Sentences with phrase «legislation as cap»

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The cap: Enacted in every province, right - to - farm legislations exempt farms from a wide variety of common - law nuisances — so long as they're employing «normal farming practices.»

Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.

In December, as Greek policy - makers approved yet another round of budget cuts — tough legislation that caps salaries at state - owned companies, cuts many state salaries by 10 % and diminishes collective bargaining power — some 20,000 protestors jammed the streets in the country's seventh general strike that year.

After MPs vote to restore the benefit cap to the legislation the bill will then return to the Lords in the process known as parliamentary «ping - pong».

We need someone like Doug Hoffman who reflects North Country values such as pro-life, term limits, opposes cap and trade legislation (which if enacted will destroy what remains of the North Country economy), and opposes card check legislation.

New York's eleventh - hour failure to pass cap - lifting legislation has been widely cited as one of the key contributors to the state's second - to - last placement among RttT competitors in the first go - round.

They say he managed to turn votes to win passage of same sex marriage and a property tax cap, as well as gun control legislation.

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.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said he would seek legislation to bar minors from being tried as adults, capping a weekend of policy proposals before his State of the State address.

On Monday, West Virginia Senate Candidate Joe Manchin, a Democrat, went so far in a campaign advertisement as to shoot a bullet through a cap - and - trade legislation his party supports.

Republicans from high tax states like New York are uneasy with the legislation as it ends deductions for state and local taxes and caps property tax deductions at $ 10,000.

«As a legislator she helped draft the first Cap - on - Spending legislation in Suffolk's history and she sponsored legislation that requires an economic impact statement on all qualifying legislation.

A tax cap for New York City has never been a feature of major tax cap proposals — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's draft legislation in 2011 — or mentioned as a budget possibility until the Cuomo administration proposed shifting Medicaid costs back to New York City earlier this month.

The legislation to enact the rent cap will be part of the state budget as opposed to a stand - alone bill.

[46] Hoffman indicated support for tax cuts, [47] a pro-life stance on abortion, [48] and support for the traditional definition of marriage, [49] as well as opposition to the Obama health reform proposal, [49] card - check legislation, [50] the Obama stimulus plan, [51] and cap - and - trade legislation.

The mayor's appearance came as the full Senate approved legislation that would subject the city to a 2 % cap on property tax increases.

Poughkeepsie, NY... Dutchess County Commissioner of Finance Pamela Barrack submitted Dutchess County's 2013 property levy tax cap calculation to the New York State Comptroller's Office today as required by the Property Tax Cap legislation passed last year by the State Legislatucap calculation to the New York State Comptroller's Office today as required by the Property Tax Cap legislation passed last year by the State LegislatuCap legislation passed last year by the State Legislature.

Poughkeepsie, NY... Dutchess County Commissioner of Finance Pamela Barrack will be submitting Dutchess County's 2014 property levy tax cap calculation to the New York State Comptroller's Office as required by the Property Tax Cap legislaticap calculation to the New York State Comptroller's Office as required by the Property Tax Cap legislatiCap legislation.

In addition to passing a balanced, on - time budget, enacting the Property Tax Cap, the Marriage Equality Act and the Public Integrity Reform Act, Commissioner McDonald underscored passage of the NYSUNY 2020 legislation as a significant reform critical to rebuilding the state economy.

«The bill is, in effect, party funding legislation but is only partial reform in that it impacts solely upon the Labour party while not addressing issues such as donation caps or spending limits,» he said.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week will propose legislation to cap school superintendent's six - figure salaries as a way to save school districts and their taxpayers $ 15 million.

Additionally, I have supported comprehensive clean energy legislation like the House - passed American Clean Energy and Security Act, which included a cap and trade program, as well as Green Bank and Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund initiatives I authored.

As hard as it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, President Barack Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to pass cap - and - trade legislatioAs hard as it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, President Barack Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to pass cap - and - trade legislatioas it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, President Barack Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to pass cap - and - trade legislation.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

Rural African electrification isn't a main topic of conversation in most utility boardrooms today, just as carbon mitigation wasn't when Rogers used his chairmanship of the Edison Electric Institute to wrangle support for cap - and - trade legislation.

