Sentences with phrase «house version of this legislation»

Both the Senate and House versions of the legislation would lessen federal involvement in schools and would turn over power to the states to assess school performance.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism about the House's version of health care reform, the American Health Care Act, and have struggled to unite disparate moderate and conservative factions on comprehensive legislation.

The timeline is similar to one being pushed by Rep. Kevin Brady, the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and the chief author of the House version of the tax legislation.

Since the Senate TCJA is different from the House version of the bill, the legislation must either go to a conference committee — where members from both chambers unify the differing aspects — or the House could pass the Senate bill as it is.

Before those bills could become law, however, the House and Senate must pass matching versions of the legislation.

Once the Senate and House of Representatives reconcile their respective versions of the legislation, the resulting bill could cut corporate tax rates to 20 % from 35 %.

When the House version of the proposed legislation, with the support of the state's 350,000 member youth soccer association, passed unanimously last week, Zackery and his father, Victor, were on the statehouse floor to witness the vote and hear Rodne tell them, though Zakery might never play football again, that the statute would be his legacy forever.

Plus: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a 2,000 page bill combining three different versions of health care legislation passed by the House committees.

Rep. John Faso said in a telephone town hall last night that he remains undecided about how he'll vote on Republican tax overhaul legislation, with the House expected to take up its version of the later this week.

Both bills were new versions of Homeland Security legislation that passed the House unanimously in 2014, but died after falling victim to gridlock in the Senate.

ALBANY — U.S. Rep. John Faso said in a telephone town hall Tuesday evening that he remains undecided about how he'll vote on Republican tax overhaul legislation, with the House expected to take up its version of the later this week.

Hanna joined this week with Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - Fairport, and four other House members to circulate a letter among their colleagues, asking them to support legislation similar to the Senate version of VAWA.

Instead of the Biggert legislation, House Republicans narrowly passed a different version of VAWA that had been opposed by victim advocates.

The House voted 225 - 205 for a version of the VAWA bill that excluded new protections in the Senate legislation for gay and transgender victims, American Indians and battered women who are in the United States illegally.

Schumer and Katko served on a House - Senate conference committee charged with ironing out the differences between the two versions of the bill, and both advocated for keeping the High Density States program in the final legislation.

James S. Rubin, the commissioner of the state housing agency, New York State Homes and Community Renewal, disputes the city's argument that the governor has added substantially to the program's cost, though he compared it with the 2015 version of the legislation, not the city's proposal.

The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is also considered must - pass legislation and both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees approved their versions of the bill.

Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, Democratic author of the House version of the bill, said she would repeatedly add it to legislation that goes to Bush — an approach that could make for a lengthy game of political ping - pong.

The 71 - to - 25 vote on S 1150 sets up a conference with the House, which passed its version of the legislation, HR 1804, last fall.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

The legislation is still being discussed in the state House and education advocates believe a forthcoming House - backed version of the bill may shift the power to local boards, although the legislation's fate is unclear at this point.

PLEASE NOTE: The House version has been sent to the RULES COMMITTEE - a standard ploy to prevent a piece of legislation from being debated and called for a Vote.State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, Chair of the House Elementary / Secondary Education Committee joined her Latino Caucus coleagues at Monday's Press Conference, but needs to be supported and encouraged to work with Rep. Sims to get his bill sent to her Committee.

Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

Financial Management Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

The House's version of the legislation moving through the Senate would also require HUD to continue insuring loans made with seller - funded down - payment assistance.

The House previously passed its version of the legislation.

A clean energy bill may get its moment in the sun as a major piece of legislation in the Senate, long overdue after the House version of the bill passed last summer.

Representatives Royce, Engel, and Bass introduced the bill this week (the House passed an earlier version last year, but the Senate didn't vote on corresponding legislation before the end of the last congressional session).

In this year, cap and trade legislation passed in the U.S. House, debate began on a U.S. Senate version of the bill, and international climate accord meetings took place in Copenhagen.

TECH GROUPS: NOT SO FAST ON FOSTA - SESTA: A coalition of tech and other groups is urging House and Senate leadership this morning to slow down before taking up a new version of anti-sex-trafficking legislation.

For example, 21C worked to remove the expansion of covered business method (CBM) patent review from proposed legislation [PDF], which is a big part of the reason why language around such reform didn't appear in the final version of the House's Innovation Act nor the latest Senate proposals.

The House has already passed its own version of the legislation.