Sentences with phrase «first legislative body»

With the launch of this «semi-official» blog, The Senate Site, Utah's state Senate became the first legislative body to make blogging a tool for lawmaking, Stateline.org reports.

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Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

The New York State Senate today announced full availability of its mobile application, «NYSenate Mobile,» the first mobile application in the nation developed by a legislative body.

State Sen. Thomas K. Duane, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive member of the legislative body, announced today he will not be running for re-election this year, opening up his seat in the important 29th State Senatorial District that runs from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village.

«Having been in Albany for just over a year now, I know first hand how much we've been able to accomplish as a Legislative body in partner with the governor,» he said.

The New York State Senate CIOs office announces that it has launched what it believes to be the first iPad app by a legislative body in the United States:

When new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive person to hold the powerful position, unveiled his leadership team and Council committee assignments, he appointed two anti-LGBT Council members to chair committees, and named one to senior leadership in the 51 - member legislative body.

This study is the first to advise legislative bodies as there are currently no guidelines set for the horizontal distance required between the fluid injection points and pre-existing cracks in the rock.

This is historic because it is the first time that a legislative body has sent a clear directive to the DOE, NYSED and Governor that high stakes standardized tests must be replaced by multiple measures.

It is the first time the legislative body presented this kind of bill, submitted by HSI and its local partners in 2016.

The UN in particular has often been first in the field with legislative models, rather than trying to find common elements in existing bodies of law.