Sentences with phrase «legislative chamber»

After throat - clearing describing the Senate's roles as a legislative chamber of «sober second thought,» and one in which both the regions of Canada and minorities, not well represented in the House of Commons, could have a voice, the substantive part of the Court's opinion begins with a discussion of the nature of the Canadian constitution and constitutional amendment.

Second, any plan that stipulates a state must first «opt in» before that state's federal taxpayers may receive the national K — 12 scholarship tax credit will effectively give the teachers unions the ability to stop the scholarship tax credit in virtually any state that has a Democratic governor or Democratic control of either legislative chamber.

Too often what is won in one legislative chamber dies in another, or is vetoed by the governor, or is found unconstitutional by politicized judges.

However, only 25 percent of this legislation made it through the respective state education committees for a vote by a state legislative chamber, and the only states where bills were enacted into law were Louisiana and Tennessee.

The rules governing mass mailers are adopted by each legislative chamber, but they differ from the rules and guidelines established by the New York City Campaign Finance Board, which oversees expenditure by campaigns in the city.

, and the creaking unworkability of what is probably the largest legislative chamber in the democratic world.

The court had nullified the 90 - day suspension imposed by the upper legislative chamber on the Delta Central Senator, Ovie Omo - Agege though the Senate went on appeal..

And by tradition, the leaders of the majority in each legislative chamber get to draw the lines of their members; the Democrats draw the Assembly lines and the Republicans draw the Senate lines.

«Functioning as the Niagara County Center for Economic Development, the Niagara County Department of Economic Development and the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency have achieved many successes for Niagara County,» Updegrove told a packed Legislative chamber, with county legislators, department heads, and approximately 50 spectators on hand for the address.

But he said that was dependent on the other legislative chamber.

Major state business is conducted in private negotiations between Governor Andrew Cuomo and leaders of each legislative chamber.

ALBANY — With most of the year's competitive races decided, Republican state Senate candidates had a lead in 31 of the state's 63 districts and claimed victory in their effort to keep control of the legislative chamber.

While Republicans were unable to win any of the three statewide offices, the GOP did find some success in the state's upper legislative chamber.

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has stated that it is unconstitutional for any legislative chamber to suspend or sack a member.

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Lasun Yusuf, has said the lower legislative chamber of the National Assembly will revisit the issue of devolution of power, an aspect of the constitution amendment.

«It is for this reason that the legislative chamber has introduced bold and progressive reforms in the management of the finances of the National Assembly.

«It is extremely, extremely unlikely that we're going to book those revenues by the [Dec. 27] deadline,» she said, regarding the legislative chamber's required review of the Astorino budget.

State Senator Jeff Klein, a leader of the breakaway Democratic conference that governs the upper legislative chamber, was also cool today to Mr. de Blasio's minimum wage push.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» amendments.

The Senate has on Tuesday confirmed its rejection of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, by rejecting the submission of its Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, that the upper legislative chamber did not reject his confirmation.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, after a two - hour executive session with his colleagues on Friday explained that the upper legislative chamber deliberated extensively on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the issue behind closed doors.

As a decoy, they all reported in their offices and gave the Speaker the impression that they would file towards the legislative chamber for sitting.

Democrats not only swept Virginia's statewide races but neared a majority in the House of Delegates, a legislative chamber that was gerrymandered to make the Republican majority virtually unassailable.

In a letter read on the floor of the upper legislative chamber by Saraki, the president hinged his request for a supplementary budget on the shortage of funds required for carrying out important projects.

«The DLCC's work alongside Florida Democrats has resulted in the election of three Democratic women to this battleground state's upper legislative chamber, and we look forward to gaining more ground in 2018 and 2020 elections ahead of critical redistricting,» said DLCC executive director Jessica Post.

Kavanagh (D - Brooklyn waterfront - lower Manhattan), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Elections Committee, said he is getting impatient with Republicans in his legislative chamber.

As recently as last week, Curran remained at her legislative seat when Democrats left the legislative chamber to gather in their caucus room during meeting breaks.

The confirmation came hours after the senator, who represents Kogi West at the upper legislative chamber, announced the arrest on his Twitter handle at 7:32 am.

Ekweremadu, who represents Enugu West Senatorial zone, is serving his fourth term in the upper legislative chamber.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed that the Police has handed to it the mace which was snatched from the floor of the upper legislative chamber yesterday...

The House of Lords Act of 1999 removed nearly all hereditary peers, making it much more active as a legislative chamber.

Last Tuesday, the upper legislative chamber had summoned Malami, but he failed to honour the invitation.

The state was the last of the 13 Confederate states in which the Democrats control any legislative chamber.

Subsequently, under the Life Peerages Act 1958, life peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative chamber.

No, and famously the Lords is the second biggest legislative chamber after China's national people's congress.

The Washington State Legislature may amend the commission's maps by a two - thirds vote in each legislative chamber.

In his announcement having rose from an executive session of the green chamber on Wednesday, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, says the lower legislative chamber has agreed «to re-examine the 2016 budget in view of the prevailing circumstances in Nigeria».

its not a chamber of commerce... its not a legislative chamber!

Beneficence is not red or blue, it doesn't sit on the left or right side of the legislative chamber.

Here's a guide to the three big tests Congress will face in responding to the hurricane — and how the legislative chamber might fall on its face spectacularly.

Essentially, passing a «skinny repeal» could launch a «conference committee» with the House that would, ostensibly, produce a final, final health care deal between the two legislative chambers that would, in all political likelihood, look little like a skinny repeal (if that even passes).

Republican lawmakers, who are in control of both legislative chambers, said the program would help local sheriffs and police chiefs who do not have enough deputies or officers to assign to schools.

This holds true not just for the Democrats» standing today at the national level, but at the state level as well, where Republicans gained control of at least seven new governorships and fourteen state legislative chambers, giving them their highest total of state legislative chambers since the 1920s.

Most U.S. states elect one of their two legislative chambers on an overlapping basis, just as the U.S. Senate does, often a four year term with half of state senators elected every two years.

They were conducted virtually back to back, sending Albany into a state of vertigo and the legislative chambers each into a brief state of uncertainty over their leadership.

The measure passed both legislative chambers with strong bipartisan support, and I urge the governor to sign this bill into law as soon as possible.»

At 7 p.m., Rockland County Executive Ed Day delivers the 2018 State of the County address, Rockland County Legislative Chambers, 11 New Hempstead Road, New City.

At 2:30 p.m., Westchester County Executive George Latimer discusses his plan to deliver the 2018 State of the County Address in the Legislative Chambers of the Westchester County Board of Legislators on April 16, Westchester County Office Building, 148 Martine Ave., 8th Floor, White Plains.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee emailed a fundraising appeal this afternoon on behalf of the Democratic candidate, NYC Councilman Lew Fidler, calling this race «the front line in the battle to retake one of the most important legislative chambers in the country» and «one of the most important elections for progressives anywhere in the country between now and the Wisconsin recalls.»

For the 2010 elections, Republicans created the Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP) with the plan of flipping state legislative chambers to take control of the redistricting process.