Sentences with phrase «bipartisan efforts from»

► Bipartisan efforts from the United States Senate might bring «the most sweeping update to the country's energy policy in more than 8 years.

Not exact matches

But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

Also at 1 p.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will launch a major effort to push a new bipartisan bill that would help cutoff the flow of illicit fentanyl from China, Mexico, and other countries into Staten Island and across the United States, 121st Precinct House, Graniteville, 970 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

Mulgrew shared news of a bipartisan effort by federal lawmakers to overhaul No Child Left Behind and move away from the harmful emphasis on high - stakes testing in favor of a more balanced approach that targets educational inequality.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on 7/16 Washington (CNN)-- An effort to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command received a bipartisan boost Tuesday as conservative Republicans joined the bill's main backer, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to voice their support for the measure.

Whitman has backed bipartisan efforts since leaving office in 2001 and faced opposition from Republican conservatives when she pressed for a moderate voice in the GOP in her essay, «It's My Party, Too.»

Matt Laslo reports from Washington on the Democratic senator's bipartisan effort to change the military justice system.

Andrew Romanoff, in a necessary effort to differentiate himself from the centrist non-politician Bennet, has been moving far to the left of his former moderate positions, and away from the bipartisan cooperation he was known for when he was Speaker of the House.

Ironically, Maziarz had just come from a bill signing ceremony in North Tonawanda at which the governor put pen to paper on Recharge New York and spoke of the bipartisan effort that went into getting it passed as part of the budget earlier this month.

The collapse of the bipartisan congressional supercommittee's effort to agree on a plan to slash the federal budget deficit isn't just a defeat for congressional Republicans who, as AFT President Randi Weingarten said, «insisted on protecting the 1 percent from any additional taxes.»

A state guided, bipartisan effort to save Camden, New Jersey, from educational failure is slowly seeing signs of progress.

The regulatory effort was bipartisan from the beginning.

(Minn.) Lawmakers in Minnesota are reworking the state's teacher licensure system from the ground up in a bipartisan effort to address long standing teacher shortages in career technical education.

The project is an initiative of the School Finance Research Collaborative, a bipartisan and diverse group of business leaders and education experts from Metro Detroit to the U.P. who are leading efforts to reexamine school funding in the state.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.

He voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act in an effort to keep interest rates from rising, but he does not fully support tying federal rates to the market.

Both owe their seats to two things, considerable funding from right wing sources, and state bipartisan districting efforts that have left them in protected districts, while just over the line, the Democrats have protected very liberal representatives, in these cases, Internet entrepreneur and open homosexual Jared Polis in Colorado, and also very liberal Kevin Ranker in Washington State.

Today, because of bipartisan leadership and a sustained effort, more than 21 percent of Minnesota's electricity comes from renewable sources.

«We commend Senators Shaheen and Collins for their successful bipartisan effort to protect U.S. foreign aid from politicized and harmful restrictions, especially reintroduction of the global gag rule.

Bipartisan supporters of the effort by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® to keep banking conglomerates out of real estate have called for an up or down vote on the Community Choice in Real Estate Act, H.R. 111, which would prohibit nationally chartered banks from brokering or managing real estate.

About 300 lawmakers from both the House and Senate have waged a bipartisan effort urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to offer a «grace period» for lenders to comply with a new mortgage disclosure rule that is slated to take effect Aug. 1.