Sentences with phrase «signature accomplishment»

Teachers have been a problem constituency for Cuomo, who has touted the state - mandated teacher evaluation system and a property - tax cap that limits school districts» abilities to raise revenue as signature accomplishments of his first term.

The reason, he believes, is that fighting corruption is less important to Cuomo than other initiatives he appears to more readily spend his political capital on, like same - sex marriage and a $ 15 minimum wage — among signature accomplishments that Cuomo highlighted by having dozens of guests who benefitted from the laws.

And perhaps that's why I am so much in favor of supporting President Obama's signature accomplishment with the Affordable Care Act, because I know how hard it was to get that passed, even with a Democratic Congress.

Paterson for laying the groundwork for Cuomo's signature accomplishments through his pioneering use of budget extenders to force cuts and pushing for gay marriage.

Income - driven repayment plans are the Obama administration's signature accomplishment on improving student - loan repayment.

You could also note your job stature and signature accomplishments in the first part of your Summary, as demonstrated in this example of a team leader who improves customer service performance:

Democrats have promised to defend the 2010 law, one of former President Obama's signature accomplishments.

The 2014 telecom industry reform is one of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's signature accomplishments, alongside opening up the state - run energy industry.

Constructing this team is his signature accomplishment.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

The bills have yet to be sent to the governor, but it's unclear if he will make changes to the property tax cap — which his allies regard as a signature accomplishment of his administration.

But in 2011, Nixon praised Cuomo's successful drive for the legalization of same - sex marriage, the passage of which remains one of his signature accomplishments since first taking office as governor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office released those figures Sunday to tout the results of one of his signature accomplishments during this year's legislative session.

The Cuomo administration regards the cap law as a signature accomplishment.

He was speaking to reporters in Buffalo, site of the $ 900 million factory for SolarCity that, until Thursday, had been a signature accomplishment.

Your legislator is going to come home this fall and be able to point at this as their signature accomplishment.

As Mayor de Blasio sees it, creating universal pre-kindergarten for all four - year - olds was a signature accomplishment of his first term.

Mr. Lipton added that the groups in question — Citizen Action, New York Communities for Change and Make the Road Action — had been «at the forefront» of several of the governor's signature accomplishments, including increasing the minimum wage and criminal justice reform.

He argued the same was said about universal pre-K, and the reduction of stop and frisk while crime continues to fall — two of his signature accomplishments.

Blass said the database was actually one of the previous task force's signature accomplishments and that it had been in the works long before Bellone was elected.

The mayor will again ask for the roughly $ 400 million for the program, which educates 65,000 4 - year - olds and is his signature accomplishment to this point.

It also has the side effect of eroding one of the two - term governor's signature accomplishments, which is wrangling the state's high property taxes into control.

Some of the signature accomplishments of Mr. Cuomo's two terms in office have centered around criminal justice reform.

Among alchemy's signature accomplishments: creating new alloys; manufacturing acids and pigments; inventing apparatus for distillation, the process used in making perfumes and whiskeys; conceiving of atoms centuries before modern atomic theory; and providing a template for the scientific method by running controlled experiments again and again.

At a speech in November in Washington, Perry took aim at two of former President Bush's signature accomplishments, No Child Left Behind and the Medicare drug benefit program, saying they were examples of areas in which Washington need not be.

There's little reason to doubt that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the 2009 stimulus bill — will long be remembered, along with health - care reform, as Obama's signature accomplishment.

But the most painful part might well have been the evaporation of one of their signature accomplishments: the closing of the racial achievement gap.

Public school advocates gathered enough signatures to get a repeal measure on the state ballot, forcing him to navigate the fallout from teacher walkouts and an effort to overturn a signature accomplishment while asking for another term.

One of Gov. Bobby Jindal's signature accomplishments, a private school tuition voucher program, was ruled unconstitutional by a Louisiana judge Friday, the Associated Press reports:

Pruitt's announcement comes just weeks after the dumpster - fire conclusion (at least for the time being) of Republican efforts to repeal another of Obama's signature accomplishments, the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

If you're having difficulty expressing your value proposition, try creating a list of your top 10 career achievements — the ones that have become your signature accomplishments over the years.

If you have won an award or have been commended for a paper on education, authored a book related to teaching, contributed to a text book, or have a signature accomplishment, highlight it here.

In 1990, lawmakers did away with one of the tax reform law's signature accomplishments, the top income tax rate of 28 percent (it was raised to 31 percent).