Sentences with phrase «second term agenda»

After facing questions over his lack of a second term agenda, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign released a 245 - page policy book on Thursday that outlines a series of issues he would seek to tackle in the next four years.

«The President is enmeshed in his second term agenda bid and does not care what happens to the people he is leading, so it is time for him to resign and go home.»

In his ambitious second term agenda, announced during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama raised a proposal that made small business owners sit up and take notice: an increase in the minimum wage to $ 9 from its current $ 7.25.

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The shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school put gun control high on Obama's second - term agenda.

Obama doesn't mention housing in the 20 - page booklet his campaign circulated last week to outline his second - term agenda.

The second aspect, the longer term agenda needs to be worked out afterwards.

Without providing an explicit blueprint for the Obama administration's second term foreign policy agenda, Kerry situated State Department activities within the present strategic context and hewed to the current war fatigue of US politicians.

President Barack Obama and his aides plan to keep their campaign machine running to support his second - term agenda and will relaunch it in the coming days as a tax - exempt nonprofit group, a Democratic official said.

«The agenda would have been about a second Tory term» — and what that might mean for the NHS, Europe, tax credits and Scotland.

The republican agenda was pursued particularly during Zapatero's first term, given that the second, starting in 2008, was marked by a difficult handling of the economic crisis and by severe funding cuts on several fronts, including in welfare.

While he touted accomplishments and statistics that he uses in virtually all of his speeches, such as the state budget and finances and the number of new jobs created during his term and now existing in the state, he added many other topics revolving around the notion of «government as a vehicle for justice», saying that «I want to develop the justice agenda» for his second term.

Hammond slammed Cuomo for failing to put forth an agenda for the second four - year term he's seeking, noting that in 2010, candidate Cuomo released seven book - length white papers addressing everything from ethics reform to energy policy.

In his second term, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has made transportation projects a central part of his agenda, embracing infrastructure as an important part of his legacy and invoking the efforts of the influential public works builder Robert Moses.

He's running short on time to present a compelling agenda for his second term.

«So I have served my first term and its only logical that Ghanaians will add the second term so we can continue the agenda of transformation,» Mr Mahama said to a cheering crowd as part of his #changinglives tour.

The mailer accuses Martins, a second - term lawmaker, of having «voted against women» by opposing the provision in the agenda that is aimed at codifying Roe v. Wade.

Cuomo family intimates predicted over the weekend that Andrew — who reveled in his father's praise when he won adoption of a gay - marriage law — will even more aggressively pursue a liberal agenda in his second term.

Cuomo has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

The second - term congressman said leaders in the Republican - controlled Congress have told members they will work with Trump to quickly to pass the GOP agenda.

In New York, the Westchester County executive who was just re-elected to a second term says he plans to continue the fiscal agenda from his first term.

«If the mayor makes his choice and the person the mayor chooses fails to put together a majority, it's a loss to the mayor of considerable proportion and the mayor is going to have to court individual members of the Council more assiduously to move his legislative agenda in the second term,» he continued.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

«He set out an agenda at the beginning of his term, and he and I used to speak and talk and communicate, he never wavered, never second - guessed,» Mr. Adams said.

Indeed this was the fundamental political foundation for the groundswell of popular and patriotic affirmative action that culminated in the wind of change 2015 election outcome and it is just what Nigeria needs to facilitate a realistic national resolve and agenda to salvage and safeguard the endangered northern entitlement to second term in 2019.

According to him, since Ghana's return to constitutional governance in 1993, all presidents have received two terms thus President Mahama deserves a second term to complete his agenda of...

The County Executive has put forward a costly agenda in his second term, requesting dozens of new jobs, millions of dollars in additional spending, and utilizing surplus funds to create long - term costs.

Had we pressed ahead with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a chance to put a new Labour agenda to the public and — in the event of a win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can be election winners again.

Mr. Cuomo has called ethics reform the most important issue of his second term, particularly after Mr. Silver's arrest, which occurred just a day after Mr. Cuomo laid out his agenda for the year.

The opposition was grounded in four things: first, many thought the term simply shouldn't be applied to same - sex couples for logical reasons, as it had only ever been applied to heterosexual couples; second, it was viewed as cynical pandering to the agenda of the militant left; third, there were many worse things wrong with the country that required not just the time, but the goodwill of Tory MPs, to get through; and fourth, Cameron had no mandate to do it.

President Mahama who is currently on a 5 - day campaign tour of the region expected to tour a number of constituencies in the region with his «Changing Lives and Transforming Ghana» agenda to woo the electorates to renew his mandate for the second term.

As state lawmakers have returned to work and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been inaugurated for his second term, one of the most important issues on the agenda in Albany will be housing related.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

The arrest put the spotlight back on the spate of corruption scandals in Albany and immediately overshadowed the ambitious second - term agenda that Mr. Cuomo laid out in his speech.

It's a last - resort scenario for any mayor, much less one who just launched a re-election campaign for her second term who's made fixing Syracuse's shaky finances a core part of her agenda.

And when the Administration's second term was kicking off, Joanne hosted several small lunch sessions with the Secretary so they could hear different ideas as they were building their new agenda.

As the president enters his second term, the education agenda for the nation is in flux and likely to change substantially.

Given the odds, here's a few suggestions from an admittedly edu - centric bystander on what the Mayor can do to improve... Continue reading A Few Suggestions for Mayor de Blasio's Second Term Education Agenda

That's because U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has furthered school accountability by announcing that principal preparation and evaluation will factor into President Barack Obama's agenda in his second term.

Both will be charged with directing an ambitious higher education agenda for President Barack Obama's second term.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

Emanuel unveils second - term education agenda, confronts school closings Chicago Sun - Times — 1.8.2015 4.

Even if Malloy wasn't committed to implementing the corporate education reform industry agenda, lying and misleading parents is reason enough for voters to refuse to give him a second term in office.

Second term presidents have a brief window to affect a meaningful agenda.

Last November, I said my agenda was underpinned by two unshakeable and personal commitments: the first one is my commitment to addressing the disadvantages still faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today and the second is my commitment to doing all in my power during my term as commissioner to achieve a truly reconciled Australia.