Sentences with phrase «bills with bipartisan support»

Two bills with bipartisan support in the State Legislature would create a list of companies that are boycotting Israel and then deny them state contracts and investments from the state pension fund.

The State Legislature passed a bill with bipartisan support to automatically register people to vote.

A bill with bipartisan support in the state Legislature would create a list of companies that are boycotting Israel and then deny them state contracts and investments from the state pension fund.

That all changed at the end of 2014 when, after months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed a funding bill with bipartisan support that amended this policy to ensure that Peace Corps Volunteers have equitable coverage for abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the woman, consistent with the coverage that federal employees and women serving in the military receive.

Not exact matches

Both bills sailed through Congress last night with strong bipartisan support, a rare sighting in the current political climate.

Although the bill drew bipartisan support in the Senate, with 14 Republicans voting for it, it will almost certainly face a tougher fight in the Republican - controlled House of Representatives in the weeks to come.

Although the original JOBS Act passed with bipartisan support in 2012, this is an election year, and so the fate of the bill could be subject to political whims.

Trump sent shockwaves through Congress when he made the threat to reject t $ 1.3 billion spending bill after it passed the Senate late last night with bipartisan support.

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...

The «Pastor Protection» bill just breezed through the Texas House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, and should soon be signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.

That 2010 bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

We're looking to make this a bipartisan bill with both Republican and Democratic support.»

The bill passed the Assembly earlier this week with bipartisan support, but then stalled in the Senate.

The measure passed both legislative chambers with strong bipartisan support, and I urge the governor to sign this bill into law as soon as possible.»

A bill closing the LLC Loophole has already passed in the Assembly with overwhelming bipartisan support, 120 - 8.

«Later this afternoon, the President is going to be signing two bills that were both passed with bipartisan support that help protect those who protect us,» then - White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at a press briefing in 2017.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

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

The MJIA is one of the rare bills that has bipartisan support, with Republican luminaries like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul joining the bulk of the Democratic conference.

A Kavanagh bill to close the LLC loophole passed the Assembly with bipartisan support last year.

Squadron and Kavanagh's bills to close the LLC Loophole passed the Assembly with broad bipartisan support in 2015, including Speaker Carl Heastie, but were blocked from a full Senate vote by the Senate Majority.

Last year, the Assembly passed our bill by a wide margin, with broad bipartisan support.

County Executive George Latimer has always made a point to highlight his political history of working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.

The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses of the legislature.

A similar bill is being co-sponsored in the Senate, one also with bipartisan support that includes some prominent names including Kentucky Republican Rand Paul and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

Gov. Scott Walker's $ 100 million property tax cut proposal won bipartisan support in the Legislature's budget committee on Tuesday, easily clearing its first hurdle as it speeds through the process with the aim of reductions appearing on bills this December.

As predicted by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax cap program bill passed the chamber today with bipartisan support.

With numerous mass shootings in recent public memory, he urged a number of Republican Senators to support the bill, eventually passing it in a bipartisan effort.

The defense bill that will be the basis for the package normally enjoys wide bipartisan support, but Republicans, and some fiscally conservative Democrats, are unhappy with the prospect of another jolt of deficit - swelling spending.

Benjamin also reports that «Sen. Tom Duane, who was initially not pleased with Paterson's decision to push gay marriage, now says he believes the bill will pass «with bipartisan support,» although he isn't naming the names of any GOP supporters.

The bill passed the state Legislature with bipartisan support in June, pushed largely by Jewish and Catholic organizations that said some special - needs children could only learn in a setting that closely reflected their family life.

The 5 - 4 Supreme Court decision overrules the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed by President Bill Clinton.

Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican - led House's failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013, or advance legislation of its own.

Cuomo is not on board with legislative efforts to authorize medicinal marijuana, and Savino has amended her bill to win enough bipartisan support to passif it ever comes to a floor vote.

An Assembly bill to close the loophole, sponsored by Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, has passed multiple times with bipartisan support, and Cuomo has indicated he would sign the legislation if passed by both houses.

The usual approach would have been to confer with the Democratic minority on the committee and negotiate a bill that could win bipartisan support.

Chaffetz won bipartisan support in the House more than a year ago for a more limited bill that would shorten the wait for visas for immigrants from countries with the highest number of applications.

Although the bill drew bipartisan support, half of Senate Democrats (22) voted against it, together with seven Republicans and the Senate's two Independent members.

With only one Democratic co-sponsor (Henry Cuellar, D - TX), and Lofgren's bill available as an alternative, the STEM Jobs Act failed to garner the bipartisan support it needed.

Flexer's bill (HB 5866) which was passed with bipartisan support would require dating sites charging fees to provide their customers with safety tips and advice designed to make their dating experience, both on - and offline, safer.

The bill's aim — to raise standards and performance for all students and to hold schools accountable for their results — was enacted with broad bipartisan support.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

The fact that you saw this bill pass with such robust bipartisan support is an indication of how broadly shared the view was that this was a necessary step if we were going to achieve the kind of fiscal balance that allowed us to spend dollars in the places we want to spend.

As the 2017 session kicked off, a bill passed in the Senate with bipartisan support, then stalled in the House of Representatives.

Votes were as close as 65 - 33 in the House and 23 - 8 in the Senate, although some bills passed by far greater margins with bipartisan support.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.

HB780 — Signed into law by Gov. Jindal, Friday morning, this bill passed with bipartisan support and will expand options for students already in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The bill received wide bipartisan support with a vote margin of 124 - 31.

Sen. Patty Murray, new as the top Democrat on HELP, sold Alexander on the idea that the two should work together on a bipartisan bill that could move through the chamber with the support of both parties.

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.