Sentences with phrase «bills out of committee»

But his legislation died after it was not brought up for discussion before the deadline to move bills out of committee this session.

Among the changes sought: letting more members get bills out of committee.

«We should not be moving bills out of the committee until we hear from the administration,» said New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone earlier this year.

On Thursday, House Ways and Means Committee Republicans voted to advance their bill out of committee.

The Assembly never moved the bill out of committee and despite numerous comments about reviewing, discussing, considering, and conferencing the legislation, ultimately didn't change the bill from the Senate amended version and only amended the bill in the final week of the legislative session.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate finance committee on Wednesday declined to vote a bill out of committee that would allow the attorney general to investigate cases in which an unarmed civilian is killed during an interaction with police.

The legislators say they have until Tuesday to get a bill out of the committee and onto the floor for a full Assembly vote.

Worried that this could jeopardize his goal of voting the bill out of committee before the Memorial Day break, Democratic Chairman Henry Waxman of California hired a speed reader, in case one was needed to publicly race through the massive bill.

Under Council rules, a bill's sponsor can file a motion signed by other members to force a bill out of its committee.

Supporters of a nursing «safe staffing» bill are urging Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, who represents Kenmore, to allow the bill out of committee and on to the Assembly floor for a vote.

Boxer's actions appear to have violated decades of precedent and despite the «success» of reporting a bill out of committee, the path forward seems very uncertain.

Developing countries, led by Pakistan, were outraged over talk that the U.S. Senate had passed a bill out of committee that would impose border tariffs on their carbon - heavy goods.

The goal is to pass a bill out of committee in February, the aide said.

«The more people look at this, the more they realize Tom Harkin gave up to pass this bill out of committee,» Barone said.

Yet, our political leaders did not even have the will to move this bill out of committee.

Kline has also moved a bill out of committee that would slash half of NCLB's federal education programs and another one that would give more states flexibility over spending federal education funds intended to serve disadvantaged students.

But the Democratic leadership of the panel seems to be taking it for granted that they'll be able to pass a bill out of their committee in the next five weeks, even if it's still not entirely clear what that bill will look like.

Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Legislature advanced a bill out of committee to create more certainty for Xcel's Monticello and Prairie Island plants.

Through all this, Waxman is sticking to his self - imposed deadline for passing the climate and energy bill out of committee before Congress leaves for its Memorial Day recess, but that's looking less and less likely as the holiday approaches.

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Not exact matches

The House on Tuesday voted to pass the version of the tax bill that came out of the bicameral conference committee, appearing to pave the way for the Senate to pass it later in the night.

Here's a run - down of the bill that came out of the conference committee, which is likely to get the nod tonight.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

If the House passes their bill and the Senate passes theirs, they'll have to hammer out a version in conference committee that satisfies House leaders while not running afoul of the long - run deficit rule.

On Tuesday, Lara's legislation, Senate Bill 1302, was passed out of the Senate Government and Finance Committee.

This idea was dead when the Senate reform bill came out of committee.

The Treasury department is also supporting a bill to modernize reviews carried out by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee that evaluates sales of US businesses to foreign entities to determine the impact on national Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee that evaluates sales of US businesses to foreign entities to determine the impact on national committee that evaluates sales of US businesses to foreign entities to determine the impact on national security.

His bill, however, won't be called out of the House Rules Committee, he said.

«That sounds nice in theory, Mr. 5 Dollar Bill, but your ilk is the most likely out of us to be tucked into a stripper's... er... we'll form a committee and get back to you.»

Compassion's warning that it will be forced to pull out comes after three years of government harassment — an $ 18 million tax bill, investigations into its «anti-national activity,» and intimidation of staff, Oakley told the House committee.

In 1969, such bills failed to get out of committee in Iowa and Minnesota, and were defeated outright in Nevada and Illinois.

This progressed all the way to Committee Stage until it ran out of time (when one Parliament ends, all Bills that have not been passed must be re-presented and start again in the next Parliament).

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Over the last few months there was a feeling in league circles that Fisher would try to push Snead out and encourage the Rams to bring in a strong voice, like Bill Polian (Fisher's old friend from the competition committee), to realign the football side of the organization.

Earlier this week, our own Bill Connelly went back through every season since 1998 to figure out what kind of decisions the committee members will have to make.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

Bill Banning Corporal Punishment in Schools to Be Introduced in Congress «There are two Americas out there for young students right now — one where they go to school knowing that they'll be guided positively by caring adults, and one where they live in constant fear of getting beaten,» said Rep. McCarthy, a member of the Committee on Education and Workforce.

And if enough people call and write the Calendars Committee and the bills are set for the House floor, then we must maintain that energy and contact the representatives and get them voted out of the House.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill has yet to make it out of committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond toCommittee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill has yet to make it out of committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond tocommittee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond tocommittee is already feeling the need to respond to critics.

Carolyn Tomei (D - Milwaukie), lead sponsor of the bills, reached out to Oregonians active in the maternal mental health field and together formed a committee that wrote this two - part legislative proposal.

But the differences of the bill will have to be ironed out with the Assembly, where the bill is carried by Insurance Committee Chairman Kevin Cahill.

In an unusual step, MPs on the Commons» intelligence and security committee offered their own report reinforcing the findings of the main report out today, by parliament's joint committee, calling for significant amendments to the draft communications data bill.

The bill has cleared the Cities Committee and is currently in Ways and Means, but was not on Tuesday's agenda to be reported out of Ways and Means.

The Riverdale Country bill was recently reported out of the Senate Committee on Authorities, Corporations and Commissions, headed by Bill Perkins (D - Manhattan), a charter - school basbill was recently reported out of the Senate Committee on Authorities, Corporations and Commissions, headed by Bill Perkins (D - Manhattan), a charter - school basBill Perkins (D - Manhattan), a charter - school basher.

But the bill did not make it out of the state Assembly's environmental conservation committee, government officials said.

Local and state officials have come out strongly against a federal tax bill that has passed the Senate and is now in committee in the House of Representatives, which has its own version of the bill.

Bills to ensure school districts do not lose money have been introduced in the state Senate and Assembly, but they did not get out of committees last year.

Gianaris» bill was moved out of the Government Operations committee by a vote of 7 - 2.

What forces reliance on a «big ugly» bill is the presence of Repub Committee Chairs who will not let legislation that benefits most New Yorker's out of cCommittee Chairs who will not let legislation that benefits most New Yorker's out of committeecommittee.

Bryant then points out that when a bill gets through to a second reading, it usually gets some kind of timetable motion putting it in either a public bill committee or a committee of the whole House.