Sentences with phrase «on big reforms»

Insisting the party is united, Balls said: «Jon Cruddas, with me and Ed and others, has been working for months, years on big reforms.

What hung parliaments can not do, though, is to compel rival parties to co-operate on big reforms.

«We'll support the government where it builds on our big reforms to sort out sickness benefits and get people who can work into work.

Conference focusing on Special Education Needs provides update on biggest reforms for last thirty years

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Strategists up and down Wall Street are bullish on stocks through the end of next year, and a big part of that stems from optimism around tax reform.

U.S. President Donald Trump has not given details on tax reform and infrastructure spending — two of his biggest campaign pledges.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

So on top of the biggest tax cuts, great reform and the money is coming in.

The bigger a small business is, the more bullish it is on Trump's tax reform plan, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business survey reveals.

At the same time, President Donald Trump announced the biggest tax reform for the U.S. in thirty years on Wednesday, proposing tax cuts for most citizens.

President Trump kicks off a big push for tax reform in Missouri on Wednesday, bringing renewed focus to one of the key political battles shaping up this fall.

On the ag - labor front, where employers are heavily dependent on seasonal labor, immigration reform will play a big role in helping hire workers for the available jobOn the ag - labor front, where employers are heavily dependent on seasonal labor, immigration reform will play a big role in helping hire workers for the available jobon seasonal labor, immigration reform will play a big role in helping hire workers for the available jobs.

The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and failed to provide clarity on the details or timing of policies like infrastructure spending, tax reform and other measures dear to traders» hearts.

In B.C. the biggest democratic battles are often around resource extraction, but we also work on less - sexy democratic reforms to promote government accountability and transparency.

Investors focused on big tech and other sectors expected to benefit from tax reform and deregulatory legislation.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

China focusing on domestic demand rather than exports for growth is worth watching closely: if wheels start falling off Chinese reform, that's the tipping point for a big hit to globalization.

The market is now focused on US lawmakers» ability to push forward a tax reform plan that is said to benefit big companies.

Tax reform of this magnitude is the biggest change we've seen in a generation and will require intense focus to understand not only how the changes apply at the federal level, but also to navigate the ripple effect this is likely to have on state taxation as well.

(Bespoke) Sorkin: Obama «s big reform speech fell on deaf ears on Wall Street yesterday.

On September 27, President Trump and his handpicked «Big Six» group of Republican leaders finally released the latest version of their long - awaited tax reform package.

I thought about doing a big thought piece on the House passage of the Dodd - Frank reform bill.

Let's put aside for a moment the real (and futile) purpose of President Donald Trump's executive order last week calling for postal reforms: He wants to put the hurt on one of the U.S. Postal Service's biggest customers, Amazon.com, whose chief executive,...

That's why an increasing number of voices on both sides of the political spectrum have been pressing for additional reforms that would reduce the chances that the federal government will have to step in to save another big, dumb bank.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Since Mr. Xi came to power, China's leadership has recentralized power to focus on anti-corruption and abuse of power by officials, as well as developing big plans for market reform and opening the country to foreign investment.

(Reuters)- Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) chief executive said on Tuesday he would prefer to wait for clarity on U.S. tax reform before engaging in any big deals in order to get a better understanding of any potential acquisition target's value.

This is why it was eliminated not only in the Big 6 framework, but under recommendations from the 2005 President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, the Simpson - Bowles Fiscal Commission plan, the Domenici - Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force plan, and former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R - MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014.

But imposing broader or better reforms is difficult because even the experts don't have a good handle on how big the problem is in the first place.

And why on earth oppose access to birth control and reforms in the health care system when those will likely make the biggest difference in actually curbing abortions in this country?

Back in 2008 - 09, when so many on both sides were saying that Obama's (and the Democrats») big victory signaled a new birth of PROGRESSIVE REFORM, I said that he's going to be little more than a blip in our political history.

And there's a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing «biblical values» to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.

While I agree that (unlimited) compound interest that it is a big problem for the economy and need to be reformed, fiat money on the other side it is one of the major tools that prevented today's recession to become a another Great Depression.

The competition regulator has put the Australian cattle market on notice by reinforcing recommendations for modernising reform with news that it has launched cartel investigations in the wake of a self - initiated market study into the nation's single biggest contributor to agricultural incomes.

on what biggest reform they could take... The first thing is to restore and convince everybody that honesty and clarity in the organisation are needed.

There is a big debate in America on reforming the public school lunch program.

I'm on record as being a realist, and so far Big Food and Big Ag have had a pretty solid track record of decisively crushing most attempts at reasonable food reform.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

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Since I sent the above memo, Jonathan Soros, who founded Friends of Democracy — one of the two PACs that spent big money on Tkaczyk's behalf to push campaign finance reform - released the following statement:

Bruno responded by passing the bare minimum and letting his members go home, leaving quite a number of big ticket items on the table, and even backing out of a previously agreed upon three - way deal on Wicks Law reform.

Take the most significant new authority the Fed was given under the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: the power to take actions to stop runs on systemically important, so - called «too big to fail» financial institutions that threaten the entire economy.

Certainly, the Coalition has not been big on socially liberal reforms (gay marriage being a major exception), but nor has it been especially socially conservative — gone is the sermonising about «Victorian values» and «Back to Basics» which was a pronounced feature of the» 79 - «97 Conservative government.

The biggest post-war rebellion on Lords reform was 47, when Labour backbenches revolted against a white paper in November 1968

He added: «The biggest failure facing this government is not the programme motion on Lords reform - it's their whole economic plan.»

With Scottish politics now dominated by two big parties, small parties under pressure and women's representation on the wane, the Electoral Reform Society say action is now needed to ensure that Scotland's political system can continue to meet the original aspirations and expectations of the advocates of devolution.

Nevertheless, the NY Post deems the final budget deal a «big win» for the governor, noting he «got his way on pretty much everything except ethics reform.»

He recently contributed to a small success for democratic reform and innovation when the Speaker of the House of Commons overturned a decision by the Administration Committee not to project a huge voter registration sign on the side of Big Ben.