Sentences with phrase «voting reform during»

Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary and prominent campaigner for a yes vote, accepted that there would be no further attempt to introduce voting reform during this parliament and that it was «over» for AV.

The government set up a Royal Commission on voting reform during its first term but since then the issue has lain in the long grass.

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In a 51 - 49 vote following party lines, the Senate approved its version of the tax reform bill during a marathon session, with only one Republican, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, voting against the measure.

But Wisniewski, who has nonetheless been voted into the Pro Bowl five times by those opponents, seems to have reformed since incurring a total of $ 65,000 in fines during a five - week stretch in the fall of» 96.

On the heels of deeply troubling problems at the polls during the April 19th presidential primary, roughly 200 citizen advocates will meet with lawmakers to share their personal voting experiences and make the case for fundamental reform to New York's antiquated election laws.

There are mixed reports as to whether Fossella really is interested in running during this cycle — perhaps the GOP's best shot at winning back the seat from Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who is on the outs with organized labor and the WFP for his «no» vote on health care reform — or is laying the groundwork for a run two years from now.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months

The problem is constitutional reform doesn't win votes at the best of times, and it certainly doesn't win votes during a recession.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

Flanagan did include «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act on his to do list — a nod to the conservative upstaters who did not support him during the battle to replace Skelos as leader because of his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control law.

Also likely to return: Discussions about reforms to the SAFE Act, which Flanagan tried to push — unsuccessfully — during this past session as part of an olive branch to the conservative grassroots that preferred Sen. John DeFrancisco to him during the leadership fight — in part due to his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control legislation.

Whart the Democrats really want here is to get the Senate Republicans on the record voting «no» on redistricting reform — a vote they will no doubt seek to exploit during the next campaign.

Both Pataki and Giuliani hail from the moderate wing of the GOP, although Pataki sought to buff his credentials with the more conservative Tea Party types during the last electionc cycle through Revere America, which advocated for the repeal of «Obamacare,» and targeted Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform.

During his fifth annual «State of the City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2022.

A coalition of electoral reform activists were joined by Democratic state lawmakers during their annual pilgrimage to the New York State Capitol Tuesday to call for legislation that would remove barriers to the ballot and ensure that eligible New Yorkers are provided more opportunity to vote.

(The scale of rebellion was less than during the first anti-EU row or House of Lords reform, but on both those instances Labour voted with the government.)

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito gestures during a vote on legislative reforms during a session in City Council Chambers, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

A whole bunch of issues were not resolved during the budget process, from voting and ethics reforms to gun control, child sexual abuse victims, cash bail, plastic bags, food waste and more.

During budget talks last month, NY1's statehouse reporter Zack Fink tweeted that Senate Republicans were open to passing modest voting reforms if Sugarman were fired.

Fellow Lib Dem peer Joan Walmsley told peers during the debate she would not vote with the government, citing her concern for the disruption to children's education which upheavals caused by the reforms could have.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

The Reform Party was first known as the Stop Common Core party, a creation of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino that garnered enough votes during his unsuccessful 2014 campaign for governor to gain ballot status through 2018.

The 57 - to - 36 vote, which fell largely along party lines, came during debate on a Democratic education - reform bill.

Since it was not included in the list of amendments allowed to be voted on during consideration of S. 3240, the Agriculture, Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, this amendment was not brought to a vote.

He also makes the good point, paraphrasing from Tom Daschle, that it's not even true that politicians inherently shy away from controversial votes during election years — some of the most divisive legislation (welfare reform, Clean Air amendments, etc) passed during election years.