Sentences with phrase «reform plan called»

In 2009, the Obama administration launched its own radical school reform plan called Race to the Top.

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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.»

President Donald Trump's tax reform plan came under new criticism on Tuesday from two towering Wall Street figures, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who called into question a Republican drive to slash the U.S. corporate rate.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

Obama's other measures include plans to work with Congress to pursue reforms of Section 215 of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act that governs the collection of so - called «metadata» such as phone records, and reform of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which considers requests from law enforcement authorities on intelligence - gathering targets.

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The budget calls for tax reform that largely mirrors the House GOP's «Better Way» plan, though it does not mention much of the aspects that would pay for the changes in «Better Way» or other ways to make up for the revenue loss from the rate reductions it calls for.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

When he was pressed about Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan, he called it right - wing social engineering.

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I put quite a bit [about my plan for prison reform] in a bill called the Second Chance Act.

In the past three weeks, he has returned home to lead a call for electoral reforms that has earned him instant celebrity, sent a stab of anxiety through the ruling class and raised fears of trouble at a planned rally in Islamabad on Monday.

He plans to call for reform on the use of mitres during a debate on vestments at a General Synod meeting in York on Monday.

California wine producers claim B.C. liquor reforms violate NAFTA, GATT, and EU - Canada Agreement The association representing California wine producers has called on Premier Christy Clark to revoke or modify plans to favour the sale of B.C. wines in grocery stores.

National Democrats are now pressuring Cantor's GOP colleagues to declare whether they support his call, which is actually reminiscent of how the Rep. Paul Ryan Medicare reform plan fight played out during the NY - 26 special election.

In her speech, Clinton called for a $ 2 billion plan to reform school disciplinary policies that feed the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.

The Cuomo administration will consider scrapping its plan to delay promised Medicaid reform for children, telling advocates on a conference call Friday that the reform is one of the top items the governor would like to restore in final budget negotiations with legislators.

Last week, de Blasio released a «roadmap» for phasing out the incarceration center, which mostly reiterated steps he called for when he announced a plan to shutter Rikers in March: combining sentencing, bail, mental health and rehabilitation reforms to reduce the city's inmate population from 9,300 to 7,000 by 2021 and 5,000 by 2027.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is blasting the Assembly Majority's so - called «comprehensive» ethics reform plan that's really just a flimsy rehash of warmed - over proposals that will do little to fight corruption in Albany.

This comes on the heels of a memo circulated yesterday by the state's largest teachers union, NYSUT, that called on legislators to reject major provisions of the education reform proposals that are in the spending plan's framework.

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.

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.

Cuomo saved his plans for education and ethics reform for his speech, after already rolling out a massive infrastructure project that he says will make the late Governor Nelson Rockefeller «jealous», calling for a statewide $ 15 minimum wage, and numerous other proposals.

Israel specifically called out Rep. Michael Grimm (NY - 13) suggesting it was hypocritical for him to bote «yes» on repealing the reform law while also accepting the government - provided health insurance plan afforded all members of Congress.

They are aligned with an organization called the Committee to Save New York (CSNY) in pushing local officials to call on the state legislature to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier VI Pension reform plan.

The Center for Justice & Democracy has filed a formal ethics complaint with the Public Integrity Commission calling for an investigation into four Medicaid Redesign Team members whose employes stand to gain from the reforms / cost - cutting plan they helped devise and are now championing.

The ad calls the plan «unprecedented» and says it will achieve «dramatic reform» by capping costs without jeopardizing patient care.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

Earlier in the year the government was forced to scrap plans to build so - called Titan prisons in the face of widespread condemnation from opposition and reform groups.

The Criminal Justice Alliance, a coalition of leading criminal justice organisations whose members include Liberty, the Prison Officers» Association and the Prison Reform Trust, wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw in August 2008 calling for the plans to be scrapped.

Zouk, if Republicans remain in control, Bush has a so called «tax reform» plan.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today proposed sweeping changes in the state's criminal justice system, calling his plan the most comprehensive set of reforms in the nation.

Cuomo says he's not «wed» to calling any pension reform agreement a new Tier, if lawmakers agree to a plan that saves the same amount of money.

Former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who signed Connecticut's landmark campaign finance reforms into law, called Thursday for lawmakers to block plans by legislative Democrats from cutting the public financing system.

«Chris King says his «bold and progressive» plan as governor now includes abolishing the death penalty and legalizing recreational marijuana» via Mitch Perry of WMNF — Labeling it as «incredibly bold,» Democratic gubernatorial candidate King unveiled a criminal reform package on Tuesday that included a call to end the death penalty and full support for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Florida.

Faso released his Jobs Plan earlier this year that calls for tax and regulatory reform as well as incentivizing investment in small businesses like Northern Eagle.

Gov. Cuomo on Sunday offered early support for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's plan to reform — and ultimately shut down — Rikers Island, calling her proposal a «big solution» to a «big problem.»

If state legislators don't agree to his proposed reforms, Cuomo's budget plan calls for a $ 377 million school aid hike.

The six - point plan, which also called for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

Proponents of the plan, called «Fair Share Tax Reform,» predict that it would bring up to $ 6 billion into cash - strapped state coffers, which are facing steep deficits over the next few years.

Cuomo saved his plans for education and ethics reform for his speech, after already rolling out a massive infrastructure project that he says would make the late Gov.Nelson Rockefeller jealous, calling for a statewide $ 15 minimum wage, and numerous other proposals.

Former State Sen. Jack Martins, the Republican nominee for Nassau County executive, has taken aim for the first time at Democratic candidate Laura Curran, calling her plan to reform the county Ethics Board a «charade.»

The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.

The candidate is also calling for housing reform and infrastructure needs and plans to introduce a nine - year housing incentive for «young, tax - paying men and women who are looking to revitalize the city... and promote local wealth,» in January 2018.

Cuomo saved his plans for education and ethics reform for his speech, after already rolling out a massive infrastructure project that he said will make the late Governor Nelson Rockefeller «jealous,» calling for a statewide $ 15 minimum wage, and numerous other proposals.

ALBANY — Calling his government reform proposal «the whole loaf,» «the ultimate remedy,» «the most aggressive ethics reform we've ever seen» and «the most dramatic and aggressive [package] in the country,» Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday reiterated his suggestion he could shut down the government if legislators don't approve a state budget that includes the plan.

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

They dubbed themselves the «reform majority» and presented a plan that called for creating charter schools and ov...

That same year he co-wrote «Direct Democracy», a publication calling for increased localism and constitutional reform, and in 2008 he wrote «The Plan» with Daniel Hannan, enhancing his reputation as one of the party's brightest young thinkers.

He said Reclaim New York wants to work toward «the best ethics reform plan possible» and would not flinch «because someone threw a tantrum and called us names.»