Sentences with phrase «bipartisan backing»

The Energy and Natural Resources committee passed an energy bill with bipartisan backing in June.

A Senate committee approved a bill last year with bipartisan backing, but in the House, Republicans and Democrats are divided.

Political oddsmakers are somewhat optimistic about reform passing in 2014, primarily because the 2013 Senate bill gained bipartisan backing before stalling out in the House.

Of the three bills advanced by the House Education Committee to reauthorize the federal education law, it's the only one so far to receive bipartisan backing.

Democratic predecessor Frank Sedita III, after all, garnered bipartisan backing back in 2012.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand believes there is bipartisan backing for legislation to criminalize interstate shipments of illegal guns.

As US prepares to escalate war in Iraq Bush seeks bipartisan backing from Democratic Congress By Bill Van Auken 4 January 2007

«The bill's DOE research provisions are among those enjoying bipartisan backing.

When enacted into law in 2002, NCLB had widespread, bipartisan backing including support from President George W. Bush and Sen. Edward «Ted» Kennedy.

While the charter movement has historically received proud bipartisan backing in Washington — Presidents Clinton and Obama both strongly supported charter schools, as have Presidents Bush II and Trump — charters are almost entirely a GOP accomplishment at the state level, where charter policy is made.

No Child Left Behind, which had strong bipartisan backing when it passed in 2001, was the signature education initiative of George W. Bush, who said the failure of public schools to teach poor students and minorities reflected the «soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Whether charter supporters can maintain the movement's bipartisan backing while receiving support from a deeply unpopular President who promises to be «the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice» remains an open, and dicey, question.

The 670 - page No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was passed with strong bipartisan backing by the House of Representatives on December 13, 2001 by a vote of 381 - 41, and by the Senate on December 18, 2001 by a vote of 87 - 10.

They won bipartisan backing in the Judiciary Committee (except for one Republican who voted against Wynn).

The bill is the only one of the three ESEA measures advanced by the House Education Committee to gain bipartisan backing — the committee's initial ESEA bill, which eliminated more than 40 federal education programs, and its third bill, which provided states with unprecedented funding flexibility, were opposed by Democrats.

Sheldon Silver toyed with us for an entire session, ultimately refusing, on the very last day, to allow Jenna's Law onto the floor for a vote we knew had strong bipartisan backing.

With less than 24 hours before the polls open and New Yorkers consider an amendment to expand casino gambling, the pro-casino group New York Jobs Now released two TV ads Monday highlighting support from newspaper editorials and bipartisan backing.

On the political side, opposition to research that has the bipartisan backing of many patient groups is one reason American voters are fed up with President Bush's domestic agenda, said Charlie Cook in his Cook Political Report published by the National Journal.

As Alyson Klein notes on Politics K - 12, «even though both the ESEA rewrite bill that passed the Senate with big, bipartisan backing, and the one that barely squeaked through the House with just GOP support, keep annual tests, they go very different ways on a lot of other assessment issues.»

The proof of this bipartisan backing was evident when Democratic and Republican governors started building upon each others» committment.

The House bill had bipartisan backing and supported the buildout of interim nuclear storage, a policy that the Obama administration had also supported.