Sentences with phrase «senate jobs bill»

In one letter, NAR requested the Senate leaders to include S. 1835, the «U.S. Covered Bond Act,» sponsored by Sens. Hagan (D - NC) and Corker (R - TN), in the Senate jobs bill.

Washington (CNN)- While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, indicated that a vote on the Senate jobs bill could come at any time, it is now expected to take place Wednesday.

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A proposed EB - 6 «startup visa» — a component of the bill that passed in the Senate but stalled in the House — would offer a path to permanent citizenship tailored to entrepreneurs, allocating up to 10,000 visas annually to foreign - born founders whose companies raise at least $ 500,000 from qualified investors and create at least five full - time U.S. jobs.

By Peter Kennedy The Canadian Senate says it is moving to protect jobs and the economy by adopting a Bill designed to ensure that Kinder Morgan Canada's [KML - TSX] stalled Trans... Read more»

The release of the Senate bill and a plan for the House to vote this week moves the nation one step closer to creating a tax system that would take a territorial approach, secure internationally competitive tax rates for manufacturers, reduce taxes on consumers, and help spur job creation within the grocery manufacturing industry,» said Pamela G. Bailey, GMA's president and CEO.

The Senate is said to commenced work with eleven economic bills in creating over 7.5 million jobs and poverty reduction by 16.4 per cent with 2017 national budget.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on a bill to protect Mueller's job — legislation that has split Republicans as Trump has repeatedly criticized the special counsel's Russia investigation.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The New York State Senate included $ 100 million in a proposed state budget bill to try to save 615 jobs at the James M. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County.

The bill's Senate supporters said ride - booking apps would ease transportation, curb drunken driving and provide jobs to Upstate.

She said the Senate Democratic conference is working on bills that limit the cost to taxpayers of these settlements, while also making sure victims can be fairly compensated and not lose their jobs.

In the wake of President Obama's press conference last Thursday, there was considerable skepticism — bordering on contempt — for his assertion that now was the time for the Senate to pass his jobs bill.

As lawmakers awaited the bills to be printed, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who's been on the job for only a short time, after former leader Dean Skelos resigned over the corruption charges, seems relieved to have it all behind him.

While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., said lawmakers need to pass a jobs bill this week, Republicans were not so sure.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class homeowners; the property tax caps for municipalities outside the city have been — according to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — «a tremendous success,» as well as a job creator; and that the city had benefitted so much from uncapped property tax collections that the mayor shouldn't be surprised about the governor's proposal to shift Medicaid cost to the city.

«At the same time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a new legislative priority: the immediate creation of a jobs bill from scratch in the House, and Senator Reid has said the same for the Senate.

By confirming that he would embrace the Senate Democrats» proposal for a millionaires» surtax, Mr. Obama tried to unify Democrats before the Senate debate on the jobs bill.

It also suggests he voted for job killing energy taxes, which is a reference to the American Clean Energy and Security Act or climate control bill that passed in the House, but has yet to be taken up in the Senate.

The Senate took a procedural vote Tuesday night on Obama's $ 450 billion jobs bill.

Senate Democrats plan to hold a test vote on a bill that would give small businesses tax breaks for boosting payrolls, the opening salvo in a long - anticipated election - season fight over which party's tax cut plan is more likely to help spur job creation.

The coalition Lib - Lab government would either need to appoint new peers (who presumably would vote to abolish their new jobs in a combined Constitutional Reform Bill that would include an elected Senate), or use the Parliament Acts to override objections from Peers.

Senate Democratic leaders are threatening to keep the Senate in session overnight Monday in an effort to both highlight Republican opposition to and speed passage of a $ 15 billion jobs bill.

He also criticized Senate Republicans for obstructing an extension of unemployment benefits and a new jobs bill.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., on Thursday unveiled a jobs bill that does not contain state aid.

«Working families all over Arkansas supported Lt. Governor Bill Halter's bid to be their Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate because he spoke up for them and the issues that matter: jobs, financial reform and making this economy work again for people who work.

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By Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — The Senate is where legislation often goes to die, and it's looking like that's the fate awaiting a new jobs bill wanted by President Barack Obama.

New York (CNNMoney.com)- Lawmakers» efforts to spur job creation were delayed once again Thursday after the House amended a $ 15 billion Senate bill before passing it.

(CNN)- Some Senate Democrats were concerned and frustrated last year about outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley's handling of the high - stakes negotiations with Republicans over government funding, the debt ceiling and job creation, according to a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill.

Within hours of the unveiling of the Baucus - Grassley jobs bill, however, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, announced his intention to present a much smaller $ 15 billion jobs bill to the Senate when it returns from an upcoming weeklong recess.

Late last week, in a rare show of bipartisanship, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D - Montana, and Sen. Charles Grassley, R - Iowa, the Ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, unveiled a $ 85 billion jobs bill which observers believed at least some Senate Republicans would have supported.

«[The Reid] bill is a job killer,» the Senate Minority Leader also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.

On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, a jobs bill and a comprehensive health care reform bill, Sen. Jon Kyl, R - Arizona, suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.

The slimmed down Reid version of the jobs bill also contains provisions which Senate Republicans might be expected to support like tax incentives to spur small businesses to hire and buy equipment.

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Washington (CNN)- Democrats and Republicans tried to force versions of a jobs bill through the Senate late Thursday, but both fell short of the 60 votes they would have needed to bring their proposals to the floor.

If President Obama is serious about helping get Americans back to work, he'll call for swift action on this and the more than 30 other House - passed jobs bills still awaiting a vote by Senate Democrats.

Q: What do you think will happen to the STEM job market if Congress passes the Senate's current proposed bill?

Science education: Both the Senate and House bills urge the federal government to do a better job of coordinating and assessing its $ 3 billion investment in programs that support STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education from grade school through graduate school.

September 30, 2013 • Only hours before a partial shutdown of the federal government would take effect, House Republicans still hadn't arrived at a temporary spending bill that Senate Democrats were willing to approve to keep government workers on the job.

In April 2009, California State Senator Darrell Steinberg asked Reanna to testify before a senate committee on behalf of a bill that would fund more career academies like GETA that prepare students for green jobs.

That package, which the Senate was expected to approve late last week, would authorize additional child - care funding and remove job - training provisions from the bill.

A House - Senate conference committee last week began marking up a compromise bill amending the jobs program.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

September 29, 2015: NSBA and National Education Groups Urge Congress to Finish the Job on ESEA Reauthorization NSBA and nine other national education organizations sent this letter to Chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D - VA) of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman Lamar Alexendar (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate Education committee urging them to finish work on ESEA and deliver a bipartisan bill to the President's desk this fall.

Less certain is when this debate will occur in light of competing priorities on the Senate floor, including the president's jobs bill, fiscal 2012 spending, and a possible proposal from the supercommittee on deficit reduction.

Senate Bill 480 would prohibit school employees from campaigning for office while they're on the job or using any work resources, like telephones or computers, for political reasons.

«Today's vote to move Senate Bill 455 forward is a move in the right direction for Connecticut schools, and can eliminate barriers to teaching that have little or no correlation with a teacher's job performance or positive impact on kids,» said Jen Alexander, chief executive officer of ConnCAN (Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now).

Senate Bill 807 would exempt California educators from paying the state income tax after five years on the job, in addition to allowing a tax deduction for the cost of attaining their teaching credential.

The Senate Committee recommended passing the bill to «allow students to take lower - paying community and public service jobs without the fear of being overburdened with loan debt.»