Sentences with phrase «bipartisan coalition of states»

Not exact matches

There's also the multi-state investigation into various opioid manufacturers that a bipartisan coalition of 35 state attorney generals launched in June, and Congressional and Senate investigations into the matter underway.

ALBANY — Amid New York's growing prescription drug epidemic, a bipartisan coalition of 23 mayors and town supervisors from across the state today endorsed Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's Internet System for Tracking Overprescribing (I - STOP) plan to create an online database to report and track certain controlled substances in real time.

On Monday, members of the New York Leadership for Accountable Government — a bipartisan coalition of business, civic, and philanthropic leaders dedicated to reforming elections laws in the state — delivered an open letter to the Senate Independent Democratic Conference.

Germany also has a tradition of grand coalitions between its two main parties, but New Zealand shows the system can work even when there isn't that kind of bipartisan collaboration (as, let's be honest, there wouldn't be in a hypothetical United States with MMP).

A bipartisan coalition of 23 mayors and town supervisors from across the state endorsed AG Eric Schneiderman's Internet System for Tracking Overprescribing (I - STOP) plan.

An unusual bipartisan coalition of 19 of New York's 27 House members came together in opposition to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade deal between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries, saying the agreement would destroy manufacturing jobs in the state just like earlier trade deals did.

Valesky has been mum on the issue of the Senate's majority control since election day, except for statements that call for «a true bipartisan coalition to govern the state.»

The new bipartisan coalition in the New York State Senate has the approval of a large swath of voters, according to numbers from Quinnipiac University.

In recent months, the commission has gone after the Legislature, inciting an all - out war between the governor and the state Senate, now led by a bipartisan coalition of mostly Republicans.

Hanna and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - Fairport, organized a bipartisan coalition of more than 60 members of Congress from the seven states and D.C. who also worked together against the proposed cutbacks.

The bipartisan coalition that came together earlier this week to take control the New York State Senate is drawing mixed reactions from some local members of the legislature.

As part of this effort, Hope Street Group will engage a bipartisan coalition to analyze successful outcomes of the ARRA and work to bring the state and local level perspective to the national conversation.»

A bipartisan coalition of 27 governors has joined the effort, saying they see teaching coding and programming as a way to draw middle - class jobs to their states, and dozens of school system superintendents and nonprofit leaders say they see computer science courses as essential for giving children the skills they'll need to be successful in the modern economy.

I - 1240 is supported by a bipartisan coalition of teachers, parents, legislators, education advocates and community leaders across our state and is endorsed by every major newspaper in Washington.

Yesterday afternoon a bipartisan coalition filed a ballot initiative with the Secretary of State to authorize public charter schools in WA.

«Joining a bipartisan coalition of 25 states, Attorney General Ken Paxton today called on U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to reject a campaign by student loan servicers and debt collectors to dismantle state oversight of the student loan industry.

Thanks to a state coalition that met with and educated legislators, Senate Bill 852 received unanimous bipartisan support in both the state House and Senate because of its improvement of standards for breeder requirements.

Legislation passed with bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly would enable the development of community solar in the Silver State Carson City, NV (June 8, 2017)-- The Coalition Read More

A bipartisan coalition of nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states today agreed to a bold plan to cut power plant pollution by at least another 30 percent through 2030, reaffirming the groundbreaking leadership of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in the face of the Trump administration's abandonment of climate progress.

It also was announced just days ago that a bipartisan coalition of 41 state attorneys general was asking Zuckerberg to explain his company's privacy protections.

At the heart of the matter is the level of Coalition commitment to bipartisan, multilateral partnership with the states and territories to achieve agreement on hospital funding beyond 2020.

The Home Visiting Coalition also reiterated its call for quick passage of the bipartisan Senate bill (S. 1829), which reauthorizes MIECHV for five years without the harmful state - match requirement included in the House bill that passed this week.