Sentences with phrase «most sweeping laws»

Republicans and Democrats banded together to create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Congress passed the most sweeping laws since Roosevelt's New Deal.

Not exact matches

The most sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system in decades and the signature domestic accomplishment of President Barack Obama's first term, the healthcare law set up health insurance exchanges and tax - credit subsidies to help people afford insurance premiums.

Following several controversial LGBT laws in the Southern states, the Mississippi state Senate joined the club, and passed «the most sweeping anti-LGBT legislation» in the U.S., according to critics, on Wednesday.

Many of the answers to your most pressing questions about the sweeping health reform law may be at your fingertips.

University of Cincinnati College of Law Professor Barbara Black spoke this morning about how the compelled arbitration process, a standard feature of most broker - client agreements, is being used to sweep what she called «very big problems» under the rug.

Signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the most sweeping...

Though most of the exemptions in the budget sweep were required by law, one of only a handful of discretionary exemptions was the payroll mobility tax, which raises over $ 1 billion a year for the MTA.

(The New York Times called the state waiver strategy «the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law» since the 1960s.)

It is not only the regulatory environment that founders must directly challenge, but the entire sweep of policies, practices, and pedagogies, from federal law to local union contracts, from teacher preparation programs to the design of mainstream textbooks, that together define how most public schools today function.

Rules were to go into effect Thursday spelling out how and when public employee unions can obtain state certification under the sweeping new law that removes most of their collective bargaining rights.

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.

Allying with suburban white conservatives, Williams and her coalition fought for and helped pass the most sweeping school choice law at the time.

As an overhaul of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- the sweeping federal education law that sets most national school policy — continues to lag in Congress, Duncan is beginning to get answers about the viability of his plan to relieve states of the law's requirements in exchange for implementing some of his choice reforms.

The one thing that everyone agreed on was that this tax law was the most sweeping seen in more than five decades.

Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)

Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)

November 17, 2011 — Brooks Kushman shareholder and patent attorney, Dave Syrowik discusses The Leahy - Smith America Invents Act in the article, «The Most Sweeping Overhaul of the Patent Act Since 1952» and provides «Recent Developments in Information Technology Law» for the State Bar of Michigan in the November 2011 issue of Michigan IT Lawyer.

And I think it most... And again, sweeping stereotype here, most lawyers and most law firms have a perception about what they should look like, and then they try to present that without recognizing that that actually may be having the opposite of their intended effect in terms of their client's emotional state.

In the most sweeping overhaul family law that the state has seen in decades, the Illinois legislature decided to replace the concept of «custody» with the «allocation of parental responsibilities.»