Sentences with phrase «government over a proposal»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo raised the possibility Thursday of suing the federal government over a proposal that would shift county Medicaid costs onto the state.

Opposition politicians have attacked the Government over proposals to link fines for minor offences to earnings.

However, many education leaders remain opposed to the proposals, and the campaign group Comprehensive Future has now launched a fund - raising bid so it can fight the government over the proposals.

Not exact matches

«The president's infrastructure proposal would do very little to make our ailing infrastructure better, but would put unsustainable burdens on our local government and lead to Trump tolls all over the country,» said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The Conservative government favoured PRPPs over more intrusive proposals for reform, such as expanding the Canada Pension Plan.

The proposal is aimed at allaying the Japanese government's concerns over any transfer of sensitive technology to investors it deems a risk to national security, it said.

U.S. regulators expect Internet service providers to sue the government over any changes in the way they are regulated and must reevaluate any proposals to make sure they stand up in court, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said at a meeting on Friday.

U.S. regulators expect Internet service providers to sue the government over any changes in the way they are regulated and must reevaluate any proposals to make sure they stand up in court.

Water Corporation will no longer hand over Dunsborough water and Busselton drainage assets to Busselton Water after the state government deemed the proposal too costly and without benefit.

This is a variant of the proposal made by the government in the 2011 election campaign, which has received so much criticism over recent months.

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

On a more fundamental level, the negotiations remain at an impasse over a collection of U.S. proposals dubbed «poison pills» by U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue, including the proposed sunset clause, an extreme approach to rule of origins for the auto and textile / apparel sectors, and measures that would undermine investment protection, government procurement, and trade in seasonal produce.

The proposals for health care in Congress this year, for example, will soon escalate the clash between religious hospitals and state agencies over mandatory performance of abortion: Any single - payer system will prove, as it must, irresistible to social engineers in government, and each twist of the ratchet necessarily moves Catholic hospitals further from the Church and closer to the state.

These tax proposals are ways the government can help families without taking over their child - care functions.

This strategy is profoundly hostile to the Catholic vision of love; nonetheless the ambiguity of the response made by the Church's official representatives has fostered the impression that the Church supports the Government's proposals, and fostered confusion over the content of relevant Church teaching.

«There has never been a more important time for tackling food fraud and getting regulation right as we plan to leave the European Union, but government proposals for where we will get our food from are already under tough scrutiny from industry and consumers alike with concerns over quality.

The Turnbull government has protested loudly over Beijing's aggressive pursuit of its territorial claims in the South China Sea and in recent months has rejected two major Chinese investment proposals in Australia.

The proposal is part of the government's drive to slash the number of domestic infant formula manufacturers over the next five years to 50 from about 200 now, the China Securities Journal said, citing an unnamed source.

The report gathered together existing information and analysed over 500 group responses to the Government's Response to Disability Living Allowance reform — obtained under a Freedom of Information request - and found that: 74 % of respondents were against the proposals for PIP; 19 % had mixed views; and Only 7 % supported it fully.

In an article published on the British Medical Journal's website today, Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor express concern over the government's proposal to use rewards and penalties in the current healthcare system.

Culture, media and sport spokesman Don Foster said: «There are serious concerns over the level of scrutiny given to the super casino proposals and it was left to the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords to halt the government's headlong rush to Manchester.

«There are over 400 organisations affected by the government's proposals, including the UK Film Council, instrumental in funding the multi-Oscar nominated film, «The King's Speech», and the Forestry Commission, where plans to sell - off land have been opposed by 460,000 people in an online petition so far,» she added.

They are not governments - that kind of deal - making comes in December (or rather in the glacial negotiating sessions throughout this year), so I see no problem with them having earnest conversations deep into the night about the relative merits of carbon taxes over cap and trade, or any other issue, that have no substantive outcome other than to generate more research proposals, newspaper column inches and comments in well - meaning blogs.

Earlier this week, a Tory backbench revolt over CLG's original proposal cut the Government's majority to 27.

The move comes as a blow for the government, which is already facing backbench revolts over health reforms and is set for a battle over proposals to give schools more freedom.

Greeks have witnessed discussions shift from $ 1 billion in additional measures (last proposal put forth by the New Democracy - PASOK government following demands from creditors), to over $ 10 billion in additional measures last month, to today's «Greekment» according to which Greece will undergo harsher austerity (for next three years) than at any other point since the crisis began.

One proposal that has taken a hit in popularity, however, is the governor's push to sue the federal government over the December federal tax reform law, which garners 49 percent support, down from 58 percent in January.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a $ 142 billion spending plan that includes a package of tax cuts, including a proposal that would nudge local governments into freezing property taxes over several years.

Conservative and Lib Dem ministers have struggled to win over Labour to their proposals, which had concentrated on former justice secretary Jack Straw's work in a white paper published towards the end of the New Labour government.

Mr Leonard agreed with the Scottish government's position that the parliament should have a veto power over any proposals to keep issues at a UK level.

Thursday's strike over Government proposals on public sector pensions will bring to a head simmering tensions on several fronts.

It also comes as the Comptroller is deliberating over an even more important proposal in the governor's budget, a bail out plan for local governments who are drowning in ever - rising pension payments.

The government may well resort to a string of cheap and nasty gimmicks to give the impression of activity over the next two years, but Labour will put forward serious proposals to tackle illegal entry, to end exploitation, to encourage integration, to strengthen the economy and to protect the taxpayer.

«Over the next few weeks Prospect, GMB and Unite unions will be holding «Mass Pension Briefs» to outline the government's proposals and how it will impact on people's pensions and their future.»

Tax advisers have welcomed the Government's launch of a debate over penalties for offshore tax evasion but expressed concern over proposals for a new criminal offence for those who fail to declare taxable offshore income and gains.

The government was humiliated in the Lords in a series of defeats over their «secret courts» proposals.

In a sign that the government acknowledges the damage from another row over expenses, Duncan Smith said he was open to a proposal by Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), to end the right of MPs to sit in judgment on their peers.

Likewise, the county government has shared similar concerns over the proposal that has managed to unite both Westchester lawmakers and the Republican administration of County Executive Rob Astorino in rallying against it.

This would have made it all but impossible for the government to get a final vote on the proposals for Lords to be elected for single 15 - year terms, while using up much of the parliamentary timetable over the next three years, said Clegg.

The government was yesterday warned against «macho posturing» over public sector pay, as union leaders criticised proposals to offer workers three - year pay deals.

Touching on the terms of the proposal, he intimated the Commission is yet to settle on whether a 50 - 50 deal or the investors will establish the cinemas, recoup their investment, and later, hand them over to government to take full charge.

The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Consensus has developed a list of over 50 proposals to modernize government in Onondaga County, including creation of a new county - wide metropolitan government that would merge the county with the city of Syracuse.

The proposal takes money from the federal government's normal infrastructure funding streams, like the transportation bill, and commits $ 200 billion to an infrastructure fund over 10 years.

At the opening of the meeting, Chairman Tony L. Earl announced that County Executive Ed Day had officially rescinded his proposal to withdraw from the health plan NYSHIP and enroll with AETNA, a move that would have changed the health care provider for over 2,000 retired government workers.

The proposal says local government administrators should be allowed to manage their own accounts as against the existing policy in which governors exert powers over allocations to local government areas.

With competition for school places set to intensify over the next decade, the government's recent proposal to relax admissions rules for new faith schools has been met with mixed responses.

But rather than admitting that the proposals were unpopular, appeared to resile on Tory campaign pledges in 2015, and that the legislative means for securing them was ill - planned, the government responded with a review into the powers of the Lords over secondary legislation.

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.