Sentences with phrase «reform groups called»

Two government reform groups called for investigations, including Reclaim New York, which called the machinations «fraud.»

With public financing in the budget this year, the reform groups called on the elected officials to make sure it remains in the final budget agreement between the governor and legislature.

On Tuesday government reform groups called on New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - 2) to bring to a vote a bill that would close what's known as the «LLC Loophole.»

(This separate from another campaign finance reform group called NYLead, which is made up of business interests that usually are on the giving end of the fundraising wheel).

Government reform groups call Cuomo's remarks «absurd».

«It sounds like he's throwing in the towel,» said Blair Horner of NYPIRG, one of the reform groups calling for a special session to deal with corruption.

In comments on Twitter, Tenicka Boyd, national director of an education reform group called the Leaders of Color Initiative, called Ford a «true champion and education reform pioneer.»

Part of the confusion may be due to the fact that while the Neag School of Education was not working with E4E on their event, it was, at the very same time, working to publicize an event it was co-sponsoring with another corporate funded education reform group called Achieve Hartford!

Schnur, who runs a Manhattan - based school - reform group called New Leaders for New Schools, sits informally at the center of a network of self - styled reformers dedicated to overhauling public education in the United States.

Not exact matches

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

While the Republican - led tax reform plan is short on details at this point, the head of a tax policy group called the plan «viable.»

Immigration reform, education and scientific research among early priorities for new group called FWD.us.

He created a group of eight cardinals to advise him on reform, which a church historian calls the «most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries.»

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

A bipartisan group of senators formally filed the immigration legislation early Wednesday calling for border security as the cornerstone of reform.

A third group has felt called by Jesus to remain within their church fellowship even though there are problems, and try to reform their church from within.

Rush and fellow members of his hate group, tea party or what ever you want to call them are going to be the death of the Republican Party unless its members get away from them and reform.

CNN: Vatican blasts American nuns, calls for reforms The Vatican is turning up the heat on a group of nuns it says are operating outside of the Roman Catholic Church's doctrines.

Eire never mentions, for example, the so - called «Spirituali,» the remarkable group of reform - minded Italian Catholics, which included Michelangelo and was loosely associated with the Englishman, Cardinal Reginald Pole, while he was governor of the Papal Legation of Viterbo in the 1530s and 1540s.

The clergy group called Shoulder - to - Shoulder came from Protestant, Catholic, and Evangelical churches; Conservative, Reform, and Orthodox temples; and mosques.

As the legislative process moves forward, countless groups devoted to school lunch reform are circulating to their constituents various petitions and calls to action.

Leaders of four New York government reform groups are calling for Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to stop allowing the unused stipends of Senate committee chairs to be passed to vice-chairs.

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

The full response of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group to the call for evidence issued by the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament can be read in full, here.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

Amidst this hullaballoo, the political class has conveniently turned a deaf ear to the calls by civil society groups to undertake critical electoral reforms such as decriminalising politics.

A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

A collection of good government groups is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to insert funding in his 2016 - 17 executive budget for two election reform proposals.

Hours before Sheldon Silver resigns as Speaker of the State Assembly, six government reform groups sent a an email to all members of the NYS Assembly calling on them to enact four basic reforms that will make the Assembly more transparent, participatory and democratic.

«Once again, the flyers and robo calls will point out the issues the Senators have failed to deliver on, including increasing the state's unemployment benefit, failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, and a failure to reform our broken economic development system,» the group said in a press release out this morning.

The education reform group StudentsFirstNY offered similar praise for Elia, calling her a «strong choice.»

The state committee and the county committees regularly endorse the most disgustingly liberal Democrat political candidates every single election, then have the audacity to whine about a group that wants to call themselves the Reform Party.

Several good government groups are calling on Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie to sign a package of bills aimed at reforming the Port Authority that passed its final hurdle in the New Jersey legislature, yesterday.

The maneuvering for the next Speaker of the New York State Assembly is going on largely behind the scenes, and government reform groups say that's the wrong way to begin a new era in what's been called «the people's house.»

Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the...

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the New York Votes Act.

The group, headed by Council Speaker Christine Quinn, also announced the passing of a City Council resolution which calls for Congress and the president to supersede the Arizona law with a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

A call by government reform groups for an open leaders meeting on ethics reform tuned into a spat between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the groups themselves.

A pair of left - leaning advocacy groups criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reform a controversial real estate tax break, calling on the progressive mayor to extract more concessions from the city's powerful real estate industry.

A call by government reform groups for an open leaders» meeting on ethics reform tuned into a spat between Governor Cuomo and the groups themselves.

Reform groups have called for a special session to fix corruption at the Capitol, but Cuomo said it's too close to Hanukkah and Christmas now to hold one.

One reform group is calling on the governor and legislature to meet in a special session to address the state's on going scandals.

In response to the groups» call, a spokesman for Cuomo, did not address the question of an open leaders meeting, saying instead ethics and campaign finance reform «will be discussed» but did not say whether that will in public or in private.

Some of the reform groups here say it's time to end this so - called part - time legislature.

Editorial pages from New York City to Buffalo are calling for reform measures, and good government groups say Governor Cuomo, who came into office vowing to win back the public trust, may find his very legacy in jeopardy.