Sentences with phrase «legislature tries»

Currently, there are no caps in Kentucky on medical malpractice cases though the surrounding states have that, and, every year, the legislature tries to enact something to that effect.

Now there's a battle underway as the Republican - controlled legislature tries to stop the state's largest city from increasing its hourly wages.

With Ruben Diaz apparently sticking to his threat to withhold support for the emergency spending bills that have been keeping the government in operation for the past two months while the legislature tries to craft an annual budget (Pedro Espada has seemingly backed down), the state is preparing for the possibility of its first - ever government shutdown.

Republicans said they were being very cautious because of the state's projected $ 1.7 billion deficit and the resulting uncertainty that state funds to the town may be reduced next month as the legislature tries to pass a state budget.

The party that controls the state legislature tries to put the opposite party's voters into safe seats, and maximize the number of seats that go to its own party.

«He should be ashamed of himself for trying to lead the Democratic Party especially if he is going to be like Paterson and be so ridiculously right - wing - attacking our schools and Democrats in our state legislature trying to add just a little bit of funding back in state aid to education,» Tyner said.

Last year Cuomo and the legislature tried to agree on a salary hike, but the effort failed.

In 2013, Democrats in the legislature tried unsuccessfully to push through a bill that would have prohibited any political party from using the word «independent» as part of its name.

This led to the further surprise of a few members of the legislature trying to regulate the teaching mission of the university.

«This legislature tried to retroactively take teacher tenure from those teachers who have earned it, and this is yet another law passed that the court has ruled unconstitutional,» Hall said in his statement.

Republicans had to resort to such strategies because, for reasons that can only be known to them, Democrats in the legislature tried to limit «hearings» on Common Core implementation to what amounted to a PR session with Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which is one of the organizations that helped draft the standards.

New Jersey's state legislature tried to pass a law in May 2017 that would prevent pet stores and breeders from purchasing puppies from puppy mills.

Current incentives make solar a no brainer investment and with utilities and legislatures trying to end solar don't wait any longer!

«Messing around with that, which is what I see the Corporation Commission and the legislature trying to do, weakening it, just makes no sense.

In the recent past, the Swiss legislature tried to introduce some level of protection for in - house counsel but the proposed bill (the Act on Corporate Counsel Regulation) was not accepted by the Swiss parliament.

Two years ago a very conservative committee chair in the Iowa legislature tried to move LWOP prisoners from a geriatric cell block into a nursing home.

In 2016, the California state legislature tried to adopt rules and regulations about lane splitting.

Courts and legislatures trying to keep up with the fast - morphing modern workplace, balance employees» expectation of privacy at work against boss» legitimate business needs to monitor workers.

Not exact matches

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

Like reformers in other states, they'd tried to get the legislature to ban high - cost loans outright — but had hit a brick wall.

Musk's announcement comes amid what seems to be a PR assault in Texas as the Tesla CEO tries to convince the state legislature to allow the electric car manufacturer to sell its vehicles directly to consumers.

In fact, when she was asked about the issue in the legislature, she tried to laugh it off.

Meanwhile, a series of tax breaks and other goodies that Walker and the Republican legislature passed just after his inauguration dramatically increased the deficit that Walker now says he's trying to close.

The ACLU and those opposed to America slipping slowly but surely into a theocracy reacted by suing the Oklahoma state legislature and trying to get the religious iconography removed from the government building.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Why didn't he ask Texans to pray for money when the legislature was trying to close the budget deficit?

West Virginia horse - racing people are trying to get the state legislature to approve Sunday racing, but so far it's been a losing battle.

I wondered if this was a swipe at direct entry midwives for trying to use the legislature to make decisions that are properly left to the Department of Public Health.

The state GOP put a lot of resources into trying to help County Executive Rob Astorino end the Democratic grip on the local legislature by breaking its veto - proof majority.

He said it's no different with what the legislature is trying to do in expediting funds for municipalities affected by the rising shoreline on Lake Ontario.

With United Russia's commanding majority, sharing committee chairs is one straightforward and symbolic way to try to allay fears of a one - party legislature.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

«I'm sending $ 175,000 to organizations on the front lines trying to win back our legislatures and fight for fair redistricting,» Warren said.

«Republicans are trying to corner Joanie [Mahoney] into appointing [Cody],» said Linda Ervin, the legislature's Democratic floor leader.

«This is our last request that you join «Trump for President» and try to preserve what's left of your pathetic careers in government,» Paladino wrote Monday in an open - letter to Republicans in New York's congressional delegation and state legislature.

The lawmaker who sponsored the bill, Republican State Senator Rick Funke of Fairport, said the legislature will try again next year.

He also tried to diffuse tension over his Moreland Act Commission probes, saying he's not against the legislature.

After a new wave of indictments against state lawmakers in the spring, Cuomo tried to convince the legislature to adopt public financing of campaigns, the closing of loopholes for large donors, and better policing of the laws.

With that removed from his tool kit, Cuomo could try to embarrass the legislature into taking action.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Cuomo tried unsuccessfully to get the legislature to enact reforms to the state's dysfunctional campaign finance system.

But the legislature refuses to ban outside income, or try public campaign financing.

As negotiations over New York State's budget draw to a close, Governor Cuomo and the legislature are trying to hammer out an agreement to raise the state's minimum wage, which is currently just $ 8.75 and is currently scheduled to top out at $ 9.00 at the end of this year.

Cuomo has spent over a year trying to usurp the legislature's perogative to draw the lines.

After futile appeals to the legislature and a court rejection, Auerbach has circled back through a seldom - used procedure known as a petition to discharge to try to force another legislative vote.

The Alliance for Quality Education is pulling out all the stops to try to get legislatures to increase school funding in this year's budget.

Does he even try to win support for it by reminding people about the chaos when the last legislature was deadlocked, 31 to 31?

They said the request was «belated» and trying to bend the House rules to accommodate the $ 496.3 m either by a motion or a fresh money bill, would amount to self - indictment by the legislature.

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.

«Not just to not have to play defense, but to work proactively with members of the legislature and the governor's office to reduce that tax burden, to try to reclaim some measure of economic competitiveness in New York State and put people back to work.»