Sentences with phrase «much of the legislature»

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And things aren't looking much better elsewhere in politics: Women currently represent only 19.3 % of the U.S. House of Representatives and 24 % of state legislatures.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

Much of the mainstream media coverage this week focused on speculation that Mr. Prentice could appoint individuals from outside the legislature to what is expected to be a smaller provincial cabinet.

In contrast, decisions of legislatures and executive officials can be reversed by majority vote — a much easier process, notwithstanding inertia and entrenched political interests.

These massive movements of legislature had taken so much of King's life, but he had so much more on his mind.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Birmingham, Alabama (CNN)- When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.

CNN: Latino evangelicals challenge Alabama brethren on immigration When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.

The Republic of South Africa separates its legislature (newly become a racially tricameral body of whites, Indians and «coloured» that can no longer be technically considered a Parliament, although the term is still popularly used to refer to the only body with any real say - and that not much - the White Assembly) from the executive branch.

(Source) The United States trails behind much of the world — ranking 90th in the number of women in our national legislature.

By influencing state legislatures and citizens alike, she did much to advance the humane quality of care.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

«I find it unacceptable that hospital executives are crying to the legislature about how much budget cuts would hurt their hospitals and they are being paid excessive salaries in the millions of dollars,» the assemblywoman said.

This should be a wakeup call for the state legislature to enact much needed reform of the Sullivan Act and make New York the 44th state with a right to carry concealed firearms for personal protection law.»

Ulster's county legislature, which a majority of voters don't seem to much care about (check out dismal voting in almost all 23 legislative districts last month), had an unusually high turnover this year.

Assemblyman says this week illustrates that state legislature can only work on a crisis basis and spends much of annual session spinning its wheels and not delivering results

«For decades the legislative leaders of both parties have had far too much power to thwart the will of the people and their elected representatives by holding bills in committee thereby preventing an up or down vote by the legislature.

But just how much sway Mann, and the presiding three - judge panel, will have over the process will depend in part on whether Governor Andrew Cuomo follows through on his original promise to veto the legislature's lines or instead reaches some sort of compromise with the legislature by which he signs off on their lines in exchange for promises of redistricting reform in the future.

Dan McCoy was elected in 2011 as Albany county's fourth executive: the former city firefighter once chaired the legislature, which holds much of the power to run the county.

Much of the state spending has the quiet approval of the legislature, but there can be disagreements over how much to spend on programs as well as how the governor proposes to spend allocated funds on progrMuch of the state spending has the quiet approval of the legislature, but there can be disagreements over how much to spend on programs as well as how the governor proposes to spend allocated funds on progrmuch to spend on programs as well as how the governor proposes to spend allocated funds on programs.

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)

Sinagra, still very much active as chairman of the Hurley Republican Committee, left the legislature shortly thereafter.

«I think everybody in the legislature is on board supporting getting ridesharing here in Western New York and I don't think it would be too much of a debate,» Lorigo said.

Converting to being an independent state would be much harder than joining the EU once it achieved independence status and it worked out all of the necessary «divorce» arrangements with the U.K. And, that job would be made easier than it might be by its already substantial legal autonomy with its own legal system (except for the U.K. Supreme Court), its own legislature, etc..

Given that so much of what happens in New York City depends on the whims of people in the state legislature hostile to the city's very existence, this test isn't too much to ask for.

«Given the bill was dropped on the legislature in the middle of the night and immediately voted on there is no possible way Senator Gipson could have read, much less received public input on, the proposal before voting for it.

In fact, she says she'd rather see the legislature take a pay cut and convene for only three months out of the year, citing how much money it would save the state.

Much of the regulation and policy within the authority is set by the state while the legislature votes to confirm commissioner appointments.

But sources informed the Observer that Perkins has long been unhappy in Albany, where Democrats have languished in the minority for much of his tenure and where — after the most recent pay raise at City Hall — salaries are almost $ 70,000 lower than they are in the local legislature.

The county's e-911 emergency communications system on Golden Hill in Kingston is not only antiquated, charged members of the volunteer Fire Safety Advisory Board at a meeting of the county legislature's Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee this week, but vendors are now telling the county they won't be making parts for it much longer.

Heastie ranked second in the legislature, with $ 23,786 in reimbursements; after taking over as house leader last year, he spent much of the summer traveling the state.

Much of this work is local: even a cursory glance at the organization's website shows that it endorses candidates for mayor, city council and state legislature.

That's because the legislature has exempt itself from much of the state records law.

The issue in the lawsuit is whether a state may require a small qualified party to attract as much as 15 % of the primary voters to choose that party's primary ballot, if it wants to have nominees for the legislature on the November ballot.

But, Hein wrote; «I believe this new protocol raises a series of much larger policy issues that should be reviewed and discussed by the applicable legislative committees and that an overall policy must be set by the county legislature.»

Democrat Parete, recall, won election last month as chairman of the legislature by forming a coalition of Republicans and three Democrats, much to the dismay and irritation of majority Democrats.

While control of the legislature doesn't seem to matter very much under a strong executive, it could depend on results in Esopus and Rochester.

In Rochester, freshman Republican Ron Lapp, a retired cop, surprised incumbent Democrat Lynn Archer two years ago, much like Archer shocked Terry Bernardo, then the Republican chairwoman of the legislature, in 2013.

Of course it does, but not nearly as much as when the legislature ran things (prior to 2009), with a county administrator to carry out day - to - day management.

Before we get into picks and guesses, the question should be raised as to how much the legislature, in this era of executive dominance, really matters.

By charter, the legislature is supposed to be the policy - making branch of government, but it doesn't do much of that.

The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, created by an act of the state legislature in 1986 — then - assemblyman Maurice Hinchey was cosponsor — is one of those out - of - sight outfits we don't care much about as long as they empty the cans.

«We recognize that it's a new era of leadership for the legislature, and we wish Andrew Joyce much success,» Commisso said in a news release.

As laid out by discreet sources, Bernardo, after losing her bid for a third term in the legislature two years ago, isn't given much of a chance against the well - heeled incumbent.

This kind of local control is not unique to New York City government, says Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant and Queens preservationist, who said the practice occurs «pretty much everywhere around the country» in state legislatures and in the federal government.

2012 marked the second year of Governor Andrew Cuomo's term in office and was much less dramatic than the previous year when he was able to get the legislature to pass a property tax cap, ethics reform and same sex marriage.

Mr. de Blasio, a former campaign operative, is fully engaged in trying to return Democrats to the majority in the State Senate so he can further his own left - leaning agenda, much of which is dependent on a friendly state legislature.

«And as long as we have useful tools who purport to be Republicans, like Dean Skelos, Bob Turner, and a swath of other who are not willing to stand up for principles, but who would rather knuckle under to the most extreme demands of far - left Democrats, Public Service Unions and well - funded special interests in exchange for job security, and who could not lead a one - car funeral on an abandoned stretch of the Thruway, idiots like me — Andrew Cuomo — will continue to roll over the legislature, the taxpayers, the bondholders, and the rest of New York's victims with nary so much as an objection.»

While Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and much of the Albany establishment opposed the measure, many good - government types said a constitutional convention would be the best way to break down institutional corruption in Albany by forcing changes in campaign finance and ethics laws that state legislature would never approve.