Since standing down in 2009, Mr Purvis has continued to serve in Europe as Chairman of Financial Future which provides a means of dialogue between the financial services industries of Europe and the EU ’ s legislators.

AETR further claims that ETS is acting unethically by selling test preparation materials, directly lobbying legislators and government officials, and refusing to acknowledge test-taker rights.

A prominent Republican until Watergate, Knopf often drew legislators into lengthy correspondence by mail.

This drew criticism because of past statements Pingree had made that were critical about legislators using private aircraft.

A good Brunswick stew must be cooked down slowly, according to stew masters for the Capitol Square event, “ Until the stirring paddle stands up straight in the stew .” When the paddle stood, Brunswick Stew was served to the legislators and hundreds of Virginians who turned out for the event to “ Get a Taste of Brunswick .”

As legislators they draw up and adopt a budget, and in the role of administrators they are responsible for spending the funds they have appropriated.

As legislators they draw up and adopt a budget, and in the role of administrators they are responsible for spending the funds they have appropriated.

The clinics began opening up in the late 1990s, after state legislators passed a law stating that doctors could not be prosecuted for prescribing painkillers as long as they had examined and documented that a patient was in intractable pain and needed the medication.

Summing up his career in the Senate, Ronald Reagan called him a " legend " and " one of the most skillful legislators, compromisers and legislative strategists in history.

" In the run up to the Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, control frauds like Charles Keating were able to get legislators like Speaker of the House Jim Wright, the Keating Five Senators and majorities in both the US House and Senate to suppress investigations of massive criminality until their Ponzi schemes finally collapses.

The General Assembly is made up of legislators, represented and voted by each residence hall.

While legislators in many states receive daily per diems that make up for lower salaries, Michigan legislators receive $ 1, 000 per month for office expenses.

In that role he led an organization made up of all state legislators and staff.

While the Blue Dog Coalition is made up of House members, the term " Blue Dog " is sometimes used informally for Democratic senators, governors, or state legislators who resemble the Blue Dog Coalition positions based on their politics.

In fact, California was left without a geological agency until 1880, when the legislature created the State Mining Bureau, which was empowered — after the legislators ' experience with Whitney — only to address mining issues, and set up with a board of trustees to keep the new agency focused on that narrow purpose.

" The incumbent Republican governor, Claude R. Kirk, Jr., ridiculed his opponent Askew as " a momma's boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators " and a " nice sweet-looking fellow chosen by liberals ... to front for them.

Some pharmaceutical companies set up " patients ' groups " as front organizations that pressure healthcare providers and legislators to adopt their products.

Campbell was also appointed to work with the Clinton administration on a small intergovernmental group made up of governors, mayors, county officials, and state legislators on the Welfare Reform effort of the mid 90s.

* 9 March 2007-Pro-government legislators blocked an attempt to set up a Legco inquiry to investigate allegations over meddling with the academic freedom and autonomy of educational institutions.

Informed observers feel that such advocates have the greatest likelihood of success in jurisdictions which have initiative and referendum and can be put on the ballot directly by voters, at least in the short term, as legislators are very unlikely to be willing to give up such control over the power of the purse unless voters overwhelmingly demand it.

The NumbersUSA group founded by Roy Beck set up automated system for website visitors to send advocacy faxes to their legislators on immigration topics.

They talked to their local representative, Dana Love ( R-Syracuse ), and she drafted up a bill that passed with the legislators on 2003-02-28, and was signed by then Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt on 2003-03-15.

HK Governor Chris Patten urged legislators to speed up the passage of a bill aimed at upgrading the fire safety standards of some 500 premises across the territory.

Addressing a rally in Lahore on October 14, 1950, Maulana Maududi demanded its dissolution, arguing that the ' lampost legislators ' were incapable of drawing up an Islamic constitution.

In June 2011, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said that a bill to legalize casinos could be taken up by state legislators in July pending the outcome of talks with governor Patrick.

* Health Care Rescission Legislative Hearing, video playlist of testimony by legislators, health care industry officials, as well as people who were denied health care due to up to 2000 points of criteria which could trigger a rescission investigation and deny a person access to essential services emergency health care during that investigation period.

During the economic recession of the early 1990s, legislators studied reinstating tolls on parts of the Connecticut Turnpike and portions of highways around Hartford to make up for huge budget deficits.

He sought to run Congress as he ran his New York American or Journal, a scheme veteran legislators resisted.

