Sentences with phrase «pieces of legislation at»

These deliveries are usually coordinated between the executive and Legislature and delivered in groups to ensure the governor doesn't have to weigh the merits of hundreds of pieces of legislation at once.

I am disappointed, but not surprised, that we can not arrive at an agreement on either of these crucial pieces of legislation at this point in the session.

Feeding the Body Politic (10 min) Through struggles and controversy, Berkeley, California parents put the democratic process to work, one neighbor, one politician, one piece of legislation at a time.

The Best Friends fiscal impact calculator estimates the expense of this piece of legislation at almost $ 4 and a half MILLION dollars a year.

This Act is the primary piece of legislation at the federal level for Indigenous affairs (and was previously called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth)-RRB-.

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Polls have found that the bill is the least popular piece of tax legislation in at least 30 years, even less so than two in the 1990s that increased taxes.

At the White House yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching one of the most forward - thinking pieces of pro-business bipartisan legislation to date signed into law by President Obama: the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS)...

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.»

Right - of - center parties in Western democracies perceive a very low threshold (each piece of welfare state legislation another step on «the road to serfdom»); left - of - center parties believe in a very high threshold, and some in that camp seem to think that there is no limit at all.

«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».

Cuomo has also been in office much longer than Spitzer was at the time Troopergate broke, and he has had far more success in office than Spitzer, passing four on - time budgets and numerous pieces of high - profile legislation (the SAFE Act, gay marriage etc.) through the Legislature.

The last major piece of gun control legislation approved by New York was the 2013 SAFE Act, a controversial package of measures backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

At 4:30 p.m., de Blasio holds a public hearing on various pieces of legislation, and signs some of them into law, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Democratic state lawmakers have hatched a plan to get a look at Trump's tax records by crafting a piece of legislation designed to get at his state returns that does everything but mention the Republican president by name.

Two pieces of SNP legislation in her sights are the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and the Named Person scheme.

Also at 4 p.m., de Blasio will hold public hearings for six pieces of legislation, and then sign them into law, Governor's Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Proposition 2, which I sponsored, debated and promoted, would allow digital copies of legislation to suffice on a state legislator's desk, thereby cutting down on the hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper at the state Capitol.

Such pleas aren't new, but they have been slow to be addressed or are the source of partisan bickering at the state Capitol, where of 84 pieces of legislation (some of them duplicates in the Assembly and state Senate) currently before state lawmakers include the word «voting» (333, again with some duplicates, include the word «election»).

Says one Democratic operative of Messina: «I hope he's better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.»

«Let's have the debates over various policy issues and at the end of the day, either approve pieces of legislation, or if they fail to achieve enough votes, then the bill ultimately fails, but in the final analysis, that's good government,» Valesky said.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

At 10:30 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold public hearings for and sign 11 pieces of legislation, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

The episode suggested a hostile beginning to a session that already has one major piece of legislation in the mix: Mr. Cuomo's plan, announced Tuesday, to cover tuition costs for students at state colleges.

As the chairman of Budget Committee, Conrad is at the center of every major issue and every piece of legislation emerging from Congress.

Further, during the many years that Senator Stewart Cousins» has carried this important piece of legislation, her attempts at securing a united Democratic conference or any bipartisan support have been an utter failure.»

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At present, whatever the merits of individual schools under the system, the free schools programme as a whole is in danger of helping to unravel a national school system developed in successive pieces of legislation over the past 70 years.

At 4 p.m., de Blasio will hold a public hearing on 23 pieces of legislation and then sign them into law, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

At 11:30 a.m., de Blasio holds a public hearing on, and signs into law, eight pieces of legislation, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

At 4 p.m., de Blasio will hold public hearings for and sign eight pieces of legislation into law, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Cutting the deficit is plainly at the front and centre of the political agenda, and it was mentioned in the first line of the speech, despite not needing a piece of legislation per se.

At 4:30 p.m., de Blasio will hold public hearings for and sign four pieces of legislation, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

At 4 p.m., de Blasio will hold public hearings on, and then sign into law, seven pieces of legislation, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Her claims are somewhat difficult to accept at face value, however, in light of the three discriminatory pieces of legislation that she push... Read

On a session day, we would be meeting with relevant legislators at the capitol to argue either for or against one or more pieces of legislation that are important to the client.

Klein said he was «disappointed» about the outcome, «but at the same time, I think it's difficult not to have a united Democratic conference — all Democrats, I.D.C., regular Democrats — on such an important issue and to expect Republicans to support such an important piece of legislation.»

Albany, NY — Independent Democratic Conference Leader State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and State Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) announced Tuesday that the State Senate passed two critical pieces of legislation they sponsor aimed at predatory subprime auto lending in New York.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York Democrats have hatched a plan to get a look at Donald Trump's tax records by crafting a piece of legislation designed to get at his state returns that does everything but mention the Republican president by name.

That short list includes issues with a deadline, including the extension of mayoral control of New York City's schools, as well as matters that might be described as politically necessary in this election year, including the need to deliver to the governor's desk at least one piece of legislation addressing official corruption.

«We saw members of Congress openly bribe one another at the expense of their own constituents, racing each other to decimate New York's healthcare system while attempting to ram through a piece of legislation that would jeopardize the healthcare of 24 million people and supported by only 17 percent of Americans,» he said in a statement on Friday.

The piece of legislation that was designed to stop or at least mitigate this problem was Dodd - Frank.

Also at 10 a.m., de Blasio will hold public hearings for and sign nine pieces of legislation, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella will announce the details of two pieces of legislation that seek to combat abuses of current election law by incumbent candidates and party bosses to circumvent the voters, 38 - 50 Bell Blvd., Bayside, Queens.

At 1 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will sign three piece of legislation — Intros.1122 - A, 1123 - A and 1128 - A — in relation to increasing access to feminine hygiene products, High School for Violin and Dance, 1110 Boston Rd., the Bronx.

It's worth noting that as Cuomo campaigns on the passage of the full women's agenda, the governor in 2013 broke the package of bills up into 10 different pieces of legislation as Senate Republicans balked at the abortion plank.

At issue, is a piece of legislation regarding federal funding for abortion, specifically the language regarding rape victims who want an abortion.

«In 2016, Erie County will be taking a serious look at ethics reform, and I am proud to offer the first actual piece of legislation tackling the issue.

And, in just two days, officials from the Senate and Assembly, along with the governor, forced through a major piece of legislation that, at the end of the day, doesn't address the major problems associated with gun violence but instead impedes on the rights of law abiding gun owners.

A radioactive waste storage facility at 261 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg may have to find a new home soon, pending Governor David Paterson's approval of a piece legislation that has already been passed by the state Senate and Assembly, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.

Bonomo, the head of Physicians Reciprocal Insurer, employed Adam Skelos at a seldom - show job, despite lobbying his father on several crucial pieces of legislation.