Sentences with phrase «with voting reform»

Attorney General Schneiderman with voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall (photo: @AGSchneiderman)

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While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

Poland could lose its voting rights in the European Union if it presses ahead with reforms to the judiciary.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

In 2013, he voted with his party against comprehensive immigration reform, an issue that's critical to the growth of the agricultural and tech sectors.

Greenlight wants a judge to block a vote on Proposal 2, saying Apple illegally bundled it with two other shareholder reforms.

Sorry to recycle, but with the Comey hearings sucking up all the air, folks may have missed that today the House today passed that fahrblunget bit of chazari known as the Choice Act, which largely repeals Dodd - Frank financial reform (it requires D votes in the Senate, so a much heavier lift over there, thankfully).

Sen. Rob Portman told CNBC on Wednesday that fellow Republicans will vote to approve tax reform despite any issues they may have with President Donald Trump.

While the content of the bill and the successful vote comports with our base case that the Republicans» tax reform plan will become law effective 2018, the Senate acted faster than expected, improving odds of a 2017 passage.

The tax reform bill they are pushing through the Senate will live and die by a complicated rule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate.

In reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positive.

A proposal from an individual investor with 60 shares to «reform executive compensation policy with social responsibility» garnered less than 7 percent of the vote.

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.

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

When it comes to tax reform, executives at Brookfield Property Partners are voting with their feet, at least anecdotally.

Ms. Grey was re-elected with 58 % of the vote in the 1993 election along with 51 other Reform Party candidates.

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.

Despite candidate pleas to morality and values voting, Latino's are for the most part, breaking away to vote with candidates who favor some type of immigration reform that will protect those who are not legal citizens.

(Washington, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today commended the release of the Senate Finance Committee tax reform proposal as an important step forward in Congress towards passing critical reforms to the nation's tax code, and urged the House to move forward with plans to vote on its bill this week.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

Indeed, I would have preferred a vote on February 10 which would have allowed for discussion and review of proposals for reform and perhaps have allowed some new rules to go forward in tandem with the election of a new Speaker.»

The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no» vote on the hostile amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.

New York's REALTORS ® urge the seven GOP House members from New York who voted with homeowners last week to continue to resist this tax reform proposal.

«New Yorkers are frustrated with the lack of progress on issues like voting reforms, gun violence prevention, women's rights, and so many more that have been held up by the Senate Republicans for far too long.»

Then they should try to complete the job with reform of voting for the Commons.

Meaningful ethics reform will pass with 100 % support in the Senate if Flanagan quits blocking a vote on the matter.

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

Gillibrand spokesman Matt Canter confirmed the senator is not making it to Buffalo because, as he put it, there are «votes to do with the very important Wall Street reform bill today.»

A breakthrough on the health care reform bill expected to be voted on today came after an amendment that adds $ 8 billion to the measure to help cover insurance costs for people with pre-existing conditions.

Union bosses say MPs backing strike law reform, with less than half the vote themselves (as most are), are hypocrites.

Electoral reform expired more slowly, with the Jenkins Commission's proposals for the Alternative Vote supplemented by open top - up lists eventually being kicked into the long grass, quite possibly by feet that included those of Raith Rovers» foremost supporter.

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

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.

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

For example, we are supporting three challengers to New York State Senate Independent Democratic Conference members, who have historically organized with the Republican leadership to block progress on voting rights, reproductive rights, and government reform.

Along with the bill containing the new district lines, the Legislature is likely to vote on a separate bill containing a constitutional amendment that would reform the process 10 years down the road.

Lib Dems attack «potty» system that could leave Labour with fewest votes but most seats, and say reform is their priority

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

The issue is of particular importance to Republicans in the Senate, who hold the majority in that house by just one vote, says Dick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union.

The occasion for this insult was the latest open letter from the Democratic governor calling on Faso to «stand with his constituents» in opposition to the the federal tax reform law, which narrowly passed the House and Senate in December without a single Democratic vote — and without Faso's vote, either.

But linking voting reform to the unfinished business of Lords reform can combine effective government with greater parliamentary proportionality.

This comes as McMahon has lost the support of key labor unions, including SEIU 1199, CWA and others, along with the labor - backed Working Families Party, as retaliation for his «no» vote on health care reform.

«Don't play politics with this issue - vote for what you say you want, which is a reform of the House of Lords.»

If there is majority support for replacing FPP with a PR voting system, is there a systematic approach that supporters of voting reform could follow to bring about this change?

And a change of government — especially if it was a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats — could see even more reforms brought into play, with issues like voting and House of Lords reform suddenly thrown into the mix.

With two Republican senators all but locked in against it and Trump exerting pressure on them to pass it, U.S. Senate leaders can not lose another vote on the health care reform bill they plan to unveil today.

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.

The House on Thursday voted 211 - 186, on a party line vote, to table the privileged resolution that would have implicated the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with violating «Clause 1 of Rule XXIII of the Code of Official Conduct, which states that «A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, Officer or Employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.»

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It is more likely that Cameron will seek to embarrass the Lib Dems politically over their sudden opposition to boundary reform, but have to accept that they are not going to vote through the boundary changes, and carry on with the coalition.