Sentences with phrase «house opposition to the bill»

SOPA is on hold for the moment, brought low by White House opposition to the bill, but its Senate - based cousin, the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act - who comes up with this stuff, anyway?)

Not exact matches

Both houses will have to agree on one spending bill to send it to President Donald Trump — and Pelosi's remarks indicate that the Senate proposal may face tough opposition in the lower chamber.

In the House bill, homeowners would be allowed to deduct only interest payments on their first $ 500,000 worth of home loans, a proposal that generated fierce opposition from the housing industry, while the Senate bill would keep the current threshold of $ 1 million.

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.

The bill was sent to the House, which took it up very early this morning, though the situation was trickier there after liberal Democrats and tea party conservatives both swung into opposition.

Disgraced Assemblymember Vito Lopez lost his position as Housing Committee chair after a sexual - harassment scandal last year — but despite opposition from tenant groups, the omnibus property - tax - break bill he tried to push through at the end of the 2012 session became law at the end of January.

Miliband conceded his opposition to a programme motion would be portrayed by some as an attempt to wreck the bill and allow opponents to suffocate it through deliberate delay so the reform never reaches the House of Lords.

Faced with entrenched opposition from Tory MPs coupled with Labour's refusal to back a crucial timetable for the House of Lords Reform Bill, Mr Clegg announced last month that the plans were being scrapped.

Bill Cash IB Tauris, # 25 Bill Cash is well known in the House of Commons for his relentless opposition to British membership of the EU.

GOP leaders say they are encouraged by a compromise deal reached by two groups whose members made up the core of Republican opposition to a bill that House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly pulled from the House floor in March.

«The new CNN poll on the health care bill — conducted in the days before its ultimate passage in the House on Sunday night — on the surface appears to show widespread opposition to the law.

The prevailing - wage proposal was among the last bills to pass both houses, soaring through the Assembly 92 - 48 Thursday night over fierce opposition by the chamber's Republican minority.

Silver reportedly was the «anonymous benefactor who tucked» into a housing bill controversial 421a tax breaks for five luxury developments in 2013 despite fervent opposition from tenant - advocacy groups, according to the Daily News.

said Senate Democrats are «very unified» in opposition to the House bill.

Trump's top aides sought today, in television talk show appearances, to defend the House Republicans» health care bill that Trump has embraced despite opposition from conservatives.

- The acceptance by a Member of a bribe to influence his or her conduct as a Member, including any fee, compensation or reward in connection with the promotion of, or opposition to, any Bill, Motion, or other matter submitted, or intended to be submitted to the House, or to any Committee of the House, is contrary to the law of Parliament.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has a high - powered ally in his opposition to a proposal from Cuomo to change how the city receives tax - exempt housing bonds: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Healthcare groups are ramping up their opposition to the ObamaCare replacement bill ahead of a House vote this week.

A Lib Dem - sponsored Bill which would introduce sweeping new exemptions to the so - called «bedroom tax» has cleared its first hurdle in the House of Commons despite opposition from Conservative MPs.

The House Republican anti-terrorism bill that includes Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin's gun measure yesterday remained on hold, with no timeline for passage, as House Speaker Paul Ryan worked to overcome opposition from his party's conservative bloc.

Obama and Nancy Pelosi do not have the votes in the House - there is so much opposition - AND the votes they do have, those people really don't want to vote for the bill either.

House Democrats, who've sought to draw attention to their push for gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun violence.

Washington (CNN)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is dismissing Republican claims that recent polls support their opposition to the current health care proposals, countering that the real problem is that the American people don't have a bill to judge.

But the wide - ranging bill has to go through various parliamentary stages before becoming law and is expected to face opposition in the House of Lords.

Trump is at the Capitol for a pep rally with House Republicans, shortly before the chamber is expected to approve the tax bill over solid Democratic opposition.

Linares, Powell and Williams expressed opposition to the proposed rezoning and higher - density housing slated for Upper Manhattan, under Mayor Bill de Blasio's citywide plan to build affordable housing.

Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump support the AHCA, while Democrats and some Republican members have voiced opposition to the bill, including Rep. John Katko (R - NY), who represents New York's 24th Congressional District that covers Onondaga, Cayuga, Wayne and Oswego counties.

