Sentences with phrase «reforming legislative agenda»

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«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.

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.

So it makes sense for Labour to spend parliament's time up on the bill it does support — Lords reform — at the expense of the coalition's own legislative agenda.

-- I put forth a reform agenda «A Blueprint for a Stronger New York» that outlines a number of legislative initiatives that will make Albany more accountable and transparent; and

Yet one of the niggling items from his heralded pre-election agenda that remains conspicuously undone is reforming legislative and congressional redistricting.

Firstly, that if Lords reform is to succeed it will have to dominate the coalition's legislative agenda in a way that would be unacceptable to many Tories.

Sen. Ted O'Brien laid out his 2014 legislative agenda, which does not include campaign finance reform or the Women's Equality Act.

The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

Lords reform takes centre stage in legislative agenda, alongside measures to support families, change employment law and reform pensions

Much of Curran's ethics reform agenda, including the appointment of an inspector general to oversee county contracting, would require legislative approval.

The Daily Gazette: New York's 2014 Legislative Session a Failure The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equalLegislative Session a Failure The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equallegislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

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.

Cuomo pledged that more reforms will be pursued as part of his legislative agenda.

In the Jan. 4, article, «Energy costs a top issue,» Capital Region Chamber CEO Mark Eagan also noted that reforming the Scaffold Law was at the top of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce's legislative agenda.

She delivered her address to the Global Parliamentary Conference alongside parliamentarians from around the world, focused on Nigeria's economic reform agenda and the need for strong executive and legislative collaboration.

At noon, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and leading anti-corruption activist Zephyr Teachout will join Common Cause / NY to lay out a reform agenda for the 2017 legislative session, LCA Press Room, 130, LOB, Albany.

When he's representing the governor, he should let us know what Mr. Cuomo is up to and how he intends to move his legislative agenda on ethics reform forward.»

Mark - Viverito has largely shepherded the mayor's agenda through the legislative process, and obstructed measures he opposed, such as police reform bills and improved disability benefits for first responders.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

Cuomo has pledged as part of his broader Albany - reform agenda to wrest the power to redraw legislative - and congressional - district lines from legislative leaders in Albany, who currently exercise control of the process through a redistricting task force whose members they appoint.

«Going forward our legislative agenda seeks reform across American life, with a focus on jobs and raising the standard of living for all.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

Dozens of people from labor, faith, and community groups gathered to push for a legislative agenda this year that includes raising the minimum wage, closing corporate tax loopholes and reforming campaign finance.

Here's hoping that the apparent rhetorical reluctance to put ethics reform at the top of the governor's legislative agenda does not reflect a lack of interest on his part to advance meaningful measures to reform Albany.

On another issue that's atop the legislative agenda, the Post's Fred Dicker reports that there is a deal afoot to pass rent reform, with the minimum rent for vacancy decontrol likely to be hiked up to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000.

«Advocates for police reform have every right to expect a seat at the table... but no advocate should ever have veto power over the legislative agenda of the New York City Council,» Torres continued.

Sunday retail alcohol sales, workforce development, fighting opioids, reforming civil forfeiture laws and increasing funding for schools are all part of the the Indiana Senate Republican legislative agenda for 2018.

On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, a jobs bill and a comprehensive health care reform bill, Sen. Jon Kyl, R - Arizona, suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

But MPS board member Larry Miller blasted MMAC's legislative agenda, saying it removes new reforms that make voucher and charter schools more accountable to parents and taxpayers.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum of educational issues including the preparation, support and development of school leaders, school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and school reform issues.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

Many legislative leaders and observers have predicted the bill will pass in some form this year, and Gov. Chris Christie has repeatedly called tenure reform a core priority of his education agenda, even offering general praise of Ruiz's bill.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

Rather than spending their time and lobbying funds cheering on Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform industry agenda, perhaps the publicly funded Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is provided.

Their 2015 - 2017 legislative agenda (see right hand column on their web page at the following link) calls for «Fundamentally reform MPS governance and empower the MPS Superintendent to make reforms within the district.»

In South Korea, we are working with local advocates on a broad agenda of reform and policy and legislative change.

Good for them.I doubt that reform of that section will be high on Prime Minister Trudeau's legislative agenda.

The political successes of battered women's advocates, which have resulted in legislative reform and important expressions of organizational commitment, may, paradoxically, have impeded change at the level of daily practice where professionals feel bullied by a political agenda that they have not yet adopted as their own at either a cognitive or an emotional level.

The Project is an important mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to develop and lead a policy and legislative reform agenda to address challenges to self - determined economic development on the Indigenous Estate.

Since 2011, when Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House, regulatory reform has been a key plank of the legislative agenda.

Topping the agenda of the day - and - a-half event were taxes and depreciation of tenant improvements, forced access by telecommunications providers, and bankruptcy reforms — all NAR commercial legislative priorities.