Sentences with phrase «limit as a legislator»

He's also about to hit his term limit as a legislator and will likely want to remain in public office.

Not exact matches

Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

I am not suggesting that we do that, although I think offering people the option of term - limit marriages (as suggested by Mexico City legislators) for those who might then marry instead of, say, cohabit makes sense to me if they plan to raise children.

In a number of countries, legislators have played a critical role in defending key democratic institutions such as presidential term limits.

The constitutional amendments, as laid out by Cuomo's office in the evening statement, would create a four - year legislative term, essentially limit legislators to two terms.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

Malliotakis, who is her fourth term in the state Assembly, described potential positives from a convention as including reducing the power of the Assembly speaker, legislative term limits and more equitable treatment of legislators.

Having some of the city's largest health systems as well as two renowned cancer centers in upstate New York express an interest provides some validity to Cuomo's pot plan, which has been derided by legislators and advocates as «limited» and «cumbersome.»

[16][17] Republicans have twice as many state legislators term - limited in 2018 than Democrats.

Re-elected in November, the Democrat has proposed a new mechanism to provide property tax relief to more than 1.3 million New York taxpayers, establishing a commission to set salaries and limit outside income for state legislators, and restricting the prosecution of juveniles as adults.

Cuomo, who created the commission nine months earlier as part of his pledge to root out corruption in Albany, abruptly shut it down after he got legislators to agree to limited campaign finance reforms.

It's the second time in as many days that Cuomo, a Democrat in his second term, has said that he's not letting his proposals to limit outside income for legislators, reduce the political giving power of limited liability companies and increase transparency of lobbying groups fall by the wayside.

Given all this, our job as legislators is to decide what our priorities are and how to best spend our limited resources.

Yet the ethics deal was also conspicuous for its gaps: Despite discussions early in the session about more ambitious reforms that would limit the income legislators could make from other jobs or even transform the Legislature into a full - time institution, lawmakers could ultimately muster agreement only on what many described as a no - brainer.

Republicans have twice as many state legislators term - limited in 2018 than Democrats.

Their objection is that the bill does not go far enough in limiting the influence lobbyists can have through the gift - giving process, or in strengthening the revolving door by which former legislators recast themselves as lobbyists within a year after leaving office.

Cuomo's stated agenda during the campaigns included public financing of political campaigns (no specifics on that, as yet), limits on the outside income for legislators, raising the age of criminal responsibility and extending public tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants.

Mr. McGrath has said that he supports some ethics reforms, like term limits for legislators and stripping pensions from lawmakers convicted of a felony; Mr. Kaminsky's spokesman, Evan Thies, defended his attendance record as «excellent,» noting that he had sponsored 16 bills that eventually passed, a freshman record.

Bharara declined to delve into the details of specific reforms, but did say term limits could perhaps address problems associated with the concentration of power in the hands of few legislators — such as Silver and Skelos.

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

The prospective candidates include former Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, a former physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; businessman Perry Gershon of East Hampton, who has worked in commercial real estate finance; Westhampton native Brendon Henry of Center Moriches, a bartender who also works in ordering and pricing for a plumbing contractor; David Pechefsky, a former New York City Council staffer from Port Jefferson; and Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

As a result, successive governors, legislators, and state superintendents often had limited interest in seeing them through.

The truth is some charter schools have worked and others have not, which explains why legislators drafted a plan as moderate and limited as the one in Referendum 55.

But even as we work with legislators in Albany to find resources that would limit the damage to schools caused by the state's very serious budget problems, Bloomberg and Klein are choosing to ignore a time - tested, effective method for saving hundreds of millions of dollars while still keeping class sizes reasonable: a retirement incentive.

The SBE's power, at times, has seemed to chafe state lawmakers, with powerful legislators such as Sen. Jerry Tillman, a Republican representing Moore and Randolph counties, speeding legislation this year limiting the state board's ability to close charters.

I'd love to see this regulatory approach be copied in coal - dependent states by legislators who see it as a backhanded way to limit pot use.

[UPDATE: China's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs just announced on Thursday (Day 11) at a press conference that China agrees to the 2 degree C limit] As we're continually reminded, the negotiations are a frustrating Catch - 22: prior to COP - 15, negotiations were hinged on U.S. legislation and now U.S. legislators are focused on Copenhagen to provide directive as to what kind of legislation should be passeAs we're continually reminded, the negotiations are a frustrating Catch - 22: prior to COP - 15, negotiations were hinged on U.S. legislation and now U.S. legislators are focused on Copenhagen to provide directive as to what kind of legislation should be passeas to what kind of legislation should be passed.

ALEC describes itself as «America's largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism.

The fight went all the way to Israel's Supreme Court, where the legal basis for removing the signs was provided by a 40 year old law originally intended «to place a limit on abandoning open spaces to ugliness, so that the fields and hills will not be stained as well with objects foreign to them» according to Israeli author and former legislator S. Yizhar.

Moreover, the Directive's scope is limited to natural persons: the EU legislator does not seem to be willing to consider to grant protection to legal persons, regardless of the fact that they can be held criminally liable in most MS.. In sum, the real added value of the Directive will depend on its implementation in national law and the willingness of the national courts, as well as of the Court of Justice, to ensure that the Directive contributes to the enhancing of defence rights in the EU.

Less than a week after the supreme court struck down a civil justice reform measure known as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for appellate judges.

The decision is interesting news in terms of constitutional policy as well, as RAINER WERNSMANN explains, as it limits the creativity of the legislator in the invention of new taxes and in deliberately declaring them purchase taxes.

The AAA believes strongly in this driver safety research and is pushing auto manufacturers and legislators to limit to the voice driven, in - vehicle technologies to core driving tasks such as turning on or off the windshield wipers, lights, sunroof, etc..

The amendment was ushered through as an «emergency measure» right before the end of the legislative session, possibly limiting the time that legislators and other onlookers had to analyze its actual effects before a deadline that would have required the bill to be introduced during the next legislative session.

«While Americans clearly voted in support of affordable and accessible preventive health care, we've already seen that some legislators continue to try to limit services such as breast and cervical cancer screenings and birth control.