Sentences with phrase «model bills written»

First, to refresh, ALEC is the secretive so - called «charity» run and funded by big corporations that subsidize the involvement of conservative state lawmakers, who then push for enactment of model bills written by the corporations who pay them.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the source of cookie cutter model bills written by corporate lobbyists and state politicians that appear in state legislatures across the country, named Republican North Carolina state representative Jason Saine its new national chairman late last year.

The Michigan House of Representatives late last year passed legislation based on a model bill written by True; it wasn't approved by the state's Senate but was reintroduced in both houses this year.

Not exact matches

HuffPo has poached a number of Times staffers this year, and this past spring, former executive editor Bill Keller wrote a column trashing HuffPo's editorial strategy and business model.

As I wrote in my Personal Capital review after sitting down with CEO Bill Harris for 1.5 hours, I think the business model of leveraging technology to gather and manage assets is a no brainer.

The bill is modeled on two measures Gianaris wrote while he was a state assemblyman: the Power Plant Security Act and the Chemical Storage Security Act.

John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University and the other scientists who originally wrote about the ivory - billed sighting shot back with a their own technical paper, claiming that, among other things, Sibley used inaccurate models of takeoff and flight behavior to interpret the video.

«I would suggest,» he wrote in Compulsory Miseducation, his polemic against universal public education, «that, on the model of the GI - Bill, we experiment, giving the school money directly to the high - school - age adolescents, for any plausible self - chosen education proposals, such as purposeful travel or individual enterprise.

«As we read it, under the language now set to become incorporated into» the Senate bill, «the GSEs would be compelled to begin soliciting applications from developers of credit scoring models within 90 days of an effective date falling 180 days after bill enactment, or likely near year - end 2018,» Gabriel wrote.

The group who wrote the paper are called Responsible Canine Guardianship Victoria, and are all experts in their respective fields, include Bill Bruce, the architect of the Calgary Model reference below.

You write: «I am not a scientist [a] I have looked at both sides of the AGW issue [b] I am of the opinion that the «science is not settled» and that more verification of the climate models is necessary [c] I am concerned that, in our rush to reduce CO2, we may pass a climate bill that devastates our country's economy» [d]

Explaining the nature and origins of the project, CMD wrote,» [CMD] unveiled a trove of over 800 «model» bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

It's earned such a description because it passes «model bills» written by corporate lobbyists and to boot, the lobbyists typically do so behind closed doors at ALEC's annual meetings.

Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»

«Progress so far,» Goodman writes, «indicates that the current application of legal AI could well be part of an evolution that will be a game changer for legal services, not because it will change the basic premise of what lawyers do — or replace them all — but because it will create shifts in the value chain, and therefore change the legal business model in terms of legal services procurement, billing — and margins.»

They ditched traditional models in order to engage in real time on bill C - 51, launching a blog about it (antiterrorlaw.ca), publishing their work on the world's largest open - access database — the Social Science Research Network — sending it to public policy - makers, writing op - eds, and appearing before parliamentary committees.

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The «decades - old credit scoring model» currently used «does not take into account consumer data on rent, utility, and cell phone bill payments,» Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina wrote in August, when he unveiled a bill to require the federal government to vet credit standards used for residential mortgages.