Sentences with phrase «general housing reforms»
This runs contrary to the Government's general housing reform policy for non-Indigenous communities.
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Asquith's controversial social welfare programme and Lords reform, which restricted the legislative power of the House of Lords, came after the Upper House successfully blocked the «people's budget», forcing a general election.
Labour MPs can sit back and watch the carnage on the government side of the House, while fulfilling their manifesto commitment of voting for the general principle of Lords reform.
Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have challenged critics in both their parties by declaring that the coalition will last until the next general election in 2015, as they insisted the row over House of Lords reform would not be allowed to disrupt the work of the government.
In an unusually frank passage, this year's Conservative general election manifesto made clear that House of Lords reform «is not a priority in this parliament».
Certainly all three main parties went into the last general election with manifesto pledges to reform the upper house.
Both House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R - Calif., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R - Utah — chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — said the attorney general should remove himself from any involvement in the probe.
Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.
The IRS spent close to $ 50 million on 225 conferences between 2010 and 2012, according to briefings given to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Tuesday Questions — Deputy prime minister; attorney general Ten minute rule motion — Local services Legislation — House of Lords reform bill, second reading Adjournment — Modernisation of credit unions
Party funding would be reformed, the House of Lords replaced with an elected second chamber and the prime minister would lose his power to choose the date of the general election.
David Cameron was accused of lying about tax credit cuts to win the general election as the House of Lords debated the controversial reforms.
Peter Facey, director of research, said: «The three major parties all committed themselves to democratic reform of the House of Lords at the last general election; they can not spin or dissemble themselves out of this commitment.
-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.
And at the last general election, reforming the House of Lords was included in the Labour manifesto by its author, Ed Miliband.
Real electoral reform at Westminster is long overdue, but we first need a General Election so that we have a House of Commons that commands trust.
Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.
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So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.
Jack Jennings, author of the new Harvard Education Press title Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform, was witness to the evolution of federal policy, working closely with Congress, first as a subcommittee staff director and then as general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.
Three weeks into a special session of the Tennessee General Assembly called by Gov. Lamar Alexander to consider education reforms, the House Education Committee last week approved the Comprehensive Education Reform Act by an 11 - to - 3 vote.
Section 203 of the No FEAR Act specifically requires, not later than 180 days after the end of the fiscal year (FY), each Federal agency to submit an annual report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, each committee of Congress with jurisdiction relating to the agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Attorney General.
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It will apparently not take place in this current Parliament, as Straw envisages final House of Lords reform being a fourth term issue — assuming there is to be a Labour fourth term — involving a manifesto commitment being endorsed at the next general election.