Sentences with phrase «working on a piece of legislation»

I currently work as a Special Education in Boston, and MA is working on a piece of legislation that would publish the student test scores of each classroom teacher.

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Negotiators have been working for days - and nights - on details of the bill, which is widely viewed as the last major piece of legislation likely to move through Congress in this election year.

The government now undertakes to produce a report on how any piece of legislation is actually working out 3 - 5 years after it is passed.

On this edition of the Campbell Conversations, State Senator Dave Valesky, a founding member of the Independent Democratic group, discusses how this new arrangement will work, and why joining with the Republicans may actually bring more progressive pieces of legislation to the Senate floor.

Previously, he developed a keen understanding of the state legislative process as an assistant legislative representative in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's state legislative affairs office, working on various pieces of legislation including the World Trade Center Presumption Bill, the Coordinated Construction Act, and a bill regulating the activities of street vendors in the City of New York.

Nonprofit community groups throughout the City and State worked hard on this bill and really feel like it is a good piece of legislation.

She's working on pushing through or killing some piece of tax legislation (It's never fully clear, and it doesn't matter).

We're talking to school boards, superintendents and other organizations about endorsements, and working on a piece of state legislation that would place a moratorium on state - imposed consequences tied to student test scores.

All of us who work on water issues and are concerned about the drought and water scarcity must come together on this critical piece of legislation and ensure a brighter future for California and the world.

Dingell told the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, the auto supplier trade association, at a luncheon on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the climate bill he was working on would be a «balanced, decent, sensible piece of legislation.»

«When you look at the legislation, the biggest piece of the legislation that will have an impact on our work will be around mobility.»

We work through our national sections when legislation comes up that may require some adjustment, on a positive side — the government maybe needs to consider adding things to the law — or reconsider taking away things from particular pieces of legislation.

Hadef & Partners continues to work on some of the region's most high profile and complex matters, including drafting some of the UAE's most significant pieces of legislation.

«I can't recall a single piece of legislation our industry worked so hard on to have it go down in defeat.»