Sentences with phrase «legislature over»

In a repeat of efforts first started in 2014, legislators pressed to give more control to the governor and legislature over the state's Judicial Council which serves as the judicial nominating commission for the state.

He predicted a «battle royale» in the legislature over solar policy.

How far Hogan will go in fighting the Democratic - controlled legislature over school reform remains an open question.

But unlike many states, Maryland has seen a power struggle develop between the Republican governor and the Democratic - controlled legislature over who has final say over local control of the schools.

But this year was different because there was a fight between a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature over school funding.

This issue has been brought up in the legislature over the past several years, generally failing in the House after passing the Senate.

By backing away from previous cost studies (which I have argued elsewhere are completely unscientific), the Court hoped to avoid the prior constitutional conflict with the legislature over who held the purse strings.

Several voucher plans have been introduced and have died in the Minnesota legislature over the past decade.

The session limped to a close, after a year that's seen the resignation of both leaders of the legislature over corruption scandals, and ongoing federal probes.

«I will discuss the alternatives with the legislature over the next several months,» Mr. Cuomo said in his statement.

Meanwhile, on the home front, there's already a game of chicken going on between him and the legislature over who will cut first.

It comes amid heightened tensions between the governor and the legislature over the disclosure of lawmaker's client lists.

Mr. Christie's proposed budget keeps spending low and avoided a showdown with the Democratic - controlled legislature over the state's school funding formula.

The session is limping to a close, after a year that's seen the resignation of both leaders of the legislature over corruption scandals, and ongoing federal probes.

There's disagreement, though, in the state legislature over how to fix it.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's pathbreaking plan for free tuition at New York public colleges and universities won the backing of the state legislature over the weekend.

That change perhaps allowed Pataki to score a victory in a struggle for power with the legislature over the state budget, when the governor won in case known as Pataki v Silver.

The court order was never fulfilled by governors and the legislature over the past decade.

Nancy Zimpher, chancellor for the State University of New York, saw her major initiative, the Public Education Empowerment Act, defeated by the state legislature over the summer.

Advocates and legislators hope to pressure Cuomo into a new and significant commitment before the start of the next legislative session when he returns to negotiate with the legislature over the budget.

Andrew Cuomo has shown every indication, over the past couple of months, of wishing he never promised to pick a fight with the legislature over New York's awful redistricting process.

In January, Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci sued members of the county legislature over raises they gave themselves last year.

Cuomo has blamed Republicans in the State Senate for the failure of those measures in the legislature over the past couple of years.

But Morelle says he understand why the governor might have tried to take advantage of leverage that he has with the legislature over the budget in order to get some other issues done.

Cuomo said he received the report and plans to review it and discuss alternatives with the legislature over the next several months.

A constitutional law expert, Professor Henry Kwesi Prempeh has taken a swipe at the country's legislature over its inability to seek the interest of the people in its work.

Madam Hannah Tetteh's invitation to the August House was spurred by concerns from Members from both sides of the legislature over the Gitmo detainees» acceptance into the country without their knowledge.

It can't really compare legislatures over time, because different years have different bills.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

The established professions have negotiated with state legislatures over time to gain the power to regulate the quality of those who want to enter the profession and oversight of those in the profession.

Not exact matches

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the oldest nonprofits advocating for digital rights, said «the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast over the privacy rights of their constituents.»

Sir John A. Macdonald, who would have turned 200 this year, advocated a single central government for Canada, without the bother of provincial legislatures: «one government and one parliament... for the whole of these peoples,» he argued during debates over Confederation.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

The legislature in July enacted a fiscal 2018 budget that included the bond authorization, as well as an income tax hike over the governor's vetoes.

The new budget relies primarily on higher property taxes to increase school funding, raising more than $ 7 billion over four years and, the legislature hopes, finally complying with the Supreme Court order.

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

It's also grappling with systematic racial discrimination from hosts, facing a crackdown from the New York state legislature, and, as of Monday, suing San Francisco over short - term rental rules that the city's board of supervisors passed unanimously at the start of June.

He endorsed Jason Kenney and his multistep bid to take over the Alberta PC party, merge it with the Wildrose, and stampede Rachel Notley's NDP out of the provincial legislature's government offices.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

The matter of specific statute was handed over to the legislature.

If the Scourge of the Deplorables is elected, it will be essential, over the next four years, to maintain the tension between an aggressive Clinton administration and the national legislature.

Debate over a pro-life bill currently before the Ohio state legislature highlights the growing rift among pro-life groups, according to The New York Times.

A money shortage, caused by the failure of the state legislature to pass an income tax increase, has set off debate in Woodridge over the sale of 4.5 acres of school property.

Just the other day I was lamenting with someone over the lack of interest in the TX legislature in funding school nutrition (with some limited exceptions.)

He has hinted that he would likely veto the bill and start over with the legislature in January.

Of course he would win over any of the cowardly stumble - bums in the legislature.

Both core executive actors and Duma leadership have complained about this backdoor route which diminishes core executive control over policy - making and can lead to the displacement of intra-executive disagreements into the legislature.

«If the GOP - IDC interpretation is applied, there would be no control whatsoever over the legislature's spending other than the whim of the Temporary President of the Senate,» the memo released on Monday stated.

It marks a positive change from a mode of governance that has in the past enabled the Cabinet leadership to manipulate electoral accountability for partisan advantage and to exercise dominance over government backbenchers and the legislature.