described in paragraph (1)».

Congress took its first real stab at reforming the law in October 2011 as Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, of Iowa, and Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, of Wyoming, presented a comprehensive revision to No Child Behind.

His newest book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (2011), provides the first comprehensive study of this nation's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to prominence, their exercise of power in collective bargaining and politics, and the vast and troubling consequences for kids, schools, and genuine reform.

Despite all the fiscal and other challenges paralyzing Connecticut, there is an opportunity in the 2017 special legislative session to take the first real step toward comprehensive, rational and constitutional education funding reform.

When the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee meets for the first time tomorrow from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Legislative Office Building many of the seats will be filled with corporate education reform industry representatives.

Furthermore, research and practice in comprehensive school reform and school safety planning regularly demonstrate the need for developing a positive school climate characterized by consistency, tolerance, respect, clearly communicated behavior norms, problem solving and conflict resolution (Learning First Alliance, 2001; McDaniel, 2000; Tolan, 2002; USDOE, 1998).

Of course, if Obama had put up a proper legislative fight for comprehensive clean energy reform in the first place, we wouldn't be quibbling over some sorry tax breaks.

The first bill introduced was comprehensive tort reform legislation, which eventually became 2011 Wisconsin Act 2.

In the first comprehensive appellate decision interpreting Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1042.3 - 1042.6, Pennsylvania's tort reform measure intended to increase the threshold of merit for professional liability actions, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the ruling of the trial court and remanded for the entry of judgment as a matter of law in favor of John's client, a physician, based upon the plaintiff's failure to file a certificate of merit in support of his medical malpractice claim.

WASHINGTON (June 22, 2017)-- As Congress prepares to consider comprehensive tax reform for the first time in more than three decades, a new report from the R...

In 2011, when Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA), it was heralded as «the first meaningful, comprehensive reforms to the nation's patent system in nearly 60 years.»

«The comprehensive reforms proposed in the PATENT Act, including to demand letters, are a good first step toward strengthening and restoring an essential balance to the patent litigation system, which has been urgently needed for years.