Sentences with phrase «sweeping legislation»

The civil lawsuits and sweeping legislation in the wings could put a wet blanket on the financial system, adding to the nation's economic woes and sky - high unemployment rate.

The House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation aimed at rewriting the nation's tax code Tuesday, by a vote of 227 - 203.

These concerns were the foundation of sweeping legislation like the Clean Air Act, the same law under which the Obama administration is seeking to limit greenhouse gas emissions (ClimateWire, June 3).

The state Senate failed to act last week on sweeping legislation aimed at safeguarding Nassau and Suffolk county's many bays and tributaries, Long Island Sound and groundwater aquifers.

[1]-RRB- In March 2013, Alabama's governor signed sweeping legislation giving tax credits to parents who transfer their children from a failing public school to a private school of their choice.

Efforts such as fighting for new legislation and performing pay - equity assessments using external data and audits «will likely close the pay gap,» he tells CNBC Make It, «but certainly not as quickly as wide - sweeping legislation like Iceland's new equity law.»

Worst case scenario, the Senate announces sweeping legislation of virtual currencies, and in the weeks after the hearing new legislation appears: thousands of pages on virtual currencies.

The effect of the wide - sweeping legislation impacts a number of your regular business activities including:

After a series of studies conducted last November and December, Luntz concluded that most people do believe climate change is real, but aren't necessarily going to support sweeping legislation on that premise alone.

The NYPD's beleaguered sex - crimes unit was excoriated during the five - hour Council hearing that included damning testimony from several neglected victims and a former member of the unit — as lawmakers consider sweeping legislation to overhaul the operation.

Sweeping legislation sponsored by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would greatly diminish teacher seniority as a factor in layoff decisions, has been pulled back from active deliberation for a cooling off» period by the leader of the state Senate.»

Lawmakers want to enact sweeping legislation aimed at overhauling what is often perceived as a flailing system.

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 policy.

Disasters drive sweeping legislation, and precedent was on the side of a great leap forward in environmental progress.

That constituency has repeatedly expressed reservations about sweeping legislation aimed at patent trolls — Capitol Hill shorthand for companies that purchase cheap patents and use them for profit by filing questionable infringement lawsuits in hopes of settling.

Passing that kind of sweeping legislation in the current political climate is unlikely, but Democrats and Republicans in Congress are openly suggesting greater regulation might be necessary.

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday signed sweeping legislation that aims to reduce the number of opioid pills sitting in medicine cabinets, provide new help to addicts and make it easier to administer life - saving drugs to those who overdose.

Best case scenario, the Senate announces a Bitcoin Standard and announces sweeping legislation to invest in Bitcoin businesses, and therefore save the world from utter destruction.

The effect of the wide - sweeping legislation impacts a number of your regular business activities...

Earlier in the day, the Legislature passed sweeping legislation to address workplace harassment in the public and private sector, including requiring employers to adopt a model sexual harassment policy that prohibits mandatory arbitration and secret settlements.

Senate Republicans are considering a trigger that would automatically increase taxes if their sweeping legislation fails to generate as much revenue as they expect.

Leadership and House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway were unable to pull together factions of a divided Republican conference to pass the sweeping legislation.

Schneiderman's sweeping legislation, however, appears to have gained an added push from the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- an eight - member body that has formed a ruling coalition with Senate Republicans.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Senate Republicans are considering a trigger that would automatically increase taxes if their sweeping legislation fails to generate as much revenue as they expect.

«This is sweeping legislation that deals with the scourge that is sexual harassment,» said Sen. Catharine Young, an Olean Republican who sponsored a Senate bill that incorporated some of the provisions in the final deal.

Washington (CNN)- A top Senate Democrat has offered a pair of amendments to an immigration reform bill bolstering rights for same - sex couples, a politically risky move that threatens to shatter Republican support for the sweeping legislation.

Two years later, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the sweeping legislation and instituted one of the nation's first merit pay systems for teachers with evaluations tied to test scores.

Sweeping legislation passed in 2013 that restructured the fiscal relationship between K - 12 schools and the state also created the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence — a five member board charged with helping the state and county offices of education monitor the progress local educational agencies make in meeting California's educational priorities.

As it stands now, high frequency trading is largely unregulated and unless Congress passes sweeping legislation, which is unlikely to happen given its performance during past opportunities to enact regulation upon the stock market or financial dealings, there is nothing impeding the growth of high frequency trading.

The Missouri Senate gave its preliminary approval to sweeping legislation that repeals every core provision of Proposition B. Missourians for the Protection of Dogs released a new report demonstrating major continuing problems in licensed puppy mills.

While the electric vehicle industry and the wind and solar sector can breathe a little easier that the sweeping legislation preserves their tax credits, fossil fuel producers are likely cheering the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling.

, and Joe Lieberman, ID - Conn., of sweeping legislation that would have capped U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, although the bill fell apart before making it to the Senate floor.

This means that, before the end of the current SCOTUS Term in summer 2012, the justices will rule on the validity of this sweeping legislation....

In 2003, NJ Governor Jim McGreevey called for a sweeping legislation to overhaul the State's auto insurance regulatory structure.

Sweeping legislation is absent, but coming — or so everyone seems to think.

Congress has passed and the President has signed into law, sweeping legislation of more than two - thousand pages to fund the Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2016.