Sentences with phrase «packages after reform»

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Particularly crucial to their strategy is the belief that the American people will ultimately be swayed by the benefits of the tax reform package, a hope that was heightened after a multitude of companies announced the legislation had spurred them to offer bonuses to their employees.

However, after that fast start, things settled back, so that as we ended the first half of the trading day, the Dow's gain, which reflected ongoing optimism on the earnings front (as Corporate America continues to release results for the third quarter) and evolving hopes that whatever the dysfunction now in Washington, a meaningful tax reform package will get passed.

She was speaking after Eurozone leaders agreed to give Greece a third bailout package of up to $ 86bn over the next three years, in exchange for further austerity and reforms.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

The reform package comes a month after former Assembly Speaker Silver was indicted on fraud and extortion charges for allegedly pocketing nearly $ 4 million in improper payments from two law firms.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a five - pronged package in January that included these reforms as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda, and the organizations were led to believe they would be part of the state's finalized budget after months of discussions with elected officials, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society said.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

After repeatedly and roundly criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio for not visiting Albany until this week to lobby for changes to real estate and rent laws, Mr. Cuomo indicated that Mr. Schneiderman is similarly late with the ambitious package of reforms he debuted on Wednesday.

Cuomo has proposed ethics legislation, his second package since he and the Legislature passed a 2011 ethics reform act after campaigning in 2010 to «clean up Albany,» a platform similar to ones routinely used in Albany campaigns for decades.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

The mayor's announcement comes just after the City Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless shelters.

But in March 2014, Cuomo, whose administration had been accused of interfering with the panel, ordered it discontinued, after a package of ethics reforms was passed by the state legislature.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito maintains she has been «transparent and responsible» to her colleagues after she announced that a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Know Act would be instead be handled by the NYPD — insisting that she wanted hear colleagues to hear it from her first.

After he actually became governor, Cuomo reiterated his threat, using it as a verbal cudgel with which to beat legislators into passing his ethics reform package.

In response, the governor lashed out at Collins, even threatening to name a new property tax after him, and also pledged to sue if the amendment became part of a larger health care reform package in D.C.

After nearly two months, Governor Andrew Cuomo requested on Friday that the Legislature send him an ethics reform package he personally designed and pushed the Legislature to pass in June with the assistance of a message of necessity he issued to speed the process.

Gov. Cuomo formed the Moreland Commission last summer after lawmakers balked at adopting his package of ethics reforms.

But by April of the following year, after facing strident resistance from lawmakers over the authority of the commission, Cuomo announced the investigation would disband after a deal was reached with legislators over a new package of ethics reforms Cuomo said obviated the need for the commission.

Cuomo, despite saying that the so - called Moreland Commission was independent, dismantled it after legislators agreed to a package of ethics reforms that good government groups say did not go far enough to end the historical corruption in Albany.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

After untold billions of dollars and lofty reform packages too numerous to list, very little has been accomplished.

In early June, four weeks after the parents» trip, six months after the first bills confronting the Detroit school system were introduced, and a full year after Governor Snyder recommended an overhaul, both houses of the legislature came together to deliver a final reform package.

In introducing LASPO the Government agreed to review each policy between three and five years after implementation date together with «a wider review of the entire package of Legal Aid Reform policies implemented following the June 2011 Legal Aid consultation».

As the calendar year ends, Congress is poised to head home after the likely passage of a massive tax reform package today.