Sentences with phrase «bill garners support»

about Amy Paulin Introduces Legislation to Combat Sex Trafficking of Minors; Bill Garners Support from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance

This sensible bill garnered support from the likes of EdVoice, Students Matter and StudentsFirst — all Sacramento student advocacy groups.

Not exact matches

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a similar bill in 2015 that never garnered enough support, while Republican Congressman Tom Garrett introduced his own legislation earlier this year that is also not expected to make it to law.

SOUTH FLORIDA — Female Development World Organization (FDWO), worked with Florida House Representative Barrington Russell (D - Lauderhill) to craft and garner support for a deeply needed anti-trafficking bill for Florida.

The bill, which garnered strong bipartisan support, is also expected to pass the Senate, and would address what its sponsors consider a discriminatory practice that keeps federal disaster money from religious groups.

Cuomo, who has garnered the support of the state's business community with his fiscal agenda that leans conservative on taxes, has said he's studying the issue before committing to the specific bill.

For recreational marijuana, however, there is no one bill that has garnered widespread support from New Jersey lawmakers, according to Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.

The Graham - Cassidy bill as it is known in the Senate was yanked without a vote on Tuesday after it failed to garner the needed support among Republican lawmakers.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Tuesday acknowledged that Cuomo's new bill was substantially different than the proposal that has garnered support in his chamber.

Skelos said Cuomo, a Democrat, brokered the deal to garner more liberal support for his re-election, while liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a driving force behind helping Democrats flip the Senate, is seeking statewide influence.

To the government's credit, it has been open to suggestions and as a result the bill garnered cross-party support.

The bill, which garnered words of support from President Obama during one of his first Oval Office ceremonies for an LGBT issue last June, passed a House committee in November and a Senate committee in December.

The reality is that trying to pick a horse in the NYC race is tough, despite recent polls that suggest NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has a shot at garnering enough support to avoid a runoff.

The controversial bill has garnered 30 sponsors at the council, but it does not have the Bloomberg administration's support.

The bills were strongly supported by leading public interest groups and garnered support from more than a dozen editorials.

Rosenthal garnered the support of filmmaker Michael Moore, while Biberaj enlisted former President Bill Clinton's political strategist Hank Sheinkopf.

Demonstrators by the hundreds — both those in favor of same - sex marriage and those opposed — jammed the halls of the capital Monday as lawmakers continued to haggle over language that will protect religious institutions and garner enough support in the Republican - controlled Senate for the bill to pass.

Nine percent gave their support to current City Comptroller John Liu while Public Advocate Bill de Blasio garnered 8 %.

Jackson announced his run in February to get the fundraising started early and has already garnered the support of former Mayor David Dinkins, Sen. Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, Assemblyman Denny Farrell, Councilmember Inez Dickens, and several unions, his spokesman said.

In each of the three instances, the administration and its allies in the state Legislature have adjusted bills in order to garner more support and, they hope, reach compromise.

With only one Democratic co-sponsor (Henry Cuellar, D - TX), and Lofgren's bill available as an alternative, the STEM Jobs Act failed to garner the bipartisan support it needed.

«Miss Sloane» centers on the lobbyist's efforts, along with her small band of young associates, to garner enough support in the Senate to get a controversial gun registration bill passed.

The finished product was well received, earning important awards — best actress for Duvall at the Cannes Film Festival and best supporting actress for Spacek from the New York Film Critics Circle — and garnering enough enthusiastic reviews to revive Altman's career after the critical and commercial failure of Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), his previous picture.

Suggestions continue that Pavlov is using the issue to garner local support for this 10th District congressional run, even though his reluctance to the original O'Brien - Zemke bills date back a year, long before U.S. Rep. Candice MILLER (R - Harrison Twp.)

«He was pleased to see the bill garner strong bipartisan support.

We commend Chairman Lamar Alexander and Senator Patty Murray for tirelessly working together to produce a bill that has garnered such bipartisan support.

In a late - breaking change designed to garner more bipartisan support for the Harkin - Enzi bill, states and districts would be able to decide whether and how to evaluate teachers.

SB 38's New Structure Part of the reason that SB 38 is garnering broader support stems from the fact that the bill will likely also increase equity funding for school districts.

Three separate bond bills were introduced this legislative session but only Liu's has garnered the support to move this far.

Bill Thiel, founder of Maureen's Mission, dedicated to garnering the support of other state breast cancer coalitions along with local, state and federal legislators to pass a bill to protect all women in the country and ensure early, correct diagnosis of breast cancer, which took the life of his wife, MaurBill Thiel, founder of Maureen's Mission, dedicated to garnering the support of other state breast cancer coalitions along with local, state and federal legislators to pass a bill to protect all women in the country and ensure early, correct diagnosis of breast cancer, which took the life of his wife, Maurbill to protect all women in the country and ensure early, correct diagnosis of breast cancer, which took the life of his wife, Maureen.

It remains to be seen what kind of support this bill will garner in the U.S. House, but if it passes, it could be beneficial to the average borrower who is struggling to repay their student loans.

With no time to garner support for the bill, the 17 month effort to draft a comprehensive, effective and fair bill died a quiet death in the OK House Ag committee.

Garnering significant support in the legislature, the bill passed two committees and, as of press time, stood poised for a floor vote.

Due to the concerted efforts of ALDF and animal advocates across the state to garner support for the bill, Oregon legislators passed the bill, it was signed by the Governor, and it became effective in September 1995.

This fine graphic, accompanying a story on how fossil fuels divide Democrats, by John Broder, shows vividly the regional divisions that will add to President Obama's challenge in trying to garner support for a stringent bill curbing greenhouse gases.

The cash for clunkers bills have garnered wide bipartisan support and could reward new car buyers up to $ 5,000 for getting their pollutin» jalopies off the road.

We need your help to garner more support in the House to make sure this bill passes.

Stay tuned, as we'll be asking you to help garner support in the House for this bill very soon.

With the companion bill starting to move in the House (H.R. 2748), we need your help to garner more support...

California Hemp Farming Bill SB 566 Garners Strong Support from Businesses, Leading Advocacy Groups and Sheriffs» Association April 2, 2013

Only Nine More Votes Needed to Move Bill Forward The bill, which needed 60 votes to move forward, only garnered 51 votes of support, with 43 oppoBill Forward The bill, which needed 60 votes to move forward, only garnered 51 votes of support, with 43 oppobill, which needed 60 votes to move forward, only garnered 51 votes of support, with 43 opposed.

Sen. Robert Menendez's subsidies - killing bill, which recently garnered majority support but fail to reach a filibuster - proof 60 votes in the Senate, just targeted the five largest oil companies.

The Fulton Bill eventually garnered support from all parties: it uanimously passed the House of Commons in December 1949.

Major support WHECA 2000 was the result of a private member's Bill that garnered support from hundreds of national organisations and many thousands of individual supporters.

But despite introducing several different variations of the bill, Senate Republicans were unable to garner enough support to pass any of them.

Throughout my educational experience as a medical billing and coding student I have successfully gained the required knowledge and performed detail - oriented billing, while implementing efficient and innovative client support strategies to the complex issues while garnering all facets of medical and coding knowledge.

With insufficient support to garner the needed 51 votes for approval despite last minute revisions, the Senate did not take up a bill developed by Senators Graham (R - SC) and Cassidy (R - LA) to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last week.

Miller's bill is expected to garner bipartisan support.