Sentences with phrase «time legislature where»

The defense contends that the arrangements may have been conflicts of interest of the sort that are typical in a part - time legislature where lawmakers are permitted to make money on the side, but there was no «quid pro quo» altering Silver's official actions.

«What we don't want to do... is move to a full - time legislature where the expectation is it's a job for life,» Dadey said.

The Assembly supports a different measure to restrict outside income, but the Senate has rejected the concept, saying there's value to having a part - time legislature where members belong to other professions.

Not exact matches

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

Where Gibson is private, McLain, 49, holds the most public of jobs in the 1990s: He hosts a radio call - in show in Detroit, discoursing during morning drive time on everything from the state legislature to the state of the world.

Before session wraps for the year, it's time for the rest of the legislature to tell the public where they stand on term limits by bringing this bill to the floor for an up or down vote.

«What we need is a state legislature where progressives are the majority — people who will fight for what's right all the time, not just when their hands are forced,» the WFP's email stated.

That problem is ever so evident here in the good old US where we waste valuable time in our legislature debating sexual issues because the extremist fringe has taken over the Repugnican party and forces us to deal with non-issues that distract us from real problems like poverty, health and war.

First, we should look at the experience of other countries where a green party or equivalent has entered the national legislature for the first time.

Sunday's New York Times contains a solicitous, attentive look at a backward, benighted place — North Carolina, where one political party has deviously «seized control» of the state legislature.

It's time for the legislature to indicate where they stand, and forge a solution.

Also, at the time the income tax was invented, the only way to form a new corporation in many states and countries was by an enactment of the legislature and it was harder to form a corporation than it is today even where legislative approval was not required to form one.

Mayo's resolution sat in committee for more than a year before it came to the legislature for a vote, where it was defeated shortly after the Times Union revealed through a two - month - long examination of municipal payrolls and other public records that at least 11 local elected officials in the Capital Region have at least three relatives each working in local government.

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

It would have been better, in my view, for the legislature to have done away with the archaic Illinois custody and visitation statutes that create these situations where parents are literally starved for time with their kids.