Sentences with phrase «gives legislative bodies»

The law, long considered crown jewel legislation by the Koch front group AFP, gives legislative bodies full veto authority over regulations proposed by executive agencies.

17 % give this legislative body above average marks.

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A Kaminsky win on April 19 would set the tone for November, giving Democrats a shot to take power cleanly in what has been a messy and beleaguered legislative body.

Race has played a significant role in the contest as many council members, and some groups outside the body, expressed an interest in having a person of color atop the legislative body given the city's diverse population.

Given how many state legislative bodies we took in 2006, and the upcoming redistricting in 2011, I'd expect a lot of bodies could change hands this fall too, and there must be a lot of intensity around those in many states.

«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

Given the short and crowded legislative calendar in both bodies, few observers expect the Senate or House to complete action on their reauthorization bills before the November election.

The board isn't a legislative body, however, and some legislative observers wonder whether the changes are significant enough to require state lawmakers to give their own blessing to the new rules.

If we have $ 200 million to give, pay teachers to stay after school longer... I'm upset because we as a legislative body, we can sit here and make these type of policies and make these type of assumptions that this would work, when in reality many of you have not stepped a foot in a classroom... let's be honest, just because you bring in a different entity you're going to change the dynamic?

Later the same month, the standing committee of the National People's Congress, essentially the inner circle of China's main legislative body, adopted a resolution on climate change action that explicitly calls for the strengthening of domestic climate legislation while giving assurance that it will be a constructive player in the international climate process.

It has been an unusual role for the House of Lords, given that it is part of Parliament and a legislative body.

Justice Lamer did so by determining that the evidence of those «present at the creation» — those involved in the drafting — should be given minimal weight, since statements by «civil servants» were not sufficiently indicative of the intentions of the legislative bodies that adopted the Charter.

Only a handful of states (9) give the legislature or legislative leaders the power to name members to the judicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial Complaints).

The Bill gives this principle legislative force — requiring the secretary of state to promote autonomy by giving NHS bodies and professionals freedom to exercise their functions in the most appropriate manner and by not imposing unnecessary burdens on them.

In applying the provisions of this Convention, Governments shall: (a) Consult the peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, whenever consideration is being given to legislative or administrative measures which may affect them directly; (b) Establish means by which these peoples can freely participate, to at least the same extent as other sectors of the population, at all levels of decision - making in elective institutions and administrative and other bodies responsible for policies and programmes which concern them; (c) Establish means for the full development of these peoples» own institutions and initiatives, and in appropriate cases provide the resources necessary for this purpose.

As administrators are determining how to spend funds given by a legislative body, it is equally important that the front line workers and supervisors of those workers are able to see the impact that services are having on the consumers of those services.

Other than for a legislative act, notice and the opportunity to comment must be given to the relevant representative body, any prescribed body corporate and registered native title claimants before an act specified is done.