Sentences with phrase «sweeping package»

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was succinct about passing another more sweeping package.

The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican - controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun - control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.

In a US - China Business Council survey, 57 percent of U.S. companies operating in China say they have yet to see any impact from a sweeping package of economic reforms Xi unveiled four years ago.

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 order to end the «rinse - and - repeat» cycle of scandal followed by public outrage, Attorney General Schneiderman proposed a sweeping package of reforms that would bring a meaningful transformation of the culture of Albany.

In the absence of any public consultation on such a sweeping package of measures as TTIP represents, anyone concerned about the environment, the NHS, education, civil liberties, public safety or even just democracy in its widest sense, needs to make their voice heard.

Penalties for a host of minor offenses will be eased under a sweeping package of criminal justice legislation on which the NYC Council is set to vote tomorrow.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who represents parts of Albany, Columbia, Greene and Rensselaer Counties, made the controversial remarks while answering a question about comments that Cuomo acted like a dictator when he expedited the passage of a sweeping package of gun control policy last month using a «message of necessity.»

«That's not good enough,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who said there is a need for a sweeping package of ethics and campaign law changes.

However, he declined to say Tuesday whether he would veto the sweeping package if it included that provision.

More recently he proposed a sweeping package of criminal justice reforms that would, among other actions, eliminate monetary bail and reduce delays and adjournments in court proceedings that keep people unnecessarily in jail.

Top Senate defense hawks are satisfied with the increased Pentagon spending in the new budget deal, and several Democrats doubt that section will mean trouble for the sweeping package.

The sweeping package appropriated $ 67 million to a program designed to arm non-teacher personnel in schools, resulting in an estimated $ 101.5 per - student increase to education funding.

Large, sweeping packages such as these are more difficult to assess due to several moving variables.

The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican - controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun - control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.