Sentences with phrase «legislature who»

«I would like to also acknowledge MPPs on all sides of the legislature who spoke both publicly and privately against the tax,» says Verge.

It would be great to hear from anybody involved with a Canadian court or legislature who is working on this.

There are members of the Pennsylvania state legislature who have said they will also investigate if they believe that the university investigation to have not been thorough enough.

We see that our state legislature is the same legislature who had a big push on over testing our children, I mean it turned into a testing regime, and we had to fight back against that.

It was done without important input from the public and many members of the legislature who were elected by Floridians to serve them.

Few states accomplish in a decade what Mississippi has been able to accomplish in just the past five years thanks largely to strong leadership of Gov. Bryant, Lt. Gov. Reeves, and Speaker Gunn and members of the legislature who are willing to take these often difficult votes.

Mr. Williams cited the example of one Democratic candidate for state legislature who supported charter schools and other school improvement steps favored by DFER.

In April 2013, she announced that she would register hundreds of thousands of new voters and run candidates for city council and the state legislature who supported the schools against those who didn't.

The court assumed the reliability of the study and impugned the motives of members of the legislature who disputed its findings.

We need to elect leaders into the state legislature who appreciate our value as an institution and are willing to shower us with more state funds.

«He was acknowledging that there are lot of good people serving in the legislature who are tarred by the brush of corruption, by the actions of those who have been convicted,» Dadey told Gotham Gazette.

In 2010, Kidd was the only person on the ballot for any of the 236 seats in the Georgia legislature who was not a Democratic or a Republican nominee.

One member of the legislature who has been the strongest voice against more gun control is Hudson Valley Senator Greg Ball.

The Moreland Commission asked members of the legislature who are lawyers to disclose more details about the clients they serve in their private practices.

«It's up to the legislature who they want to invite, how they want to conduct the process,» Cuomo said.

Cohen will take on incumbent Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer (D), a 26 - year member of the legislature who is seeking her 14th term.

As the deal moved toward the finish line in June, members of the state legislature who represent Oswego County helped by applying political pressure.

The five members of the legislature who voted against the proposition were Kevin Holmquist, Judith Tassone, Kathleen Rapp, Casey Jordan and Peggy Chase.

Farah is a former candidate for the Erie County legislature who joined Wozniak's Albany staff in April.

Duffy took a shot at former Governor George Pataki and the legislature who agreed to the fingerprinting of food stamp recipients back in 1998.

He says in the past, it's been the executive, not the legislature who drives change.

I thank Tom Quatroche, former ECMC chair Sharon Hanson, current chair Jon Dandes, as well as the rest of the board and the members of the legislature who supported this worthy project.

Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.»

The runoff for the state's 4th District seat between Democrat Marshall Jones and Republican Mike Johnson, a member of the Louisiana legislature who is expected to win.

In this case, however, the legislature on Dec. 4 simply approved selling it to John Graziano Jr., a former Republican minority leader of the legislature who is now president of a lobbying firm.

The termination of Crist, 49, who has been a legislative liaison with the legislature's GOP majority for more than 20 years, followed a closed - door meeting late Friday by Republican members of the county legislature who agreed to authorize his termination, according to a person familiar with the matter.

«I feel that I can accomplish a lot now with a legislature who's going to be much more conducive to at least listening to me rather than just rejecting outright the proposals that I send over,» he said.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

I suppose you advocate the «intelligent, honest» Democratic legislatures who are just as involved in corporate welfare as their Republican counter parts.

Not exact matches

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.

Now, the California legislature will consider a bill that would add the word «investor» to a list a list of professionals who can be held liable for harassment.

«An Irish lion is gone,» Tony Clement, the Treasury Board president who also served previously with Flaherty in the Ontario legislature, posted on Twitter.

This year, our legislature passed several pieces of legislation which easies the regulatory burden on those who seek to create jobs in our state.

Of course, things change, and in 2006, when the state legislature made good on his pledge, Romney, who has of late extensively revised the positions he took in the Bay State, vetoed the bill.

Snyder, a former computer executive who had campaigned as a moderate in the 2010 election, had said for nearly two years that right - to - work was too divisive for Michigan, but said he would sign a law if the legislature passed it.

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is president of the state Senate, listed what he called a «Women's Privacy Act» as one of his top 10 priorities when the legislature reconvenes in January.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called for a special session of the legislature to censure LePage, who earlier this year fought off an impeachment effort.

Tim Houston made the comment while questioning deputy environment minister Frances Martin, who appeared Wednesday before the legislature's public accounts committee.

The advisory council is being led by former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, who resigned from his post in the provincial legislature the day before the federal budget.

Ma's approach to the mainland is losing support among Taiwanese voters, who will elect a new president and legislature in mid-January.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill early Saturday in a massive win for the party and President Donald Trump, who has seen many of his agenda items stall in the legislature during his first year in office.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

Like the 43 other Green and NDP MLAs who now hold a majority in the B.C. legislature, Leonard won on a clear promise to stop Kinder Morgan and get Big -LSB-...]

For anyone who missed it, here is Selina speaking about her activities in the community and at the legislature:

One hundred days ago the cabinet was sworn in on the steps of the legislature, in front of thousands of Albertans who had voted for change.

In the legislature, MLA Laurie Throness spoke against the universal child care plan, saying, «I find it strange that the government... ignores the cries of an infant leaving its parent, who has to go to work, and the sadness of a parent who would rather stay home with their new baby for a while.»

The state legislature will convene on May 18 to consider discipline against Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who has been accused of coercing a woman into sexual acts and improperly obtaining a donor list from a charity and then lying about it, The Hill reported Thursday.

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 metaphor is Adam Smith's, who went on to observe in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that «the pieces upon the chess - board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them,» whereas «in the great chess - board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that with the legislature might choose to impress upon it.»

Quite frequently government - agency employees who set and enforce policy are very conscientious and are simply doing the best they can, given their mandate from the legislature.