Sentences with phrase «sweeping legislation in»

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.

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Following several controversial LGBT laws in the Southern states, the Mississippi state Senate joined the club, and passed «the most sweeping anti-LGBT legislation» in the U.S., according to critics, on Wednesday.

While a temporary compromise over the country's debt ceiling pushed that deadline back to at least August, the sequester — sweeping automatic spending cuts mandated by cliff legislation — could kick in as soon as March 1.

It's not the Trump victory as much as the sweep in congress which creates the foundation for serious, pro-growth legislation.

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

If sweeping tax reforms are, in fact, enacted, the conventional wisdom is that legislation isn't likely to be signed until 2018.

Dec 29, 2017 In late December, President Trump signed sweeping tax legislation into law.

One possibility is broader legislation dealing with bots, perhaps modeled on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (better known as the BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to clamp down on ticket scalping and computer programs that sweep up large numbers of tickets in online sales.

With Republicans controlling the Congress and the White House, hopes are running high in the equity market for sweeping spending and tax legislation that could boost corporate earnings and the economy.

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.

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

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

But players associations across America's four biggest sports are urging caution, and not to let athletes get swept up in this tide of new legislation.

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.

Cuomo has over the years pushed Congress repeatedly to take up gun control legislation after New York approved a sweeping package of measures in 2013 known as the SAFE Act, which remains controversial with gun owners, especially in upstate New York.

In 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 dayIn 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 dayin just 12 days.

The New York City Council passed 18 bills as part of the Stand for Tenant Safety package of legislation that promises sweeping reforms to tenant protections in the face of abusive landlords and developers.

«In fact, he wrote and sponsored the most sweeping ethics reform legislation to pass the legislature in a generatioIn fact, he wrote and sponsored the most sweeping ethics reform legislation to pass the legislature in a generatioin a generation.

«As chairman of the House Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Housing, Mr. Lazio authored and negotiated legislation enacting the most sweeping reform of America's public housing in more than 60 years and expanding homeownership for low - income Americans.»

McKinney, a state senator representing Newtown, was a key supporter of the sweeping gun control legislation that passed in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings.

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.

He led the fight to adopt sweeping budget and ethics reform legislation and joined then - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in sponsoring and adopting the «Government Consolidation and Citizen Empowerment Act.»

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.

Collins last year introduced legislation that would nullify much of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's NY SAFE Act, a sweeping set of gun control measures including a ban on sales of assault weapons in New York stores, Kowalczyk said.

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.

Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.

Sweeping calls for testing, intervening in persistently low - performing schools, and policing teacher quality made it the most ambitious legislation on K — 12 schooling in American history.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

Washington — In the wake of the Senate's passage of sweeping anti-busing legislation last week, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives are acting to prevent the bill, which must be passed by the House to become law, from being brought to the House floor for a vote.

After adopting legislation to sweep away NCLB's bad policy, the harder issue will be what should replace those provisions to bring about real, comprehensive improvement in American public schools?

Context: In the past two years, states have implemented sweeping reforms to their teacher evaluation systems in response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waiverIn the past two years, states have implemented sweeping reforms to their teacher evaluation systems in response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waiverin response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waivers.

Along came the George W. Bush administration in 2001, which proposed sweeping federal legislation called No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The new legislation proposed by Ms Morgan is intended to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» so «the best education experts can intervene in poor schools from the first day we spot failure».

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.

Despite the waiver, Connecticut hasn't reversed its plan to use state testing data in teacher evaluations, a plan that was part of the sweeping education legislation enacted in 2012.

Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

Financial Management Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

They don't normally pass sweeping, intrusive legislation «to find out what is in it» like Obamacare.

The debt settlement industry could be cleaned up swiftly with one sweep of federal legislation that would regulate the practice in all states.

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 legislation went through all the proper channels, the city did little to notify dog owners of the increased cost of the violations before launching a series of sweeps in parks this spring.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

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.

Looking beyond the short - term compromise embodied in this legislation, it's important to recognize that Massachusetts and our nation broadly face a sweeping transformation of our electric industry, not unlike the transition from landlines to cell phones.

Back when sweeping cap - and - trade legislation still had a pulse in 2009 - 10, Collins teamed up with Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington to float what they called a better approach.

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

Kentucky passed kind of sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time, basically ever, in Kentucky, people with old, low level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply after a certain period of time to have the conviction vacated and then expunged, meaning the conviction will be voided from their record as though it never happened and then it will be removed from the public databases and presumably it's not supposed to show up in private background checks as well for pre-employment screenings.