Sentences with phrase «growing number of legislators»

Even though Maryland is progressive state, a growing number of legislators, supported by an influential anti-choice grassroots movement, are making it increasingly difficult for people to control their own bodies and lives.

As growing numbers of legislators indicate their support for A4165 / S2767, officials within the New Jersey Department of Education have apparently initiated a campaign to block its passage by claiming that the proposed legislation would cost districts precious dollars.

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman - Schultz on Friday joined the growing number of state and federal legislators proposing reforms after the deaths of 14 residents in the suffocating heat of a Hollywood nursing home.

«There are many good and decent state legislators with high ethical standards, but the rapidly growing number of elected officials who have left office because they violated the public trust is a big unaddressed problem.

By concentrating black votes in Rangel's district to protect his seat, the likelihood also becomes greater that legislators will end up with a new majority Latino district with a high concentration of Dominicans, whose numbers have grown 40 percent in the city over the past ten years.

And in a growing number of states — most recently in Tennessee — legislators are moving to end their relationships with the two Common Core — aligned assessment consortia.

Republican governors and legislators, the «Chiefs for Change,» and a growing number of DFER - type Democrats have proven themselves more than capable to carry the mantle of reform without help from Uncle Sam.

Well, regretfully, to an ever - growing number of state and local legislators who don't seem to spend a whole lot of time thinking critical — unless of course it will lead to larger contributions to their campaign funding — it does.