Sentences with phrase «sweeping changes in legislation»

The potential differences in procedural rights are part of sweeping changes in legislation introduced by the Liberal government on March 29.

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Two months after Republicans passed sweeping tax legislation, just a quarter of Americans report seeing a change in their paychecks.

The legislation and court rulings to which it led effected sweeping changes in the structures of education, employment, and electoral politics.

The government's controversial health and social care bill came under even more scrutiny today as Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords requested sweeping changes to the legislation.

The bills ranged from sweeping changes — from measures banning most larger campaign donors from securing state contracts to legislation blocking political consultants from doing double duty as lobbyists — to the more symbolic, such as one that would bring an end to political fundraisers in Albany County during the legislative session.

Warner, who in 2007 cosponsored a sweeping climate - change bill with then - Democrat and now independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, recalled proudly that his cap - and - trade bill got further in the Senate than any climate legislation before or since.

In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policIn the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policin stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policy.

On March 18, 2013, B.C. passed its new Family Law Act, which replaced the former Family Relations Act and made some sweeping changes to the law in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as well.

Under legislation passed in August 2007, the government initiated a range of sweeping changes: health checks for all Aboriginal children; widespread alcohol restrictions; reforms to welfare payments; an end to the CDEP scheme; scrapping of the permit system; increased policing; and acquiring townships under five - year leases.