Sentences with phrase «legislative bodies in»

Researched, documented, and formatted annual division budget request and operating budget for submittal to legislative bodies in accordance with published policies and procedures

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have called for Zuckerberg to testify before their legislative bodies in the five days since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted.

Within two or three years of its election victory, the government introduced major constitutional changes: devolution of powers to new legislative bodies in Scotland and Wales; the Human Rights Act 1998; and the disqualification of the great majority of hereditary peers from participating in the legislative functions of the House of Lords.

The district compared the new councils with legislative bodies in representative democracies and defined two basic jobs for them: 1) developing «powerful partnerships» between the school and the community, and 2) setting policy in «key operational areas» for individual schools.

Fried analyzed other county legislative bodies in New York State prompting his decision to see Rockland's legislature reduced in size.

It is one of the most like - minded — and liberal — legislative bodies in the nation.

LaVenia explained that «under proportional representation, every party gets representation in legislative bodies in proportion to the vote they receive.

Clearly there are legislative bodies in the world with more than 15 or 35 members.

By the standards of legislative bodies in this country, after all, the New York City Council as a whole is about as far to the left as you could go.

There are also other tax proposals that have been introduced, that are being considered, or that have been enacted by the United States Congress or the legislative bodies in foreign jurisdictions that could affect our tax rate, the carrying value of deferred tax assets, or our other tax liabilities.

But for the past thirty - four years, the people of Virginia's 10th Congressional District, and indeed the people of the United States, have had a true public servant in Frank Wolf, whose convictions graced the office he held and ennobled the legislative body in which he served.

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

The NYC Council's Committee on Finance voted to increase the Council's operating budget to $ 81.3 million, an increase of nearly 27 percent from the current budget, following through on Speaker Corey Johnson's promise to increase internal resources and produce a stronger role for the legislative body in areas such as land use and oversight.

Questions related to the official or unofficial rules of any legislative body in a country which is formally known as a Senate.

After lawmakers consented to his steep cuts to health care and school spending this year, he held a news conference to call the New York Legislature — for years the butt of late - night comics and a target of editorial pages — «the best legislative body in the nation.»

[How else can anyone explain how so many in the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation continue to be re-elected with such huge majorities?]

This is how the folks taking up space over in the Capital a few days a week a few months a year lay claim to the undisputed title of being the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation.

How else can anyone explain how so many in the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation continue to be re-elected with such huge majorities?

So while tens of thousands of New Yorkers go to their cabinets tonight looking for food to put on the table for their kids, and while tens of thousands of senior citizens by pass dinner tonight so that they may have enough left from their social security checks to pay for the December heating bill, our esteemed legislators, who least we forget have been awarded the distinction of being the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation, feast and toast themselves in the capital city's Crown Plaza.

A 60 percent majority of voters in a school district can override the cap, or 60 percent of a legislative body in a local municipalities.

«Having been in Albany for just over a year now, I know first hand how much we've been able to accomplish as a Legislative body in partner with the governor,» he said.

«And as the governor, I would hope that he would defend us as a legislative body as he should every other legislative body in the state.»

In the long term, the rule change represents a substantial power shift in a chamber that for more than two centuries has prided itself on affording more rights to the minority party than any other legislative body in the world.

Ultimately, the bill passed, 85 to 61, making it the second time that a legislative body in America had approved such a law.

The legislative body in charge of

The New York State Senate CIOs office announces that it has launched what it believes to be the first iPad app by a legislative body in the United States:

But Tedisco must have a short memory, because gay marriage was actually approved by his legislative body in June of last year, when it voted 85 - 61 to approve a bill launched by former governor Eliot Spitzer.

Similar measures passed one legislative body in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

The main legislative body in England is Parliament and primary responsibility for fostering in England is held by the Department for Education.

Not exact matches

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

For those who do not know, the European Commission is the executive body of the EU, in charge with legislative initiative, budget management and control over other EU institutions.

4 a: a body of persons const!tuting a special class in a society: estate 3 b plural: the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete: a person of high rank (as a noble)

Ayesha Khan, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represents Galloway and Stephens in the lawsuit, said in a statement that «legislative bodies should focus on serving the community and stay out of the business of promoting religion.»

Obviously, in each case the Court deferred to the decisions of democratically elected legislative bodies.

He believes that Jesus taught a humble, radical lifestyle that changes hearts and minds on the ground — not in law courts or legislative bodies.

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

While the roots of these splits are deep, the precipitating cause in each case has resulted from majority voting on procedural, legislative, and regulatory matters in democratically constituted governing bodies.

«In New - England, where the legislative bodies are almost to a man Dissenters from the Church of England, 1.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

As well the latter as the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the government.

«That this House has no confidence in the ability of the Football Association (FA) to comply fully with its duties as a governing body, as the current governance structures of the FA make it impossible for the organisation to reform itself; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the governance of the FA.»

Questions related to the process in which a legislative body formally charges to a high - level government official.

I know that in USSR, even during the most totalitarian times, there used to be elections and a representative legislative body (Supreme Soviet)- leaving aside the actual competitiveness of the...

On 29 August 2009, the convention was ratified by the standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, China's top legislative body, which indicates that China is under legal obligation to internalize the norms stipulated in the FCTC so as to effectively control tobacco use.

As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for election is a composite of four key authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical authority: The Constitution, the Electoral Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for election approved by the election management body and l'm talking of INEC.

Are there ways to setup a legislative system that keeps the ruling majority in check without needing to split the body up into a bicameral pair of chambers?

But he is backing a slate of GOP legislative candidates in hopes of flipping the Democrat - controlled body into more friendly hands.

The chance that that tiny sliver of extra voting power in the legislative body itself will be the deciding factor on an issue you care about is incredibly small.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

And history has shown that legislative bodies, not executives, bear most of the blame in the event of a government shutdown.