Sentences with phrase «senate with bipartisan support»

Last week, it passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

Introduced by California Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez, S.B. 135 passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

In 2015 and 2016, similar bills passed the HEC and Senate with bipartisan support.

As the 2017 session kicked off, a bill passed in the Senate with bipartisan support, then stalled in the House of Representatives.

That 2010 bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

Not exact matches

Although the bill drew bipartisan support in the Senate, with 14 Republicans voting for it, it will almost certainly face a tougher fight in the Republican - controlled House of Representatives in the weeks to come.

Trump sent shockwaves through Congress when he made the threat to reject t $ 1.3 billion spending bill after it passed the Senate late last night with bipartisan support.

He points to the bipartisan support for the so - called «SELF DRIVE» Act, which quickly cleared the House with unanimous support in September but hasn't been cleared yet by the Senate.

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 % of the American public and President Obama — we've decided to rerun an article published in January on the complex issue of guns, the regulation of them and how Christians should wrestle with this issue.

The «Pastor Protection» bill just breezed through the Texas House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, and should soon be signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The bill passed the Assembly earlier this week with bipartisan support, but then stalled in the Senate.

First introduced 12 years ago, the CVA has passed the State Assembly several times with bipartisan support, only to die within the Senate.

Aubertine says Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, «has set an agenda that includes a permanent successor to Power for Jobs in the mold of the Energize New York legislation I sponsored and passed in the Senate with broad bipartisan support.»

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

Squadron and Kavanagh's bills to close the LLC Loophole passed the Assembly with broad bipartisan support in 2015, including Speaker Carl Heastie, but were blocked from a full Senate vote by the Senate Majority.

County Executive George Latimer has always made a point to highlight his political history of working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.

The proposal passed with bipartisan support in the House and Senate before being approved by Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

A similar bill is being co-sponsored in the Senate, one also with bipartisan support that includes some prominent names including Kentucky Republican Rand Paul and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

As predicted by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax cap program bill passed the chamber today with bipartisan support.

Cuomo, in a morning radio interview, said he took issue with «the starting point» of negotiation talks between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Trump, saying there was already growing bipartisan support in Congress to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program before the leaders met last week.

Much of the legal community has lined up in support of the proposal, which passed the Assembly and Senate with comfortable, bipartisan majorities, though the New York State Bar Association has not taken an official position.

It zipped through the Republican - controlled Senate with broad, bipartisan support.

Following an early burst of drama with the resignation of two members, the Senate reconvened Wednesday with a bipartisan show of support for the chamber's leader, who received a kidney transplant just 15 days ago.Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney was...

Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican - led House's failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013, or advance legislation of its own.

Although the bill drew bipartisan support, half of Senate Democrats (22) voted against it, together with seven Republicans and the Senate's two Independent members.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

The legislation expanding the FTC program passed both the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support.

And in spring 2001, with strong bipartisan support, NCLB passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 381 to 41 and the Senate by a vote of 87 to 10.

HB1 — The Louisiana Scholarship Program was fully funded with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, providing 8,700 students the opportunity to escape failing and underperforming public schools to attend the private school of their parents» choice for the 2014 - 15 school year.

(Texas) A sweeping overhaul of the school funding system won approval last week from the Legislature's lower house with bipartisan support, but still faces an uncertain future in the state Senate.

Votes were as close as 65 - 33 in the House and 23 - 8 in the Senate, although some bills passed by far greater margins with bipartisan support.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.

Last year, the House and Senate education committees passed legislation to update the law, but the bills — approved with bipartisan support in the Senate but by only Republicans in the House — clashed in terms of the federal role in education.

By passing Senate Bill 10 - 191 with bipartisan support, the state led the nation in forging a new path forward for tenure and evaluation reform.

Both the House and Senate passed the legislation, described as a «game - changer,» with wide bipartisan support on Oct. 7 to send it to Kasich.

Assembly Republicans backed down from pushing an expansive school accountability reform bill Thursday, instead passing the more limited Senate version approved with bipartisan support.

We are at a historical crossroads, with companion bills, SB 457 and HB 2337, in the state House and Senate and bipartisan support.

Our three organizations, representing the nation's nearly 100,000 principals, applaud the Senate for its passage of the bipartisan Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177), which includes many of our recommendations to provide principals with necessary support, training, and resources to help students and teachers achieve their greatest potential.

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One bipartisan - supported reprieve to the looming class size order, House Bill 13, gained unanimous approval in the state House in February, but despite advocates» calls for urgent action this spring, the legislation has lingered in the Senate Rules Committee with little indication it will be taken up soon.

The legislation appeared to be another provision that Republicans would like to advance as part of a regulatory relief package — sponsored by Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R - Idaho — that the Senate approved last week with bipartisan support.

Another bill that enjoyed bipartisan support on the panel, which has a similar provision in the Senate package, would allow banks with less than $ 3 billion in assets to be eligible for an 18 - month examination cycle, rather than 12 months.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate with broad housing industry support last month would require the Federal Housing Finance Agency to direct the government - sponsored enterprises to accept new credit scoring models, like the VantageScore model created by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

Thanks to a state coalition that met with and educated legislators, Senate Bill 852 received unanimous bipartisan support in both the state House and Senate because of its improvement of standards for breeder requirements.

AB 2743 was authored by Pedro Nava of the district of Santa Barbara, and was passed with bipartisan support of 63 to 7 by the California Assembly in May and passed 21 - 12 by the California Senate in early September.

Legislation passed with bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly would enable the development of community solar in the Silver State Carson City, NV (June 8, 2017)-- The Coalition Read More

Legislation passed with bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly would enable the development of community solar in the Silver State

After moving smoothly through the Kentucky Senate with strong bipartisan support, and a very rocky trip through the House, this landmark legislation has now become Kentucky law.

The bill, which passed with bipartisan support, will now go to the Senate, where it is expected to pass and to the White House, which is also in favor.

«This is a program with a history of strong bipartisan support, which is why I'm exceptionally troubled by the bill the House Republicans have put together,» said Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D - Ore.)