Sentences with phrase «national legislators on»

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For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

Write, telegraph, phone, and make personal calls on legislators and governmental officials (national, state, and local) encouraging them to support legislation designed to provide humane treatment for alcoholics, drug addicts, the mentally ill, and the mentally retarded.

There are volumes of information available on what a household, a person, a business, or a legislator can do to reduce personal or national energy consumption.

Responding to the Abuakwa South legislator, the Organised Youth of Krobo said bringing development to an area should be national in character and not based on ethnicity, religion, economical status, race, or religion as propounded by the framers of the 1992 constitution.

He also chairs the New York State Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and sits on the Executive Board of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators.

Proud to say I was rated the number one pro-business legislator, have been named a guardian of small business by National Federation of Independent Businesses a couple of times now, number one by the Business Council in New York, so on top of that, we're going to try modernize our technology in this town.

Mr Tinubu who said the visit was a great honour to him, commended the legislators for the effort made by the two chambers of the National Assembly to meet minds on ways to properly amend the country's 1999 constitution.

That may be causing some (though not all) of the lingering animosity between the governor and legislators, who perhaps aren't interested in giving him yet another «on time budget» headline to crow about as he seeks to raise his national profile and looks toward a potential presidential run in 2020.

For example, state legislators packed a session on modifying public employee pensions at the recent meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville, Ky..

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.

And as both federal and state legislators grapple with increased restrictions on abortion, a new national poll indicates Americans have mixed reactions to some of the moves being made right now in state houses and the nation's capital.

Although it remains unclear who the post is directed at, it comes on the heels of scathing attacks launched on the former boss of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), by fire brand New Patriotic Party's legislator, Kennedy Agyapong.

He held that it was unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful for the PDP and its National Working Committee to have conducted the primaries from which the sacked legislators emerged using the lists of delegates other than the ones produced from the ward congresses held on November 1, 2014.

Former senator Dan Coats triumphed in Indiana's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday night, beating out two candidates who had sought to upend the longtime legislator by tapping into the energy of the national «tea party» movement.

If the Presidency does not review these «bogus» allocations in its proposed expenditure, it may lose the moral right to advise the National Assembly against spending some billions of naira on purchasing cars for its members despite the fact that the legislators have already collected their car allowances plus other sundry emoluments.

It was indeed «moments of madness» on Tuesday at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly as legislators on the platform of the ruling All Progressives...

Some leading legislators have left the door open for changes in the evaluation law during their next session, which begins in January.State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), during an interview last week with National Public Radio on WCNY in Syracuse, said he believes any required changes probably could be made by the Regents and their staff in the Education Department.

Officials at the authority have not explicitly explained how they selected the subsidized projects — Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the Kingsbridge National Ice Center in the Bronx as well as Empire Outlets and Lighthouse Point on Staten Island — except to say that state - created Regional Economic Development Councils and local legislators, in theory, have some influence.

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday asked the Accountant - General of the Federation to ensure that federal legislators were made to refund the money collected for the number of days they failed to sit in the National Assembly.

Its portfolio includes giving those on its 230,000 - strong mailing list a chance to endorse online petitions to legislators on timely topics (last week's letter urged Congress to support research on gun violence), a Vote for Science campaign that highlights a different issue each month, and an upcoming national summit for local activists.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The cloning of an adult sheep by Scottish biologists was on every legislator's mind when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appeared to defend his budget request on Capitol Hill today.

A long - overdue report on U.S. science education has put the National Science Foundation (NSF) in hot water with an influential legislator.

But another reason is sex — or more specifically, the legislators» unhappiness with how the National Science Foundation responded to an internal investigation that found several employees had been viewing pornography on the job.

Based on my international experience, I have been in a position to offer advice to national legislators, policy - makers, political parties, interest groups and the media.»

In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state school officers, legislators, state board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's school - improvement efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...

Noting that the six national education goals adopted by President Bush and the nation's governors paid scant attention to higher education, the resolution also called on the President, the Congress, the governors, and state legislators to include higher education «in any statement of education goals.»

