Sentences with phrase «representatives rejected a bill»

«The state House of Representatives rejected a bill in December that would have increased financial assistance to students to choose a school, but state officials say that legislation will be discussed again this month.»
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On April 5, AAAS sent Representatives from the Tennessee Legislature a letter asking them to reject an anti-evolution education bill and support a rigorous scientific education curriculum.
«The bill rejects the budget request's proposal to reduce investment in the energy we use today,» Representative Mike Simpson (R — ID), chair of the House energy and water subcommittee, said at the subcommittee's markup.
«The chairman's mark rejects some of the administration's worst proposals,» said Representative José Serrano (D — NY), the top Democrat on the commerce, justice, and science (CJS) panel led by Representative John Culberson (R — TX), in a 29 June session to approve a bill that covers several science agencies.
September 30, 2013 • As the U.S. government braces for a shutdown, the Senate voted Monday to reject amendments to a stopgap spending bill passed by the House of Representatives that would have delayed the healthcare law for a year and repeal a tax on medical devices, and returned a «clean» continuing resolution that would keep the government open until Nov. 15 — and leave Obamacare intact — to the House.
We urge you to speak up on behalf of kids by letting your representative know you reject these bills and other legislation that undermines reform.
In May, a bipartisan majority in the Texas House of Representatives stood up and rejected a bill, passed earlier in the State Senate, that would have brought so - called «education savings accounts» and «tax credit scholarships» (two examples of how proponents have rebranded vouchers) to the state's school system.
In the United States, which rejected the Kyoto Protocol because it exempted countries such as India and China from obligations, a bill that passed the House of Representatives would reduce emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels — about 4 percent below 1990 levels — by 2020.
Speak out and call your representative now telling them to reject this disastrous bill in no uncertain terms.
On the heels of a last - minute anti-abortion provision inserted into the U.S. House of Representatives health reform bill, newspaper editorials from across the country have echoed Planned Parenthood Federation of America's opposition to the Stupak amendment and have called on the Senate to reject the Stupak amendment.
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