Sentences with phrase «when legislative bodies»

«While we as an organization can not comment on how or when legislative bodies will define clean label, what we can do is work to formulate clean ingredient offerings and help to educate our customers about what their consumers are asking for,» she said.

When the legislative body says no scientists allowed in a scientific conversation it is a problem.

Not exact matches

Zero progress when it comes to stopping the waste of tax dollars and the environment by taking all the bills off the members desks and bringing this legislative body into the 21st century as Proposition 2 requires,» said Tedisco.

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

«I'd want to make sure you found reference to the huge tax increase in Nassau County when Bruce was the head of the legislative body there.

This is because the Supreme Court has ruled that, when a grant of regulatory authority «lay [s] down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to [act] is directed to conform», Congress is not unconstitutionally delegating its ability to make laws.

Last week, the Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn state senator Simcha Felder showed he knows how to use his position as the divided legislative body's swing vote when it came to allocating $ 16 million in discretionary education funds.

The PBE would be advocating a Peoples» Referendum to End Mayoral Control before 2015 as well as having the City Council replace the State Legislative body when it comes to setting education policy (i.e. Education Home Rule).

«I think the nature of a legislative institution is when you have a bill that is controversial, and would have substantial implications for the operation of an agency, the body is going to be very careful and deliberative,» the Bronx legislator said.

VanBlarcum said that he had when he discussed the issue with Cahill last year, the assemblyman expressed doubt that the bill would make it past the legislative body's anti-gun caucus.

But Tedisco must have a short memory, because gay marriage was actually approved by his legislative body in June of last year, when it voted 85 - 61 to approve a bill launched by former governor Eliot Spitzer.

When new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive person to hold the powerful position, unveiled his leadership team and Council committee assignments, he appointed two anti-LGBT Council members to chair committees, and named one to senior leadership in the 51 - member legislative body.

When $ 16 million in discretionary education funds were doled out this week, the Brooklyn state senator proved once again that he's a master at maximizing his position as the swing vote in the divided legislative body.

A clear set of evidence standards and screening criteria would be useful to legislative and executive bodies when appraising the objectivity and scientific reliability of cost studies that aim to determine the adequacy of state funding mechanisms.

If we have $ 200 million to give, pay teachers to stay after school longer... I'm upset because we as a legislative body, we can sit here and make these type of policies and make these type of assumptions that this would work, when in reality many of you have not stepped a foot in a classroom... let's be honest, just because you bring in a different entity you're going to change the dynamic?

Perhaps the Superintendent missed the college class when students were taught that political debate is the discussion of policy options and, in this case, the role of the Board of Education to make appropriate policy decisions as the formal legislative body of Hartford's school system.

Mark Wagner CPA said Only when the collective enacts legislation that directly impacts the daily lives of the population in general will they rise up and re-take control of the legislative bodies.

Only when the collective enacts legislation that directly impacts the daily lives of the population in general will they rise up and re-take control of the legislative bodies.

«The provisions of this Charter which contain principles may be implemented by legislative and executive acts taken by institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union, and by acts of Member States when they are implementing Union law, in the exercise of their respective powers.

The limitations law reports also referenced the long - ago proposed legislative change in Ontario which had stalled when the then - existing law reform body ceased operations.

When studying laws, we are accustomed to dealing with a set of formal laws — being those duly considered and passed by a parliament, legislature, congress or other legislative body.

Generally, in those cases, a legislative body has to authorize the appropriation «voluntarily» from whatever source of funds it choses to impose, and usually, when push comes to shove, state and local governments do pay the judgments they owe (there are limited federal bankruptcy options for municipalities and states), although there are instances of state governments stubbornly refusing to take the actions necessary to comply with court orders directing that public schools be funded for many, many years.

Kromm acknowledged that merit selection can be a good reform «when done right, but what this body has supported is legislative merit selection which does little to stop special interest influence over our judiciary.»