Sentences with phrase «substantive changes to the bill»

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Jenny Jackson, a special adviser to Mr Lansley, was fired for an email sent to journalists after Nick Clegg signalled his support for «substantive» changes to the health and social care bill, Sky News reported.

Election law bills in Wyoming that would have made interesting substantive changes have failed to pass by the necessary deadline.

That's where you have more substantive discussion, and I hope that making the evolution of bill versions open to the public and clearer to members will help make changes in committee.

Nick Clegg has promised «substantive» changes to the NHS reform bill, as he tried to steady his party over the issue.

He also cites two areas that were arguably not under his purview — the failure to pass a bill allowing federal financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrant college students and any kind of substantive change to gun laws — as among the areas he would've liked to see a different outcome.

But it is still utterly perplexing why Ottawa decided that substantive changes to Canada's intellectual property laws should have to be jammed into a Budget Implementation Bill, subject to the restraints that attach to fiscal measures, without the sort of committee review that one would expect for measures this substantive.

We had a bill ready to bring in; not that it was going to fix every ill in the family law system and you need intense co-operation, collaboration with provinces to do it, but that was an area of law [where] I wish I had been able to bring forward some substantive change because we had the law drafted.

«In other words, the scope and extent of substantive rights is not likely to change very much in the eyes of the judges unless, that is, the new Bill were to provide for additional limits or qualifications which do not currently exist.»