The report in question, authored by Arizona State University researchers Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, purported to examine student - performance trends on national exams in states where legislators have attached «high stakes» to test scores.

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in education.

The hearings, which are being held by the National Commission on Excellence in Teacher Education — a group of teacher educators, legislators, teachers, and school administrators established last March by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education — began last month in St. Paul.

Cambridge, Mass — The elimination by the Reagan Administration last year of the $ 6 - million federal program for the gifted and talented, along with the reluctance of state legislators to appropriate funds for such programs, may hamper schools» commitment to providing special programs for gifted students, several researchers and educators told the National Commission on Excellence in Education last week.

MNCS recognizes that projects like documenting and testifying to legislators on mutated frogs near the school (which led to national attention because others later found similar phenomena) help develop problem - solving, research, and public - speaking skills.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

«I think most of our legislators understand that this really was a state - driven process and really isn't tied up in this national pushback on the Common Core.»

A rally to thank legislators for creating school choice opportunities in Mississippi will be held at the State Capitol in Jackson on January 26 at 9:30 a.m. Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, and additional special guests will speak at this special event during National School Choice Week.

This project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supported the Honor States Grant Program, an initiative of the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, by providing hands - on professional development to state teams comprised of governors» staffs, members of state education boards and commissions, state legislators, and senior legislators, and senior state officials working in K - 16 education.

This project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supported The Honor States Program, an initiative of the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, by providing hands - on professional development activities to state teams comprised of governors» staffs, members of state education boards and commissions, state legislators, and senior state officials working in K - 16 education.

This project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supported The Honor States Program, an initiative of the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, by providing hands - on professional development activities to state teams comprised of governors, their staffs, members of state education boards and commissions, state legislators, and senior state officials working in K - 16 education.

Among other priorities for teachers at the capitol is a call for legislators to commit to a freeze on corporate tax breaks «until school funding is restored or until per - pupil funding reaches the national average.»

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García, seemingly on the verge of the vapors, trembled «I am terrified that there are more and more state legislators and state governors who have bought into this very dangerous idea that school is a commodity.»

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), the country's leading assessment reform organization, today called on Maryland legislators to prohibit the State Board of Education from requiring students to pass a test or series of exams in order to receive a high school diploma.

«Our policy agenda focuses on state houses,» said Tim Melton, a former Democratic state legislator in Michigan who recently began working as StudentsFirst's national legislative director.

National Visit a Public Charter School Day invites legislators, reporters, and community business leaders to tour high - quality public charter schools on Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

Ralph Martire's presentation on national education reform and the the federal Equity and Excellence Commission's report presented at the National Conference of State Legislators in Atlannational education reform and the the federal Equity and Excellence Commission's report presented at the National Conference of State Legislators in AtlanNational Conference of State Legislators in Atlanta, GA..

On Feb., 17, 1897, more than 2,000 people — mostly mothers, but also fathers, teachers, laborers and legislators — attended the first convocation of the National Congress of Mothers in Washington, D.C. Twenty years later, 37 chartered state congresses existed.

How to make families into their strongest advocates and how to bring awareness about the impact and need for these programs to central offices and state legislators were opportunities to showcase the work of DC Immersion and to learn from our friend Dr. William Rivers of JNCL NCLS, the national leader on language policy.

It went on to have 20 - some screenings around the U.S. — including two official film festival selections (2013 St. Louis International Film Festival, 2014 Kansas City Film Fest), as well as supported by national animal welfare organization, Best Friends Animal Society, who sent copies of that version to legislators faced with this issue.

Affecting Change at the Local, State, and National Level This presentation will address the legislative process for regulated industries, perceptions held by legislators, and recommendations on the ways pet businesses can create constructive change.

See also the igloo that James Inhofe's family built on the National Mall (they called it «Al Gore's new home») or the ad from the Virginia Republican Party, aired before the same snowstorm, advising voters to call legislators who supported climate actions and «tell them how much global warming you get this weekend.

Among the nine legislators on the tour was the new ALEC national chairman, Representative John Piscopo from Connecticut, and Senator Jim Smith from Nebraska who has sponsored legislation in his state to speed up the building of the Nebraska segment of KXL.