Sentences with phrase «battle over a bill»

The agreement, reached earlier today, ended a marathon battle over a bill that raises taxes, cuts spending and helps close the state's $ 42 billion deficit.

Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set - aside for SBIR

Not exact matches

In this lively «Epic Rap Battles Season Two» throw - down, a Steve Jobs impersonator and a Bill Gates impersonator go head to head over who is the bigger nerd and has more techie accomplishments.

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama made good Tuesday on a threat to veto a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing the two sides in the long - running controversy to a rare point of agreement: their battle is far from over.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals» fight to take over Allergan, assisted by Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital, is among the scorchiest of scorched - earth takeover battles.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

But based on conversations I'd had with a source on the Hill, I noted in my last post on «pizza = vegetable» that the battle was lost but the war was not necessarily over: the agricultural spending bill which gutted the pizza rule will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, i.e, September, 2012, creating an opportunity to revisit the issue.

As an example, imagine that Susan and Bill are going through a custody battle over Bobby.

This led to a months - long battle over the issue well before Cuomo even released any bill language.

Plenty of us are sick of fighting the same old battles over and over again, and by reminding us how unpleasant those old conflicts can be, Bill and Hillary Clinton made one of the most powerful arguments against electing her president.

The battle between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio over homeless shelters in NYC exploded over a reported gang rape that, the police determined over the weekend, never took place.

The governor's potential support comes during a battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding subway improvements and just as the mayor unveiled his own plan to create a new funding source for the MTA: a millionaires tax to fund MTA operations and half - fare MetroCards for low - income city residents.

The battle over Airbnb in New York City is set to heat up at the state Capitol this week, with both sides pushing for different bills.

That charge — laid out in a letter sent by Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks to Sam Roberts, commissioner of the state's office of Temporary Disability and Assistance — represents another extraordinary escalation in the public battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city's homelessness problems.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio battles journalists, the governor and courts over disclosures of communications with outside advisers, his nonprofit and NYPD officer disciplinary records, he insists that he has been transparent throughout his term.

Aaron has faced the sort of legal problems — from payment disputes with contractors to his protracted battles with local governments over property tax bills — that are not unusual for real estate developers.

A Republican lawmaker says GOP leaders have discussed scheduling House votes on two immigration bills as a way of ending the party's internal battle over the issue.

Cuomo had tried to get the exchange passed in June, but the pitched battle over his same - sex marriage bill last year forced the administration to put the measure on hold.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio has touched off a battle royal with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg over who is the biggest workaholic.

The battle over the so - called «toxic toy bill,» which would ban or force disclosure of harmful chemicals in some children's products and sporting equipment, has taken a nasty turn, with green advocates at odds with one another and one organization in particular exerting political pressure on lawmakers to take up a recently amended — and some say weaker — version of the legislation.

A battle over housing policy is quietly rekindling the feud between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is continuing to significantly redact the mayor's emails to staff and political consultants, amid a court battle between the city and two news agencies over the disclosure of City Hall emails.

Battle lines are being drawn in Albany over a proposed bill that's aimed at loosening restrictions to the benefit of Airbnb.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

He also recently fought for and got passed, over the objections of the Bloomberg administration, a bill mandating more frequent Staten Island Ferry service and he has been at the fore of the battle to save Mount Manresa from development.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is battling with Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials over how to allocate $ 100 million in state funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

AIR STRIKE — Airbnb, hotel union preparing to do battle over pending City Council legislation, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: «Airbnb and the hotel industry that opposes it are gearing up for a legislative showdown as the City Council drafts a bill that would take aim at the $ 30 billion online home - sharing company.

He has been regularly involved with the battle to secure the future development of both Bart's hospital and St Mary's Paddington (the two local hospitals) and is a champion for leaseholder rights over the proposed changes in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill.

The health and social care bill's slow progress through parliament comes amid an ongoing battle over the transition risk register, a currently secret document detailing the government's assessment of the potential negative side - effects of its proposed changes.

Amid the backdrop of a pitched battle over immigration on the national level, Assembly Democrats on Monday once again pushed for the passage of the Dream Act, a state - level bill that provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

I had hoped the Archbishop of Canterbury might have reflected on the parallels between this and the Church's battle against the same - sex marriage bill, which the bishops also failed to win and subsequently lost so much respect over.

In the first three months of 2014, New York City's charter advocates, with the help of Governor Andrew Cuomo, battled Mayor Bill de Blasio over the future of the city's growing charter sector.

After six weeks of political battle over mayoral control of New York City schools, including press conferences, dueling statements, four - hour hearings and much behind - the - scenes chatter, Mayor Bill de Blasio ended up almost exactly where he started at the beginning of the process.

Success and Moskowitz have been at the center of the recent battle over the future of New York's charters, and a particular thorn in the side of Mayor Bill de Blasio since February, when he attempted to block three Success schools from opening.

MTA Budget Battle: MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast sent an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, pushing for the city to add $ 3.2 billion over five years to the capital budget for MTA funding.

Nicola Sturgeon's government is preparing for a fresh constitutional battle over Brexit by tabling a motion calling on Holyrood to reject the UK government's article 50 bill.

Avella previously sought the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2009, but garnered just over a fifth of the vote in the primary battle against then - Comptroller Bill Thompson.

In the House, Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler assembled the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act, a bill that would end the need for yearly battles over patchwork appropriations to cover the care for World Trade Center workers and neighbors.

The battle over the prisons bill has pitted Democrats against Democrats, and Republicans against Republicans, for months.

• During last year's contentious battle in the State Senate over the failed gay - marriage bill, while Governor Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Christine Quinn, and even Chuck Schumer lobbied on behalf of the bill, Cuomo was virtually silent, not even bothering to get three wavering state senators on the phone when asked to do so by gay groups.

[122] He added, «You see, despite a lot of the rhetoric we've heard over the past 11 days the bill I put forward isn't aimed at state workers, and it certainly isn't a battle with unions.

Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who unsuccessfully battled Bill de Blasio for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2013, is about two weeks away from taking over as head of a homeless service provider, Women in Need (WIN).

Queens State Senator Tony Avella gathered a dozens - strong crowd outside the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth, Queens — the site of a bitter battle over the city's effort to lodge homeless families — to launch a quixotic bid to beat Mayor Bill de Blasio in next fall's Democratic primary, accusing the liberal leader of an arrogant «top - down» approach that ignores the needs of local communities.

From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.

(However, Senate appropriators are almost certain to restore the money for the ships in their version of the bill, continuing a battle between the two houses over the project.

The release yesterday of the final version of the Republican - backed bill marks the end of a fierce but remarkably brief battle over the biggest rewrite of the U.S. tax code in decades.

Two decades earlier, President Bill Clinton had angered many state leaders with the designation of Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument (see below); the battle over Bears Ears has tapped into that long - simmering anger.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

So expect the battle over a reauthorization bill to continue.