But where we find that the legislators, in light of the facts and testimony before them, have a rational basis for finding a chosen regulatory scheme necessary to the protection of commerce, our investigation is at an end.

In the course of the scheme, the lobbyists were accused of illegally giving gifts and making campaign donations to legislators in return for votes or support of legislation.

The legislators themselves are independently elected ( while some also serve as mayors of the villages they represent, their status as mayors does not affect in any way their seats on the legislature and thus it is not a Board of Supervisors ).

With the power to levy impôts henceforth in the hands of the States, and with the introduction of the Income Tax law of 1928, the legislators now controlled the budget independently of the Bailiff.

The members or legislators of a senate are called senators.

* In some, mostly federal countries with a unicameral legislature, some of the legislators are elected differently from the others and are called Senators.

It was believed that President John Quincy Adams ’ s supporters in New England, the National Republicans, or as they would later be called, Whigs, would uniformly oppose the bill for this reason and that the southern legislators could then withdraw their support, killing the legislation while blaming it on New England:

The first embryonic world parliament, called the Inter-Parliamentary Union, was organized in 1886 by Cremer and Passy, composed of legislators from many countries.

A majority may be called a simple majority to contrast with other types of majority: an overall majority, in parliamentary systems, is the difference of legislators between the government and its opposition ;

In May 2007, citing concern over developments in West Kowloon, and near Tai Wai Yuen Long railway stations, some legislators called for a law to stop developers from constructing tall buildings which adversely affect air flow in densely populated areas, but the bid failed.

The views embodied in Oceana, particularly those bearing on vote by ballot and rotation of magistrates and legislators, Harrington and others ( who in 1659 formed a club called the " Rota ") endeavoured to push practically, but with no success.

( In the same year, a short-lived Reform Party, also called Liberal Reform Party or People's Reform Party a coalition of Democrats, reform-minded Republicans, and Grangers secured the election for two years of William Robert Taylor as Governor, as well as a number of state legislators, although it never formed a coherent organization.

Huerta called a late-night special session of Congress and, under the guns of his troops, the legislators endorsed his assumption of power.

This proved controversial in ARI ranks and some national legislators formed a separate block called the Autonomous ARI in Congress.

After negotiating with legislators, Fletcher called another session for August ; the session included only the tax incentive program, which the Assembly passed.

He was an elected and later a leadership representative on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and also among the small group of legislators selected for the Parliamentary Group, representatives called upon for rapid parliamentary and procedural action on the floor of the U. S. House.

On June 12, 2010 the television network Univision aired cellphone video footage of the incident, after which Mexican legislators called for the extradition of the officer accused of the shooting.

Pan-Blue legislators have called for continued investigation of the case, as has Vice President Lu.

A more modern controversy happened with the failed 1998 confirmation by the state senate of popular sitting Attorney General Margery Bronster, as political payback for her actions to reform the corrupt Kamehameha Schools / Bishop Estate whose trustees were friends of various powerful legislators, many Hawaii residents called for the right to elect the attorney general.

Along with other NDP legislators from the Sudbury area, he frequently called for Inco's nickel mine in the city to be nationalized.

Following the successful auction of the site, some legislators called for a law to stop developers from constructing tall buildings which maximise good views at the expense of air flow in densely populated areas, but the bid failed.

As a response to the mining industry's decision-makers ' risk-taking actions regarding disallowed tax deductions, State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford on March 21, 2011, "... called for the Nevada Tax Commission to issue emergency regulations that would narrow the deductions mining companies are allowed to take when calculating their tax bills .." but "... either the governor nor legislators have accused mining companies of not paying all due taxes, but Democrats have said they don't pay enough taxes.

Student leaders called for their release, while some state legislators called for their deportation.

In his concession speech, Hatch advocated that legislators get back to " sitting down and getting to know each other in private " in order to establish common ground for bipartisan legislation, and called for an end to partisan rancor.

Anderson did not stand for reelection to the seat ; it was to remain vacant for a period when a group of Tennessee Democratic legislators called the " Immortal Thirteen " refused to meet and give a qurorum sufficient to allow the election of a successor, apparently preferring no representation to that by a member of the other party, the Whigs.

The relationship between Nemtsov and the Ukrainian government became unstable in mid-2005, when a group of ultra nationalist legislators called for Yushchenko to fire his Russian advisor after accusations that Nemtsov had criticized Ukrainian cabinet decisions ( Dow Jones International News, 3 June 2005 ).

After favorable reaction to the plan from legislators, she called a special legislative session to convene July 8 to consider the plan.