Sentences with phrase «reform agenda with»

Crucially the question of reform of the way political parties are funded, has been pushed off the reform agenda with little probability of returning.

Actually, I don't want to get into a long thread on carbon taxes (Richmond's in front of Sydney), but my main point of difference is that you assume that any carbon price is necessarily a significant burden on an economy, but what if carbon pricing is part of a broader tax reform agenda with a shift in taxes from, say, income and company taxes to carbon pricing?

And three high - profile party stalwarts announced the formation of Democrats for Public Education, to contest the reform agenda with a public - centered alternative.

But it was a reform agenda with a difference.

It is a painful process for Cabinet secretary admired throughout government for being able to rush through a radical reform agenda with a minimum of press hostility or political interference.

Not exact matches

The administration's patent reform agenda «reflects recognition that there are systemic problems with the patent system,» Meurer says.

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

McConnell did say repealing Obamacare is a «pretty high item on our agenda» along with comprehensive tax reform and achieving border security «in whatever way is the most effective.»

From an investment perspective, assuming Macron is able to build support and implement the central tenets of his reform agenda, we'd expect the main beneficiaries could be stocks with an exposure to clean energy, research and development (R&D), technology, health care and infrastructure projects.

WINNERS: EXCHANGES Achievement Award ICE Long before derivatives reform was on the regulatory agenda, the Intercontinental Exchange in Atlanta was well on the way to achieving what regulators hope to accomplish with new rules — an unprecedented level of transparency in...

«Generally speaking, I am not very nervous on emerging markets from a valuation perspective and I back those with a reform agenda, like India,» he added.

Trump, though, reportedly finds the plan to run on tax reform «boring,» and instead is planning to stick to his populist immigration and trade agenda, both with a message to reduce foreign competition to America's workers and businesses.

The U.S. - Canada softwood lumber trade dispute, housing finance reform and tax - related housing issues were on the agenda when NAHB Senior Officers recently met with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in Washington, D.C.

Today's economic risks can be minimized only with reforms that must form part of a long - term policy agenda.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

I ask because I've read progressive Christians who linked certain legislative agendas with «biblical» values, such as the 2010 health - care reform law or with a progressive tax system.

The new School Meal Flexibility Rule... reflects USDA's commitment, made in a May proclamation to work with program operators, school nutrition professionals, industry, and other stakeholders to develop forward - thinking strategies to ensure school nutrition standards are both healthful and practical... This action reflects a key initiative of USDA's Regulatory Reform Agenda, developed in response to the President's Executive Order to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens.

Moreover, EVEL does not engage with on - going reforms in the other nations of the UK nor within England, appearing designed to operate in parallel, rather than in tandem, with other policies such as devolution to England's cities and regions and the wider Northern Powerhouse agenda.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

--[End of LC comment] The difference with your pro-PR post may be about short - term and long - term reform agendas.

This is bad news for China as it has long valued global economic stability within which to pursue its own reform agenda, but is particularly worrisome now as the country grapples with difficult choices over how to develop «new engines of economic growth».

Yes, plenty of conservative activists will still be fired up about Obama's «socialist» agenda, but with health care reform passed into law, they've lost the main focus of their ire.

The president gave some shout - outs from the stage before launching into his scripted remarks, recognizing Mayor Bloomberg, who isn't seeing eye - to - eye with Obama on his reform agenda; and also state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (although he mispronounced the Long Island Democrat's name, calling him Dee - Nah - POH - li; that's the second time the president has done that).

Scrutiny and critique of primaries and the broader reform agenda is a good thing, and I hope this exchange has weakened the idea they are being proposed with malign intent.

The idea is to try and build consensus and get input from reformers before the governor goes public with his reform agenda at the State of the State / budget address on Jan. 13th.

In accepting this responsibility on behalf of his colleagues, Speaker Heastie has stepped forward at an incredibly important time for New York as a whole, and I look forward to working with him to enact an aggressive agenda that ensures economic opportunity for all, improves and reforms our education system, ensures justice in perception and in reality, and restores trust in our government.»

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

As expected, most of the Citizens Union - sponsored event focused on the candidates» reform agendas, with strong support from all for legalizing gay marriage, bipartisan redistricting and full public financing of campaigns.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a five - pronged package in January that included these reforms as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda, and the organizations were led to believe they would be part of the state's finalized budget after months of discussions with elected officials, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society said.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Ideologically, Trump's radical reforms permit a loose analogy with Ronald Reagan's agenda in 1980, but President Reagan was an outward - looking and internationally engaged White House incumbent.

«He has laid out a bold agenda to reform and I am proud to stand with him and this diverse group of leaders to bring New Yorkers together — regardless of their party affiliation — under this big tent and behind this agenda for reform.»

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

«Andrew wants to start out early lining up support for his budget reform agenda, and this will be an early test of who is with him and who is not,» said a Capitol observer.

Raab would also like to see Truss make headway with her predecessor's reform agenda — something she failed to commit to during her first select committee appearance.

The commission, which is holding hearings across the five boroughs to solicit public input as to what its agenda should be, can consider any proposal presented to it, though de Blasio charged its members with particularly looking at voting access and campaign finance reform.

As governor, Eliot Spitzer is ablaze with reform fervor as embodied in his Renew New York Agenda.

«The City Council will select the Speaker, and Mayor - elect de Blasio looks forward to working with the next Speaker and Council on passing a progressive reform agenda for New York City.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.

On Wednesday, with only four days remaining of this year's legislative session, Cuomo announced a new prong to his ethics reform agenda: an ambitious plan to better regulate the activities of political action committees and limit the impact of shadowy independent expenditures that he says are all too often not actually independent from the candidate they are supporting.

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

Few believe the Democrats will gain a majority in the Senate this year, leaving Spitzer with two years to amass a record of success on his governmental - reform agenda of lowering taxes and balancing the state budget before attempting to take on a controversial social issue.

And de Blasio is doing so as Cuomo finds himself prodded by other liberal Democrats, too: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who once responded with timidity to Cuomo's efforts to undercut him, recently ridiculed Cuomo's attempts at ethics reform as «tinkering around the edges» and proposed his own ethics agenda.

Since the formation of the IDC in 2011, mainline Democrats have howled that the IDC's partnership with the GOP has blocked consideration of key progressive agenda items such as the development of a single - payer health care system, campaign finance reforms, abortion protections and more.

If it can be shown that they are the biggest obstacles to meaningful campaign finance reform — will Cantor finally criticize Klein, Savino, Smith and their alliance with Dean Skelos, arguably the biggest opponent to the WFP agenda on the State level?

David Cameron has attempted to placate his backbenchers ahead of a week dominated by Lords reform, with a speech suggesting the party will go to the 2015 general election with a more rightwing agenda.

The Electoral Reform Society will be keeping tabs on how issues like Boundary Changes interact with other items on the Government's reform agenda, and their implications for vReform Society will be keeping tabs on how issues like Boundary Changes interact with other items on the Government's reform agenda, and their implications for vreform agenda, and their implications for voters.

On top of that he got sucked into playing ball with Senate Leader Dean Skelos's agenda to water down ethics reform, when he failed to call Senate Leader Skelos out on his own questionable behavior in the State Senate.