Sentences with phrase «of most state legislatures»

At a moment when the Republican Party has reclaimed power in the House, has taken control of most state legislatures, and is set to begin the process of choosing its next presidential nominee, the Christian Right is playing an increasingly influential role in the party.

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The SCOTUS, Congress, state legislatures and probably most If not all regulating bodies start their meetings with some form of prayer.

Where Gibson is private, McLain, 49, holds the most public of jobs in the 1990s: He hosts a radio call - in show in Detroit, discoursing during morning drive time on everything from the state legislature to the state of the world.

But most states do count the votes of the recently deceased, according to the bi-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election state election laws.

The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 sStates, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 statesstates.

With a divided legislature in 2017, some of the most controversial proposals did not get passed despite the majority leaders supporting them including legalizing marijuana and installing tolls on state highways.

For all the liberal victories 1199 has racked up in New York, there's the inescapable fact that most of them, and probably a lot more, would have been possible with a fully Democratic state legislature.

The state legislature will lose one of its most senior members when Hudson Valley Senator Bill Larkin retires at the end of the year.

Government watch dog groups say the arrest of one of the two most powerful men in the New York legislature on fraud and corruption charges highlights the need for better state laws against wrong doing.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves said Nassau's contracting process «is the most transparent in the state» as the legislature moved to drop the threshold for legislative approval of personal service contracts from the current $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.

On Monday, after getting the greenlight from the state legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally signed two of his most carefully - watched initiatives into law, enacting a statewide $ 15 minimum wage plan and 12 - week paid family leave policy.

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, impacts from the NY SAFE Act continue to reverberate through the state's courts, legislature, law enforcement and shooting sports community.

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

Ethics in government and conflicts of interest in the legislature have been among the most persistent issues facing New York State for generations.

«The budget agreement assumes $ 481 million in «savings» from the unnecessary layoff of state employees making the legislature complicit in a reckless and irresponsible plan that is both impractical and nasty while eroding state services at a time when they are needed most.

Capitol Weekly, California's major weekly periodical covering the state legislature, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session.

«As with most complex matters, there can be a lot of answers that are not inconsistent with each other, but overlapping, and different folks will focus on different things,» said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who advocated greater investment in state legislatures and state - level politics.

This man was one of the most pompous legislators to every walk the halls of the NY State legislature.

In most states, the congressional lines will be drawn by the state legislature and approved by the governor after the reallocation of seats based on population shifts as documented in the 2010 census.

But in most parts of the state, there are no primaries for the state legislature, so the next chance to vote for or against assemblymembers and senators is November 8.

(CNN)- New Hampshire's move to become the most recent state to legalize same - sex marriage hit a road bump Wednesday, after the legislature's House of Representatives failed to agree to changes made by the governor.

[5] In a letter to his supporters, Ball stated that the job of reforming Albany had not been completed, saying, «From property tax reform to corruption in government, the job I set to do in 2006 is still incomplete, and it can only be accomplished by continuing to tackle our nation's most dysfunctional legislature.»

Even though the public's view of the legislature is rising, following two on time budgets in a row, and lack of noticeable dysfunction that in the past earned the state legislature a bad reputation, most New Yorkers still don't think lawmakers deserve a pay raise.

«To end the false empowerment of the Republican Party in our state legislature, we have to target what this group of Senators cares about most: the support of Democratic registrants who vote in local primaries,» an outline of the proposal says.

The state legislature wrapped up their session last weekend with a flurry of legislation, capping off what Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed was the most productive in modern state history.

But most Republicans in the legislature want the governor to resign and several are ready to begin the impeachment process, even as the results of a state Ethics Commission investigation into the governor's travel expenses are still pending.

«Not only do I want the Bronx and voters in the 33rd district to have a Senate Senator they can be proud of, but I want New York State to have the best, most accountable legislature in the country,» said Nunez in a statement released by New Roosevelt.

The formation of the new committee represents Walker's most significant step to date in a process that is expected to result in a declaration of candidacy later this year, once he and the legislature have gone through the budget process in his state.

Even though the public's view of the legislature is rising, following two on time budgets in a row, and a lack of noticeable dysfunction that in the past earned the state legislature a bad reputation, most New Yorkers still don't think lawmakers deserve a pay raise.

In a landmark year for corruption in the state legislature, 2015 saw the arrest and conviction of two of the most powerful political leaders in New York.

Unlike past years, Cuomo has not linked his ethics reforms to the passage of the state budget, a time when governors have the most leverage over the legislature.

Greenberg: «Now, interestingly, despite the fact that it was the State Education Department and the Board of Regents that have implemented the Common Core and have been pushing for its implementation, when Siena asked voters «who do you trust most to set education policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of Regents?&rState Education Department and the Board of Regents that have implemented the Common Core and have been pushing for its implementation, when Siena asked voters «who do you trust most to set education policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of Regents?&rstate education department, or the Board of Regents?»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says many of his key agenda items are still in play in the legislature, even though he's been spending most of his time lately promoting tax free business zones at some state college campuses.

Spitzer also attacked Stringer over his time as a state assemblyman, when he was part of «the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country.»

Democrats have a greater opportunity to gain seats in 2016 due to their position as the minority party in most of the nation's state legislatures.

Sex education has come a long way from 1975 when nearly half of state legislatures voted to restrict or abolish it compared to today when most adolescents in the U.S. receive some form of sex education between sixth and 12th grade.

With the agenda established, key statutes passed by the state legislature and Executive, and the funding secured, and most importantly the Board of Regents putting the crucial regulations in place, the key elements of the reform plans are now present.

So intense has the legislative interest been that the National Conference of State Legislatures cites early - childhood education and child care as the «most significant new areas of legislative activity in education in 1985.»

A veteran of the sharp - elbowed politics of New York's infamously dysfunctional state legislature (called the worst in the nation by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2004), Carroll assembled a team of equally determined and savvy colleagues, most of whom had honed their political skills in those same tough trenches.

The plan, which one state education department official called «the most comprehensive teacher - accountability plan in the country,» is the result of an 18 - month study conducted by the state education department with $ 35,000 appropriated by the state legislature in 1980.

After years of easy - to - spot trends, the most recent surge of school - finance activity in state courts and legislatures finds some states retrenching while others confront fresh legal challenges.

A survey released here at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures reported that revenues flowing to state coffers over the past year almost doubled predictions, allowing most states to close fiscal 1995 with healthy budget surplState Legislatures reported that revenues flowing to state coffers over the past year almost doubled predictions, allowing most states to close fiscal 1995 with healthy budget surplstate coffers over the past year almost doubled predictions, allowing most states to close fiscal 1995 with healthy budget surpluses.

Florida's first Republican - led legislature in more than a century finished its work this month after addressing much of what ails education, but largely bypassing the state's most pressing school problem — crowded classrooms.

What we were most interested to know is whether the change in funding differs if a state has unified Democratic control of the state legislature and the governorship at the time of the court decision, unified Republican control, or when control is divided between the two parties as, for example, when the governor is a Republican and the Democrats control one or both of the houses of the legislature.

Bush calls attention to Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, who pushed his state legislature to adopt «the most dramatic suite of reforms in one [legislative] session than anybody's ever done.»

Unfortunately, we lack a robust system of school choice and instead have to rely on democratic institutions, like school boards and state legislatures, to determine most school policies and practices.