Sentences with phrase «aid bill»

To make paying for higher education easier and fairer for students, President Obama has proposed a new Student Aid Bill of Rights.

Late payment of legal aid bills has caused the Refugee and Migrant Justice charity to close its doors, leaving about 10,000 clients in the lurch.

This week the White House announced a new Student Aid Bill of Rights, which aims to help federal student loan debtors with better options and more clarity in dealing with their problem student loans.

Funding for the project would come out of the almost $ 51 billion federal Sandy aid bill, officials said.

Republican House Rep. Pete King is furious with the leaders of his own party for delaying a vote on a disaster aid bill for New York and New Jersey Hurricane Sandy victims.

Ryan said nothing will stop a Harvey aid bill from getting through Congress and he didn't foresee any problems with it passing, despite opposition to federal aid from some Republicans following Superstorm Sandy.

The House is scheduled to return this week to Washington, D.C. for a mid-summer recess session to take up the jobs and education aid bill passed last week by the US Senate.

Fixed pricing in divorce is an innovation which — if priced correctly — will be well received by consumers, especially in the context of the Legal Aid Bill which will strip publicly funded legal advice from family law, except where there is domestic violence.

During an interview on AM 710's «The John Gambling Show», Governor Paterson asked the state legislature to give him the power to implement the same FMAP contingency plan lawmakers agreed to back in the summer when they weren't sure if the state aid bill would pass.

The Administration and lawmakers also reached agreement on an emergency urban - aid bill last month after the Congress dropped $ 750 million...

The govt is bailing out the idiots under the home mortgage aid bill.

In December, the House of Representatives passed an $ 81 billion emergency aid bill to help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas, and wildfire victims in California.

St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic - controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial open - enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.

on Obama «Protect Whistleblowers» view should aid bill passage, encourage reporting of wrongdoing

Clause 51 of the Legal Aid Bill empowers the rules committee to bring about drastic changes to my beloved Pt 36, including the 10 % damages uplift for a claimant who has been successful lat trial.

We expect our Designated Family Centre will be under pressure to keep the legal aid bill down, and this raises genuine concerns that our cases might not initially be allocated to the correct level of judge.»

The pending Jackson reforms and Legal Aid bill cuts have really caught my attention recently.

Clause 43 of the Legal Aid Bill precludes the recovery of such premiums (except where cover is taken out in clinical negligence cases in respect of expert fees).

«The abstinence - only requirement in the Global AIDS bill is impractical, irresponsible, and immoral,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).

As part of the March 2015 Presidential Student Aid Bill of Rights Memorandum, President Obama required by July 1, 2015 that the Secretary of Education and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security, develop a plan to identify Federal student loan borrowers who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and determine which beneficiaries qualify for a total and permanent disability discharge of their student loans.

That's why today, President Obama has proposed a new Student Aid Bill of Rights that outlines a series of new actions that direct the Department of Education, Department of Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Science and Technology Policy and Domestic Policy Council, working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Social Security Administration, to make paying for higher education an easier and fairer experience for millions of Americans.

That package, though, contained only nominal spending cuts — while the Sandy aid bill was poised to exceed even those cuts.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

The Michigan Supreme Court advised the Legislature that the «State School Aid Bill» allowing the purchase of education services from private schools violates neither the First Amendment nor the first of Michigan's Blaine Amendments (Article I, Section 4) because any support given to religious institutions is tenuous at best.

The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve a $ 7.85 - billion Hurricane Harvey aid bill, a down payment on what is expected to be a much larger federal sum to address catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana.

Gov. David Paterson, who threatened to call the Legislature — especially the Assembly — back to Albany this fall in hopes of getting a deal on a property tax cap, said this morning both houses must return earlier than expected if lawmakers want the state to benefit from the $ 26 billion aid bill passed this week in Washington, D.C.

But plans to cut the $ 54m criminal legal aid bill could spark a strike by criminal law barristers and paralyse Ireland's criminal courts.

«By walking away from the aid bill, the House leadership has turned their backs on New Yorkers in their time of need.

While we are pleased with this progress, today was just a down payment and it is now time to go even further and pass the final and more complete, clean disaster aid bill.

Green had neglected to mention her membership of the GMB trade union when attempting to amend the Legal Aid Bill.

In light of the delay, New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, questioned whether House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) had «the guts» to immediately call for an up or down vote on the aid bill.

The Sandy aid bill is expected to take a backseat to the last - minute deal on the «fiscal cliff» being negotiated between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nev.)

But on three separate occasions, Congress failed to approve Reagan's private school aid bills.

President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday what he called the Student Aid Bill of Rights, a memorandum that explains a vision for higher education he said would help students manage the cost of college.

Last year, President Obama announced a «Student Aid Bill of Rights» to rein in abusive loan servicing practices.

The Student Aid Bill of Rights builds on the efforts our Administration has been taking over the last several years to make college more affordable and continues to chip away at the burden of student debt — so no one should feel overwhelmed by their student loans.

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His speech outlined his plans for the new «student aid bill of rights,» which hopes to make it a little easier on borrowers to pay back their burdensome debt.

President Obama signed the Student Aid Bill of Rights on March 10, 2015.

In the Student Aid Bill of Rights one section in particular points to the government making it easier for struggling students to eliminate their debts in bankruptcy.

A platform called the Student Aid Bill of Rights was recently announced by the President to address all those issues.

Obama signs a «student aid bill of rights» and will speak about an assortment of policy tweaks and projects to try to make it -LSB-...]

Obama signed a «student aid bill of rights» and spelled out an assortment of policy tweaks and projects to try to make it easier for people with student loans to pay back their debt.

U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to sign a presidential memorandum, a Student Aid Bill of Rights to Help Ensure Affordable Loan Repayment, in the Oval Office in Washington, March 10, 2015.

U.S. President Barack Obama signs a presidential memorandum, a Student Aid Bill of Rights to Help Ensure Affordable Loan Repayment, in the Oval Office in Washington, March 10, 2015.

The government plans to introduce a system of price competitive tendering (PCT) into criminal defence work with the aim of slashing a further # 220m from the legal aid bill and cutting the number of contracts from 1,600 to around 400 providers.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»