Sentences with phrase «more legislative interest»

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Americans for Annuity Protection believes that a best interest standard can more effectively and efficiently be achieved and vigorously supports efforts to correct the harmful impacts of this rule through legislative and legal action.

More intense constitutional debate and legislative uncertainty would doubtless result in more people taking an active interest in what happens in ParliamMore intense constitutional debate and legislative uncertainty would doubtless result in more people taking an active interest in what happens in Parliammore people taking an active interest in what happens in Parliament.

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

To make a point about reigning in special interests, the League of Women Voters» legislative director Barbara Bartoletti likes to point out that legislators are more likely to die or be indicted than to be voted out of office.

«The Convention held in 1967, which Chairman Michael R. Long participated in, was a colossal waste of taxpayers» money and if one was held now, it would cost taxpayers even more money and be controlled by the same special interests that already have a strong presence in the legislative process,» the party said in a statement.

Natural gas interests invested more heavily in Republican legislative candidates than Democrats, particularly in the Senate.

The study found state legislative candidates in the last cycle rasied 74 percent of their cash from donors and interest groups writing checks of $ 1,000 or more.

One of the more interesting legislative races is in Saugerties District 2 (including the village) where eight - term incumbent Bob Aiello faces workaholic freshman Walter Frey.

Benjamin (pictured above) says he sees indications that both new legislative leaders are more interested in listening to their members and willing to meet with groups that aren't the biggest donors.

The battle escalated into all - out war last summer when, at the end of the legislative session, de Blasio blasted the governor as a «game - playing» bully more interested in political scheming and personal advancement than the city's well - being.

And that would set the stage for a more - interesting - than - usual final two months of the legislative session.

And more importantly, once the people see that no one will die from lack of services and children will continue to learn how to read, write and add despite the continued cries from the special interests to open up the just closed budget - the former «legislative leaders» will realize that the new Governor holds the cards.

While the New York Public Interest Research Group would like the Legislature to be more subject to FOIL, its legislative director Blair Horner said «most FOIL requests are on the executive side.»

The move marks the latest in a series of policy changes in which the governor — whose fiscal conservatism and ties to business interests have long left progressives in his party disenchanted — has circumvented the legislative process in order to take the state in a more left - leaning direction.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

On this site you will find: legislative updates; resources; information from TED's committees, caucuses, special interest groups, and state subdivisions; TED Conference details; and much more.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a matchmaking service that connects business interests with conservative lawmakers, drove more than 70 bills in 37 states last year that would have slowed the progress of greentech and clean energy.

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.

New documents released as a result of the Center for Media and Democracy's open records lawsuit against American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) vice-chair Senator Leah Vukmir provide more evidence that lobbyists and special interest groups are calling the shots within ALEC, undermining that group's latest PR spin that it is a «legislator - driven» organization.

And more worrisome, fossil fuel interests including the Koch brothers and Shell Oil are still spending millions trying to repeal renewable energy standards in states around the country through the work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other front groups.

I appreciate the efforts of Canadian Senators to fix problems with legislation — specifically those which make legislative research more interesting.

The Kansas Senate approved an amendment that would prohibit the courts from ordering more money for schools («The financing of the educational interests of the state is exclusively a legislative power under article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas and as such shall be established solely by the legislature.»)

For the purposes of this article, I intend to focus on what I consider to be the most controversial aspect of the decisions, and the only one likely to be the subject of a leave application to the Supreme Court of Canada: prejudgment interest, and more generally the retrospective application of legislative amendments.

Ontario's Proposed Legislative Changes are About to Make Life a lot More Interesting for Employers

To make it more interesting, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, announced today that a Legislative Consent Motion (LCM) may be required before the British Parliament withdraws from the E.U.

Groklaw is a blog and website devoted to covering and explaining legislative and jurisprudential issues of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities — Ms. Strong recently won a Knowledge Trust Honors award, which honours the best of the best in information and library science and information technology... [more]

Legislative regimes where there is no privative clause (often with a full right of appeal) and other legislative indicators of correctness review will often lead to correctness review; on the other hand, the assignment of power to administrators in specialized areas to grant to withhold licences or approvals based on public interest criteria will often lead to a more deferentLegislative regimes where there is no privative clause (often with a full right of appeal) and other legislative indicators of correctness review will often lead to correctness review; on the other hand, the assignment of power to administrators in specialized areas to grant to withhold licences or approvals based on public interest criteria will often lead to a more deferentlegislative indicators of correctness review will often lead to correctness review; on the other hand, the assignment of power to administrators in specialized areas to grant to withhold licences or approvals based on public interest criteria will often lead to a more deferential review.

On the other hand, if reasonableness is chosen instead of correctness, the court may be less able to police executive decision - makers where they are mistaken in their views or are following their own self - interested view of the right policy (as opposed to that of the legislature), litigants who lose in front of a decision - maker will be less likely to challenge the decision and decision - makers may make more aggressive interpretations that do not accord with legislative goals.

Given that the BC Legal Profession Act serves the same legislative purpose of the Teaching Profession Act (namely the establishment of a regulatory regime to regulate a particular profession), it's inconveivable that a court would interpret the «publc interest» mandate of the former more broadly than the latter.

Don Cook, a director and chair of the Civic and Legislative Affairs Committee says, «With the strong likelihood of rising interest rates making housing less affordable, WinnipegRealtors views any changes the province can make to lessen the burden of land transfer taxes on homebuyers as a way to keep homeownership a possibility for more Manitobans.....