Sentences with phrase «approved with bipartisan support»

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

Not exact matches

With last - minute support from Maryland's Republicans, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill Friday to raise the nation's debt ceiling, but the high - stakes hunt for a bipartisan plan that could pass both chambers of Congress was set to...

With 106 Democrats supporting the bill, the «Federal Reserve Transparency Act» was approved by a bipartisan vote of 333 - 92.

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

«How can this possibly be read as anything but a partisan attempt to shut down a legitimate investigation that was approved and funded with bipartisan support?»

If the bipartisan commission does not approve the new maps with at least two votes from the minority party, the state Congress would draw a new 10 - year map approved with one - third minority party support or a four - year map with only majority party support.

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.

The proposed Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, or H.R. 5587, approved 37 - 0 by the House Education and Workforce Committee with broad bipartisan support, would reauthorize the Perkins Act and is a promising start to satisfy these goals.

According to Gov. Brian Sandoval, «The language approved by the commission, passed with unanimous bipartisan support, puts the decisions that have an immediate impact in our classrooms directly in the hands of parents, teachers and principals, which is where it belongs.»

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (HR 10) with strong bipartisan support in a vote of 360 to 45 during National Charter Schools Week.

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.