The energy efficiency portion of
the House bill includes provisions on energy - saving information technologies, energy - efficient data centers, and a provision to add information to appliance Energy Guide labels for products that have smart grid capabilities.
The House bill includes a list of general areas of child development,...
But the counterpart
House bill includes no funding for ASHAA, and the future of the program remains precarious as the budget measure moves to a House - Senate conference that could begin this week.
A House bill including a similar provision was approved by the relevant Committee, but the full House enacted the Senate bill instead.
Not exact matches
Democrats, on the other hand, believe that any standalone DACA
bill would be dead on arrival in the
House and that
including it in the funding
bill is therefore essential.
The compromise version of the
bill, which actually passed the
House, did not
include that provision.
The latest version of the Senate tax
bill would make up to $ 10,000 of these taxes deductible, matching what the
House included in its
bill.
By 335 votes to 244, the
House of Lords backed an amendment to the government's key Brexit
bill to give Parliament decision - making power on the outcome of negotiations with the EU —
including the power to call off the divorce.
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.
In July, the United States
House of Representatives passed a
bill which
included provisions for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to establish an eLoran system.
The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (
including those in the White
House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the
bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.
On the legislative and policy front,
Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next w
Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (
including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government
House Leader Peter Van Loan told the
House of Commons on Thursday that
Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next w
Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform
bill) may finally move forward next w
bill) may finally move forward next week.
The
House bill had
included a different kind of continuous coverage provision — a surcharge people would have to pay on their premiums if they went without coverage — and some procedural experts thought it ran afoul of the Byrd Rule.
And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax
bill to GOP leaders on the
House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which
includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.
Republican leaders in the
House and Senate say they will consider proposals
including raising age restrictions for gun purchases and the red - flag
bill regarding temporarily taking away someone's guns if they are deemed a threat to others.
The original 2017
House tax reform
bill included some of this approach, creating a $ 300 - per - adult «family credit» and sunsetting it after five years.
Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the
House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control
bills to
include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.
Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank,
including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the
House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank
bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the
House.
The
House would have required people to stay insured or else face a surcharge when they signed up again, but the Senate
bill includes no corresponding provision.
The Senate - passed
bill aligns with the
House bill by
including 100 % immediate expensing for corporate spending on qualified non-real property through 2022.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner already vetoed the first
bill that reached his desk, which
includes tax hikes, but the veto was immediately overridden by the State Senate and is now headed for the
House.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she wouldn't support any budget
bill unless
House Speaker Paul Ryan
includes legislation for DACA recipients.
The
House bill to create the federally chartered corporation would transfer about 38,000 federal workers,
including 14,000 controllers who now work for the Federal Aviation Administration.
But some White
House officials,
including conservative adviser Stephen Miller, feared that Graham and Durbin would try to trick Trump into signing a
bill that was damaging to him and would hurt him with his political base.
The
House passed several tax policy - related
bills,
including a measure to punish people who impersonate IRS employees as...
Texas's Republican senators opposed the Sandy relief
bill, arguing that it
included extraneous spending, as did most of the GOP members of the Texas
House delegation.
The vote, which clears the
bill to advance to the
House floor,
included revisions meant to eliminate a $ 74 billion shortfall and address other issues complicating the
bill's passage.
Other changes in the
House bill are directed at businesses,
including a further rate reduction for certain qualified «pass - through» firms that send their earnings to their owners to be taxed as individual income.
Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of
House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief —
including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug
bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.
In looking for offsets, the Senate could start by turning to its
House companion, which
includes over $ 300 billion of reforms not incorporated in the Senate
bill.
U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson's
bill is a step in the right direction to mitigate fraud while protecting legitimate asylum seekers, and the
House should immediately act to pass H.R. 391, which will increase the evidence needed to meet the standard, and
include it in any appropriations
bill before Congress effecting homeland security.
Streamlining Volcker rule compliance has been a top priority for large banks which have pushed for it to be
included in the Senate
bill easing bank rules, which is pending in the
House.
Some lawmakers,
including Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D - N.Y.), who chairs the
House Committee on Small Business, said the administration could also focus on getting SBA lending restarted through the economic stimulus
bill.
The final legislation released by Republicans on Friday follows the broad strokes of the previous
House and Senate
bills, providing deep and longstanding tax cuts for businesses,
including a corporate tax rate of 21 percent, down from the current 35 percent.
Republicans
including House Speaker Paul Ryan and many in the Senate have said a regulatory fix on bump stocks would be faster than passing the
bill, but the rulemaking process to examine the regulation will take a year, with no guarantee that the ATF will actually do anything.
The White
House ultimately dropped the demand that the legislation
include wall funding, and a coalition of Republicans and Democrats approved a
bill in May that looked similar to spending measures that had been supported by the Obama administration.
President
Bill Clinton, meanwhile, testified to a grand jury via video from the White
House during special counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into Clinton's investment in an unsuccessful land deal in Arkansas that expanded to
include his extramarital relationship with White
House intern Monica Lewinsky.
[Washington]-- Today,
House Republicans unveiled their tax
bill, which contains various policy proposals that will impact young people's economic security,
including higher education.
The Senate had previously approved the border security
bill, but when it
included the visa fee increase, further
House action was needed and the Senate had to act again.
The recently passed
housing bill did
include $ 60 million for shelter, but nothing for food projects.
We also oppose provisions of the
bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants,
including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to
house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.
Other BR Guest locations
include Strip
House at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino; Dos Caminos at B Ocean Hotel in Fort Lauderdale;
Bill's Bar & Burger at the Westin Convention Center in Pittsburgh; and Dos Caminos,
Bill's Bar & Burger, and Sammy D's at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City.
Current BR Guest properties in New York City
include Atlantic Grill East Side, Atlantic Grill at Lincoln Center,
Bill's Bar & Burger Meatpacking District,
Bill's Bar & Burger Rockefeller Center,
Bill's Bar & Burger Downtown, Blue Fin, Blue Water Grill, Dos Caminos Meatpacking District, Dos Caminos Park Avenue, Dos Caminos Soho, Dos Caminos Third Avenue, Dos Caminos Times Square, Isabella's, Strip
House Midtown, Strip
House Downtown, Strip
House Next Door, Troy Liquor Bar, and Lively.
It also
includes the not so obvious: earning the salary, paying the
bills, maintaining the
house, calling the insurance company about that surprise medical
bill, researching all the possible causes of that weird cough your baby has been doing lately, scheduling tours of daycare centers, getting that promotion or signing that big client, researching life insurance plans, getting the oil changed like clockwork because you really need this car to last you, plus taking breaks so that you can recharge....
Here's a fresh - ish batch of it: SHARK FINS: Yesterday the Illinois
House passed a
bill to ban the sale, trade and distribution of shark fins, which are used in Chinese delicacies
including shark fin soup.
Meanwhile, the
House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations
bill, which
included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.
House Bill 158, which was voted onto Alabama's
House floor by a health committee yesterday, would allow adoption agencies within the state to refuse services based on «deeply - held religious beliefs,»
including theologically - motivated opposition to LGBTQ parents.
As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the
House CNR
bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions,
including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.
Neither version
included the language on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains, which was added by
House - Senate negotiators on the
bill.
CSPI is one of more than 1,000 groups,
including unions, anti-hunger organizations, and the food industry, that will be sending a letter in the next few days urging the
House to accept the Senate
bill when Congress comes back next week.