Sentences with phrase «when federal election»

His political life brought a reminder of that last month, when federal election officials asked for clarification about the pro-Cruz PAC's June payment to the pro-Fiorina group.

C - 11 is said to be identical to bill C - 32, which was introduced into Parliament in 2010 and died on the order paper when the federal election was called.

Even the latest updates of PIPEDA, which died when the federal election was called, did not include such powers.

The exact destinations will be disclosed when the Federal Election Commission later this month releases campaign - finance reports for the third quarter of 2016, which ended Sept. 30.

In 2006, when the Federal Election Commission formulated rules in 2006 governing political advertising on the internet, it imposed few restrictions.

Grant Lally, like Achilles, has a fatal weakness: he paid off the government when the Federal Elections Commission fined him $ 280,000 for accepting illegal campaign contributions from his parents, and then lied about it.

Not exact matches

«WELL, here we are again» were the words former prime minister Paul Keating uttered when announcing the 1996 Federal election he would lose to John Howard.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

However, the bipartisan introduction of H.R. 835 at a time when the country is in the midst of a polarized presidential election, can signal legislators on both sides of the aisle to believe that federal regulation of virtual currency and blockchain technology is necessary to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

The fifth is the 2006 federal general election, when Stephen Harper's Conservatives elected 124 MPs, and Paul Martin's Liberals had 103.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

Since 2004, Canada has elected two successive minority governments: first, a minority Liberal government, helmed by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, and then the Conservative minority government helmed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that fell when the Prime Minister asked Canada's Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, to dissolve the last Parliament and Canada's 40th federal election got underway.

The next chapter of Jason Kenney's life began when the last one decisively ended, on federal election night 2015.

This potentially paves the way for Merkel to retain her post when Germany holds federal elections in late September.

The two candidates will face off once again in the new Fort McMurray - Cold Lake riding when the next federal election is held in 2015.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

When she was called on this claim in a general election debate, Ernst's response was a mess that both praised the federal Clean Water Act and seemed to call for state - based environmental regulation.

When the Australian Federal Labor government was defeated in national elections in March, the incoming Liberals replaced the two Federal Labor members of SOCOG with their own nominees.

Fidler is running in the March 20 special election for the seat vacated by former Sen. Carl Kruger, who was forced to resign when he pleaded guilty last month to felony federal corruption charges.

First, it was the special election to fill Skelos's seat, who was ousted from office when he was found guilty of federal corruption charges stemming for helping his son's business interests.

A situation in which a gentleman who was neither a contestant or running - mate in the substantive election on November 22 was permitted by INEC, the APC and the federal government, represented by the Attorney General of the Federation to usurp the candidacy of the deceased Alhaji Abubakar Audu when a running - mate was alive and willing to sustain the ticket was pure gerrymandering by certain interests to produce a desired outcome.

«So there's no sense to me offending them, when very soon they'll be saying they're not candidates — according to the federal election board filings.»

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

Grimm, who was hit with a 20 - count federal indictment on fraud and other charges in April stemming from alleged wrongdoing in his ownership of a Manhattan health restaurant prior to his election to congress, told the audience that it was fair for voters to look at that indictment when deciding whether or not to vote for him.

But between Aug. 17, when a federal district court judge in Albany revived Pidot's candidacy by ordering the new election, and the appellate court's overruling of the district court two weeks ago, Martins and Pidot raised and spent money.

Besides Cuomo's election as governor, what was new in 2011, when the development finally landed state funding despite the low scores, was that The Birches at Fishkill had secured a $ 1.4 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York.

We simply can't allow the taxpayers to bear the burden of three primary elections when logistically we could merge the state and federal primaries into one.»

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

In June 2017, Rep. Robert Brady introduced a bill to automatically register eligible citizens to vote in federal elections when they interact with numerous state and federal government agencies; Sens. Patrick Leahy, Amy Klobuchar, and Dick Durbin cosponsored identical legislation in the Senate.

The FCPA was repealed when the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act was passed.

The special election to replace Mr. Kruger took shape when the former state senator pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and resigned.

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said the state won't comply with the federal review of state election systems when it comes to revealing New York's voter rolls.

The Etsako federal constituency seat became vacant when Mr Pius Odubu, became the running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Gov. Godwin Obaseki in the November, 2016 election.

But critics say that promise was broken when Democrats tapped the contractor - fed federal account to help Malloy — so why should taxpayers shell out for a clean - elections program that lets in tainted money?

Opponents of campaign - finance laws hope that the case argued Tuesday — McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission — will carry on the work the justices did in Citizens United in 2010, when they struck down as unconstitutional a ban on corporations making independent expenditures in elections.

«We have come to let the Federal government know so when elections come and the party loses, no one is blamed.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

The full details of how the Obama campaign raised its money in September will not be available until Monday, when it files its official report with the Federal Election Commission.

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

Republicans running for Congress in Connecticut face an uphill climb when it comes to collecting campaign cash, according to recent reports with the Federal Election Commission.

When all of those groups are included in Katko's contributions, his total haul of PAC money last year increased to about $ 635,000 of the more than $ 1.1 million in total receipts, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The jurisdictions identified by the Section 4 formula were required to seek federal approval — or pre-clearance — when seeking to make changes to practices or policies affecting voters, such as redrawing district lines or changing polling sites during an election.

Seventeen months away from election night 2018, at a time when would - be candidates are usually putting out tentative feelers to party leaders and fundraisers, no fewer than eight Democrats have filed paperwork with Federal Elections Commission announcing their candidacy for the seat currently occupied by Kinderhook Republican John Faso.

Mr. Schwartz suggested that the five weeks since Mr. Grimm stepped down after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge have been insufficient time for Mr. Cuomo to determine when to call a special election.

The NYPD spent more than $ 25 million on what de Blasio called the «unprecedented security challenge» of protecting Trump in the weeks after the election — when he held court in his penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue, and where his wife and youngest son still live — and had been seeking federal reimbursement.

«At the federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to vote for their leaders.

I outlined how often NEA - supported candidates win federal elections and how often their favored federal policies are enacted in a time when their traditional Democrat allies ceded control of the House, Senate, and presidency.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

For school - board elections, I focus on those that are held during odd years, when there are no general elections for federal and state offices.

When the dust settles from the midterm elections, federal lawmakers — the re-elected and losers alike — will head back to Washington for a lame - duck session with a long to - do list that could have broad implications for education policy over the next year.