Sentences with phrase «trade legislation during»

He said that during the first term, Obama's team was trying to get Republicans, conservative Democrats and business leaders behind cap - and - trade legislation during a major recession.

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Just to give you an idea of how the Administration felt about free trade during the first term, no one has bothered to renew TPA legislation since 2007.

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

As it stands now, high frequency trading is largely unregulated and unless Congress passes sweeping legislation, which is unlikely to happen given its performance during past opportunities to enact regulation upon the stock market or financial dealings, there is nothing impeding the growth of high frequency trading.

As I detailed in last year's Climate Shift report, Robertson, who has a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, gave the Environmental Defense Fund more than $ 40 million between 2005 and 2009 to support the group's efforts to pass cap and trade legislation, accounting for almost one - third of the $ 144 million that EDF spent on climate change during the period.

During the last year legislation has been passed bringing estate agents under greater regulatory control, through accountability for complaints, although the Department of Trade and Industry continues to resist calls for licensing and full statutory controls which govern other professions.

The memory of Fred Bancroft (Trade and Labour Congress of Canada), who represented workers» interests so forcefully during the Meredith Commission hearings and helped shaped the legislation, lives on in today's struggle to improve the workers» compensation system.

During the political rhetoric regarding the proposals, unions have been compared on the one hand to charities and to private corporations on the other, when in fact they are tax - exempt entities, more akin to professional trade organizations and think - tanks, which are noticeably absent from the union - specific legislation.

Frei cited Nevada Senate Bill 1 of 2015, the legislation that was passed during a special session of the state legislature and facilitated FF's tax incentive deal, and said it allows for parts of the application to be deemed «a trade secret or other confidential proprietary information» at the applicant's request.

Cryptocurrencies ranging from bitcoin to ethereum and ripple were all down during the Asian trading session on Thursday, as news broke that the South Korean government is preparing legislation that would effectively ban cryptocurrency trading.

During the Commercial Legislation and Regulatory Advisory Board meeting at the 2016 REALTORS ® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in mid-May, NAR updated members on what to expect from Congress on some of the biggest commercial real estate issues over the coming months.