A disapproval resolution sailed through the House even after it became clear there President Barack Obama had enough votes to uphold his veto, and the Democrats blocked a mirror opposition bill in the Senate.

«I suppose that the Government might have hoped that in a time of crisis the country would unite around them as they set out to address the problem, but as it happens the Bill has managed to unite the House in opposition.

The bill had already cleared the Senate, but it would have to surmount fierce opposition in the House before it could be ratified by the Northern states.

With nearly unanimous Democratic opposition, the House and the Senate last Thursday passed the $ 1.8 trillion budget resolution for fiscal 2001, a nonbinding document that is designed to guide action on spending and tax bills.

Lawmakers inserted the vaccine measure and other disputed items into the House version of the bill at the last minute, sparking opposition when the bill to establish...

Opposition to the bill, they said, centers on a general reluctance to raise taxes, rather than the House transportation committee's recent vote to give none of the new funds to schools, which would have received...

Kline and Alexander, who was ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at the time, each had draft bills that stood in opposition to Senate Democrats» proposals, and the House passed Kline's bill in the summer of 2013 along party lines.

The House and the Senate plan to vote this week on a quickly crafted compromise version of the «education savings account» bill that Republicans hope will force President Clinton to reverse his opposition to it.

The House voted, 242 - 174, to approve a bill sponsored by Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa., the leader of the testing opposition, that would require Congress to «specifically and explicitly» authorize any test development beyond the current fiscal ybill sponsored by Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa., the leader of the testing opposition, that would require Congress to «specifically and explicitly» authorize any test development beyond the current fiscal yBill Goodling, R - Pa., the leader of the testing opposition, that would require Congress to «specifically and explicitly» authorize any test development beyond the current fiscal year.

Rep. John Kline, education chairman in the House, also spoke with Ryan about the merits of the bill — which had drawn major opposition from the same conservatives who had pushed Boehner to resign.

(Mich.) The Michigan Science Teachers Association is the latest group to pile on opposition to a bill introduced in the House that would walk back the state's adoption of the Common Core State Standards.

Conservative lawmakers, the Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth mounted opposition to the House's bill the week it was supposed to be put up for a vote, eventually derailing the bill from a floor vote at the end of February.

It was during this period that he earned the respect of opposition peers as he worked with Labour and the Liberal Democrats, delivering key concessions to get the bill passed in the upper house, where the government does not have a majority.

The bills (HR 3989 [PDF] and HR 3990 [PDF]-RRB- introduced by House Education Chairman John Kline (R - MN), passed on a strictly party - line vote with Democrats voicing their extreme opposition to the measures.

Through the entire legislative process, only one Democratic legislator voted against the bill (In the State House) and neither Malloy nor his administration ever raised any public opposition to the common sense bill.

Give the CBO score, the growing opposition to the bill and the limited time available on the House floor to consider legislation, its future is uncertain.

Magnet Schools of America, representing approximately 3,800 magnet schools and 2.6 million students nationwide, expresses its strong opposition to the House FY 2017 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill that would entirely eliminate funding for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), despite being reauthorized in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

A recent article in the Washington Post mentions a House bill passed over strong industry and Republican opposition that would make the switch to direct government lending.

The bill, authored by Best Friends Animal Society and supported by Alley Cat Allies and the Humane Society of the United States, made it through the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee with unanimous approval last week — despite opposition from, among others, Audubon Florida (which was trying to make the most of the Smithsonian / U.

House Democratic leaders, facing solid opposition from Republicans to any «cap and trade» climate bill, are having to rely on fellow Democrats to win passage of legislation this year.

Food Policy Action is mobilizing stakeholders from across the United States to voice their united opposition to the draft 2018 Farm Bill released by the House Agriculture Committee.

The collapse of Congressional action on climate and clean energy legislation this year, after the House had passed a highly - compromised bill and Senate sponsors had painstakingly sought to bring forward something similar, was due mainly to lock - step opposition from Republicans along with corporate and parochially - oriented Democrats.

Jim Snyder at Bloomberg reports Keystone XL critics amassed more than a million comments to the State Department in opposition to the pipeline, while Paul Bledsoe, a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, says the decision ultimately rests with President Obama: