Sentences with phrase «more legislative support»

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The Republican leadership proposed a series of amendments that marked major legislative changes, but it was not immediately clear whether they would help win more Republican support amid solid opposition from Democrats.

More than 800 builders from across the nation marched on Capitol Hill today for the annual National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Legislative Conference to call on Congress to make housing and homeownership a national priority and to support policies that will keep the housing recovery moving forward.

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.

During the last legislative session, more than half of the U.S. Congress supported lowering the federal excise tax for craft brewers.

Every year at the Virginia General Assembly, VPLC supports, opposes and / or works to amend legislative initiatives that affect domestic and... Read more

CapTon's Jimmy Vielkind reported earlier today that the party is poised to hire Casale to «help with its operations and transition toward more of a support role for members of legislative conferences,» and Cox has started calling around to inform GOP leaders of this change.

The mayor is embracing an opposing measure, which needs legislative support in Albany, to raise the post-2009 pensions more modestly.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

ALBANY — Despite having previously praised an ethics deal enacted by the Legislature in June, Gov. Cuomo will not support a legislative pay raise unless the Legislature agrees to more comprehensive reforms, an aide said Sunday.

If the DUP supports the Conservatives, then yes, they would together have more than the 326 seats required for a majority to pass a legislative programme.

The speaker called for the wage hike in a legislative election year and polls show that the proposal has broad support among New York voters, with more than 80 percent backing it.

Dilan still has doubts on prison gerrymandering Legislative Gazette Former Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who supported a bill that would require inmates to be counted at their previous address, said the 2010 law... (Read more)

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

«The way to show he supports educational equity with more than fine words in a long speech is to fund Foundation Aid,» said Jasmine Gripper, legislative director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for school funding.

Martins criticized legislative Democrats for failing to support more than $ 100 million in capital borrowing.

The group is also pressing to give chairs more power over their committees and to reform the legislative process so that the speaker can't prevent legislation from making it to the floor when it is supported by a large majority of members.

With just more than a week left to the legislative session, senators said their package was also different from measures supported in the state Assembly.

Abrahams, who supported the law, acknowledged that it was better than no disclosure, but said it didn't amount to much more than «convenience,» since it saved legislative staff the few minutes it would take the look up the information on the state Board of Elections» website.

As part of his agenda for the 2018 - 2021 legislative session, Williams said he would seek more support for members to have bills drafted and introduced independently as well as push for more transparency on the sponsorship of bills during the drafting process.

Learn more about our legislative work and how you can help support our efforts to increase access to safe and effective Naturopathic care for the people of North Carolina.

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa... more

In my mind this begs an important question, and highlights the primary point of disagreement I have with Greene's assessment of nudging: While we continue to advocate for legislative and bureaucratic solutions to burdensome procedures and applications, should we intervene to support students to make more active and informed decisions during these critical junctures, or should we let them figure it out for themselves?

Rather, widespread disenchantment leading to the withdrawal of legislative, administrative, and fiscal supports will more...

Rural Democrats split for and against the bill in almost even numbers, but this was far more support than any previous bill had found from these legislative districts.

The coming legislative debate and public conversation on the details of tax reform provide a significant opportunity to provide more straightforward and effective supports for the needs of children and their families.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better - inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

Unfortunately, the Governor has made a tactical decision that union support in the November legislative elections is more important than the quality of our public schools and the needs of the children and families they serve.

More than 500 charter school parents met with legislative leaders and rallied in support of their children's charter schools down in Trenton on March 26.

Jim Florio, a former Democratic governor of New Jersey who supports Sweeney, suggested public education could be at stake if campaign dollars are diverted from more competitive races in other legislative districts.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals, to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

In California, we are particularly heartened to see the Legislative Black Caucus speak as one voice in opposition to the moratorium and in support of high quality charter schools being able to serve even more students in the future.

At a business leader breakfast at EnergySolutions» office, Vice-chair of Prosperity 2020 Keith Buswell, shared the group's 2016 legislative priorities that support goals to improve math and reading scores in 4th and 8th grades, to enable more students to graduate high school, and to support increased numbers of post-high school degrees and certifications.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who also was involved with the discussions, said he supported the plan «in a broad way,» but he was waiting for more details from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau before signing off completely.

More than half of rural districts and a third of high - need districts report not having enough teachers or staff, despite years of investments in teacher induction and support programs (Legislative Analyst's Office 2016).10 In the long run, the state should continue and expand its current programs to prepare, recruit, and retain high quality math teachers, particularly in hard - to - staff areas.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

That means more students, parents and educators who support educational choice need to get involved in the legislative process.

In just the first four months of the 2015 legislative session, Families for Excellent Schools has spent over $ 668,000 on its lobbying and advertising in support of Malloy's plan to add two more charter schools in Connecticut.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

A review of the list of sponsors highlights the fact that more and more legislators are responding to the demand that legislative action is needed to protect and support our public schools.

The May issue looks at the role of money in elections, the need to upgrade the electric grid, the role of legislative staff, state support of long - term health services and much more.

For his part, Peifer outlined how the PHEAA is supporting students in the 139th legislative district, with 975 students sharing nearly $ 2.9 million in Pennsylvania State Grants, 21 students sharing nearly $ 45,000 in financial assistance from the Distance Education Pilot Program and the Pennsylvania Targeted Industry Program, and more than 1,700 sharing $ 35.7 million in FedLoan Servicing.

These bills were introduced at the request of Governor Ed Rendell and have passed a House legislative committee; they have broad bipartisan support with more than 100 sponsors.

Through our No More Homeless Pets Network partner program with local shelters, we extend funding, resources, legislative support and know - how to every corner of the United States.

Animal sponsorship helps animals find loving homes, provides low - and no - cost spay / neuter programs, supports legislative and public education efforts all across the country that save the lives of pets — and more.

Why hasn't he written to support the letter sent to legislative leaders by more than 140 scientific societies and universities warning that while cost cutting is unavoidable, targeting specific programs is detrimental to the nation's effort to rebuild its economic footing?

Midwest legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Fund, voiced his «enthusiastic support» for the revised bill and said its energy efficiency program would result in net savings of $ 6 billion, bring more renewables to the states and provide a path to a low carbon future.

GLOBE's vision is to create a critical mass of legislators within each of the parliaments of the major economies that can agree common legislative responses to the major global environmental challenges and demonstrate to leaders that there is cross-party support for more ambitious action.

Likewise, Chris Walsh (D - Framingham) commented in the Framingham Source that «recognizing that one - third of the residents in the Commonwealth currently do not have access to a Housing Court, working with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and other groups, we crafted legislation to expand the Housing Court across the entire state, that has been supported both by the entire Framingham legislative delegation and more than 50 legislators.»

/ Wk Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) / Office of Policy, Programs and Legislative Initiatives (OPPLI): Proficiently researched new program initiatives in public housing; prepared reports centered on mixed income developments and shared equity housing, in support of the office's initiative to develop new and existing low - income housing programs, analyzed trends in housing and recognized more efficient ways to address public housing throughout the country.

For more than 60 years, NAREB has participated in meaningful legal challenges and has supported legislative initiatives that ensure the availability of fair and affordable housing for all Americans.