Sentences with phrase «voting reform yesterday»
While the Lib Dems sought «clarification» from the Tories on issues of education funding, fairer taxes and voting reform yesterday Gordon Brown was readying a statement to announce his resignation.
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Two GOP senators — Utah's Mike Lee and Jerry Moran of Kansas — sealed the health care reform measure's doom late yesterday when each announced they would vote «no» in an initial, critical vote that had been expected as soon as next week, bringing the total number of «no» voters to four.
Rep. Mike Arcuri, who lost the WFP line due to his «no» vote on health care reform and is facing a challenger with three lines (GOP, Indy and Conservative), yesterday filed 7,301 signatures to create an independent line of his own: NY Moderates.
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today praised members of the state Assembly who yesterday voted 132 to 0 in favor of legislation that would reform the governance structure of the Queens Library and require the Library to adopt best practice reforms aimed at increasing the transparency of the Library's operations.
At noon, officials from immigrant advocacy groups that support the New York Immigration Coalition's «New Yorkers for Real Immigration Reform» campaign hold a news conference to discuss the U.S. Senate's vote yesterday to approve legislation that would overhaul federal immigration laws; 12th floor, 137 - 139 W. 25th St., Manhattan.
Grisanti also received some pressure from the left yesterday, compliments of campaign finance reform advocates who were angry he joined his fellow Republicans in voting down a hostile amendment that would have established a publicly financed system.
Yesterday, Sen. Liz Krueger released an open letter to «friends and colleagues,» denouncing Prop. 1 as «fake reform,» and urging them to vote «no» on Nov. 4.
According to reports filed with the FEC yesterday, Revere American has dropped $ 369,997 to produce and air an ad that spams Hall for voting «yes» on health care reform.
Though the State Assembly voted for reform yesterday, the outlook in the State Senate is less clear.
George Osborne remains adamant that his proposals for tax credit reform will go ahead, despite his initial plans being defeated by a vote in the House of Lords yesterday.
«Despite the concern I voiced yesterday about the speed with which the MRT voted, I believe, on the whole, that the final report contains needed reforms that will place our Medicaid system on a path to long term financial sustainability while safeguarding quality healthcare for New Yorkers in need, the elderly and the disabled.»
Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.
This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.