Sentences with phrase «other legislative house»

'' To that extent, we hope and pray that the judgement will give a profound direction to both the kogi state house of Assembly and other legislative house in the country on the ambit of their power in relation to their members».

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The morning reading about politics is all about the realization that America, despite complaining about the inefficiency of a divided legislative branch and a president constrained by a House controlled by the other party, voted for just the same again for the next two years.

On the final night of the session, the House of Representatives made time to give final legislative approval to a proposal that would allow mushroom hunting in state parks and other state property.

Some Homeless advocates are dismayed by what they say is Governor Cuomo's failure at the end of the legislative session to follow through with promises to fund five years worth of new supportive housing and other services for the homeless.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially drove a dagger through the other items Friday, listing only an immigration bill when asked to lay out the White House's 2018 legislative agenda.

In other Kent - area legislative races for the House, Tina Orwall, D - Des Moines and Dave Upthegrove, D - Des Moines, are each being reelected in District 33 while Pat Sullivan, D - Covington, is on his way to another win in District 47, Position 2.

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

Some homeless advocates are dismayed by what they say is Governor Andrew Cuomo's failure at the end of the legislative session to follow through with promises to fund five years» worth of new supportive housing and other services for the homeless.

Some homeless advocates are dismayed by what they say is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's failure at the end of the legislative session to follow through with promises to fund five years of new supportive housing and other services for the homeless.

Just days after Trump said he was moving on to other issues, senior White House officials are now saying they have hope that they can still score the kind of big legislative victory on health care that has so far eluded him.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz of Berlin, far right, and other top legislative leaders reached a bipartisan agreement on the two - year state budget, but the full details were not immediately released.

House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D - Hamden, agreed, saying that he had accompanied Cafero and other legislative leaders to a briefing on guns Tuesday at the state police headquarters in Middletown.

She then called out to other GOP lawmakers in that legislative house to join him, namely Senators Patrick Gallivan, Michael Ranzenhofer and Robert Ortt.

David Cameron has plenty of other legislative priorities before reforming the Upper House and initiating a difficult battle with the mass of Tory life peers who oppose his instinct to democratise the Lords.

In Albany, this is how the stage gets set for each legislative house to praise itself and to blame the other for the failure, yet again, of meaningful reform, and for Mr. Cuomo to blame them both.

During the ninth Legislative session of 2011, held May 12, I voted in favor of spending $ 26 million of surplus funds to improve roads, invest in Erie Community College's North Campus, and build new housing for seniors, among other projects.

Sharkey made the comment at a Legislative Office Building press conference in which he and other House and Senate leaders announced formation of a «special bipartisan task force on gun violence prevention and children's safety.»

There are, on the other hand, well - established Tory arguments for a reformed second chamber that would provide a more effective check on the legislative ambitions of a House of Commons dominated by the executive.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Justice and member representing Asa / Ilorin - West Federal Constituency of Kwara State, Mr. Razak Atunwa, shares his legislative experience and other issues with JOHN AMEH

«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

«In addition to these funds,» she said, «the mayor has committed tens of millions of dollars to other city agencies that will directly benefit older New Yorkers, such as to set aside 15,000 affordable housing units targeted to households where older people reside, and a recently announced proposal which will require city and state legislative approval to raise the Senior Citizen Homeowner's Exemption household income eligibility from $ 37,400 to $ 58,400, which would benefit an estimated 32,000 households in New York City.»

But FASEB legislative analyst Jennifer Zeitzer says the organization is «pleased with what happened» given the pressure to fund other agencies within the jurisdiction of the House labor, health and human services, and education appropriations subcommittee.

Veto threats loom The speech comes amid a flurry of veto threats by the White House this month alone on legislative attempts to, among other things, approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

As with other employers, schools are also free to process using in - house provision to ensure compliance with the myriad of legislative obligations.

