Sentences with phrase «on social legislation»

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WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

This procedural tool would allow the chamber to pass certain kinds of legislation which affects the federal budget — including spending on programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and Social Security — with a simple majority.

The current legislation with respect to federal support under the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and Canada Social Transfer (CST) expires on March 31, 2014.

Plenty of proposals are floating around, including mandating new guidelines on transparency and data portability (the ability of users to essentially own their data, have it deleted, and take it from one platform to another), adjusting a law to hold social media platforms liable for users» content, and even potentially enacting comprehensive privacy legislation.

What are the rules about advertising on social media, monitoring and controlling the flow of data, copyright legislation, or customs and tariffs that can be added to products purchased through e-commerce?»

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

On Friday, Zuckerberg threw his support behind proposed legislation, known as the Honest Ads Act, that would require social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads.

The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

It has built its legislation on the recognition that a man has a personality independent of his compatriots and his community, a personality which forms an element in the social structure.

Many of the seasoned campaigners in the battles to change Ireland's legislation on social matters during the eighties and nineties were disturbed by the nature of this particular campaign.

If the later legislation thus modifies and narrows the covenant faith, at the same time and for the same reasons it adds to the concept a new dimension and suggests again that legalism's silence on social issues is by no means indifference but rather a sober and deeply concerned pessimism.

Over a quarter of a century ago he was editing a paper on race relations and social legislation.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

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Since DV is found across all social classes, a substantial percentage of the 5 - 6 % of men who use violence during their partners» pregnancies are already married to them (and so will have their names recorded automatically on the birth certificate anyway); or would have been insisting on it under the old legislation, due to their need for power and control within the relationship.

I am seriously thinking about drafting legislation that gives kids say about what parents say about them on social media and blogs.

Gov. Cuomo was elected a Democratic Governor and betrayed his Democrat constituency across NYS, with the formation of the IDC Coalition that since its creation has undermined the «Progressive» legislation he touted, i.e. not in the economic sphere, but definitely on social issues.

Wednesday Questions - Applying lessons learned from the privatisation of British Rail to any plans for increased private investment in the UK's motorway and trunk road network, Marking the 200th anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Percival, Prime Minister, on 11 May 2012, Plans for post-legislative scrutiny of the Health and Social Care Act 2011 Legislation - Parliament Square (Management) Bill

«A lot of them are using social media... but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are able to say when looking at a piece of health and social care legislation «hold on a minute maybe if the internet was a bit more embedded in this we could think about this a bit differently».

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

The potential value that can come from a disabled person's perspective, say on legislation ranging from social care charging to welfare benefit, is incalculable.

And yes it does mean looking at tax again but also, a freer labour market, the hiring and firing proposals to make sure that young people aren't turned away from jobs because of the very onerous social employment protection legislation in this country, so we should say to the Liberals on things like that which they are blocking, «Listen we are in a real hole now.

«We have more than enough law to deal with potential criminal offences on social media - the problem is that they are scattered over legislation placed on the statute book between 1861 to 2003, which leads to confusion and inconsistency.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Wednesday advanced legislation that would require a new degree of transparency for political ads seen on social media and other digital platforms, a move aimed to enhance disclosure laws in an otherwise opaque, but growing field of director voter influence.

On Friday, Democratic Reps. Linda T. Sánchez, Mark Pocan, and Michael M. Honda announced legislation to expand Social Security.

Legislation on education, unemployment, social insurance and tenant protection was also passed.

The statement said the true intent of the legislation was exposed given revelations on social media about the shady histories of those driving the bill.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on the National Assembly to rescind its decision to gag social media users now that it is apparent that Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari, are opposed to the ill - conceived legislation.

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Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.

«By raising the age of criminal responsibility, this legislation will reduce crime, recidivism and costs to the state, and help us deliver on the New York promise to advance social justice and affirm our core progressive values,» Cuomo said.

Whilst the aim of bringing together the various disparate strands of anti-discrimination legislation made some sense on grounds of clarity, it was feared that the Bill would become a vehicle for social engineering.

It doesn't necessarily take a woman to push legislation that benefits single women, but these women, by sheer dint of personal experience, will have a better perspective on the new approaches to social policy that this new population of women requires.

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Gallo, who helped draft nuisance abatement legislation in his role as city assistant corporation counsel, hammered on themes like building code enforcement and holding social service agencies responsible for their clients» behavior in a bid to appeal to working - class residents of Midtown, where quality - of - life crime and neighborhood eyesores are irksome and perennial issues.

In addition to lacking any official support from board Republicans, the proposal still has to make its way through the committees on Budget and Appropriations, Legislation, and Public Safety and Social Services.

KINGSTON — Ulster County Executive Michael Hein signed legislation on Monday approved by the county legislature that codifies the county's intention to absorb the cost of the state - mandated Safety Net social services program over a three - year period.

It is as if nobody should know nor care about the real fights and struggles for social justice that some of our most dedicated elected officials take on in Albany to produce very good legislation and effectively represent their constituents.

«The Council will pass legislation blocking ICE from private areas on city property and offices where New Yorkers receive social services, unless they have a judicial warrant or court order,» she said during a 58 - minute State of the City speech at the Kings Theater.

Nevertheless, the WFP's overtures presented him with a new dilemma: His «New Democratic Party» platform includes a pledge not to raise taxes and a promise to enact legislation capping future increases in local property taxes that directly contradict WFP tenets which seek more funding for education and social welfare programs by raising taxes on the wealthy.

This upshot was an initial media blackout on an hours - long sit - in protest by Democratic lawmakers over gun control legislation, which had coalesced on social media around the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.

He takes us from the analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.

While the bill is still awaiting approval in three separate committees — Budget and Appropriations, Legislation, and Public Safety and Social Services — the Democratic Caucus is pushing for the committees to approve the proposal in order to move forward on a late night vote of the full 17 - member county Board of Legislators on Monday, July 17.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a Democrat, also said the City Council would pass legislation over the next year to block federal immigration agents from entering «private areas on city property and offices where New Yorkers receive social services» without a warrant or a court order.

The original legislation would be strengthened to impose criminal and financial liability on the same social hosts who knowingly permit the use of the following drugs: heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl, anabolic steroids, cocaine and marijuana.

In the case of drugs that have a definable ill - effect on the user, and the user alone, it is a moral, political and social decision whether the user's free choice to take the drug should be impeded by legislation.

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rSocial Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rsocial issues, most prominently civil rights.