Sentences with phrase «at an impasse last»

Congressional leaders have agreed to most of a broad plan to reform the District of Columbia schools, but remained at an impasse last week over a tuition - voucher proposal championed by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R - Ga.

Not exact matches

The latest round of talks over Nafta concluded last week in Washington with Canada, the United States and Mexico still at an impasse over the future of the agreement.

With New York State budget negotiations at an impasse, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked legislative leaders to extend last year's budget through the end of May while Democrats and Republicans continue working to settle their differences.

The African Union Peace and Security Council issued a statement last Friday expressing «deep concern» at the continuing political impasse in Burundi, as well as the prevailing insecurity and violence in that country and the resulting humanitarian consequences.

In the last six years then, politicians in both parties at the national level went right up to the edge of using parliamentary procedures to break a controversial impasse but backed down at the last moment.

«After enduring the threat of funding cuts during the impasse, cities and school districts will receive funding at similar levels to the last budget and will benefit from improved oversight mechanisms for fiscally distressed municipalities,» the report states.

According to Wispolitics.com, Senate JFC Co-chair Alberta Darling (R - River) Hills, said she is still hopeful the committee can convene later this week; however, she said an Assembly GOP proposal unveiled late last week to tinker with Gov. Scott Walker's K - 12 education funding proposal has added a new area of division for the two houses, which were already at odds over transportation funding.The Wispolitics.com subscription report further indicated that a spokeswoman for Assembly JFC Co-chair John Nygren (R - Marinette) also describes the Senate and Assembly GOP caucuses as being at an impasse.

This group, known as the «Cartagena Dialogue» after the location of the founding meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, in early 2010, now includes over 30 countries, and at the latest meeting last week in Santiago, Chile, it was notable how determined many countries were to find a way out of the current impasse.