Sentences with phrase «aids funding bill»

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports: «The bill would insure that poor people... Read

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports:

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The bill states that bank rescue fund HFSF will have full voting rights on any shares it acquires from banks in exchange for providing state aid.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Trump have promised to send Texas officials an aid package worth billions of dollars — meanwhile, nobody seems to know how funding will work out in a bill to avert a looming government shutdown.

The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an influential group of House conservatives who have warned GOP leaders not to connect the two funding initiatives.

American Humanist Association, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Atheists Helping the Homeless, Fellowship of Freethought, Foundation Beyond Belief, etc., etc..

The Senate Democrats are filibustering a bill to aid victims of sex trafficking, demanding that any help to victims of sex trafficking must be bundled with (extremely unpopular) government funding of abortion.

ACLU, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctor's Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Donors Choose, Oxfam, Kiva, Goodwill Industries, The Nature Conservancy, Rotary Fund, Seed Foundation, The Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort or S.H.A.R.E., The Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Children's Fund, The Wheelchair Foundation, The Anti Discrimination Support Network, The Tanzanian Children's Fund, PlanUSA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Afghan Children's Fund, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Superman was an atheist), Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, Direct Relief International, The Halo Trust, Orbis....

@Bob Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Greenpeace, Kiva, Donors Choose, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Population Connection, Mercy Corps, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, International Peace Insti / tute, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, HIVOS, Earthward Inc.... etc etc..

When the House of Representatives passed its version of the farm bill in July, members added funding for rural development, conservation, food stamps and international food aid.

The bill earmarked $ 9.6 billion for treatment - facility grants through 1994 and would have established a revolving fund to aid sewage projects after that.

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D - 3rd District, introduced the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER) Act, a bill that would amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to allow funding for diapers and diaper supplies.

Legislation — European Union bill, third reading Legislation — Crime and courts bill Short debate — Global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Oral questions — justice Ten minute rule motion — welfare cash card Legislation - Justice and Security Bill [HL]- Second reading Motion - European document relating to the fund for European aid to the most deprived Adjournment - UK exposure to high carbon investment Wednesday

But Republicans are hoping to link Kaminsky's win to the investigation into Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to help Democrats take control of the Senate in 2014, which has focused on the transfer of funds to county Democratic committees that ultimately aided individual candidates.

Remember: He executed the first veto — of $ 419 million worth of education aid, the bulk of the $ 519 million worth of funding restored by the Legislature that he nixed — on the same day the Assembly and Senate passed the first bills of their two - way deal.

(While member item funding dried up in 2009, lawmakers have once again inserted hundreds of line items worth millions of dollars into the aid to localities bill, which has now cleared both houses of the Legislature.

But the state Assembly has not included similar funding in its budget bills, and the owner of the FitzPatrick plant has not promised it will keep the facility operating even if the aid is approved.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today said the tentative state budget deal will bring additional millions in school aid to New York City and allow him first crack at fixing failing schools — but lamented the absence of an extension of mayoral control and legislation to fund tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

To get this victory — and the governor will no doubt be touting it far and wide as a victory — Cuomo had to compromise quite a bit, jettisoning his efforts to shift Medicaid and higher ed costs onto New York City (thanks to the Assembly Democrats, who dug in their heels on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's behalf), and also bowing to the Legislature's refusal to reauthorize the so - called «rational» tuition plan for SUNY and CUNY, providing the systems with an additional $ 85 million in aid plus $ 300 million in capital funding.

De Blasio's inaction on what to do with a stash of $ 326 million in federal 9/11 funds could hurt the effort to pass a bill to give more aid to sick and dying 9/11 workers, Rep. Peter King warned.

