Sentences with phrase «over reform of»

The real battle over the reform of American public education will not be depend on whether Beltway players and the outlets that cover and opine about them (including this publication) argue about the equivalent of how many angels dance on the heads of pins.

It has been both amusing and instructive to watch the disintegrating nexus between the Democratic Party and one of its staunchest and most reliable constituencies, the teachers unions, over the reform of public education around the country.

For more than a decade, debate over reform of public pensions — including teachers — has been in a rut.

The Government is currently in conflict with the House of Lords over reform of Tax Credits, with at one point the possibility of a Lords «shutdown» being inflicted by the Government.

Democrats and Republicans in the Sate Senate engaged in partisan squabbling over reform of the state's campaign finance.

Democrats and Republicans in the NYS Senate engaged in partisan squabbling over reform of the state's campaign finance system.

Government officials have reached a «stalemate» with campaigners over reform of the coroners» system, politics.co.uk has learned.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are heading for a clash over reform of the House of Lords amid signs that the prime minister is prepared to agree that the changes should be put to a referendum.

Miliband urged other party leaders to «respond to this call for changing the system», in a move which puts the ball firmly on their side of the court over reforms of MPs» earnings.

NAR President Gary Thomas talks about the successes of QM / QRM rulemaking, and the coming debates over the reforms of Fannie Mae, Freddie...

Not exact matches

Note, for instance, that the full text of the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is over 2,000 pages long.

Reports of weak phone component orders and the fading benefits of tax reform cast a shadow over the company's future.

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

«We're planning to invest over $ 50 billion in the U.S. over the next five years to increase production of profitable volumes and enhance our integrated portfolio, which is supported by the improved business climate created by tax reform.»

Saudi Arabia is revising its major reform strategy just over a year after its launch, extending the timeline of some targets and removing others entirely, according to reports.

The battle over healthcare reform may look and sound as if it's a war on the periphery of daily life, but it is core to it.

Fragile growth prospects over the medium term underscored the importance of accelerating structural reforms, Azour said.

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

The researchers also revealed some disturbing forward - looking calculations should major reform not be implemented: If healthcare costs rise to a predicted 20 percent of GDP by 2017, eight industries, including educational services, communications, and manufacturing, would shed more than 20 percent of their workforces over the same period.

The only thing that would change is trampling even more all over any willingness to tackle a couple of reforms,» Schäuble said Thursday at a book launch, according to the Wall Street Journal.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The defeat was the most serious setback for Prodi's nine - month - old coalition government, also deeply divided over a host of domestic issues ranging from the budget, pension reform and a bill giving legal recognition to gay and unwed couples.

«The central government will still need to take the social impact (notably unemployment) of these reforms into account, and it also is keen to maintain its control over these SOEs, and as such, their full scale privatization is unlikely.»

The rights group recommended the two countries instead work together to pursue reforms, adding that, «Kuwait should confront the outcry over deaths, beatings, and rapes of domestic workers by taking immediate steps to reform the kafala system, which traps workers with abusive employers.»

Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Apple and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance law, weakening prospects for privacy reforms that would further protect customer data, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Clinton's apparent popularity likely stems from her developing connections in the tech sector over a longer period of time than other Oval Office contenders, according to Mark Schmitt, director of the political reform program at independent think tank New America Foundation.

Reform of metropolitan councils is set to be derailed unless there is a quick response by the state government to concerns over funding implementation costs, according to the WA Local Government Assoc

Once the darling of the Tea Party, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has faced an intense backlash of criticism from the conservative wing of his party over his support for comprehensive immigration reform.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

The Military Times over the weekend quoted the Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly, who runs a military advocacy group, as endorsing the «rolling back» of some of President Barack Obama's military personnel reforms.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

«DOI's investigations exposing and preventing the types of corruption that fuel violence have resulted in more than 30 arrests of Correction Department officers and staff over the last two years and led to dozens of reforms,» he said.

The legislation proposed earlier this summer - the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act - would exclude most such workers and would reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.

The unrelenting uproar over the federal government's proposed small - business tax reforms has gotten so complicated that it might be helpful to try setting aside some of the less worrisome parts before diving into what matters.

Germany and France publicly clashed on Tuesday over plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising banks, deepening a dispute over the scope of the ECB's powers that threatens to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.

Fault lines have emerged in the new government even before its first cabinet meeting, with tensions evident over the sequencing and extent of reforms.

Vento put up the notices (as the AP put it) «because of concerns over immigration reform and the increasing number of people who could not order in English.»

Even though North Korea's participation in the games hogged the spotlight in the lead - up to the event, the suspension of Jay Y. Lee's five - year prison term for bribery has raised questions more recently over chaebol reform in South Korea.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

For all of the region's protests of the president, tech companies must engage both parties in equal measure if they have any hope of shaping the government's debates over tax and immigration reforms — or the myriad other issues that matter to the tech industry's bottom lines.

Over the past few years, the U.S. Government has worked closely with the government of Bangladesh to encourage the reforms needed to meet those basic standards.

For example, tobacco companies exerted hefty influence over American politics for years, but — as information about the toxic effects of smoking became public — major reforms took place and smoking in America has continually decreased.

And Democrats will engage in some reasonable entitlement reform that will buy back sequestration over a period of time, so that we can defend our nation.

Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life - saving medications.

Beyond the battle over at least the temporary future of the CFPB lies a legal question: Which federal law decides who will lead the CFPB — the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first reform that created the bureau in the first place?

The tense negotiations over Greece's debt come as the Greek government struggles to find a consensus to pass the budget reforms demanded by its so - called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund — in exchange for releasing the next installment of bailout money, a 30 billion euro ($ 38.3 billion) payout scheduled to be released in March.

In order to implement labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take on the French unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades of French political infighting.