Sentences with phrase «power over legislation»

Still, he assured his boy that he would retain the title of majority leader and president of the Senate and ultimate power over all legislation and chairmanships in that house of the State Legislature.

Williams confirmed to the Observer after an unrelated event last night that he intends to run for speaker, a role that carries enormous power over legislation, zoning and the crafting of the city budget.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tatiana Martins had urged a conviction, saying there was a «mountain of evidence» that Silver was making millions of dollars by utilizing a form of extortion that stemmed from his enormous power over legislation during his time in office.

Any move to release it for a vote would have to come from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx, who holds absolute power over legislation at this time of year.

After the GOP regained a numerical majority in the 2014 elections, they revised the arrangement: Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, the head of the IDC, retained his title of «co-leader» but lost much of his power over legislation and the chamber's internal workings

According to historian Carol Berkin's 2002 study, the delegates considered, and rejected, the possibility of giving the judiciary veto power over legislation.

, who told him: «Mr. President, the reason nothing has gotten done here is that the gun lobby has had a veto power over any legislation that comes before the Congress.»

Not exact matches

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

By: Henry Lazenby 30th April 2018 Canadian miners are voicing frustration and concern over the federal government's removal of a Senate amendment relating to final offer arbitration (FOA), and with its modification of an amendment giving the Canada Transportation Agency own - motion power, in Bill C - 49 — legislation that amends the... →

This amendment granted the Church additional powers over its own governance, enabling it - through the Synod, to bring forth its own legislation, and even to amend Acts of Parliament on matters affecting it.

Attitudes and power structures that permit male dominance over women's breasts, has reached such excess in North American society that breastfeeding can be considered «obscene», spawning US state legislation that expressly excludes breastfeeding women from obscenity laws.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

The CIOT also calls for a debate on whether the House of Lords should play a greater role in scrutinising tax legislation as it goes through Parliament, without detracting from the powers of the House of Commons over tax matters.

A slightly more realistic prospect, which has been suggested in some media outlets, is that the Lords» power (perhaps specifically its power over delegated legislation) could be cut.

A 6 month or longer extension would have given the Republicans more power to pass the legislation they want over the next few months.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Lib Dems make joint appearance over a pint to promote new legislation giving more powers to landlords

20:30 - The legislation's power over Northern Ireland is of concern to Andrew Mackinlay, whose amendment seeking to exclude its remit from the province gets the support of SDLP leader Mark Duggan.

Grayling will take on responsibility for the Government's constitutional reforms including the further devolution of powers to Scotland and legislation to give English MPs a veto over England - only laws at Westminster.

Now, the charter contingent has gotten a significant piece of what it wanted: strong pro-charter legislation, a supportive executive branch in Albany, and a mayor with limited power over charters» ability to grow.

In 2016, in exchange for granting Mayor Bill de Blasio an extension of mayoral control over schools, the Republicans in the State Senate, to whom Ms. Moskowitz has close ties, inserted broad language in the legislation giving SUNY the power to promulgate regulations for the schools it oversees.

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

This is legislation brought forward by a government which actually gives Parliament more power over the executive.

Tory sources indicate that May is likely to push the legislation through the Commons without Scottish parliament consent, and hope that the UK supreme court will rule in her favour after a potentially crucial hearing on the Scottish parliament's powers over Brexit in July.

As part of an agreement between the IDC and Republican caucus, each conference had veto power over what legislation was brought to a vote.

The Welsh Economy Minister would face an uphill battle over possible changes to business rate relief for charity shops according to Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Business Minister, Eluned Parrott AM, following legal advice that Welsh Ministers do not have the power to impose such changes without new primary legislation.

The group is also pressing to give chairs more power over their committees and to reform the legislative process so that the speaker can't prevent legislation from making it to the floor when it is supported by a large majority of members.

Her legislation, offered near the end of session, authorized the state Power Authority to use eminent domain in taking over the FitzPatrick plant.

MPs given greater power over secondary legislation, with peers defeating the government on scrutiny of statutory instruments.

UKIP's first elected MP, who left the Conservative Party, called on David Cameron to stand by his 2010 election «promises» and support amendments to legislation about recall powers over MPs.

After advancing legislation that overturned the term limits law ---- allowing both Bloomberg and herself another four years in power ---- Quinn faced an unusually tough Democratic primary in 2009, garnering just over half the vote in a three - way race.

Various options exist, such as removing the veto power over secondary legislation (as recommended by various groups, including the 2000Royal Commission on Lords reform), and further codification of restrictions on the Lords» financial powers.

But rather than admitting that the proposals were unpopular, appeared to resile on Tory campaign pledges in 2015, and that the legislative means for securing them was ill - planned, the government responded with a review into the powers of the Lords over secondary legislation.

In their last act before their Easter break, Assembly members have passed emergency legislation laying claim to all powers over devolved matters that are currently in the hands of the European Union.

The Strathclyde Review reported in December 2015, outlining three options: (1) the retraction of Lords powers over statutory instrument procedure in its entirety, (2) the maintenance and codification of the status quo, and (3) a legislatively - defined new procedure in which statutory instruments would be treated like most legislation, whereby the Lords would lose their veto but would be able to suggest amendments to the Commons, who would have the final say.

The Committee is critical of the general idea of weakening of the Lords» powers over delegated legislation for a number of reasons, not least because it is very broadly accepted that secondary legislation receives far greater scrutiny in the Lords than in the Commons.

In a 2007 survey, 44 % of peers — including 52 % of Conservatives — said that they felt the chamber's powers over secondary legislation were «too weak».

«This proposal was made with all sincerity and would have allowed us to advance the issue of further powers over Welsh language legislation.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner today mounted a last - ditch, double - barreled attack against recently passed legislation which, if it survives her challenge, would give the city council more power over the planning commission.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will get new, beefed up powers over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, if proposed legislation doing the rounds in Albany comes to fruition.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will get new, beefed up powers over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, if proposed legislation...

Members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, joined by parents and members of the city's Community Education Councils, on Feb. 28 announced their support for proposed legislation that would give the local councils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their districts.

Statements by a senior Treasury Minister and the Welsh Government over the weekend have suggested that the power to raise income tax in Wales could be partly devolved, with the legislation passed in the next couple of years.

But other, less - heralded attributes helped just as much, including provisions in the state's 1995 legislation that greatly expanded Vallas's power over teachers and schools; school construction and other appealing initiatives undertaken in part to soften the accountability focus; and characteristics in Vallas that aren't necessarily the trademark of the latest fashion, the big - city superintendent who rides in from another walk of life.

Greater power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.

Under the proposed legislation, the State Board of Education would have veto power over the actions of the new charter school board with a 3/4 majority vote.

Introduce new powers forcing any school receiving a «requires improvement» rating to be taken over by new leadership unless it has an improvement plan This happened, in a way, as part of the «coasting schools» legislation in the 2016 Education Act.

Both the Senate and House versions of the legislation would lessen federal involvement in schools and would turn over power to the states to assess school performance.

Warren and Sen. Brian Schatz, D - Hawaii, introduced legislation last week that would give consumers more control over how the three major credit bureaus use consumer information, including giving them the power to put a free freeze on their credit files.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.