Sentences with phrase «much legislative business»

The 12 - day meeting of China's rubber - stamp parliament does not do much legislative business and rarely produces surprises.

Not exact matches

Together with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver made up the «three men in a room» who negotiate the state budget and run much of its legislative business — a model Mr. Silver has derided.

While Gregorius insisted on keeping much of his talk about current legislative business off the record, pending a vote and several candidate events that were taking place in West Hurley and Lake Hill last week, he did note hearing much from people about Irene - related problems, and voiced concerns about how the county's going to handle pass - downs from the federal and state governments hitting local property taxes.

The state legislative budget committee Friday assumed more oversight of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. following its failure to spur as much job creation as promised in return for millions of dollars in potential tax credits to businesses.

We provide members with marketing opportunities, economic indicators, listings in the area's only business directory, legislative bulletins, representation in local, state and federal government, and so much more.

In this conversation the two spar over whether the state provides a healthy climate for business development and how that relates to taxing and spending, the NY SAFE Act, and how much reform the state legislative process still needs.

* To begin a much longer list *: Lou Gerstner; Edward Rust, Jr.; Bill Gates; Jeb Bush; Arne Duncan; Mike Bloomberg; Joel Klein; Kati Haycock; Bob Wise; Betsy DeVos; the officers of the Business Roundtable; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Education Trust; Democrats for Education Reform; the American Legislative Exchange Council; the Gates, Walton, Broad, Bradley, Dell and other foundations; members of Congress, and most state legislators.

In our role as the industry's legislative and advocacy voice, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) is working with businesses, researchers and others to show legislators, regulators and the general public that we care for pets as much as we care about them.

Most of the time, the legislative issues that impact a retailer's business will motivate them to send a message to their elected officials and an alert to customers, but not much more.

And this applies to international politics just as much as it does to the legislative agenda of the U.S. Senate.I submit that asking an international Conference to sit around looking out the window for months, while one chamber of the legislature of one country deals with its other business, is simply not a realistic political position.»