Sentences with phrase «said comprehensive reform»
David said comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system is needed and that Cuomo has «accomplished much reform,» but put the onus on the city.
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«We'll be moving on to comprehensive tax reform and infrastructure,» McConnell said.
«When you look at the plan that's taking shape now, using comprehensive tax reform as a means to tax imports from countries that we have a trade deficit from, like Mexico,» he said.
«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Since the November 2012 elections, they see a willingness of Silicon Valley executives to go along with a bigger, more comprehensive reform bill, Emily Lam, senior director of federal issues for Silicon Valley Leadership Group, says.
«When you look at the plan that's taking shape now, using comprehensive tax reform as a means to tax imports from countries that we have a trade deficit from, like Mexico,» said Spicer.
«Ideally what you want to do is comprehensive reform where you do both the corporate and the personal and bring rates down on both ends,» says Keating.
«The time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform,» President Obama said in a speech today.
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.»
After Fannie Mae announced today that its fourth quarter earnings plummeted by two - thirds and CEO Tim Mayopoulos said that a lack of a capital cushion could trigger a future draw from the U.S. Treasury, NAHB Chairman Tom Woods issued the following statement calling on Congress to swiftly act on comprehensive housing finance reform:
Congress must move swiftly to implement comprehensive reforms to the nation's housing finance system to ensure that housing credit remains readily available and affordable in the future, NAHB said in testimony today.
Quick to say they found the root - cause of the crisis — a banking system thats massive financial leverage and global interconnectedness created profound systemic risks to our modern economy — they swiftly passed Dodd Frank, a comprehensive regulatory reform package dressed up as the antidote to our sick financial system.
«We can not tolerate pervasive and persistent misconduct at any bank and the consumers harmed by Wells Fargo expect that robust and comprehensive reforms will be put in place to make certain that the abuses do not occur again,» Janet Yellen said in a statement.
«It was encouraging to see a religiously and racially diverse audience of faith leaders standing with the president, calling for comprehensive immigration reform,» said Sojourners president Jim Wallis.
Religious leaders that attended the meeting said the president spent more than an hour with them, and after making a few remarks at the top of the meeting he let each group discuss their priorities and problems with comprehensive immigration reform.
The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.
Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas in a statement said the latest overturned conviction «should not detract from the continuing need to embrace comprehensive and meaningful reforms to fortify our government contracting processes from manipulation, self - dealing and pay - to - play corruption.»
«While I am sorry to see her leave our office, I am heartened that Conchita will be returning to Washington to work on immigration policy at this critical moment when we are so close to passing comprehensive immigration reform,» Rivera said said in a statement.
«More than ever, spending decisions must be made more transparent as an integral part of the comprehensive ethics reforms that New Yorkers deserve,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.
«I think if he had a magic wand, he'd do it,» Horner said of the governor's desire to pass comprehensive ethics reform.
«The speaker laid out a comprehensive agenda this week on issues like education, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, so we have a lot of work to do here in Albany and that is what we will be focusing on,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx.
Scharff, with Citizen Action, says an agreement on «comprehensive reform» that incudes matching donor public funding for candidates and strong enforcement of the campaign finance laws would be great.
DOWNTOWN — Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and his successor as attorney general Eric Schneiderman are planning a comprehensive ethics reform agenda that will likely include an independent ethics watchdog and an independent prosecutor, Cuomo said after the pair's first official meeting Friday.
«The Governor will continue to lead the fight to close the LLC loophole and is 100 percent focused on flipping the State Senate and forming a Democratic Senate majority so we can enact comprehensive campaign finance reform,» campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer said.
«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.
Scharff, with Citizen Action, says an agreement on comprehensive reform that includes matching donor public funding for candidates and strong enforcement of the campaign finance laws would be great.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement in response to the Kruger - Boyland - Lipsky et al corruption scandal, saying today's arrests «again spotlight the failings of New York State government and highlight the urgent need for the Legislature to pass comprehensive ethics reform — now.»
«Public financing for comptroller - only candidates opens the door to campaign finance reform, but the Governor and the legislative leaders must now walk through that door and finish the job by Monday and agree to comprehensive campaign finance reform,» said Dick Dadey of Citizens Union in a statement.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»
We need comprehensive reform of immigration laws in Congress, but New York should provide leadership where it can,» said Hawkins.
«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.
ALBANY — Despite having previously praised an ethics deal enacted by the Legislature in June, Gov. Cuomo will not support a legislative pay raise unless the Legislature agrees to more comprehensive reforms, an aide said Sunday.
Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) leader Senator Jeff Klein said his conference has repeatedly put forth a comprehensive package of ethics reforms.
Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, Speaker John Boehner said today, «I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans.»
«Governor Christie is committed to a comprehensive approach, and he will continue to work with legislators of both parties to pass real mental health reforms which truly improve public safety,» Mr. Roberts said in a statement.
He said Nigeria is not excepted from impacts of the current global economic downturn, adding his administration remained undeterred and has embarked on comprehensive diversification reforms by shifting emphasis to non-oil sectors of «mining, agriculture, industrialization, infrastructure development and the creation of the enabling environment for Foreign Direct Investment.»
Grayson said there is potential to have comprehensive election reform without partisan politics.
«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.
«The Fair Elections for New York campaign has been clear that all of our partners want to see the Senate pass comprehensive campaign finance reform with public funding at its core,» he said.
«It's important that we do ethics reform that is comprehensive and includes all branches of government,» the Yonkers Democrat said during a Capital Tonight interview last night.
«I want to make sure that we have a bill that's actually tracking through the legislation so that we have the time needed to do what we need to do in terms of reforming the Port Authority,» Lanza said, adding, «We're going work with him to make sure that the bill that gets to his desk this time around is even more comprehensive.»
Pressed on whether keeping the committees in place was a major loophole, he said, «It's a fair point to make — that's why we want comprehensive campaign finance reform.»
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn't buying that President Donald Trump's brief embrace of comprehensive immigration reform was a «misdirection play,» saying: «That's a wonderful turn of phrase; another way to describe that is a «lie.»»
«The Assembly has pledged to enact comprehensive ethics reforms, and we take that commitment very seriously,» said Speaker Carl Heastie.
Pelosi pointed out that Democratic turnout tends to spike in presidential years and has repeatedly said the GOP's refusal to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill will doom its chances of winning the White House next year and beyond.
DiNapoli says he hopes the governor and the legislature will reconsider, and enact more comprehensive public campaign finance reform before the end of the legislative session.
The mayor gave comprehensive immigration reform as an example, which he said is a fundamental issue for New Yorkers given that the city has half a million undocumented immigrants, saying the reform «would do arguably more for New York City than any city in the country.»
We believe retraining is necessary,» said Mr. Rodriguez, alluding to Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's promises of a «comprehensive» plan for police reform.
They said the act partially addressed the issue of over-incarceration and crowding in corrections facilities, but said additional reforms are necessary, including a comprehensive review of current summons practices.
And on immigration, Rhodes said he supports comprehensive reform.