Sentences with phrase «of the legislature for»

«Riverkeeper thanks Governor Cuomo and members of the legislature for standing against this misguided federal proposal.

«We applaud Governor Cuomo and both houses of the legislature for putting New York's economy back on track.»

It permits a politician to serve in either or both chambers of the legislature for a maximum of 12 years.

Aviation Commissioner Russell Stark wanted to thank Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr., and the Oneida County Board of Legislatures for their continued support because without it, this and the other achievements met this year would not have been possible.

Under the complex rules governing the authorizing of JCOPE investigations, it takes the approval of at least two appointees of Democratic leaders of the legislature for a probe to of any elected Democrat in the legislature to begin.

The plan would also reform the per diem expenses paid to members of the legislature for their time spent in Albany.

There are majority party sponsors in each house of the legislature for a bill to add greater oversight to the state's economic development contracts, but the measure failed to come to the floor for a vote.

In Virginia, the Republicans took control of the legislature for the first time in more than a century, after a campaign in which GOP candidates talked a...

Local school officials, in turn, are admonishing members of the legislature for the shortfall, while lawmakers are blaming the state school board, and school board members are pointing to faulty data.

Even more dramatically, the Democratic Progressive Party will take control of the legislature for the first time.

The majority's decision explicitly (and refreshingly) recognized that the constitution's text is the primary source of its meaning, while also explicitly recognizing that courts are not to review the decisions of legislatures for their wisdom.

Not exact matches

Jonah Schein, an NDP member of the Ontario legislature, tabled a private member's bill in early March calling for greater legal protection for unpaid interns, along with improved tracking.

The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the oldest nonprofits advocating for digital rights, said «the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast over the privacy rights of their constituents.»

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

Sir John A. Macdonald, who would have turned 200 this year, advocated a single central government for Canada, without the bother of provincial legislatures: «one government and one parliament... for the whole of these peoples,» he argued during debates over Confederation.

Now, the California legislature will consider a bill that would add the word «investor» to a list a list of professionals who can be held liable for harassment.

The bill she sponsored — creating a committee for the next five years to study not just maternal mortality but also life - threatening complications, or severe maternal morbidity — sailed through the legislature, in part because of a change in governors.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says nearly a dozen states still had not enacted budgets for the new fiscal year as of mid-June.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called for a special session of the legislature to censure LePage, who earlier this year fought off an impeachment effort.

Opponents of legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing for stricter laws designed to limit access to pot by children, among other efforts.

Similar scheduling measures for fast food, retail or other workers have been introduced in several states and are pending in Connecticut, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill early Saturday in a massive win for the party and President Donald Trump, who has seen many of his agenda items stall in the legislature during his first year in office.

In February, after female reporters complained that lawmaker Leonid Slutsky had harassed them in parliament, not only were there no demands that he step down, but a deputy speaker of the Duma, Igor Lebedev, called for these journalists to be barred from covering the legislature.

Conceptually, it is an impartial entity for the enforcement and implementation of federal legislature and regulations pertaining to securities and tradable assets; as well as national stock and options exchanges.

«What one would expect during a period of economic growth is that the government would lay the basis for future prosperity using the financial resources made available to it during good times,» Ralston said in his Feb. 20 response in the legislature to the budget, according to the day's Hansard.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. NDP and B.C. Green Party announcement regarding their intent to cooperate in the legislature: «It's clear that British Columbians voted for change in this election and support the NDP and Greens» objectives: building a clean economy and putting...

According to a 2007 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) survey of its 30 member countries, along with another 8 non-OECD countries, 16 reported that they had «a specialized budget research office / unit attached to the legislature to conduct analyses of the budget».

Trump's coat - tails in Kentucky were so strong that Republicans took control of the state's legislature for the first time since 1921.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

By John Horgan, leader of B.C.'s New Democrats The citizens of B.C. have given me the privilege of working for them in government and the legislature for two decades.

When New Democrats came to the legislature with stories of young people struggling to find homes for their families, her B.C. Liberal colleagues laughed them off.

One hundred days ago the cabinet was sworn in on the steps of the legislature, in front of thousands of Albertans who had voted for change.

In the legislature, MLA Laurie Throness spoke against the universal child care plan, saying, «I find it strange that the government... ignores the cries of an infant leaving its parent, who has to go to work, and the sadness of a parent who would rather stay home with their new baby for a while.»

We have struck a more collegial tone within the legislature on issues of democracy and health: for instance, we struck an all - party committee to review ethics in the legislature and asked MLAs Dr. David Swann and Danielle Larivee to co-lead a review of the province's mental health services.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

Congratulations to Laurie Blakeman for keeping the faith and staying on in the legislature so many years, always as one of the legislature's most progressive voices.

I for one hope Rachel goes full speed ahead on her party's commitments, once of course her government is actually assembled and in place (they're still looking for the light switches in their legislature offices, so we will need to wait a bit longer).

Recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron's consolidation of power in the legislature offers opportunities for pro-business reforms.

Regulators in Missouri, Utah, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have called for greater scrutiny of Google and others, citing antitrust concerns; some critics have suggested that our courts and legislatures need to go after tech firms in the same way the trustbusters broke up oil and railroad monopolies a century ago.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

The majority of states (37) have «specific statutes that allow for payday lending,» reports the National Conference of State Legislatures.

There are also 14 states with legislative supermajority (usually three - fifths or two - thirds of the legislature) and voter approval requirements for new taxes.

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

He makes a big deal about the fact that one of the paths to amendment that Article V allows is a proposing convention called for by 2/3 of the state legislatures, and then ratified by either 3/4 those legislatures themselves or 3/4 of special state - ratifying conventions.

Shockingly, he wanted to replace the two - thirds of Congress and three - fourths of the state legislatures requirement for amendment with a simple majority!