Sentences with phrase «bill was dead in the water»
By Friday afternoon, the HSUS compromise bill was dead in the water.
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As voucher school advocates in Wisconsin celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Milwaukee school choice program this week, an effort to pass a school accountability bill appears to be dead in the water.
WTF is going on?Well, the short of it is, at face value, that senator Graham has been uneasy about climate legislation for a little while — after health care reform passed, he made comments about energy reform being dead in the water, and long before that he'd drawn fire from his own party for working with Democrats and pursuing a bill that would price carbon.
The Communications Data Bill is supposedly dead in the water during the current Parliament — the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners refuse to allow it — but the key elements are found in the amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which is in its latter stages of development.