Sentences with phrase «so on their constituents»

If reform legislation can be passed that allows small donations to be matched with public funds, then candidates would become less dependent on big donors and more so on their constituents.

Doesn't it make sense that the wreaths that MPs lay as official duties and doing so on constituents behalf should be paid for by constituents?

Not exact matches

If we ignore this information, and if we don't try to act on it — so our constituents can afford the medications that they need and so that the taxpayers aren't being ripped off — then we become a part of the problem.

So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.

Your content ought to serve your constituents because so much of your work relies on your supporters.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

The universe achieves its values by each complex also serving as a constituent, at the same time, and each constituent is also complex, with its own constituents, and so on down the line.

For example, a liver and a muscle are made up of the same material constituents - hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and so on - acting on each other by the same basic forces.

But the 68 - year - old speaker told me he plans to keep serving as long as he is physically able to do so, enjoying the job and able to deliver for his constituents on the Lower East Side.

The latest evidence comes in a quick email from Convio, one of the online advocacy providers: Please be advised that the House of Representatives is currently imposing limits on inbound communications from constituents because volumes are so high that Congressional...

So Congressmembers could use social media to send messages OUT to constituents, though I doubt they could listen to many of them in return (comments on Boehner's Facebook post about his speech already number above 4000).

McKee noted that Dilan voted for vacancy decontrol in the City Council in 1994, despite promising his constituents (on at least two occasions when McKee was present) that he would not do so.

Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they've basically stopped accepting electronic communications from constituents.

«But I was elected to parliament to exercise my judgment on behalf of the people I represent... So whenever the election comes I will tell my constituents, with a clear conscience, that I stood up for my convictions, and what I believe to be their best interests.»

Instead of attacking the federal bill, the governor must change his approach and focus on fixing Albany's finances so he can ease the burden on his constituents.

We call on the Assembly Majority to hold a public leadership vote so that their constituents can see where they stand and that they take seriously the leadership and staff's abrogations of responsibility.»

«New York State is the number one target worldwide for terrorism, so this agreement will have a direct impact on the security of every one of our constituents.»

Backbench MPs said the public only see the House of Commons on TV for the so - called Punch and Judy sessions at PMQs, and some of their constituents are not impressed.

Backbench MPs said the public only see the House of Commons on TV for the so - called Punch and Judy sessions at PMQs, and some of their constituents were not impressed.

«It is because I know that most MPs want to see the very highest standards in public life that I am determined that we sweep away this old system and introduce a new system and in doing so move back to ensuring the focus in parliament is on the issues that affect our constituents» lives.»

Click to view New York Assembleyman Felix Ortiz feels so strongly about protecting his constituents from the poison Four Loko that he put his own life at risk by drinking it, on TV.

Mr Maclean had claimed that the amendment to the Freedom of Information Act was so that MPs could enjoy a level confidentiality with their constituents: «When we write on behalf of constituents... we must be able to look them in the eye and say that in all circumstances what they tell us will not get out,» he told MPs.

In a phone interview Monday, Rhodes said he plans on driving across the district during the campaign to visit constituents and «talk about why this election is so important.»

For the first hour or so of his budget testimony in Albany on Monday, however, it seemed that the issue that had most rattled his constituents was a looming 5 - cent fee on plastic bags in New York City, which state legislators have complained is unnecessarily punitive, especially for low - income residents.

«I am humbled to serve my constituents and I look forward to seeking the Democratic nomination so that I can continue to work tirelessly on their behalf.»

The get - together, called so Weiner could update Turner on the projects he had been working on for his former constituents, was held in «strict confidence,» O'Reilly noted, but could very easily have been leaked with a single well - placed anonymous phone call.

Senator, you're just keeping ithis issue in the press so your constituents think you're being effective, its on old election campaign trick, but for the masses of voters it can be effective I guess.

Then I went to work for state Sen. Art Gray for a term, I was his Ulster County case constituent and had an office on Fair Street in 1988 or so.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spent $ 1,900 on bus company Zaly's Tours so constituents could visit Albany for the governor's State of the State Address.

He cares so much about his constituents and this state, evidenced every time he speaks on an issue.

«I view this as a partnership, and while I'm focused on the federal issues, there's so much that impact your communities that you hear from your constituents that we try to be a helping hand on,» Stefanik said.

«While I could not pass up the unique opportunity to lead a non-profit organization that does so many wonderful things for our city and aligns so fully with my beliefs, I will miss working on behalf of my constituents and with many people I have come to love and respect.»

With so many people here on the ground listening to constituents, this campaign is certainly a three horse race.»

The event took place in a small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for federal housing money and on behalf of small businesses.

I am looking forward to seeing justice done in the up to 10 other related disciplinary cases involving police officers so that I can focus all my energy on delivering for my constituents and help David Cameron win a Conservative majority at the 2015 election.»

Now Pastor Cabrera and his constituents are selling their message of hate to other less - wary nations, the problem with Letitia James is that like so many politicians, activists or whatever handle they wear, she is well aware of what she's doing, and like so many officials in her capacity she also happens to be on the take.

Raising the case in the Commons, Mr Brennan said: «My constituent Lowri Roberts wanted to play golf on a Saturday, was banned from doing so because she was a woman and when she complained in the media she has actually been suspended from the Cottrell Park golf course in the Vale of Glamorgan.

That's because the higher speed of comets and the high volatility of their constituents would create giant plumes on impact, so more of the iridium would escape into space, compared with impacts by rocky asteroids.

«Based on our discovery, organohalogens are likely to be a constituent of the so - called «primordial soup», both on the young Earth and on nascent rocky exoplanets.»

There are a lot of these compounds: a score of amyloids, any number of lipofuscin constituents, the altered tau that shows up in tauopathies, and so on and so forth.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

It looks like it's in the same family as the radish and turnip, so it more than likely is not a starchy root with any RS, but looks like it stands on it's own in terms of fiber and other healthy constituents.

Please respond soon, so your constituents will know where you stand on these issues.

There haven't been any good quality revisions on peas and nutrition in dogs, so this component may be seen as a controversial constituent.

Calgary has accomplished so much by focusing on root issues of problems, providing service to their «customers» (it was so weird to hear an animal control officer refer to their constituents as «customers»), and getting people to obey their current laws.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic — in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack).

And so, when government officials with the power to enact climate change policies are on notice that respectable scientific evidence supports the conclusion that their constituents or governments are likely causing great harm, they may not appeal to their uninformed opinion on climate science as justification for not taking action.

In fact, every federal politician should be informed about and have a position on Access to Justice issues in 2015, not least because so many of their constituents are and will be affected.

«Politicians have voted for mandatory minimum sentences so they could appear «tough on crime» to their constituents.