Sentences with phrase «legislative body on»

Second, senators need to stop talking about «60 votes» as though it's in the Constitution that the U.S. Senate — unlike every other legislative body on the planet — has a supermajority requirement.

At some point autonomous cars will stop crashing and the days of people getting killed in cars will be over so there won't be a legislative body on the planet that doesn't see human intervention as a liability.

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on ma... Read

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on marriage equality:

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On January 30, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu told the legislative body that the committee would «investigate the viability of bitcoin as a form of investment» and «come up with recommendations on how to control its uses and trade.&raquOn January 30, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu told the legislative body that the committee would «investigate the viability of bitcoin as a form of investment» and «come up with recommendations on how to control its uses and trade.&raquon how to control its uses and trade.»

After its initial passage, the draft was further reviewed by the Council of State, an advisory body reporting to Thailand's prime minister on legislative matters, before final approval by the Cabinet again on Tuesday last week, according to a local Thailand media outlet, the Bangkok Post.

France's legislative bodies have been debating the introduction of stricter say - on - pay rules for a the past few months (see blog post), but last Tuesday the final text of the amendment emerged (Amendment 161); its final -LSB-...]

Both legislative bodies called a vote on the massive bill this week after receiving a copy late Friday night.

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.»

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.

«While we as an organization can not comment on how or when legislative bodies will define clean label, what we can do is work to formulate clean ingredient offerings and help to educate our customers about what their consumers are asking for,» she said.

«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.»

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.

Speaking on Peace FM's Entertainment Review on Saturday concerning his issue with Parliament, Blakk Rasta said after he apologised to the legislative body for his alleged claims that about 80 % of them use marijuana, he was asked if he will continue talking about the leaf.

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.

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.

The lines were proposed by the state Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, a body comprised of elected officials and members of the public selected by elected officials.

Based on the nationally recognized model used in Wisconsin that involved bringing stakeholders together to find efficiencies and cost savings within the Medicaid program, the team includes leaders from the healthcare industry, the Governor's office, the legislative bodies, and other business, labor, and consumer advocates.

Matthew Masterson, legislative liaison for the county legislature, said that the body had no comment on the sexual harassment allegations against McLaughlin.

On the Government's redraft of the Customs Code, Alan McLintock, Chair of CIOT's Indirect Taxes Sub-committee, said: «The Government's stated aim with the Brexit legislative process is to take a snapshot of the body of EU law and ensure that, wherever possible, the same rules and laws will apply in the UK the day after Brexit as they did before.

The religious makeup of the legislative body is overwhelmingly and disproportionately Christian, according to Pew's «Faith on the Hill» survey.

Note that in Europe, despite some very large legislative bodies (about 600 members in France, Germany, or Italy), it's not unusual to hear complaints about the number of laws (too many of them, not enough quality and too much complexity) rather than on any inability to pass new ones.

«For years, the board has made decisions and then dumped those decisions on educators and parents and students and then come to us as a legislative body and say, «you need to fund what we've mandated,»» Libous said.

A Kaminsky win on April 19 would set the tone for November, giving Democrats a shot to take power cleanly in what has been a messy and beleaguered legislative body.

The Assembly's companion bill, sponsored by Joseph A. Morelle (D - Rochester), has 64 sponsors on it as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the legislative body's website.

«And I'm not trying to pick on another legislative body, but this was an overreach, and it shouldn't have happened.»

«In the heat of the moment, it is also important to recognize that there ought to be limitations on a legislative body removing merely the unpleasant or the disgusting from membership,» Brodsky said, noting the expulsion effort wasn't a sure thing.

And to my knowledge DiNapoli has been constantly warning the legislative and executive bodies of the fiscal dangers the state has been facing based on his assessments from the job descriptions I highlighted above that he has been doing.

If you imagine that any of these matters is foremost on councilmembers» minds, you haven't been paying attention to the low level of backbiting and petty squabbling that defines our (almost) one - party unicameral legislative body.

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.

Rising from a meeting of its national working committee on Thursday in Abuja, the party urged the national assembly to «thoroughly investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and banding of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions is meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body».

I've been skeptical of their arguments, which requires a court to rule on the goings on in an independent legislative body.

By appointing so many of his ministers and deputy ministers from Parliament, currently standing at 64 MPs, the President is further weakening the legislative body and at the same time undercutting his own promise to strengthen the institution to enable it serve as an effective check on the Executive.

«In the face of unprecedented uncertainty from the federal level, your partnership is more important than ever,» Mr. de Blasio told his audience, making a plea for unity to a legislative body that — on the Republican - controlled State Senate side, at least — has never had much use for him.

Cuomo has never believed that reform issues move the dial for voters, and he has opted for half - loaf measures that he could sell as victories on policing the government (JCOPE, the independent body, has watched major scandals from the sidelines), legislative redistricting and campaign finance reform.

A state body called the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment released redrawn political boundaries last week as part of a process that happens every 10 years to accommodate population growth.

Press Release: The Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR), the body charged with redrawing district lines, released its proposed maps last week.

The governor picked Ravitch on July 8 amid a 31 - 31 Senate deadlock, which left Democrats and Republicans arguing over who should fill the majority leader post in the legislative body.

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.

Consensus in February released a set of final recommendations on merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments to create one legislative body.

Based on nominations from both major parties, almost half the 23 county legislative seats will go uncontested this fall unless party committees on vacancies can find some warm bodies before mid-July.

The new law also requires 501 (C)(4) groups to disclose to the Attorney General any communications, whether written, broadcast or otherwise, having to do with legislation, votes on legislation, pending legislation, government action on rules, regulations or the decisions of any legislative or executive administrative body.

In response to the clear desire of New Yorkers for fair representation, the Legislature should instruct the Legislative Task Force on Research and Reapportionment, the existing body responsible for redistricting, to adhere to the following standards, in addition to the criteria required by federal law and the state constitution:

The body in question, the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, had previously produced penetrating reports on English devolution, the need for a Constitutional Convention, Parliamentary boundaries, the future for Scotland, improving the legislative process, voter disengagement, the gagging bill, etc. — enough critical analysis for a domineering Conservative majority to want to get rid of it.

«I find it offensive as a woman, and as Latina who is leading this legislative body, that somehow the impression is I was forced to my position that I couldn't possible have arrived at this position on my own.»

Washington (CNN)- The Maryland House of Delegates decided Friday not to vote on a bill that would legalize same - sex marriage, a sign that the measure did not have majority support within the overwhelmingly Democratic legislative body.

Communications from county officials and others oftentimes do not request any specific action and are sent to the legislature to provide information or opinions on issues of concern to the legislative body.