, laying down his shield and his identity as Cap after a bitter feud with Tony Stark over the Sokovia Accords, legislation designed to regulate superhero activity.

As a result, the last time the state raised the cap on charter enrollment, in 2010, the legislation required charter schools to submit plans to actively recruit students with special needs and English language learners.

But sources close to the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly say the program might be capped at a level as high as $ 20 billion, and resemble legislation first introduced by Republicans Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana in 2013, called the Educational Opportunities Act.

HB 718 hasn't made its way back through the House yet, as it is now tied to both the sales tax cap legislation as well as the economic incentives bill, HB 1224, which died yesterday on the House floor.

House legislation to reverse a federal court decision on state interest rate caps would increase access to credit, not expand predatory lending as critics have argued.

«However, many contacts indicated that new legislation passed by Congress could discourage homeownership, as shrinking the cap on the mortgage interest deduction for primary homes and the loss of most deductions for interest on home equity loans will increase costs for most property owners.»

In 2010, the landmark Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation included a provision known as the Durbin Amendment, a measure favored by retailers because it directed the Federal Reserve to cap the fees that big banks charged merchants for debit card transactions.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could potentially land the US a cap and trade system to cut nationwide carbon emissions.

With the paralysis of the climate treaty process and American legislation capping greenhouse gases, a direct focus on energy innovation as a climate, economic and security strategy is gaining some traction in policy circles.

The uniformity in outlook among Republicans and the divide among Democrats, in combination with the 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass legislation, again underscores the mobilization challenge in regards to a «big bill» strategy such as cap and trade as discussed earlier.

2) I would argue that even before discussing strategic errors related to compromise around specific areas of legislation, we need to consider whether a «big bill» approach such as cap and trade — that required technically complex deals with almost every relevant special interest and industry sector in the country — was ever even politically possible or sustainable if it did manage to pass.

As the country moved through left - right political swings, and future downturns in the economy, cap and trade legislation would always be under immense political pressure from a variety of interest groups and members of both parties.

As you allude to in a later question, the very nature of cap and trade legislation (highly complex, few perceived benefits) fails to elicit strong intense support from among even those alarmed by climate change.

On cap and trade legislation I don't see that as the first strategy anymore, as I said in my Nature Online article.

But I wanted to start a discussion here about the relative importance of forging legislation to cap and trade carbon, negotiating international agreements, or pursuing an energy - technology quest as a way of attacking the many energy - related issues confronting the planet in the next few decades, including climate.

The best type of candidate might not be the one who is pushing toward CO2 control legislation as we are seeing now with the «cap and trade (tax)» energy bill.

Had Congress passed cap - and - trade legislation in 2009, energy prices would have increased as much as 20 percent in some states, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.

As I detailed in last year's Climate Shift report, Robertson, who has a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, gave the Environmental Defense Fund more than $ 40 million between 2005 and 2009 to support the group's efforts to pass cap and trade legislation, accounting for almost one - third of the $ 144 million that EDF spent on climate change during the period.

The American people will soon be asked to support global warming cap - and - trade legislation that will be billed as a «solution» to global warming.

An example is the period 2009 - 2011 as heavy debate focused on the costs associated with cap and trade legislation, a debate amplified by the economic recession.

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Looking at this from a wider angle, Senators might ponder what would have happened if Reps. Waxman and Markey, instead of introducing a cap - and - trade bill, had introduced legislation authorizing the EPA to do exactly what it is doing now — regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act as it sees fit.

BUT: With climate and energy legislation stalled in the Senate, there appears to be slippage in the direction of an energy - only bill, without any clear path to getting the support needed to pass a bill that includes a meaningful climate policy mechanism (such as an emissions cap).

Handle greenhouse gas emissions through legislation such as a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system that addresses such emissions explicitly.