Sentences with phrase «house rules committee»

Planned Parenthood sharply criticized the House Rules Committee for rejecting an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2012 that would allow military women to access insurance coverage that includes abortion coverage in the cases of rape or incest.

The measures he referred to included House Bill 3069 which passed out of the House Rules Committee last week on a vote of 8 - 3.

House Bill 2011 and House Bill 3069 each won approval on 8 - 3 votes in the House Rules Committee.

Introduced, first reading, and referred to the House Rules Committee on 2/16/2012.

The congressman serves on the House Rules Committee, the Education and Workforce Committee and the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.»

An amendment pushed by Heritage Action that would allow states to opt out of the law's requirements altogether but still receive federal funds was left on the cutting room floor when the bill went through the House Rules Committee.

After hours of anticipation yesterday as a bill lingered on a House Rules committee agenda that could allow for - profit charter school operators to takeover some of North Carolina's worst performing schools, Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) told the Charlotte Observer Thursday night that his proposal won't be taken up by fellow lawmakers this year.

No word yet on when a House Rules committee will take place, but given the last few days» unpredictable scheduling, it's possible it could be calendared at any time.

Slaughter had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and was her party's top member on the panel when she died.

Slaughter was the first woman to chair the powerful House Rules Committee, leading it from 2007 through 2010, and was her party's top member on the panel when she died.

«The true test is whether the process stays open for other bills,» said James Owens, spokesman for Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York, top Democrat on the House Rules Committee.

Three female committee chairwomen will also be losing their powerful perches: Rep. Louise Slaughter at the House Rules Committee, Rep. Nydia Velazquez at the Small Business Committee and Rep. Zoe Lofgren at the House Ethics Committee.

The 88 - year - old lawmaker had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and was her party's top member on the panel when...

It now goes to the House Rules Committee.

Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, who was dean of New York's House delegation and the first woman to chair the powerful House Rules Committee, died of injuries from a fall at her home on March 16, 2018.

Slaughter was the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and was her party's top member on the panel when she died.

As reported earlier, the legislature removed the ballot access improvements after the chair of the House Rules Committee said advocates for greater ballot access improvement had Read more»

Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, 88, was dean of New York's House delegation and the first woman to chair the powerful House Rules Committee.

Slaughter represented parts of western New York for 31 years and was the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee.

The Kentucky native served 31 years in the House and was the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee.

She formerly chaired the House Rules Committee when Democrats were in the majority.

The 88 - year - old lawmaker had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and was her party's top member on the panel when she died.

Slaugther is a ranking member of the House Rules Committee and co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force.

Slaughter had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and a number of her colleagues on that committee, both Democrats and Republicans, praised her during a meeting of that panel in Washington earlier this week.

Rep. Louise Slaughter (N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said this blocked compromise and created «the least productive Congress in history.»

As reported earlier, the legislature removed the ballot access improvements after the chair of the House Rules Committee said advocates for greater ballot access improvement had been rude to him, so he was removing those parts.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, the dean of New York's congressional delegation and the first — and only — woman to lead the House Rules Committee, has died after a fall, her chief of staff said Friday.

The folksy liberal, who was first elected to Congress in 1986, served as chairwoman of the powerful House Rules Committee from 2007 to 2011.

House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R - Texas, and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - N.Y., the top Democrat on the committee, will hold hearings on earmarks this week.

Republican staff on the House Rules Committee did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Rochester - area Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter delivered the opening statement for the minority as the House Rules Committee approved the Republican tax reform plan last night.

Slaughter said, as a ranking member of the House Rules Committee, she is still supposed to attend an inaugural luncheon and plans to do so.

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

«As the first chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, Louise blazed a path that many women continue to follow.

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

If you're into reading legislation yourself (zzzzzzz), the House Rules committee has now published the text of the proposed budget deal in both PDF and XML formats — apparently, the committee staff stayed up late to take care of the formatting and publishing.

A House rules committee voted 8 - 7 earlier this month to kill a midwifery bill he sponsored that would have allowed its practice by health care workers with specialized training, a relaxation of current law - which requires midwives to have registered nursing degrees.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

His bill, however, won't be called out of the House Rules Committee, he said.

Late Monday, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R - Texas) pushed through a measure blocking section 528 of the bill, H.R. 4909 — which requires women to register for the draft — from being included in the version that will be sent to the House floor.

Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, the top Republican on the House Rules Committee, told Business Insider that the process by which the spending bill was crafted was long and bipartisan, but «once that was done, we did run into problems.»

Not exact matches

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

, a vice-chairman on the House Financial Services Committee, has sent a blistering letter to Federal Reserve Chair Yellen telling her in no uncertain terms to stop cooperating with other central banks and insurance supervisors over global rules of conduct, at least until the new administration has given her a clear political line to follow.

«We do not understand why the White House disregarded these rules in these cases, but it is our responsibility on the Oversight Committee to find out.»

Calling the new CFPB rule «anti-consumer,» the Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Jeb Hensarling said Congress should reject it under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives lawmakers power to kill newly minted regulations.

Two House representatives on the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter February 5 opposing the new rule.

The CMHC boss had just given testimony at the House of Commons Finance Committee that effectively called out critics of tighter mortgage - lending rules as self - interested.

In the House, the Rules Committee often reports a so - called special rule that sets aside one or more points of order.

Because the Rules Committee has immense power, the House Budget Committee has less influence in enforcing the budget resolution than its Senate counterpart.

Meanwhile, the first hearing has been set in the string of lawsuits that have been filed to kill the rule, and the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2017 funding bill seeks to torpedo it.