Sentences with phrase «want voting reform»
Many people who want voting reform have spent years campaigning for proportional representation — which AV is not.
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And rather than continue to waste their dwindling political capital ramming through a massive cut in health coverage that an equally massive chunk of the country says it doesn't want, they would effectively stage a vote on an unpassable bill, blame everyone (but themselves), and then move on to what they really care about: corporate tax reform.
Greenlight wants a judge to block a vote on Proposal 2, saying Apple illegally bundled it with two other shareholder reforms.
By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.
I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.
He will need to remind people want Conservatism is: To CONSERVE the status quo (Not reform the voting system, the house of Lords or the banking system) Millionaires (like Michael Ashcroft) CONSERVE their vast wealth at the expense of the poor.
And the lawmakers want Cuomo to put some spending commitments on the table as well, especially for election reform, seeking $ 3.1 million for aiding local governments to adopt early voting and ease the transition process.
In an interview on The Capitol Pressroom on Wednesday, the Syracuse Republican vented that his bill that had the aim of reforming the state's procurement process — a measure Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't want to see approved — never got a vote.
I wouldn't want to jeopardise the, albeit slim, chance that the government will see sense and hold a referendum on voting reform on general election day.
Sen. Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference, still wants to take up immigration reform next year.
(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)
«Don't play politics with this issue - vote for what you say you want, which is a reform of the House of Lords.»
Today they really don't want to give their partners or the public the impression they would like to see voting reform kicked voting reform into the long grass.
«I can not speak for the other members other than [to say that] all of us want to vote for tax reform,» Collins said.
Crucially, the ComRes poll also found that among divided Labour supporters - who could decide the referendum as the Liberal Democrats are united for AV, while the Conservatives want to keep first - past - the - post - 61 % would vote against reform.
What is important is which of the other leaders Nick thinks can best deliver what people voting for us in this election (that didn't defect to the reds for fear of the blues or to the blues from fear of the reds) wanted, central amongst which was electoral reform.
«But when these measures come to the floor for a vote, do we want him to do the right thing and support real reforms to clean up Albany?
On Wednesday, we reported that Tory MPs at the 1922 Committee wanted to «get those yellow b ** tards», in reference to Liberal Democrats who were criticising Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms, having voted for it before.
If you want real ethics reform to clean up Albany, including limits on the outside income legislators can earn, term limits, and closing the loophole for LLC campaign contributions, vote yes.
And he says, in answer to reporters» questions, the Assembly still wants to enact the pension reforms, but simply got bogged down on details required to amend the state's constitution, which requires the vote of two concurrently elected legislatures.
Everyone wants to give Gordon Brown a kicking right now, especially since the government - in their infinite wisdom - decided to unveil their reforms to unemployment and incapacity benefit right before today's vote.
They all voted for the daycare reform legislation, because they wanted to protect children.»
Nick Clegg wanted them on voting reform.
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.
«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.
Campaigners such as the Electoral Reform Society and the Liberal Democrats want a fully proportional system where the number of seats a party wins is more closely aligned with the number of votes they get.
The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»
These calculations could change if the LDs did very well (30 % +), and polls showed a strong feeling the public wanted them in gvt, but there are strong barriers to a C - LD coalition, (eg voting reform, Europe).
«Campaign finance reform, a ban on fracking, a live - able wage, if these are the kind of issues you want, the only way to tell the government that is by voting for the Green Party,» said Hawkins.
All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.
He voted for pension forfeiture and increasing penalties for law - breakers, but also wants to eliminate legislators» outside income, close the LLC loophole, reform campaign financing and provide district attorneys with more tools to prosecute corrupt politicians.
I shall certainly be voting UKIP in the Euro elections in 2009 now, and before anyone says that UKIP will not get the EU reformed, I'm not interested in reforming the EU; I want out.
The Democratic 19th Congressional District candidate said the protest over the House vote on health care reform earlier this year made clear what people don't want.
A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.
Amid chants of «Fair votes now» and «We want to speak to Nick», [54] Clegg briefly left the meeting to accept a petition and told the protesters, «Reforming politics is one of the reasons I went into politics.»
Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel, a reliable liberal Democrat on most votes, says he wants to vote for President Obama's health care reform package, but he has to make sure it's not going to harm Medicare reimbursement rates for New York.
Or is this result a signal that Scottish voters want more radical reform, a change to the first - past - the - post voting system perhaps or even a complete restructuring of the UK along federal lines?
Achieving reform through middle of the night voting and limited debate on such an important issue is not the way we would have wanted to see redistricting reform realized.»
Although we also want to reform the Union with English votes for English laws or some version of it and a radical pruning of the subsidy to Scotland.
It seems to me that, rather than the current half - baked attempt to foist voting reform on a disinterested populace, we actually need a good, solid debate on what we want from parliamentary representation in the 21st century.
However, parents who want to vote with their feet (as Ronald Reagan once said) may need more opportunities than the federal reform law has provided so far.
The conventional wisdom was that the tax credit plan would be attached to a whopping multi-dimensional tax - reform bill, which voucher - squeamish Republicans would vote for because they wanted the other goodies included in the package.
With Court Win, «Parent Trigger» School Reform Moves to Crucial Vote With a court ruling last week permitting the vote to go forward, parents who signed the petition last winter now have the chance to cast a ballot on the charter school operator they want to take over their neighborhood school next fVote With a court ruling last week permitting the vote to go forward, parents who signed the petition last winter now have the chance to cast a ballot on the charter school operator they want to take over their neighborhood school next fvote to go forward, parents who signed the petition last winter now have the chance to cast a ballot on the charter school operator they want to take over their neighborhood school next fall.
What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.
Last night after the 28 - 5 vote, they dreg up a Gates Foundation Survey from over a year ago about teachers who want to reform tenure.
He wants to «fix this problem without making our economic situation worse;» he voted in favor of the market - based reform in 2013.
Dems are worried there aren't enough votes for comprehensive energy reform (the kind US citizens want), so they're looking at a bevy of weaker options like the utility - only bill and an energy - only bill.