Sentences with phrase «of the legislature say»

Now both houses of the legislature say they support, at least in concept, the governor's plan.

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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.»

A statement from his wife Christine Elliott, herself a member of the Ontario legislature, and their triplet sons John, Galen and Quinn, all born in 1991, said Flaherty died peacefully.

Sources also say the goal is to have a new deal that can be ratified by the national legislatures of all three countries.

DraftKings said it «will continue to work actively to replicate this success with dozens of legislatures.»

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.

Court of Appeals Judge Eugene Pigott issued a separate opinion in the cases, concurring with the results but saying the state's definition of parenthood should properly be set by the legislature.

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.

«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.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

Sen. L. Scott Frantz, the ranking Republican on the legislature's finance, revenue and bonding committee, said the disproportionate impact on state revenue by one group of taxpayers — in this case, the super-rich — is «pretty frightening when you think of it.»

Said the Chamber of Commerce head Hoan: «We are awaiting the details of the proposal by the governor and state legislature as they work towards restructuring our tax code to adapt to the loss of [that] deduction.

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.»

Potts said in the legislature on April 12 that the bill «was something that came about as a result of conversations I'd had with many people... on the aspect of the bill relating to credit reporting scores, and particularly in relation to when we saw a breach of data from a credit reporting agency.»

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

Then, Hu said, they told her to wait until after the meeting of the ceremonial legislature in March.

Meanwhile, a series of tax breaks and other goodies that Walker and the Republican legislature passed just after his inauguration dramatically increased the deficit that Walker now says he's trying to close.

They can say that they are acting in a constitutional spirit, exercising the kind of judgment that is appropriate to the legislature in foreign policy, and no more.

But the lawyer for the plaintiffs, supported by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said unlike legislatures, Greece had no official policy on prayers.

Madison did indeed say, as Wills points out, that in a republic the legislature necessarily «predominates,» but he did so in the context of arguing for the wisdom of dividing the national legislature into two bodies in order to limit potentially «dangerous encroachments.»

Would they improve the ability of parents to control the education of their children (a right once said by the Supreme Court «to override the desire of the legislature to foster a homogeneous people with American ideals prepared readily to understand current discussions of civic matters»)?

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.

Says the chief justice: «It conflicts with our whole history and tradition to permit questions of the Religion Clauses to assume such importance in our legislatures and in our elections that they could divert attention from the myriad issues and problems which confront every level of government» (ibid., 622).

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

Florida Supreme Court says legislature, governor had no right to save Terri Schiavo's life The Florida Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the state legislature should not have given Gov. Jeb Bush the power to feed mentally disabled 40 - year - old Terri Schiavo against the wishes of husband, who wanted to starve her to death.

One member of the state legislature said that if Eaton backed down, there would be trouble with the university budget next year.

It is Artie who is most eager for a visitor to meet Uncle Jim Rooney, who after World War I served as one of the youngest men ever elected to the Pennsylvania legislature, and who went on to give away all the money he ever made to people who said they needed it more than he did.

Actually, TWO of the HB MWs said the middle three in testimony to the legislature.

«One of the things we had hoped to get is Illinois experience — someone to work with the state legislature and the system in Springfield... and the issues that affect us,» Bushy said.

She said her members are concerned about bills pending in state legislatures as well as on Capitol Hill that would restrict or eliminate the use of BPA in metal cans.

«Decentralization will address the fact that the majority of bills are debated for less than a minute on the floor of our Assembly — a travesty to our supposedly democratic legislature,» Chen said.

«New Yorkers elected a Democratic majority to represent them in both chambers of the legislature, and Gov. Cuomo has an obligation to stand up and ensure that the will of the voters is respected in the New York Senate,» said the group's executive director, Jessica Post.

Owoyemi said, «In OPAN's assessment, the legislature remains critical to how Nigeria quickly harnesses the potentials of online technology and use of social media as a critical component of citizen engagement.

«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.

Dogara said the legislature and the executive would continue partner in the interest of the country.

The NCSL says the award is designed to honor «a leader who has worked to preserve and build public trust in the institution of the state legislature and whose career embodies the highest principles of leadership.»

It is also a testament to Speaker Silver that he is widely respected by legislative colleagues on both sides of the aisle,» said William T. Pound, executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

He said the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act «increases the power of the legislature, gives the legislators immunity on what they do on the floor and in plenaries, and increases their powers to do their legislative work more effectively».

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

«The legislature does two - thirds of their bills in the month of June alone,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«If I were them, I wouldn't feel very good because they spent about $ 150,000 on two weeks» worth of races and they lost three seats in the legislature and could lose a fourth with Tim Hogues,» Zellner said.

*** UPDATE *** The Cuomo Administration says waiting until Saturday was «strategic,» since they wanted the EO to ensure that the spirit of the bill take effect immediately, but the larger goal is to draft more comprehensive legislation to make the legislature subject to FOIL, which it currently is not.

Polly Trottenberg, the city's Department of Transportation commissioner and an MTA board member has pledged to press the governor and state legislature to reinstate the $ 65 million, and said that she will be «working with our allies up in Albany to see if we can reverse these cuts, which we really have a great concern about.»

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

«The people of the state by overwhelming margins want the legislature to pass a property tax cap,» Cuomo said in a statement about the survey.

Senator Stewart - Cousins says she's certain the governor is «equally interested in protecting the lives of New Yorkers,» but she says the measures introduced on the Senate floor Wednesday are really about the legislature taking action, in its first days back after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

DiNapoli says so far, around one fifth of counties have taken preliminary steps to override the cap, as they are permitted to do under the law as long as they can muster a 60 % majority vote from their county legislature or board of supervisors.

«For a legislature to leave, with a million students returning to what we know is a failed management system, is a dereliction of duty,» Cuomo said Thursday.

But, Reynolds said, when leaders chose not to let the state handle project details, including awarding of a request for proposals, it gave the legislature the authority to review it.

She said she was told by one of them that the clause could theoretically be used to whittle away the legislature's authority to nothing.