Sentences with phrase «policy bills as»

One lobbyist said that Robert Mujica, who is in his first year as the administration's budget director, had not yet signed off on Article VII policy bills as of late Friday.

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Integrate live chat, billing, policies, shipping information, your background story, subscriptions, signups for upcoming events, webinars and downloadable content such as ebooks or case studies.

For purposes of computing ratios, billing and policy fees and other (which are a component of other revenues) are allocated as a reduction of underwriting expenses.

In a tightly scripted campaign launch in which there were few surprises, the comments were unexpected, at least by progressives, who saw them as an early sign she may shift away from the centrist economic policies pursued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clpolicy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill ClPolicy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

But Democratic critics of Senate Bill 4 have spoken out as well in the wake of the smuggling deaths, arguing that the fatalities and injuries were caused not by sanctuary policies, but by a the current broken immigration system.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Cherny went on to a public policy career, serving first as a speech writer under then - President Bill Clinton, and later helping Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)

While privacy policies were originally intended to be a protection mechanism for consumers, they have turned into «ownership policies,» said Nico Sell, CEO of the Wickr Foundation, the non-profit arm of a company that bills itself as the world's most trusted messenger site.

When Price joined the administration, Trump touted him as a conservative policy expert who could write a new health care bill to replace the Obama - era Affordable Care Act.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

Indeed, Ontario and other jurisdictions did not bother to be so prescriptive, and even Alberta officials concede this part of the bill is largely clarification (other parts are to force religious and private schools to adopt the same LGBT - friendly policies as public schools).

Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

It could be the roadblock to a policy that conservatives see as their biggest demand before they support a bill they have serious reservations about.

It emerged again Wednesday in Washington during what was billed as a major foreign policy speech.

Next up are likely attempts to insert a policy rider on a spending or budget bill to defund DOL's rule, Hauptman continued, as well as attempts «to delay implementation» of the rule.

Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau discusses the country's new fiscal policy which entails borrowing three times as much as promised before the election.

A couple of weeks ago, the NDP suggested removing the GST from heating bills, and I bemoaned the idea as just another example of a policy designed to fit a communications strategy instead of the other way around.

The House passed several tax policy - related bills, including a measure to punish people who impersonate IRS employees as...

Bill Robson, president of the C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think - tank, said one of the greatest challenges for the middle class is saving more for retirement at the same time wages aren't growing nearly as fast and household debt piles up.

In portraying Bill Niskanen as a monetary policy radical, I've limited myself to his views on the Fed and central banking more generally, without venturing to consider what he had to say about other financial regulatory agencies.

Your real estate tax bill will change annually, as will the premium on your homeowners insurance policy.

Embedded in an omnibus transparency and economic modernisation bill (known colloquially as «Sapin 2»), this amendment institutes two separate binding votes on remuneration; a forward looking vote on policy, and a backward looking vote on variable and exceptional pay amounts.

Is this a Lieutenant Governor in Council Policy or total incompetence at AHS??? Or is it Staff reluctant to do the extra paper work and not having access to billing code numbers such as the staff at the dentist office or other health services who can claim the benefit directly??

As a result, the Senate bill increases the debt by $ 1.4 trillion using conventional scoring but sets up a potential true cost of up to $ 1.9 trillion, or $ 2.2 trillion including interest, assuming expiring policies are continued and certain future tax hikes are ignored.

Importantly, reconciliation legislation can include provisions with costs, such as tax credits for health insurance or other tax and spending policies replacing Obamacare, as long as the net effect of the bill complies with the reconciliation instructions and does not increase the deficit beyond the budget window.

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress» tax policy analyst, found the House GOP bill as written would broadly cut taxes, but that the bulk of the benefits would go to corporations and the very wealthy.

«However, just as Jokowi has managed to win their support for passing important bills, it is not impossible for him to make his way to adopt a strict policy in the area of law and order.

As far as possible within HUD policy, there is now at the time of application a more careful scrutiny of the family - child relationship, bill - paying habits, and housekeeping characteristics of prospective tenantAs far as possible within HUD policy, there is now at the time of application a more careful scrutiny of the family - child relationship, bill - paying habits, and housekeeping characteristics of prospective tenantas possible within HUD policy, there is now at the time of application a more careful scrutiny of the family - child relationship, bill - paying habits, and housekeeping characteristics of prospective tenants.

But the Boss won't accept to be paid over # 600k plus per week to accommodate the wage bill of Messi & Neymar who as a club policy shouldn't earn more than the Boss.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The state requires LEAs to annually complete the online Wellness Policy Builder assessment tool to document their consideration of the state's School Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) as required by Senate Bill 154.

Yesterday, Kass, who also serves as the senior policy adviser on Healthy Eating Initiatives, told a conference of 400 chefs and children's health / anti-hunger advocates that the White House remains excited and optimistic about the bill's prospects during the next session in November.

Each session, Mass Audubon identifies a number of important environmental bills as policy priorities.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

I'm pleased to report that the post was widely shared on social media yesterday, with cross-posts on Civil Eats and Food Safety News, as well as retweets from food policy and media heavyweights like Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Bill Marler, Stephanie Strom, Melanie Warner and Marion Nestle.

The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

Bill Hammond: «As health plans across the state announce their requested premium increases for 2018, the Cuomo administration's policy decisions are taking more blame than Washington's.»

In addition, as the ECO policy is paid for via a levy on consumer energy bills, those that don't benefit are only likely to see their energy bills increase.

As a result of this bill, no organisation that criticises a government policy or that of a political party ¬ will be able to overdraw their limited ration of dissent without fearing a visit from the police.

«Despite claims to the contrary, the Cassidy - Graham plan is just another ACA repeal bill and would have the same devastating effects on New York as the previous, failed GOP repeal bills,» said Ron Deutsch, the executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

Where policies have been announced as applying from the start of the 2017 - 18 tax year or other point before the introduction of the forthcoming Finance Bill, there is no change of policy and these dates of application will be retained.

Here's Sen. Eric Schneiderman's brief appearance last week on «Countdown With Keith Olbermann» during which he discussed the passage of what's come to be known as «Ian's Law» — a bill that blocks insurance companies from dropping high - claims patients under the auspices of keeping costs lower for the majority of policy holders.

But even as lawmakers sought to stake out a focus on policy, the broadening corruption investigations into the Buffalo Billion economic development project, former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and, in New York City, an inquiry into Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, have provided more than monkey wrench into Albany's cogs.

Cuomo isn't giving up on a bill that would help child sex abuse victims obtain justice as adults — even though the measure was left out of the state budget, saying he'll continue to push for the Child Victims Act, along with other policy items not in the final deal, in the post-budget session.

Commenting on the publication of Finance Bill (No. 2) 2017 today, John Cullinane, CIOT Tax Policy Director, said: «The contents of the Bill are pretty much as we expected — that is, the measures dropped from the pre-election Finance Bill.

So the only way the Democrats have available to enact policies they favor is to convince Republicans to allow it as part of their bills.

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

In reality it's the taxpayer who is footing the bill and these costs will continue to rise rapidly as the policy is extended into Dorset, and possibly other counties in the future.»