In addition to a re-write of the process by which state education officials issue A-F ratings to Indiana schools — among other matters — House Bill 1427 calls for a legislative review, public hearings and a fiscal analysis of the Common Core.

House lawmakers say they are keenly interested in legislative action next month that would either delay implementation of a new law requiring districts to reduce class sizes in grades K - 3 and / or provide additional funds to districts so that complying with the mandate doesn't result in harm to other areas of instruction.

A former adjunct professor in the Women in Politics Institute at American University, Maya has also served as the vice president of research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), senior resident scholar at the National Urban League, chief of staff to Congressman Charles Rangel (D - NY), professional staff on the House Ways and Means Committee, and as a CBCF legislative fellow in the office of Congressman Melvin Watt (D - NC) among other positions.

NCSEA and other members of the legislative stakeholder process that led to HB589 continue to be extremely disappointed in the 18 - month wind moratorium that was unnecessarily inserted into the NC House - passed version of HB589, which all of the participating stakeholders supported.

Moreover, just weeks after St. Simons and RFF were decided, the ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution urging all «federal, state, tribal, territorial and local legislative, judicial and other governmental bodies» to support applying the attorney - client privilege to protect from disclosure «confidential communications between law firm personnel and their firms» designated in - house counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of priviHouse of Delegates passed a resolution urging all «federal, state, tribal, territorial and local legislative, judicial and other governmental bodies» to support applying the attorney - client privilege to protect from disclosure «confidential communications between law firm personnel and their firms» designated in - house counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of privihouse counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of privilege.

Likewise, Chris Walsh (D - Framingham) commented in the Framingham Source that «recognizing that one - third of the residents in the Commonwealth currently do not have access to a Housing Court, working with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and other groups, we crafted legislation to expand the Housing Court across the entire state, that has been supported both by the entire Framingham legislative delegation and more than 50 legislators.»

Written and compiled by an experienced law librarian, with chapters contributed by other seasoned legal information professionals, this book tells you what it's like to work in a particular work environment - ranging from the court house library to a law firm library, the law society to a legislative library.

In other legislative news, the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House held a hearing today regarding abusive patent demand letters.

16 SB 319 / HCSFA S. B. 319 (SUB)- 1 - HOUSE SUBSTITUTE TO SENATE BILL 319 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1 To amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and 2 businesses, so as to provide that professional counseling includes diagnosing emotional and 3 mental problems and conditions; to clarify that persons licensed as professional counselors, 4 social workers, and marriage and family therapists are not authorized to conduct 5 psychological testing; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for a 6 curriculum of continuing education relating to diagnosing; to provide for the establishment 7 of rules and regulations regarding testing conducted by licensed professional counselors; to 8 clarify that psychological testing is part of the practice of psychology; to provide that certain 9 licensed persons are able to perform certain tests other than psychological testing; to revise 10 definitions; to amend Code Section 37 -1-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, 11 relating to definitions relative to the general provisions governing and regulating mental 12 health, so as to conform a cross-reference; to provide for related matters; to provide an 13 effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Amounts quarantined from a person's income can be spent on «priority needs» including food, beverages, clothing, basic household items, housing, household utilities, heath, childcare and development, education and training and other specified items by legislative instrument.

NAGLREP is thrilled to join with the National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) and other diverse groups in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act during the NAR Midyear Legislative Meetings.

To make sure lawmakers know where NAR stands on tax reform and other legislative priorities, including reauthorization of federal flood insurance, NAR President - elect Elizabeth Mendenhall spent the day in Capitol Hill meetings with leaders in both the House and the Senate.

Inclusion of the required content and time elements into a full day or multi-day new member orientation program (which includes other topics such as legislative efforts, MLS, fair housing, antitrust, etc.).

When Rep. Mark Foley, R - Fla., battled in the recent election to retain his seat against a strong challenger, Jean Elliott Brown, he had one thing going for him that only a handful of other House and Senate members had: NAR's Legislative Leadership Award.