Sentences with phrase «ago with bipartisan support»

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

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.

Chaffetz won bipartisan support in the House more than a year ago for a more limited bill that would shorten the wait for visas for immigrants from countries with the highest number of applications.

The Common Core State Standards several years ago were fully adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with unusual bipartisan support.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

It was adopted two weeks ago by the U.S. House with strong bipartisan support.

It certainly feels like a long time ago that child welfare advocates were brimming with confidence that a bipartisan reauthorization for Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV)-- the $ 400 million - per - year federal home visiting program that supports programs pairing professionals with young moms — would sail through Congress.