Sentences with phrase «legislative interest»

There is more legislative interest now in the safety and nutritional value of school food than at any time since the 1980s, officials said.

I suspect that they will try to argue that there is some overriding legislative interest in promoting student «growth» which will somehow allow them to avoid the merits of Sheri's otherwise very strong case.

He repeatedly badgered a real estate lawyer who had major legislative interests sitting on Skelos» desk to «help» his «struggling» (actually filthy - rich) son until the panicked lawyer arranged for a $ 20,000 payoff to be made in the guise of a phony title - referral fee.

The legislative outcome of present efforts to further increase the Child Tax Credit will play out in a political arena in which the prospect of winning or losing typically comes to take precedence over (and sometimes eclipses entirely) the substantive goals that originally motivated legislative interest.

Legislative interest in reforming the NSR program is already quite evident.

So intense has the legislative interest been that the National Conference of State Legislatures cites early - childhood education and child care as the «most significant new areas of legislative activity in education in 1985.»