Sentences with phrase «point package of reforms»

The five - point package of reforms, spearheaded by Brooklyn Councilmen Brad Lander, Jumaane Williams and David Greenfield, and Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera, has already gotten the support of 30 standing city councilmen and women as well as candidates.

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Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.

Boehner also suggested that in the next Congress, the president could work with Republicans on a tax reform package and a big highway bill, while also pointing to the Keystone pipeline and the repeal of the medical device tax as items a Republican Senate could pass.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

A judge ruled in favor of the resident, which prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue a statement, commending the ruling and pointing to what the Democrat calls the centerpiece of his criminal justice reform package — a plan to eliminate monetary bail all together for those facing misdemeanor or nonviolent felony charges.

The issue has been the only major sticking point to emerge as the sweeping reform package, hammered out in months of bipartisan negotiations, moves quickly4through the legislature.