Sentences with phrase «senate funding move»

Backers of the FitzPatrick plant welcomed the Senate funding move, while some clean energy advocates expressed strong misgivings.

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While the Senate approved a stop - gap measure in July that moved $ 8 billion from Treasury to the fund, it needs a long - term fix.

«Such a controversial move could only be funded by cutting other vital priorities for our service members, mere weeks after the Department communicated its needs to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee during omnibus appropriation negotiations,» Democratic Sens. Jack Reed and Dick Durbin wrote.

The Florida Senate has moved the state one step closer to repealing a Reconstruction - era constitutional amendment that bars religious organizations from state funding.

The talk of tax cuts come as New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is seeking a tax increase on the wealthy from Albany in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten, a move that faces an uncertain future at the Capitol (Assembly Democrats and IDC Sen. Jeff Klein support it, the Senate Republicans not so much and Cuomo says he wants more information on the plan).

Tourism efforts aimed at promoting Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal stand to lose more than $ 1 million annually in funding under President Trump's proposed fiscal 2019 budget, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will fight that move.

Senate Republicans have approved measures aimed at strengthening school safety in recent weeks, including measures aimed at funding school resource officers, a move Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he is opposed to and has backed traditional gun control legislation.

«The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria wishes to warn the Senate against further plans to impoverish Nigerians with the recent move to hike the prices of fuel, diesel, and even factor in other assorted charges and surcharges «to fund the Proposed National Roads Fund&raqfund the Proposed National Roads Fund&raqFund».

Last year, despite the allocation of funds in Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget for legislation changing the conviction age and bolstering the family court system, the move was eventually taken out of the final budget after a tepid response from Republican leadership in the Senate.

The Senate continues to be a strong advocate for affordable housing in Florida, and we ask they remain resolute in their recommendation of fully allocating these funds as they move through budget negotiations.

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats» move to quickly pass 7 - billion dollars in additional funds for FEMA, which says it only has some $ 300 million left in its coffers.

Albanese supports a proposed congestion pricing initiative, known as Move New York, to impose tolls on the three East River bridges to help fund the subways; while de Blasio called congestion pricing a «regressive tax» and stressed that his proposal for a millionaire's tax to fund subway repairs was a more viable alternative, even though his proposal has largely been shot down by the GOP - controlled state Senate and de Blasio sees it passing only once Democrats take control of that house of the Legislature in January 2019, which de Blasio said was soon.

Laurie Cumbo Cumbo, the incumbent, was moved to run for office in 2013 after criticizing the state ending allocation of member items, or funds that state Senate senators and Assembly members got to dole out to nonprofit organizations, like the one she founded.

The U.S. Senate today voted 81 — 18 to advance legislation funding government activities through 8 February, essentially ending a partial government shutdown that had moved into its third day.

House and Senate passed an omnibus spending package last week, which will fund The Document has moved

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.

As debate commenced today for floor action of the Senate's Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177), NSBA sent a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators urging their strong support for moving forward on a final bill that restores community ownership to local school districts, maximizes authorized funding for Title I, and advances academic achievement among all students.

State funds for driver's education are slated to dry up beginning this fall — and while the House proposed to keep funding this program that is run by local school districts, Senate leaders want to move the responsibility of providing students with driver's education to community colleges by 2016, and they have no plan in place yet to fund the measure.

The state Senate Thursday set the stage for a confrontation with Gov. Jerry Brown by moving an alternative to his school funding plan on a bipartisan vote of 30 to six.

The bill was approved, 5 - 2, by the Senate Appropriations Committee after Fuentes found $ 89 million to fund it and move it forward.

However, New Leaders is extremely concerned by the deep cuts to education funding contained in the bill that recently passed the Committee; we strongly urge Members of the Senate to consider restoring, and even expanding, funding for critical education programs as part of an overall increase in non-defense discretionary spending as the bill moves to the Senate floor.

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.

Clearly, President Obama is constrained by his domestic political situation, the dysfunction of the Senate in moving anything forward right now, and he can't make a binding commitment unless he knows he's going to have the law and the funding to back it up.