Sentences with phrase «of drafting the bill»

While they generally applauded Congress for getting involved in the debate about the way broadband and wireless services providers are to be regulated going forward, they also took issue with parts of a draft bill that would weaken the FCC's ability to regulate such providers, experts say.

In a televised interview after he left the platform in defeat, McCloskey said he had hoped these young Americans would support his proposal (by far the most lenient and reasonable of the draft bills introduced up to now) because it would make our military - defense system more equitable and representative; the present all - volunteer army is made up of more than 40 per cent minority youth.

«The breadth of the draft bill as it stands appears to be overkill and is much wider than the specific needs identified by the law enforcement agencies,» committee chair Lord Blencathra said.

I've written the following using accepted common definitions of the phrases involved, a close reading of the key passages of the draft bill and a little bit of logic.

In a break from constitutional tradition, Mr Brown published for consultation a 50 - page list of draft bills outlining their main points.

The influential energy and climate change select committee found in their scrutiny of the draft bill that the Treasury's anti-green interference had «made energy policy unworkable.»

PM says government must «come up with minimum acceptable» terms for process to recall MPs following criticisms of strength of draft bill

Stephen Dorrell, the Tory chair of the health select committee, voice disapointment about the failure to meet the promise to legislate in this session of parliament on social care, with a promise only of a draft bill.

«I am pleased about the proposed reforms in general, and am particularly excited that we as legislators will be more empowered to participate in the process of drafting bills, and we as committee chairs will be more empowered to oversee our assigned agencies in a way that moves the City forward.

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has suggested that the government's efforts to create a special prosecutor office will be a wasted venture if sections of the draft Bill currently before Parliament are not removed.

Harkin also dismissed Paul's claims that the process of drafting the bill didn't allow him to voice his views, saying Paul never approached Harkin's staff.

The effect on schools at the start of the 2014 - 15 school year had some lawmakers scratching their heads as they considered the possibility of the draft bill becoming law during the short session that begins this May.

Meanwhile, rejection of a draft bill to allow pumping of CO2 underground into former gas storage facilities in 2011 has slowed plans for carbon capture and storage and derailed government plans to curb carbon emissions that way.

``... one little - noticed provision of the draft bill would give one of the coalition's co-founders a lucrative exemption on a coal - fired project it is building.»

Indeed, several of the draft bills in LexPop «s «WikiBills» section are federal.

Indeed, the House Judiciary Committee cited the pay gap in support of a draft bill, released this past Wednesday, that would increase salaries in an effort to curb the growing number of federal judges who resign due to inadequate pay.

Highlights of the Draft Bill include: Schedule 1 (enacting...

A controversial area of the draft Bill was the proposed introduction of a new corporate offence of negligently failing to prevent bribery.

One of policy aims of the draft Bill is to prevent a company being able to stay at arms length from corruption by using a subsidiary or commercial agent who operates outside the UK.

The publication of the draft Bill on foreign legal consultants, in November 2006, paves the way for solicitors» firms to open offices in Korea and to offer fly - in, fly - out services to non-Korean law.

The underlying assumption of the draft Bill is that the treaty process is an ongoing process in which unresolved issues, such as Indigenous rights to land must be squarely raised and processes put in place for their resolution based on the informed consent of both sides.

The underlying assumption of the draft Bill is that reconciliation is an ongoing process in which unresolved issues are squarely raised and processes put in place for their resolution based on the informed consent of both sides.

Not exact matches

But, on first glance, it appears that the new draft bill won't do much to change the Congressional Budget Office's initial assessments that tens of millions of people would lose coverage and that costs would spike substantially for people who are old, poor, or sick (or all three).

Though early drafts of the Senate bill called for the Fed to adopt rules - based monetary policy, this ended up being stripped from the final proposal due to Democratic opposition - largely because much of the Hill focus has been on the Taylor rule, which many Fed advocates fear is too restricting.

The Congressional Budget Office is soon slated to release its analysis of the latest health care bill draft.

The U.K. government is to present Thursday a draft bill that will affect all kinds of laws that have governed the country for more than 40 years — the so - called Repeal Bbill that will affect all kinds of laws that have governed the country for more than 40 years — the so - called Repeal BillBill.

The BlueCross BlueShield Association emphasized the need for the replacement to be affordable when the draft of the healthcare bill was released earlier this month.

Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

This detail is included in a draft code of practice attached to the Investigatory Powers Bill, flagged up by Privacy International.

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

«Another important aspect of the new laws is that employees in corporations of any size will not be able to bring an unfair dismissal claim if the employer can show that their employment was terminated because of what the Bill describes as «genuine operational reasons»» «The genuine operational reasons provision is very broadly drafted and includes economic, technological or structural reasons» said Mr Drake - Brockman «This would allow an employer to successfully counteract an unfair dismissal claim in nearly all situations which result in a genuine redundancy».

The FT reported that, in a written submission to the parliamentary committee scrutinizing the draft «Investigatory Powers Bill», Apple argued the law would «immobilize substantial portions of the tech sector and spark serious international conflicts.»

The 17th overall pick of the first round of the 2002 NFL draft dreams of one day being mentioned in the same breath as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

The draft bill is one of a number of initiatives sweeping across a continent without a unified strategy for tackling the use of cyberspace by terrorists and money - launderers.

U.S. lawmakers are close to delivering a draft of the Federal Aviation Authority's reauthorization bill, which will include rules for nonmilitary drones, and drone opponents are lobbying hard against the unmanned flying machines, The New York Times reports.

But draft legislation obtained by Charlotte news station WBTV suggests lawmakers may be walking back portions of the bill.

Late Monday, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R - Texas) pushed through a measure blocking section 528 of the bill, H.R. 4909 — which requires women to register for the draft — from being included in the version that will be sent to the House floor.

Jim Lucas, the assistant majority whip in the Indiana state House of Representatives, has drafted a bill that would require any professional journalist to be licensed by the state police.

The bills, drafted before Trump became president, «would prohibit the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress,» according to a January 2017 press release.

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

The draft Investigatory Powers Bill requires communications service providers to assist the government in investigations by «maintaining the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP to whom the notice relates,» as the text of the bill staBill requires communications service providers to assist the government in investigations by «maintaining the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP to whom the notice relates,» as the text of the bill stabill states.

They have said a draft Senate bill could be ready at the end of this week.

So when the bill was signed into law in April, lawmakers drafted up a clause, «Title II,» which would lift the ban on «general solicitation» — the legal hurdle that had prevented this sort of crowdfunding in the past.

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.

«We are in a very good place right now, and while drafting continues, we anticipate the release of final bill text early this week,» a senior Congressional aide told Reuters.

The fate of the Senate GOP health bill could lie with three female Republican lawmakers who, like many of their colleagues, were left out of the group responsible for drafting it.

Several lobbyists and outside experts theorized that the waiting period had been excluded from the initial draft of the Senate's health care bill because of concerns about the «Byrd Rule.»

The same people who couldn't get enough of Hillary's innocuous emails, or Obama's birth certificate or his collage transcripts or Bill's infidelities, do not care a hoot that, Trump, in an unprecedented move, refused to release his tax returns, refused to detail his business interests, refused to explain how his so - called «Blind Trust» is blind, or about his record of draft - dodging, his infidelities.

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

In December 2017, Belarus announced a policy on cryptocurrencies and ICOs that appears extremely lenient when compared to a draft of a bill on the same subject which Russia's Ministry of Finance published the following month.