Sentences with phrase «bipartisan agreement they reached»

Democratic Senate President Martin Looney said the leaders spent the weekend fleshing out the details of the tentative bipartisan agreement they reached last week.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says a bipartisan agreement he reached today on a two - year federal budget will provide a significant spending boost to Fort Drum, VA hospitals and community health centers in Upstate New York.

Not exact matches

Republicans and Democrats began this year with ambitious talk of reaching a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, but it has now become clear to most that it will require the investment of more time and political capital than President Obama has remaining.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

Then lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement this year to ramp up spending.

Va.) as they discuss reaching a bipartisan agreement that would expand background checks to more gun buyers.

A group of senators reached a bipartisan agreement aimed at balancing Democrats» fight to offer citizenship to young «Dreamer» immigrants with Trump's demands for billions to build his coveted border wall with Mexico, lawmakers said.

Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan agreement yesterday to fund the government through September, effectively ending any suspense about the possibility of a government shutdown next weekend.

Two area state lawmakers say they have reached agreement on bipartisan legislation to provide $ 90 million in financial relief for people living along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River seaway.

Looney says he's hoping legislative leaders will try and reach a bipartisan agreement in those two weeks much the same way they did on the original budget.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz of Berlin, far right, and other top legislative leaders reached a bipartisan agreement on the two - year state budget, but the full details were not immediately released.

Senator Cathy Osten of Sprague, the Senate Democratic chair of the Appropriations Committee, is optimistic that a bipartisan agreement can be reached with her Republican counterparts in the budget - writing committee before the session ends on Wednesday.

Legislative leaders are hoping to reach a bipartisan agreement that the General Assembly could vote on next week.

Malloy says Connecticut's Republican and Democratic legislative leaders are taking too long to reach a bipartisan agreement following his veto of the Republican - backed budget that passed three weeks ago.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is criticizing state legislative leaders for failing to reach a bipartisan budget agreement that could be presented to him on Friday.

«It relies on too many unrealistic savings, it contains immense cuts to higher education, and it would violate existing state contracts with our employees, resulting in costly legal battles for years to come,» said Malloy, «if the responsible solution I negotiated with Democrats isn't going to pass, then it is incumbent on the legislature to reach a new agreement soon — one that is realistic and, ideally, bipartisan.»

Congress was able to reach broad bipartisan agreement on ESSA mainly because it punted on a number of of key policy questions.

Alexandria, Va. (November 19, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) praises lawmakers for reaching a bipartisan, bicameral conference committee agreement to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

WHEREAS, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,» was due for reauthorization in 2007, and the U.S. Congress has not reached a bipartisan agreement that will ensure passage to streamline existing federal requirements and allow states and local educational agencies to develop and implement policies that will best support students; and

In Congress, House leaders reached a bipartisan agreement to extend federal funding for a core element of Washington state's early learning strategy, home visiting, which focuses on the first and most important three years of a child's development.