Sentences with phrase «with bipartisan support»

It is of great significance that this motion was passed with bipartisan support.

The fact that it was agreed to through a new tenure - reform law with bipartisan support only helps, the study says.

With bipartisan support from all of the major political proponents at the Federal level, we have achieved the first major milestone in the journey ahead.

The county executive then gives his own version of his record: That he has twice been elected with bipartisan support, cut taxes, and created jobs.

The Democratic governor has touted the bridge as a major achievements of his first term, one he claims was accomplished with bipartisan support.

As yet, however, it's still possible to enact and amend charter laws in many places with bipartisan support.

But the officials are only carrying out the mandate of a law that was enacted with bipartisan support before the current administration came into office.

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.

Nearly seven - in - 10 say (68 percent) they support Cuomo's two percent property tax cap, which passed the Senate with bipartisan support earlier today.

Two bills with bipartisan support in the State Legislature would create a list of companies that are boycotting Israel and then deny them state contracts and investments from the state pension fund.

Legislation aimed at extending the act has been introduced in both houses of Congress with bipartisan support in all cases.

The bill, which was introduced late last week with bipartisan support, eliminates certain standards, one of which participating schools must achieve — either that 70 percent of voucher students advance one grade level, 80 percent demonstrate significant academic progress, average attendance rates among participants of 90 percent or 70 percent of voucher parents meet participation goals.

Lawmakers may take action on several of these bills in the coming week, including three positive pieces of legislation with bipartisan support:

Members of the Senate have approved bills with bipartisan support for several years, and state Sen. Joe Griffo said he expected an even larger margin of victory if a standalone bill comes to the floor next month.

After columnist Jon Talton of the Arizona Republic, for example, used a Sunday column to describe a school - choice program that passed the Arizona legislature with bipartisan support as «right - wing utopianism,» I publicly posed my own Moynihan challenge.

Established with bipartisan support by Congress in 2011, IPR allows the PTO to examine questionable patents to determine whether they should have been granted in the first place.

(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.

We at Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey applaud the members of the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee for passing A2134 and A1656 out of committee earlier today with bipartisan support.

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.

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.

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.

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

A Kavanagh bill to close the LLC loophole passed the Assembly with bipartisan support last year.

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.

Here's Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos discussion the property tax cap program bill sent to the Legislature by Gov. Andrew Cuomo late last week that the Senate intends to pass today — apparently with bipartisan support.

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.

Deregulation «passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support, including every single Republican member of New York's congressional delegation,» Keller said.

But legislation introduced in Albany with bipartisan support would allow it to expand to 20 stores, including five upstate.

Cohen noted that a similar cap passed with bipartisan support almost unanimously in New Jersey just two weeks ago, and that today Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo is headlining a rally for a cap with Nassau Republican County Executive Ed Mangano.

The bill passed the state Legislature with bipartisan support in June, pushed largely by Jewish and Catholic organizations that said some special - needs children could only learn in a setting that closely reflected their family life.

The Wisconsin Assembly approved a $ 3 billion tax break Thursday with bipartisan support for Taiwan - based Foxconn Technology Group to build a massive display panel factory in the state, a project President Donald Trump touted as a transformational win for the U.S. economy.

Lawmakers had to be called back to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield to override the governor's veto and pass a budget deal with bipartisan support.

The situation is similar in Washington, DC, where more than 46 % of all students attend a charter school and other improvements in the breadth and depth of opportunity for students were adopted with bipartisan support.

Turning Title I into a voucher directly conflicts with the original intent of Title I, which was first enacted in 1965 and has continued to be reauthorized with bipartisan support in Congress to target and support schools with high concentrations of poverty.

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.

The bill, which was introduced two weeks ago with bipartisan support, eliminates certain standards, one of which participating schools must achieve — either that 70 percent of voucher students advance one grade level, 80 percent demonstrate significant academic progress, average attendance rates among participants of 90 percent or 70 percent of voucher parents meet participation goals.

(Calif.) A bill that would impose restrictions on how school districts handle information gathered from students» social media accounts moved with bipartisan support out of the Assembly Education Committee Wednesday afternoon.

(District of Columbia) In an effort to increase economic and educational opportunities for Native American youth, federal officials are looking to unify resources available to often underserved communities with bipartisan support.

The law, known as the Stull Act, was passed in 1971 with bipartisan support although neither school district officials nor teachers unions ever pushed to enforce all of its provisions, with their potential for conflict.

George W. Bush introduced the law in 2001, pushing it through congress with bipartisan support.

A nationwide school reform movement with bipartisan support has collided head - on with unions over three ideas that labor has long resisted: expansion of charter schools, the introduction of merit pay for teachers and the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

I am happy to share with you that ocean policy is continuing to move forward on Capitol Hill with bipartisan support.

But even with bipartisan support, investment in new projects has slowed to a trickle.

Fiscal year 2018 LHHS and State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills Pass Committee with Bipartisan Support

If Congress does not act, the current adoption tax credit will expire on December 31, 2012, so please, urge your Representative to cosponsor The Making Adoption Affordable Act, H.R. 4373, introduced by Rep. Braley with bipartisan support.

On Thursday, March 26, 2015 The House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 685, «The Mortgage Choice Act» with bipartisan support after an intense effort by NAR and coalition partners.