Sentences with phrase «piece of legislation for»

Simply put, the American Health Care Act is the worst piece of legislation for women in a generation, and the Senate must reject this bill.»

The bill was the worst piece of legislation for women's health in a generation, allowing insurance companies to no longer cover birth control, threatening maternity care for 13 million women, allowing insurance companies to charge more for pre-existing conditions, leaving at least 32 million people without health insurance, and preventing millions of people from getting basic care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

It's a terrible piece of legislation for many reasons.

In February, a significant piece of legislation for the art world was introduced which will finally implement in the UK the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cult..

The fumble on a transportation bill illustrates how Boehner courts chaos with this hands - off approach, and it raises questions about the fate of the central piece of legislation for 2012.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a historic piece of legislation for school libraries because it is the fist time in over five decades that school library programs have been explicitly granted eligibility for federal dollars.

«This is an historic piece of legislation for the state,» state Superintendent of Education Barbara Stock Nielsen said in a telephone...

However, George Osborne's budget statement foreshadowed several pieces of legislation for the next session.

While those are undoubtedly very important pieces of legislation for some segments of the population (like motor car dealers and notorious criminals) I expect that few British Columbians were aware that those Acts... [more]

Not exact matches

It's because I consider it horribly and needlessly complex, and think that comparing it with Glass - Steagall — a piece of relatively simple Depression - era legislation that held up for decades — is ludicrous.

Donald Trump's first year in office may have been laden with controversy, political squabbling, and tweet storms, yet the reality - TV star turned U.S. president also managed to get a singular piece of legislation through that should loom large for businesses big and small for years to come.

Both Twitter and Facebook said Tuesday ahead of the hearing that they would support the Honest Ads Act, a proposed piece of legislation that would require tech firms that sell ads to disclose how much they are paid for placing political ads on their platform.

The New York Department of Finance sets a strong standard for what might constitute a life - changing problem for people whose information is involved in a cybersecurity breach (according to the new legislation the only two pieces of leak - able information that are still exempt: age and gender) as well as a company's ability to survive.

In 2006, Congress overwhelmingly approved, and President George W. Bush signed, legislation extending for 25 more years a critical piece of the Voting Rights Act.

Prop F is a bad piece of legislation and would be an even worse precedent for other cities to copy.

Brad Close, the NFIB's director of public policy in the House, said it was a straightforward piece of legislation to address the needs of entrepreneurs who use their personal credit cards for business.

Again, the issue of deficit reduction is unlikely to register very much in the debate about whether or not it is appropriate to require women to register for the draft — but it makes for an interesting example of just how far the unintended consequences of a piece of legislation can reach.

«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

New legislation legalizing equity - based crowdfunding, where entrepreneurs are able to raise capital by selling a piece of their company online in exchange for cash, has passed Congress and is currently awaiting final rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission before it can be implemented.

Quite apart from the fact that this would clash with another piece of EU legislation that's trying to protect freedom of expression, this would be a huge burden for anyone trying to set up a new user - generated content platform, making it a problem for both innovation and competition.

Then, she did more than that: She sponsored a nearly inverse piece of legislation that establishes a legal framework for «digital dispatch» in the district.

That particular provision of the legislation would allow businesses to give away pieces of their company to unaccredited investors in exchange for cash, or equity crowdfunding.

For example, while businesses and government departments in the UK must comply with the Data Protection Act, the Canadian parliament is currently debating a new piece of legislation, the Information Sharing Act, which will allow all departments of government to share information in ways that are not currently permitted in the UK.

Looking forward to 2018, several new pieces of legislation will be voted on or come into effect that will — for better or worse — reshape how ICOs, cryptocurrencies, and their investors function.

In a 2010 piece discussing the impact of climate change legislation on the U.S., Levi and Trevor Houser write that, «energy security is notoriously difficult to define and thus serves as the perfect weapon for attacking legislation.»

This is an archaic piece of Victorian legislation which, among other things not suitable for 21st century business, allows any partner to dissolve the firm without notice.

Negotiators have been working for days - and nights - on details of the bill, which is widely viewed as the last major piece of legislation likely to move through Congress in this election year.

Therefore, supplementing conventional estimates with some additional dynamic estimates on major pieces of legislation, such as Camp's tax reform draft, can help give lawmakers and the public more information, but the default score should be used for budgetary purposes.

Just before Question Period this afternoon, Costas Menegakis, the Conservative MP for Richmond Hill, stood in his spot along the back row of the government side and lamented for the NDP's quibbles with a piece of government legislation.

Venue reform was the one piece of comprehensive legislation that had broad support in Congress, so while the court's decision frees up capacity for patent reform advocates to tackle other problems with the patent system, the hard fights are still to come.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Following the introduction of various pieces of anti-discrimination legislation — which, among other things, prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation — guesthouse owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull were successfully sued by a same - sex couple for refusing to provide a double - bedded room.

«It is hard for me to believe that we need a piece of legislation on compromise when 92 % of the American public supports universal background checks,» Crebbin said.

legislation in the United States has been delayed, perhaps for a long time or permanently, although pieces of programs, such as mixing energy sources, will survive for other reasons.

How about the fact that the Mormon Church went into partnership with the Catholic Church and encouraged... «strongly» their congregations to «vote» out any piece of legislation that creates equality under the law for gay's.

But Catholic support for the general principle of reform does not bind anyone to endorse a specific piece of legislation.

«Our industry applauds President Obama and Members of Congress for ensuring that this significant piece of legislation advanced and was signed into law this year,» Susan K. Neely, ABA president and CEO, said.

So the idea that the government has to use this piece of legislation to recommend increasing penalties on unions for secondary boycotts by — as the shadow Assistant Treasurer reminds me — 800 times the current penalty does smack of some excessiveness on behalf of even this government.

«This piece of legislation will modernize outdated regulations and cut federal taxes for small brewers, distillers and winemakers across Oklahoma by 50 percent, allowing them to grow their businesses and create more jobs in Oklahoma.»

«This committee is very concerned and has been for a long time about competition issues and market share issues, so that is probably something that this committee would regard as a sensible piece of legislation.

When Governor Pat Neff vetoed a piece of legislation that would have given West Texas its own college in 1921, newspaper editorial pages actually called for secession.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food... [Continue reading]

A piece of legislation included in ACA requires most health insurance plans to cover the cost of breastfeeding support and equipment for nursing moms, including the cost of lactation counselors and breast pumps.

I also copied every piece of legislation on food allergy guidelines in every other US state for her to review.

The CNRA is a large piece of legislation that sets guidelines for several federal nutrition programs, including the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food regulations, the new food safety law and the new voluntary guidelines for marketing junk food to children, along with funding for food assistance programs like WIC.

Just as the SP should not lie for political reasons, major pieces of legislation should not be rushed through the legislative process for purely political reasons.

But Assembly Speaker Sheldon Siver exited a closed - door meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to say he expected the major pieces of legislation — a tax cap, SUNY tuition increase scheme, rent control for New York City — will be taken up and passed by the end of the day.