Sentences with phrase «legislative business in»

NAR continued to advocate for the program's reauthorization, and as its first act of legislative business in 2015 the House passed H.R. 26, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2015 by a vote of 416 - 5, which reauthorizes the program for six years, through 2020.

He says there are only 88 days available for legislative business in the whole year - so surely 14 days should be enough.

Not exact matches

But last year's increase in campaign donations and lobbying seem like more than business as usual for Novo Nordisk, said Billet, a former AT&T lobbyist who directs GWU's Legislative Affairs program.

Additionally, potential legislative changes, including activities to repeal or replace, in whole or in part, the Health Care Reform Law, creates uncertainty for Humana's business, and when, or in what form, such legislative changes may occur can not be predicted with certainty.

FanDuel and DraftKings agreed in March to halt their business in New York, banking on a legislative path to make the games legal after a months - long fight with the state's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.

Earlier this year, a private member's bill was introduced in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the purpose of amending the province's Business Corporations Act.

Mandated benefits, onerous employer penalties and meddling in private sector hiring decisions are among the legislative measures that businesses fought in the 2017 session.

In its continuing partnership with our company, bmi implements new business processes that keep customers happy and meet legislative demands.

This step may not only apply to China itself but also Hong Kong — a Chinese special administrative region and autonomous territory, that has become a sanctuary for dozens of Blockchain - based and crypto - related businesses as it was independent of the legislative decisions on cryptocurrency made in China.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

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.»

After a legislative struggle — during which the Senate president said he could not support a bill «condoning discrimination» — Catholic Charities pulled out of the adoption business in 2006.

Little things like mandatory chapel for members of the House and Senate, prior to starting the business of the say, when the Houses were in session, or Sunday being excluded as a day, for both legislative and executive government purposes, or maybe you'd prefer the Federal holidays that were Holy Days for Christians.

We are thrilled to combine our expertise in DTC, wholesale and federal compliance with Wine Institute's legislative experience to make the wine business stronger,» said Rachel Dumas Rey, President, Compli.

From its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and Western Regional office in Salinas, Calif., United Fresh and its members work year - round to make a difference for the produce industry by driving policies that increase consumption of fresh produce, shaping critical legislative and regulatory action, providing scientific and technical leadership in food safety, quality assurance, nutrition and health, and developing educational programs and business opportunities to assist member companies in growing successful businesses.

Local governments operate within the legislative framework of states and territories, and organise waste collection for households and businesses in their local area.

New York State Brewers Association The New York State Brewers Association was founded in 2003 to serve as a promotional and legislative proponent for New York State breweries, microbreweries, farm breweries, brewpubs and brewing affiliated businesses.

Senator Scott Wiener and legislative co-authors join supporters to make announcement at San Francisco - based business Stitch Fix, whose CEO has been a leader in supporting women in the workplace.

Liberty Lake (KXLY)- Local foods coming to school cafeterias today Andy Billig, representative for the 3rd legislative district in Spokane, says this project is not only good for students, but business as well.

, people are reading Pushed and watching The Business of Being Born, and there's a nationwide legislative «push» to license certified professional midwives in all states (The AMA is against that, too, by the way).

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

Down in D.C., President Donald Trump this morning will then host a CEO town hall on the American business climate, and also make remarks at the 2017 North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton.

The event was a culmination of a joint initiative of the Senate President and DFID's ENABLE 2 and GEMS 3 programmes and had been preceded by a comprehensive research into laws inhibiting businesses in Nigeria leading to specific legislative proposals to improve the business environment in terms of competition and consumer protection, transportation and infrastructure, improving MSMEs access to finance, reform of land use and construction laws and administration, doing business reforms amongst others.

Flanagan said business leaders should weigh in on the plan, which is expected to dominate the 2018 legislative session.

On the one hand the reforms are subtle, but will actually make a significant improvement in the way legislative business gets done.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

If you believe Cuomo, the top Republicans in New York's state and federal legislative delegations, the state's mayors and leaders of both business and labor, the recently passed tax overhaul hurts the high - tax state and could crimp its economy and real estate markets.

When the legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals in light of an economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

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.

When the state legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals made in light of the economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

Among Slaughter's most recent legislative accomplishments in the Rochester area were helping to bring high - tech companies to Eastman Business Park, helping to create the federal photonics institute that led to AIM Photonics, and securing federal funding for the new Rochester train station and filling in the Inner Loop.

Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) says his priority in the coming legislative session is making New York more attractive to all kinds of businesses.

Ms. Briccetti joined The Business Council in 2007, as vice president of government affairs, overseeing the organization's legislative and pro-growth agendas.

Business leaders, particularly those in upstate New York, say the recently concluded 2016 legislative session was the worst for small businesses in quite some time.

«The Business Council looks forward to working with The Governor and Legislature to make tax relief and the removal of regulatory business barriers a reality for New York in this legislative sessionBusiness Council looks forward to working with The Governor and Legislature to make tax relief and the removal of regulatory business barriers a reality for New York in this legislative sessionbusiness barriers a reality for New York in this legislative session.»

It's a long old haul through to the holidays: dark nights, the business end of the legislative programme, grumpy MPs torn between voting in the Commons and tramping cold streets in anticipation of spring elections.

Together with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver made up the «three men in a room» who negotiate the state budget and run much of its legislative business — a model Mr. Silver has derided.

«Despite several distractions, you have significantly achieved milestones in the execution of your Legislative Agenda which aims to improve governance, ease of doing business and the quality of life of Nigerians.

Legislative changes due to commence from April 2015 will change the way in which businesses account for VAT when offering prompt payment discounts.

A coalition of business interests, many of which are members or partners of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, are lobbying legislative leaders to reject a key element of the cost - cutting and reform plan put forward by the Medicaid Redesign Team and embraced by the governor in his 30 - day amendments.

The website for AG Spanos shows the company owns residential and commercial properties around the country and the only property in New York the company takes credit for building is a 300 - unit luxury apartment complex called Patroon Creek near Washington Avenue in Albany, where Duffy stays when he's in town for legislative business.

First, the governor and legislative leaders announced in a press release that, as part of their «comprehensive plans to create jobs and grow the economy,» they would slash hundreds of millions in dedicated revenue for the M.T.A. in the form of a tax exemption for small businesses and private schools.

The plan, whose details will be sorted out shortly in a special legislative session, calls for a $ 250 million cut to the M.T.A. - dedicated payroll mobility tax for small businesses.

Noting that the unity of purpose of the lawmakers was one big lesson the executive should learn, he stressed that the era of executive interference in legislative business was over given the spirit of support among Senators.

While Gregorius insisted on keeping much of his talk about current legislative business off the record, pending a vote and several candidate events that were taking place in West Hurley and Lake Hill last week, he did note hearing much from people about Irene - related problems, and voiced concerns about how the county's going to handle pass - downs from the federal and state governments hitting local property taxes.

A legislative hearing is planned for next week on Eversource's strongly criticized response to a major storm in late October that left tens of thousands of Connecticut residents and businesses without power for days.

In the state, there are no doing business (pay to play) restrictions, and millions of dollars of political donations to the governor and top legislative leaders are made using LLCs.

HARTFORD — Connecticut's largest business advocacy group, galvanized by the last year's battle over higher taxes, is spending money for the first time in election - year legislative races to try to force state government to change course.

Former Assemblymember Seminerio died in Federal Prison in January 2011 while serving a six - year sentence for his conviction on influence - peddling charges related to his operation of a private consulting business that used his legislative position to generate income.

Pittsburgh - area legislator to introduce Family and Business Healthcare Security bill in current legislative session, while Healthcare 4 All releases results of Economic Impact Study.