"The recent impact of Hurricane Katrina on the federal courts in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi has increased the urgency of congressional action regarding this proposal, " the law says.
Teaching union the NASUWT said it would start balloting members next week on strike action against any academy proposal.
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Jackie Milner, from the Sheffield Pensioners Action Group, said the proposal was "appalling".
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So far, the new proposal spurred some action, with Spanish utility share prices rising after the program was announced, according to Reuters.
"Every proposal needs some action to make it happen, " notes Arbogast.
That Lloyds should beef up the assets it is selling was the one proposal for immediate action made by the independent commission in its interim report published last month.
At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry.
But the most impactful thing that can be done to strengthen our economy is for Congress to take action on a common-sense bipartisan proposal that the President offered up many, many months ago.
Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have dropped a contentious proposal to ban contributions from political action committees.
They took no action on Mr. Christie's tax cut proposal, saying they wouldn't cut taxes unless revenue meets the governor's projections later this year.
White House officials tell CNN that Clinton is in the final stages of approving a proposal to get the FEC to take action on its own that would achieve the ban on soft money envisaged in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation.
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All of Mr Obama's proposals require Congressional action, including the "infrastructure bank", a proposal he introduced in his first term that was never acted upon.
And we are continuing to move forward on steps like a small business lending facility that action was taken in the Senate today to move that proposal forward, on how we can continue to make progress in our economy.
President Obama upheld this bill as an example of the type of issue on which Republicans and Democrats can find common ground, and he pushed lawmakers to take action on other measures to aid veterans -- including his proposal for a Veterans Jobs Corps.
That proposal has already been watered down but Doncaster warned that such action could harm teams.
"If there is to be any difference between my proposal that we count these votes and any other course of action, it should be a complete re-do of the primary and nothing else is fair, " she says.
And, if the test for any proposal is whether it totally solves the problem being addressed, then no action would be taken addressing so many of society's important issues.
IMF's proposal was shelved indefinitely at the Fund's spring meetings, and collective-action clauses have sprung to life.
The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati held that the Michigan measure, known as Proposal 2, unconstitutionally burdened minorities by making it impossible for state agencies to use affirmative action.
Activist organizations, including a group called the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary, sued to invalidate Proposal 2, dividing lower federal courts and resulting in an 8-7 vote by the full Sixth Circuit striking down the measure.
After the Senate passed a bill to extend some of the tax hikes that are scheduled to take effect at the beginning of the year, the action has moved to the House of Representatives, where Republicans are warning that they might reject the Senate proposal.
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