Sentences with phrase «reforms along the lines of»

The article is about Catholics trying to influence Repubs into immigration reform along the lines of the Catholic faith to which some Repub legislators belong to.

«I think he's less inclined to have procurement reform along the lines of what our members are advocating.

This budget assumes that the State will enact education funding reform along the lines of Senate Bill 1, which is the only evidence - based funding model that has won approval from the General Assembly.

Big reforms along the lines of limiting the amount college tuition can increase or a substantial decrease in student loan interest rates.

A bipartisan group of 17 senators, headed by Mark Udall and Rob Portman, submitted a letter (PDF) last week to Senate leadership urging them to pass patent reform along the lines of the House's Innovation Act.

Not exact matches

Tax reform cleared its first major hurdle in Congress on November 16 when the House passed its version of the bill by a 227 - to - 205 vote mainly along party lines.

We know enough to know that a tax reform plan along the lines of the administration's sketch will not substantially increase growth, will blow out the budget deficit and will make America an even more unequal place.

Along those lines, manufacturers continue to increase capital spending, investment and wages because of tax reform and the changed regulatory environment, and the NAM has highlighted those stories on its «Keeping Our Promise» web page.

Let me add that Mohandas Gandhi's dictum that one should hate the crime but not the criminal is gospel truth, and that we shall never have a peaceful society until we reform our treatment of criminals along this line.

In their book A Populist Manifesto, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield spell out a detailed program of political reform along these lines.13

The first is that all Cameron and his government are doing, particularly in their reform of the welfare system, is attempting to reset things along the lines of their original remit.

The Senate Republicans, who control the process along with Assembly Democrats, have long been pushing for redistricting reform in 2022 instead of 2012, and their initially proposed lines were grotesque and cynical enough that it'd be hard to change the lines and not make them «less hyper political.»

We're going to come out with something along the lines of not just that, but with some other ethics reforms.»

The one - term mayor whose administration is marked by reform, revitalization, and controversy, ended Thursday night when upstart candidate Steve Noble took the party line by a wide margin, along with most of his supporters in the ward races.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to advance a Republican tax reform bill, moving the GOP a step closer to its goal of overhauling the American tax system.

The Reform Party issued the following statement: «Our military presence in the Middle East is along the lines of our military presence in Vietnam.

The danger, for anyone interested in putting an end to a process that protects unresponsive officials, is not that Cuomo will fail to get the legislature to go along with him; it is that he will cut a deal, in exchange for something else he wants, that would allow the legislature to keep a firmer hand in the process of drawing electoral lines than the reform proposal currently calls for.

Or is this result a signal that Scottish voters want more radical reform, a change to the first - past - the - post voting system perhaps or even a complete restructuring of the UK along federal lines?

But, equally important, we should simultaneously offer a much bolder, radical reform of the NHS — re-configuring the NHS contributory base along progressive lines and transforming NHS ownership into a national mutual membership basis.

For decades, discussion of education reform always began with a question along the lines of, «How do we improve the urban district?»

Let us hope so, but one should not be optimistic about the outcome of the legislative process in the absence of strong, sustained public support for reforms along these lines.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

Along these lines, the pressure created by the last two decades of reforms hasn't been all bad; it has focused attention to helping all students succeed, relying upon data to make decisions, and looking for bright spots and best practices.

A House appropriations subcommittee voted along straight party lines to maintain funding for key K — 12 education programs at current levels while completely eliminating three of the Obama administration's signature reform initiatives.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

Along the same lines, CMHC could use many reforms to make the availability and cost of high - ratio mortgages more counter-cyclical.

Reform along these lines then could potentially signal a break with the spirit of the 1967 referendum.

Should the Law Reform Committee recommend a proposal along these lines, the Northern Territory Government should ensure an extensive process of consultation with Aboriginal communities prior to making any decision on the establishment of these committees.