Sentences with phrase «aim at a bill»

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Although there is a long history stretching back to the 1990s of legislation aimed at protecting religious minorities, a new batch of bills has cropped up in reaction to state movements to grant LGBT people the right to marry.

Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins are delaying their effort to pass two bills aimed at stabilizing Obamacare insurance markets, they announced on Wednesday.

«While it is hard to see a path forward for a comprehensive bill, the GOP is likely to try to attach discrete provisions aimed at defunding parts of the bill or unwinding some of the ACA's insurance or benefit mandates are likely,» Weissenstein said.

An estimated 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under Republican legislation aimed at repealing Obamacare, a nonpartisan congressional agency said on Wednesday in the first calculation of the new bill's potential impact.

Meanwhile, House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R - Texas, is about to introduce a new version of his bill to undo Dodd - Frank that is also expected to take aim at the CFPB.

Mnuchin's comments come just a day after the House passed a bill aimed at overhauling the tax code.

The House passed a bill Thursday aimed at overhauling the U.S. tax code.

Inspired by the likes of Bill Gates and George Soros, some launch philanthropies aimed at providing aid to developing nations.

Microsoft is bringing two new products to bear, with each apparently aimed at different markets, although both are being billed as productivity tools.

They offered amendments aimed at changing the bill.

Alarmed that the U.S. is the most dangerous affluent country in which to give birth, state and local lawmakers around the country are adopting a flurry of bipartisan bills aimed at reforming how maternal deaths are identified and investigated.

The annual event hosted by former President Bill Clinton is aimed at sparking new ideas and encouraging action.

In Florida, meanwhile, Governor Rick Scott — a Tea Party darling — signed a bill aimed at making it easier for banks (or whoever else owns the debt) to foreclose on a property.

A bill aimed at easing regulations on banks and mortgage lenders could include a couple of perks for student loan borrowers.

That House bill, proposed in November, is aimed at eliminating deductions for conservation easements that generate profits over five years or less.

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

ABUJA, March 6 - Nigeria's lower house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday aimed at helping authorities to tackle money laundering and funding for terrorism.

Most recently, one of Nando's ads took aim at legislation known as the «secrecy bill.»

Earlier this week, Finance Minister Bill Morneau introduced tax changes that were aimed primarily at foreign investors in Canadian real estate to ensure they abide by our existing tax rules.

Bill Shorten's plan to ditch the cash refund on dividend imputation credits is at odds with his aim of robbing Peter to pay Paul and if the...

Harper is spending considerable political energy beating the drums of war against terrorists, and introducing a far - reaching, and much condemned, bill aimed at restricting -LSB-...]

Canada Senate deal to vote on pot bill on June 7 means no actual sales before August, Canadian Press Garneau orders officials to crack down on people aiming laser pointers at planes, Toronto Star Regulator allows more Kinder Morgan pipeline construction, Reuters

Earlier this year, the government took aim at tax deferral opportunities afforded to certain professionals, including lawyers, by proposing to eliminate billed - basis accounting.

Legg Mason's Bill Miller and other high - profile investors will share their top stock picks of the moment Wednesday — with the aim of raising money for area schoolchildren.Tickets for the Baltimore Next Generation Investing Event, to be held at Legg's...

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

Trump pressed lawmakers to send him «one terrific bill» combining several proposals aimed at reducing gun violence, although that could complicate the legislative outlook for such a contentious issue in an election year.

On Wednesday, during a meeting about ICOs and blockchain technology at the National Assembly, Hong explained, «The bill is aimed at legalizing ICOs under the government's supervision.»

He delivered legislative victories for Trump during his first year, from a bill that clears a fast path to firing employees accused of misconduct to measures aimed at easing the backlog of benefit appeals.

Now, a bill re-introduced by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is aimed at mandating this disclosure.

targeted advertising campaigns, including one aimed at legislators to push them to pass the long - overdue highway bill.

Veteran late - night host Jay Leno stepped in for «Tonight Show» host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night and delivered sexual harassment - heavy monologue that took aim at disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, ousted newsmen Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, and former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump.

To accommodate the requests, Brady would have to find new tax revenue elsewhere, possibly by shrinking the size of provisions in the bill aimed at benefiting middle - and working - class households.

Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, The New Yorker, E. J. Dionne, Michael Tomasky, Lawrence O'Donnell, Nancy Pelosi — to mention only a few — have all leveled the race charge, aiming, it among others, at Mitt Romney, Clint Eastwood, Donald Trump, the Tea Party, and anyone who refers to Obama as a «Chicago politician.»

That might change, as several bills have popped up in the US House of Representatives this year, aimed both at expediting the process for religious groups threatened by ISIS and at beefing up the screening of anyone from Iraq or Syria.

The plan aims at providing a representative group to «take the place of Dr. Bob and Bill,» to keep the Foundation (renamed the General Service Board) firmly anchored to the movement it serves, and to insure the continuity of the services of AA.

Those who think an amended C - 14, with some regulatory tightening and some provision for religious or conscientious objection, is what even opponents of the bill should now aim at, as the lesser of evils, should think again.

It's not just that he voted for the health - care bill, which aimed at funding abortions.

Moyes himself is aiming at the same sort of relationship he enjoyed for years with Everton boss Bill Kenwright where the two worked a great relationship in all areas of the club.

welcomed passage of their bill in the Senate Commerce Committee aimed at protecting young athletes from the dangers of sports - related traumatic brain injuries.

MADRID, SPAIN — Parliament passed a gender - equality bill Thursday aimed at getting more women into elected office and corporate boardrooms — and more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.

Parliament passed a gender - equality bill Thursday aimed at getting more women into elected office and corporate boardrooms — and more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.

The legislation is a spending bill that in part takes aim at standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year to make school lunches healthier amid an obesity epidemic among young people.

Another bill is aimed at ensuring victims of sex trafficking operations would not be required to provide samples in the state's criminal DNA identification database.

Anthony Weiner was an outspoken advocate for — and opponent to — many things while he served in Congress, but he was the lead sponsor one just one bill that was signed into law — a 2010 measure aimed at reducing cigarette sales - tax evasion.

Hopefully we can restore that if we do a major infrastructure bill and this is just what an infrastructure bill is aimed at.»

DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican who has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said he spoke with Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle during the Legislature's break this month on the bill aimed at enhancing oversight to the governor's key economic development programs.

The biggest possible city site for a new Bills stadium — just to the east of the Buffalo River, with a north end zone aimed at the downtown skyline — has stirred a hornet's nest of potential opposition from two neighborhoods, one predominantly African - American, the other overwhelmingly white.

Democrats are backing an amendment to the bill that aimed at keeping youthful offender records sealed.

The prime minister promised to put the chronic shortage of affordable housing in Britain at the top of his political agenda and announced the bill, saying it would aim to put the property ladder «within the reach not just of the few but the many».

Earlier, Owoyemi, according to the statement, claimed that a section of the Bill aimed at criminalizing false statements and use of unsupported petitions on social media.