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Initiative reform that will curb budgeting by the ballot box.
He was appointed by former Speaker Bob Hertzberg to serve on a blue ribbon panel on Initiative Reform as well as the Voting Modernization Board.
It describes initiatives, reforms and practices in the health sector over time.
This summer, one of Mr. Pataki's major public policy initiatives, reforming the state's drug sentencing laws, ended with a string of embarrassing headlines over the role of a hip-hip impresario whom he invited to join the legislative talks.
But in 2014, can any new commission or initiative or reform really provide very obvious and knowable answers that any other commission or initiative or reform couldn't?
He built his legislative record on affordable-housing initiatives and reforms for the residential hotels, including mandatory sprinkler systems.
And on Capitol Hill, Republicans are taking part in a bipartisan initiative to reform federal sentencing guidelines.
Brown is supporting this as a desperate attempt to show that he is taking the initiative on reform.
This is true, for example, for growth initiatives, structural reforms and proposals to strengthen European institutions in relation to nation states.
