Sentences with phrase «just as the legislators»

Negotiations on the bill will come to a head just as the legislators try to wrap up all the major legislation they have put off until now — including same - sex marriage and a property tax cap.

Rosario, opening up about his own challenges in enrolling his children into magnet schools, vowed he would «do anything that I can do as a legislator — not just as a legislator, but as a parent — to give you folks a better opportunity than I had, that other children are looking to get.»

Just as legislators enact laws but do not micromanage or selectively direct the activities of the agencies created to regulate, Courts should set rules that govern the practice of law but should not engage in regulatory administration.

Not exact matches

Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

Christian vice-president Mike Pence, Sheldon Adelson, the hotel magnate and Zionist donor, and Jewish Republican legislators were among those who attended and ate kosher lamb chops, just as in past years, for White House Hanukkah parties.

It might just reinforce the dispensationalists» rhetoric and view of themselves as culturally isolated, even as they sell millions of books and elect powerful legislators.

Hill Climbs: Just as important as email outreach is face - to - face contact with the legislators and staff who are working on the issues in D.C..

Or maybe, it's a smart way to suggest to your supporters that you DO N'T just see them as ATMs with legs, and that you might have some potential to be a informed, intelligent legislator.

Just as the present situation will always be suspect because lines are redrawn every 10 years, no matter how brilliantly, by the very people — legislators — whose survival is at stake.

Just as concerning that Cuomo felt the need to campaign for the follow - up to his signature economic development program was the fact that there didn't appear to be a single state legislator from the region there with him.

Sheehan's announcement comes just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and State Legislators appear to have agreed on a budget that will give Albany the $ 12.5 million in state aid the Mayor has lobbied for.

In 2010, the turnover rate was just below 24 percent, as the GOP boom created a higher than normal exodus of legislators.

One Westchester County Democratic legislator said Astorino shouldn't run because he was just re-elected as county executive and has obligations to fulfill full time, Kramer reported.

The 29 - year - old O'Connor, who has served as a county legislator in Greene since 2015, said he just began campaigning in earnest for the Assembly spot this week.

Patricia Eddington, now the Brookhaven Town Clerk, is listed as one of the «Enemies of Reform,» but she's neither a legislator, nor do I think a candidate, having just left the Assembly to the clerk's office.

David Robinson: «Just as concerning that Cuomo felt the need to campaign for the follow - up to his signature economic development program was the fact that there didn't appear to be a single state legislator from the region there with him.»

The feud could have passed as child's play and considered as such had it not been involved with not just any ordinary person than a prominent legislator who among other things serves as the mouthpiece of a whole constituency including women.

If he can get Ed Koch not to denounce him (Koch forced a majority of legislators in Albany to sign a pledge to reform redistricting, and well, he just proved to David Weprin he still does shrill as well as anyone) and a few goo - goos to stand next to him at his announcement of whatever compromise he ends up agreeing to, and calls it the Clean Redistricting Act or something, maybe he'll be OK.

More importantly, as a legislator, I served every person in the district, not just the rich and influential.

As of tomorrow's pay date, the amount paid to legislators and the executive in raises is just more than $ 59,000.

If doing what you've been doing and expecting different results is a definition of insanity, well, then, these legislators are just crazy about the jobs they've been doing as the so - called «co-equal» branch of county government.

«So just as you wouldn't expect a candlestick - maker to become a dentist, or the shopkeeper to become an astronaut, you wouldn't expect a D.A. with no legislative experience to become a legislator.

As New York's state legislators huddle behind closed doors to select a temporary replacement for the disgraced former attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, they will be choosing more than just a six - month placeholder for the state's top legal job.

«Just because he is a gentleman and everyone knows him as a gentleman, no one should take him lightly at the negotiating table,» he said, adding that Mr. Flanagan was «a pro-business legislator.»

«I wasn't just thinking as a legislator.

Some legislators are concerned that the allure of money - both revenue for the state and campaign contributions from major gambling interests - has effectively killed any debate about the impact of gambling on New Yorkers, especially as the state just recently allowed the construction of a number of casinos.

While Biben is a respected prosecutor, her ties to Cuomo are thick and there is a growing concern among legislators that Cuomo will effectively have control of JCOPE, just as Gov. Eliot Spitzer did over the CPI during Troopergate.

Just as importantly, the administration weakened a tool that reform - minded governors and legislators used successfully to initiate reforms in spite of opposition from education traditionalists on the state level.

«One State, One Future is really just a first step, as E4E - Connecticut teachers are looking to continue this conversation on school funding with legislators, parents and community members to create the momentum for the more equitable system students in our state so desperately need and deserve.»

The reception was attended by nearly 20 legislators as well as many education leaders, including Joan Buchanan, Chair of Assembly Education Committee, freshman Assemblymember and charter champion Cheryl Brown, Assemblymember and member of the Education Committee Rocky Chavez and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, just to name a few.

Legislators view lagging schools as fair game for privatization, and the Innovative School District may be just a single step into a larger world.

Perhaps in response to Illinois having been named the third most corrupt state in the nation, and maybe also just having watched former governor Blagojevich head off to prison for 14 years, our state legislators have begun acting uncannily as though they are listening to us instead of the power elite.

Corrupt activity of legislators not stopped by the 82 % MALE superintendents across the country make them just as guilty.

«I felt it was important, as a Democrat, that I stand up and say, we as legislators have an obligation to our constituencies to find a solution and not pretend that the status quo is alright, just because the union says it is.»

Legislators envisioned the rebate program mainly as a method to stimulate new car sales, and with 22,782 rebates issued and an estimated 200,000 submission forms on backlog, it seems to have done just that...

Just as the referendum process makes legislators lazy, in the same way delegating economic policy to a central bank makes legislatures lazy — they can do nothing, and let the central bank react.

It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung - Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.»

With endangered species dangers, and a shrinking snow - cap water supply due to climate change, legislators will have to determine not just how to get water to the masses this year, but also how to transition and wean current users off into new sectors of the economy for the long term, as some job sectors dry up.

[UPDATE: China's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs just announced on Thursday (Day 11) at a press conference that China agrees to the 2 degree C limit] As we're continually reminded, the negotiations are a frustrating Catch - 22: prior to COP - 15, negotiations were hinged on U.S. legislation and now U.S. legislators are focused on Copenhagen to provide directive as to what kind of legislation should be passeAs we're continually reminded, the negotiations are a frustrating Catch - 22: prior to COP - 15, negotiations were hinged on U.S. legislation and now U.S. legislators are focused on Copenhagen to provide directive as to what kind of legislation should be passeas to what kind of legislation should be passed.

ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate - funded «Scholarships» for state legislators — ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company - crafted laws with state legislators in closed - door meetings.

On a personal note, it's encouraging for me to see a law school finally paying attention to social psychology (and I can only hope that Yale and other schools will start thinking about individual psychology as well): it has always struck me as completely bizarre that although there is a tacit assumption that law has something to do with human conduct and is not just an exercise in art — if, as Shelley says, poets can be legislators, then lawyers can be poets — there is not one moment spent in a student's legal education in exploring the nature of the human actor.

It seems that those whose job it is to write the tax code understand the importance of life insurance just as well as ordinary consumers, and those legislators have written a number of special considerations into the tax code for life insurance policies and life insurance proceeds.

In just a few hours after H. 4363 was filed to do just that, 65 people responded to our action alert and contacted their legislators before the deadline — and, as of this writing, there are now 33 co-sponsors supporting the bill!