Sentences with phrase «limiting debate time»

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In other words, yet another can kicking, one which would likely push back the debt limit debate to some time in December.

«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.»

Lord Carlile said the political debate over detention time limits was «completely sterile».

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

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

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

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

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.

«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.

After a raucous first general election debate where an unruly audience saw an attendee removed from the theater and the candidates shouted over each other, often cutting each other off and going over their time limits, what will happen at this final debate is anyone's guess.

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.

Dietl urged the host / moderator of the upcoming debate to «keep control of their own red light, green light, one two three» and strictly enforce candidate speaking time limits.

As a first step, the government would table a «time allocation motion» setting timer limits to debates — the normal practice, observed by all recent governments.

The Government want a time limited debate to ensure the issue does not drag on whilst opponents of the bill claim that democratising parliament is the wrong thing to do in a time of Austerity as it is a distraction from debating the economy or watching video's of Chloe Smith on Newsnight.

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.

In 2009, Mario Cuomo endorsed de Blasio in his successful bid to become public advocate, even though the two men had taken opposing stances on the term - limits debate, and, as the Times noted, «Former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo rarely plays the endorsement game when it comes to Democratic primaries.

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.

I know you have only limited time but these are fascinating topics (at least to me) and I'd rather get back to them than have commenters off on a tangent debating the evolution of why we don't generally think scientifically (which we don't).

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 the reality is that an enormous number of writers are doing both — and choose to spend their limited internet time promoting their work rather than promoting their business decisions, so their business models are usually overlooked in the «trad - v - indie» internet debate.

To present, today, an exhibition from 1969 just as it was, maintaining its original visual and formal relations and links between the works, has posed a series of questions on the complexity and very meaning of the project, which has developed through a profound debate from various perspectives: the artistic, the architectural and the curatorial.This was the challenge: how could we find and communicate a limit to a non-limit, creating a place that would reflect exactly the architectural structures of the Kunsthalle, but also an asymmetrical space with respect to our time and imbued with an energy and tension equivalent to that felt at Bern?

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.

In just a short period of time, our energy public policy debates have transitioned from multi-decade discussions of scarcity and limits to growth, to discussions of American energy abundance and the enormous benefits that it can offer.

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.

Though I do hope you webcast the debate in some manner, I've often found a problem with these debates (at least if conducted honestly) is that they turn on citations, data, etc which really can't be checked in the limited amount of time available during the debate, so they turn into people flatly denying each other's facts.

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.

When it comes to these resources, however, there's often debate over which platform is the best use of limited time and resources.