Sentences with phrase «limit time for debate»

Philip Davies went further, describing Mr Straw's statement as a «filibuster» designed to limit time for debate.

«Limited time for debate and the lack of a new impact assessment, following the Future Forum report, means that MPs are being asked to judge the bill in rapid time and without the full facts at their disposal,» he said.

If Ministers now move to defeat amendments made with near - consensus across the major parties» back benches, in the face of coalition tensions, this could be seen as a move designed to occupy the likely limited time for debate with issues already well - dissected.

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«Can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax, which [it] will be for a limited period of time and then we will move to an emissions trading scheme.»

Unlike the government, individual MPs aren't able to pass guillotine motions which limit the amount of time each amendment gets debated for.

With only 22 days left of legislative session, the time for debate appears to be severely limited.

He says Theresa May's opening speech took up an hour and a half of the limited time set aside for debate.

The programme motion is basically the programme for the further consideration of the bill — the time limit for further debates on the bill.

Part of the reason for the lack of time was the two ministerial statements given by Gordon Brown and Jack Straw, which led to claims from some Tory MPs that the government was deliberately trying to limit debate on the controversial coroners bill.

Normally around 3 - 5 minutes - the speaking time limits for each debate are published in the Agenda ahead of Conference.

But the debate continues with the pro-choice groups still calling for the changes sought by the 2008 amendments and the pro-life groups still seeking a reduction in the abortion time limit.

In the debate John Bercow, the Speaker, has just said he is reducing the time limit for backbench speeches from five minutes to four minutes.

The ability to keep human embryos developing in the lab for almost 2 weeks — achieved for the first time this year — should provide new insights into very early human development, and generate debate on whether ethical limits on studying embryos in culture should be extended.

At the same time that the board was debating the policy, wrangling over credentialing rules for teachers of limited - English - proficient students was pointing up sharp divisions on the issue among California teachers.

But even as I push for an energy quest that limits climate risk, I'm not worried about the resilience of Arctic ecosystems and not worried about the system tipping into an irreversibly slushy state on time scales relevant to today's policy debates.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

For example, the question may be more revealing in a setting such as the first debate and useful than in the upcoming town - meeting format which is probably going to draw out time - limited pre-canned answers.

Alex, this is only a debate because of the very limited data available for the time.