Sentences with phrase «small number of legislators»
A study by a reform group finds that if New York were to ban outside income for lawmakers, it would actually effect only a small number of legislators.
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Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).
The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.
Last week, a group of upstate legislators, led by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, expressed concern in a letter written to Cuomo that lifting the perimeter rule would reduce the number of smaller commuter flights out of LaGuardia to underserved upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester.
Proud to say I was rated the number one pro-business legislator, have been named a guardian of small business by National Federation of Independent Businesses a couple of times now, number one by the Business Council in New York, so on top of that, we're going to try modernize our technology in this town.
A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.
Fried's position is that as a geographically small county with a population of 300,000, Rockland does not need the same number of legislators as much larger and more populous counties.