Sentences with phrase «influence over legislation»

Many labor unions have exercised strong influence over legislation under the previous class of the City Council and through de Blasio's first term.

This deal allowed the turncoat coterie's leader, Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, to assume the title of co-leader and enjoy tremendous influence over legislation and over the chamber's inner workings.

Not exact matches

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

But while moms all over the country can pat themselves on the back for influencing legislation to make our children safer they also need to be aware that the BPA industry is going to tussle.

Ministers are set to confront the lobbying industry with the publication of new legislation later, as the row over Lynton Crosby's influence over the prime minister arrives in Westminster.

The second major impact would be a reduction in party political influence over the passage of legislation.

And since the Lords play a crucial role in amending and scrutinising legislation, that could help the party retain significant influence over the legislative process despite what will probably be a precipitous decline in its vote share.

If the Democrats reach a deal with Klein to bring his faction back into the party, expect it to include some sort of fancy title that gives him some control over legislation, or at the very least fractures the influence currently vested in the leader position.

There was additionally a very thorough discussion of Campaign Finance Reform with Kristina Andreotta, of Citizen Action NY particularly focused on New York State legislation that may be influenced over the next month by positions Gov. Cuomo will announce in launching the budget and legislative priorities for 2014.

The governor already wields broad influence over the budget process itself and a late budget could empower him to include broad swaths of his preferred spending plan in emergency extender legislation.

That followed federal charges alleging he collected nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks over a decade for his influence on real - estate legislation and medical grants.

Though the funding comes from the state, Cuomo has little influence over education policy in New York other than through legislation — policy is crafted by the Board of Regents, appointed through a legislative process dominated by Assembly Democrats.

Not only has the former education secretary wielded considerable influence over the actual legislation, but he also could be a useful barometer in predicting where the rest of his party stands on ESEA reauthorization.

A mind that may have an influence over how easily carbon accumulation legislation is enacted.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

The shift from coal to natural gas over the last few decades has had more influence than any clean - air legislation.

«It therefore appears tacitly to accept that the ECJ will continue to have an indirect role and therefore some influence over UK legislation and UK court decisions following Brexit.»

Because of this, human rights legislation is considered quasi-constitutional and takes precedence over, and often influences, other pieces of legislation.

Part 2 of the Welfare Reform Bill, as it stood on 19 March 2009, at the end of its passage through the House of Commons, contains provisions whose purpose is to allow disabled people to have similar influence over a range of social welfare services as they currently have over services provided under the community care legislation.

Sometimes, however, government will also have influence over the working conditions — for instance because the working conditions also touch on matters of public policy and government is contemplating legislation.

Korea had been the most active trading community in the world for Bitcoin, its influence still conspicuous; a petition even calling for senior ministers to be fired over legislation mismanagement accrued over 130,000 signatures in days, Bitcoinist reported last week.