Sentences with phrase «though as legislature»

Dave Donaldson calling Ulster County Executive Mike Hein's all - things - to - all - people 2013 budget «miraculous» might not necessarily be a compliment, though as legislature minority leader, Donaldson is expected to parrot the party line.

Not exact matches

Though legislatures push lotteries as a supplement for educational funds, often those lottery revenues end up being used as a substitute for other funds, with no additional money going to education.

All democracies in the world are Constitutional save for the UK and New Zealand, which are Parliamentary (the legislature makes the ultimate law)(Australia may qualify as they have Constitutional Law, but not defined by one document), though the level of restrictions may vary between country.

Maloney, the Ulster town assessor, abandoned his quest for legislature chairman, though he could wind up as vice chairman.

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

That could be a problem though, as the three new council members - elect are technically still part of the state legislature through the end of the year.

Vanderhoef's veto reversed all but a few of the legislature's changes from the original bill, though it did keep some altered items such as the retention of county mosquito control and the Sheriff's Mounted Patrol.

Cuomo says the legislature, though, has to offer an alternative plan that saves as much money as his own proposal, which he estimates will save $ 113 billion dollars in future decades.

His son's record of using three months to campaign and win a major election in Ghana will forever remain a tough record, first Gonjaman to have risen to the highest office of the land is another enviable record.Taking over the Presidency after the unfortunate death of Mills, another record.The first head of state to have been born after Ghana's independence on 6th March 1957 is another record noteworthy.The first President in the fourth republic to have come from the legislature is another record worth celebrating.If you read books on philosophy one would understand some these things though we take them as normal life situations.

Governor Cuomo could, as good government groups have suggested, compel the legislature to return for a special session to overhaul ethics laws, though the governor has made it clear in the past that he has no intention of doing so.

He cites as an example a $ 1.5 billion economic development competition that he convinced the legislature to approve, even though some lawmakers object that only three of the state's seven regions will get to share the money.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

The Business Council of New York State argues increases in the state minimum wage should be addressed though the legislature, not unilaterally by the Commissioner of Labor as the statute currently allows.

«The Common Core national math standards are not «internationally benchmarked,»... not world class and competitive with the best... and not «second to none» (though advertised as such when announced),» testified Hoover Institution researcher Williamson Evers before the Ohio legislature.

Though the legislature adopted the education scholarship account for students with special needs in 2015 as Max was entering kindergarten, the family never qualified because the local district never provided him with an Individualized Education Plan.

Employers running credit checks on job applicants must tread carefully — The screening tool is increasingly seen as unfair by state legislatures, though they may make sense in some cases... (See Credit checks)

The resolution, though, does not actually ban anything, but calls on the governor, legislature and local municipalities to take immediate steps to ban the sale of dogs and cats that come from large scale commercial breeding facilities - which are often referred to as «puppy mills.»

Proposed laws get a lot of screens, though their application is subject to the political process: public servants in the in - house policy development process, political staff ditto, professional drafters, Cabinet, then members of the legislature and in many cases legislative committeed with witnesses who may well be experts (and who often claim to be)-- and then consultations with experts as regulations are drafted.

By analogy, when a state legislature fails to adopt a redistricting plan that complies with the constitution, which is normally a political question, this failure to act allows a federal court to craft a redistricting plan as a remedy for the failure of the legislature to act, in order to protect the constitutional rights of voters and candidates in future elections, even though no express language of the constitution or statute addresses the remedy when a state legislature fails to pass a redistricting plan.

MINNESOTA GOVERNOR»S «VETO TRIPLE - PLAY» Though voters last year sent new, reform - minded majorities to both bodies of the state legislature, Gov. Mark Dayton, a loyal servant of the plaintiffs» bar, vetoed bills that would have limited property owners» liability for trespassers» injuries, lowered the prejudgment interest rate and allowed defendants in auto - accident cases to adduce evidence as to whether plaintiffs were wearing their seatbelts.

If any act of Congress or of the legislature of a state violates those constitutional provisions, it is unquestionably void, though I admit that as the authority to declare it void is of a delicate and awful nature, the court will never resort to that authority but in a clear and urgent case.

«The federal constitutional requirement that both houses of a state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis means that, as nearly as practicable, districts be of equal population, though mechanical exactness is not required,» the Chief Justice wrote.

Though voters last year sent new, reform - minded majorities to both bodies of the state legislature, Gov. Mark Dayton, a loyal servant of the plaintiffs» bar, vetoed bills that would have limited property owners» liability for trespassers» injuries, lowered the prejudgment interest rate and allowed defendants in auto - accident cases to adduce evidence as to whether plaintiffs were wearing their seatbelts.

Thus when the parties decide instead to act as a two - person legislature, they can put their future planning into a written agreement, even though a court might lack the power to achieve the same result.