Sentences with phrase «sweeping reform»

In early April the Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on H.R. 2525, a «fair tax» bill that would make sweeping reform by replacing the current income tax with a national sales tax.

Nonetheless, the company will have to step up its game due to the impending introduction of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May — so its attempt to comply with that sweeping reform may end up also being dressed up as its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

On February 15, 2012, the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services (the «Commission») released its long - awaited, 543 - page report (the «Report», commonly referred to as the «Drummond Report») which identifies sweeping reform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service («BPS»).

The Budget comes on the heels of the Drummond Report, which was released in mid-February and which recommended sweeping reform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service and the delivery of a variety government programs....

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

These amendments will be the most sweeping reform to discovery obligations captured in the FRCP since 2006.

But a much more sweeping reform of U.S. nuclear energy policy is required.

The VA loan program was part of the sweeping reform encompassed by the G.I. Bill of 1944.

Nationwide, the economic - stimulus package has prevented massive teacher layoffs, spurred states to devise sweeping reform plans and jumpstarted a national conversation about overhauling the worst schools.

It calls for ending the privatization of schools, returning «real community control» to school systems, and advocates sweeping reform of school discipline policies.

In Idaho, they fought to get on the November ballot three referenda that, if passed, will annihilate Superintendent Tom Luna's sweeping reform efforts that could bring about a quality education for all students in the state.

The bills are meant to target under - performing districts around the state, including Detroit, which has already become emblematic of sweeping reform efforts.

«I've watched this process... with real dismay,» board Chairman Allan Taylor said of changes made last week by the legislature's Education and Appropriations committees to limit a sweeping reform package proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

The college's federally funded CEEDAR Center has selected the final five of 20 states that have joined together in a sweeping reform effort to vastly improve teaching and learning for students with disabilities.

Huw Lewis has set out new guidelines for universities who want to train new teachers in future as part of sweeping reform to the system.

In other words, are there simply a couple initiatives you really want to push, or do you intend to prioritize overarching governing principles like subsidiarity, enhanced civil society activity, and incremental change and opposition to federal mandates, technocratic thinking, and sweeping reform?

The issue has been the only major sticking point to emerge as the sweeping reform package, hammered out in months of bipartisan negotiations, moves quickly4through the legislature.

«During my tenure in the House, I can't remember a more sweeping reform effort undertaken by this or any other committee,» said Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa., the panel's chairman.

That conclusion by a special committee at the Institute of Medicine in a September 2006 report titled «The Future of Drug Safety» helped prompt a sweeping reform bill that became law last September.

Good government groups including NYPIRG and Citizens Union recently reiterated calls for sweeping reform, including:

(CNN)- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, laid out a sweeping reform agenda for Congress Thursday, promising to make spending increases much tougher if he becomes speaker in January.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders say they have agreed on a sweeping reform of the state's system of caring for the disabled that has been marked for years by abuse and death.

Cuomo could bring sweeping reform to educational funding, but took the easy way out... The cap is free to state government, where as STAR or a circuit - breaker must be funded by the state.

«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.»

Some have suggested returning royal status to families who were stripped of it under a sweeping reform during the US occupation of Japan after World War II.

Also at noon, African - American civilian employees of the FDNY announce a civil rights class - action lawsuit seeking sweeping reform of the current system that has permitted discrimination, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

He paints the change as part of a deliberate and sweeping reform of the party's traditionally centralised operation.

By contrast, a sweeping reform such as allowing China's judiciary true independence may be a nonstarter, as it is a much more obvious and direct threat to the Chinese Communist Party.

It needs sweeping reform and it needs it soon.

Asa (c. 913 - 873), the second son of Rehoboam to occupy the throne, instituted a sweeping reform, the description of which in I Kings 15:9 ff.

BEIJING (AP)-- China's leaders pledged Friday to open state - dominated industries wider to private competition and ease limits on foreign investment in e-commerce and other businesses in a sweeping reform plan aimed at rejuvenating a slowing economy.

Other more sweeping reform options would address double taxation by allowing shareholders credits against personal taxes for tax levied at the corporate level (an «imputation system») or by passing corporate profits through to shareholders, similar to the tax treatment of partnerships and S - corporations («corporate tax integration»).

The proposed network is part of a sweeping reform designed to break billionaire Carlos Slim's hold on the Mexican telecoms business, but the Chinese involvement could prove controversial and trigger concerns from the U.S., some Mexican officials say.

Naturally, the sweeping reform has left many Americans to wonder who wins and who loses under the soon - to - be law.

Nonetheless, the company will have to step up its game due to the impending introduction of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May — so its attempt to comply with that sweeping reform may end up also being dressed up as its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A few months after her book came out, Starbucks introduced sweeping reforms to respond to the turmoil this algorithmic approach was having upon the personal lives of its employees.

In the Oval Office, President Trump signs the Republican - back tax bill with sweeping reforms into law, as well as bills for missile defense and the short - term funding of the government to avoid a shutdown.

It's been four years since the Affordable Care Act passed into law — promising sweeping reforms in the way Americans receive health - care coverage.

His sweeping reforms led The Economist to name Uruguay its «country of the year» in 2013.

THE WA taxi industry is in need of sweeping reforms, according to an independent review undertaken by BSD Consultants.

Broad - based proposed legislation could bring wide - sweeping reforms to financial market regulation and undo Dodd — Frank and the DOL Fiduciary Rule.

After targeting executive remuneration at state - controlled companies with new regulation introducing pay caps for CEOs, France's new government is now considering potentially sweeping reforms for all public companies.

Sweeping reforms to insolvency laws and regulations are set to benefit distressed Australian companies that are attempting to negotiate a sa...

Sweeping reforms to insolvency laws and regulations are set to benefit distressed Australian companies that are attempting to negotiate a sale and avert going into administration.

manager out here somewhere who will bring in the sweeping reforms to the management of the club / team, and bring it to the 21st century with a fresher version of wengers philosophy

The Citizens Commission on School Nutrition recommended sweeping reforms and increased federal funding for the system that feeds 24 million children each school day.

Director General at the Association of British Insurers, Huw Evans, said: «Having worked with the previous Government on delivering sweeping reforms to the pensions market and on practical measures to reduce car insurance premiums and tackle flood risk, the insurance industry looks forward to a constructive relationship with the new Parliament.

Successive British parliaments have also participated in a series of sweeping reforms to the procedures for how those European institutions make rules.

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.

It is the Conservatives who are tightening immigration, bringing in sweeping reforms to pensions, getting a grip on welfare handouts, he says.