Time Business 3 pm Oral Questions Designation of sites as Marine Conservation Areas - Lord Eden of Winton Consultation of early years practitioners on their plans to increase the maximum ratio of carers to babies and toddlers - Earl of Listowel Replacing the Cancer Drugs Fund with a new scheme - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Legislation Succession to the Crown Bill - Report stage - Lord Wallace of Tankerness Legislation Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [HL]- Consideration of Commons amendments - Baroness Wilcox Short Debate Impact of discrimination against gay men and women in Commonwealth countries on efforts to halt the spread of HIV / AIDS - Lord Black of Brentwood

That chamber's members were scheduled to return on Thursday to vote on the remainder of the incomplete list of budget bills, including aid to localities and capital funding appropriations, that had already been approved in the Senate.

Last year, the NYS Assembly Majority's one house budget bill funded Foundation Aid at 100 %, phased in over three years, as well as a year - one minimum 50 % funding of Foundation Aid for low percentage funded communities.

Sen. John DeFrancisco said senators were set to consider bills on aid to localities and funding the Legislature and judiciary at an 11 p.m. meeting, and further debate.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

De Blasio called the bill «fiscally responsible,» but State Senator José Peralta told Gay City that he and other elected officials in Queens have been begging the administration for increased funding for crossing guards — something that would demonstrably aid the safety of public and private school students — only to be told that there is no money for it.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

He has explained he votes against the «aid to localities» bill because it contains funding he doesn't agree with, such as public money for the Buffalo Bills football team.

Leaders pressure feds for farm aid — Gov. Scott, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have recently ramped up efforts to get much - needed funding distributed to Florida farmers affected by Hurricane Irma.

Mayor de Blasio's inaction on what to do with a stash of $ 326 million in federal 9/11 funds could hurt the effort to pass a bill to give more aid to sick and dying 9/11 workers, Rep. Peter King warns.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday to restore public transportation aid for Northeastern states in the new highway bill, averting potential deep cuts in funding for Centro's bus service in Central New York.

Funding for the project would come out of the almost $ 51 billion federal Sandy aid bill, officials said.

Funders over the years have included Soros's Open Society Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation and, since 2004, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which gave the local health authorities a five - year, $ 10.7 - million grant.

Funding: This work was supported by the European Commission sixth Frame Work Programme as part of the European Vaccines and Microbicides Enterprise (EUROPRISE), the European Commission seventh Frame Work Programme as part of the Combined Highly Active Anti-retroviral Microbicides project (CHAARM)[to RAW], the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD grant 38637 [to RAW] and grant 1032144 [to MSS]-RRB-, and the UK Medical Research Council [RAW and AF].

Funding was provided by National Institutes of Health, the Center for AIDS Research, UCSF, the Danish Research Council, the Lundbeck Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This project was originally funded through the Mark and Lisa Schwarz Foundation and subsequently through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

Funding: NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and National Center for Research Resources (NCRR); the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and its donors, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier handpicked 15 states to receive up to $ 250,000 each to help prepare applications for federal Race to the Top Fund grants, will now offer aid to the other 35 states, too — if they meet eight education reform criteria.

With respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grant.

Rejection by the House of the finance - reform bill left lawmakers and educators at the mercy of an impatient state supreme court, which has threatened to halt state aid to schools if the legislature did not deliver dramatic changes in its $ 14 - billion funding system by April 1.

-- Why have federal funding cuts reduced aid for regular public schools, which educate 90 % of American students, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to send more federal money to charter schools, which educate less than 5 % of American students?

The Trump - DeVos budget and the House Appropriation Committee bill raid student aid programs — including the federal Pell Grant reserve, which the federal government slowly established after an inadequate rainy day fund led to painful cuts56 to the program — by $ 3.9 billion and $ 3.3 billion, respectively.57 The Pell Grant is the fundamental building block of financial aid support for low - income students.

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

While the bill may seem nonthreatening at first, 80 percent of military - connected students currently attend public schools, and many of those schools rely on Impact Aid funding.

Unfortunately, this misguided bill could have a devastating impact on education funding for 10 million students that attend one of the 1,200 Impact Aid school districts.

The scaled - back version of the bill that passed Thursday would allow school districts to retain as much funding in state aid and property tax levy authority per pupil as the amount of each student's private school voucher.

GSRP funding is allocated yearly in the school aid bill which usually passes by July 1st.