Sentences with phrase «bipartisan effort»

Both bills passed in committee on party - line only votes as there was a lack of bipartisan effort in both chambers.

The focus of this effort is to encourage and promote bipartisan efforts to address the gun violence problem.

In citing numerous examples, we made the point that, despite an overwhelming, bipartisan effort by the Congress to give state and local officials the discretion they need, the bureaucracy is clawing back its ability to direct what these leaders must do.

None of this offers much succor to those hoping for bipartisan efforts on NCLB / ESEA reauthorization, and it might just be raising eyebrows over at Democrats for Education Reform.

«She led bipartisan efforts to stop cuts to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, authored legislation to stop the spread of Asian carp, and has taken action to demand better safety measures on the Line 5 pipeline.

«10 years ago I was proud to begin working on bipartisan efforts to save unemployment insurance.

Taxes and federal minimum wage will be focuses, Abrahams said, also noting that as minority leader, he supported bipartisan efforts such as the Nassau Coliseum redevelopment.

Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg put together a famous bipartisan effort with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration that successfully created tax breaks for companies that implemented profit sharing for many years.

Whitman has backed bipartisan efforts since leaving office in 2001 and faced opposition from Republican conservatives when she pressed for a moderate voice in the GOP in her essay, «It's My Party, Too.»

Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the committee responsible for education, will almost certainly play a leading role, as he did in the successful bipartisan effort to reauthorize the major K - 12 education law in 2015.

A strong bipartisan effort in the last legislative session approved the concept and Gov. Gary Locke signed the law.

«As long as we have this very narrowly divided chamber in the Senate, it's going to take bipartisan effort to get real results for the people of New York.»

► Bipartisan efforts from the United States Senate might bring «the most sweeping update to the country's energy policy in more than 8 years.

Murray and Alexander have been meeting in recent weeks, but other senators are unsure the reauthorization attempt will be a truly bipartisan effort.

The polarizing politics of abortion have burst into the congressional budget debate, overwhelming bipartisan efforts to help millions of consumers who buy their own health insurance policies get relief from soaring premiums.

The 119 council leaders» Observer letter was a fully bipartisan effort.

«We've assembled a strong ground team, begun raising sufficient local funds to competently share our message and constructed a campaign platform that rejects labels, embraces bipartisan efforts for change and offers realistic, common sense solutions to the economic challenges that face our community,» Katko said in a statement.

in support of reigniting bipartisan efforts to bring about immigration reform.

And the partisan politics that have helped gridlock Congress in recent years as well as the ongoing battle over who will become the new House speaker could bring this burgeoning bipartisan effort to a halt.

The 114th Congress is under single party control — and yet there is more bipartisan effort to craft an ESEA reauthorization than one might expect under the circumstances.

ASCD applauds the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) as a laudable bipartisan effort to rewrite the nation's preeminent federal education law.

This week, the Senate took up the first bipartisan effort to replace the law.

And it showed — the final House appropriations bill proposes to cut these programs by 12 percent and if it weren't for a last minute bipartisan effort to return ARPA - E to FY2011 levels (albeit low levels), the outcome would have been worse.

But it also turns out he was kind of an infrastructure hawk, and forged bipartisan efforts to fund passenger rail — which couldn't happen today, since conservatives have since decided that trains rob Americans of their freedom.

The Senate has led broadly - supported bipartisan efforts to update grid cybersecurity.

Climate Science • The new Republican House majority provides an opportunity to shape the science agenda for bipartisan efforts to reduce the nation's energy usage and to take steps towards a clean energy — based economy.

«This thing took a lot of bipartisan effort, and that wasn't a hallmark of Anthony Weiner's,» said Robert Livingston, a Republican lobbyist for trade center contractors.

«As a member of the Legislature, Senator Flanagan has been a champion and important partner with us on bipartisan efforts to enact comprehensive legislation around substance use prevention, treatment and recovery,» said Baker.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

Food waste reduction has all the ingredients necessary to become a successful bipartisan effort.

Four years ago, Congress, in a strong bipartisan effort, committed to America's children that they would enjoy healthier and more nutritious meals at school.

«I welcome the opportunity to join with 1,000 of my peers in this truly bipartisan effort to improve not only the environment, but our communities and our nation,» said Mesa, Ariz..

Let's talk about one thing that we can say is created by a bipartisan effort, and that's public education in America.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

The request comes amid a bipartisan effort to limit U.S. involvement in the Saudi - led invasion of Yemen, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis.

«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

While largely lauded as a bipartisan effort, there was some opposition by small farmers who feared that compliance with the law would be a burden that their businesses would suffer under.

Meanwhile, there's a bipartisan effort to remove federal restrictions on medical marijuana in the states where it is allowed.

And there are signs that (very early) bipartisan efforts may be underway.

If a bipartisan effort is attainable, then McConnell could get on board with an infrastructure plan, as he noted at an event put on by the news website Axios earlier this month.

«Again, we urge Senators to oppose the «skinny» bill and to pivot to a bipartisan effort, working through appropriate committees of jurisdiction and regular order to fix problems and gaps in current law to enable Americans to obtain quality, affordable health insurance.»

Bipartisan efforts to restore the money recently fell apart over disputes about abortion coverage.

But that's not why PROMISE was adopted and ignores the fact that it was a bipartisan effort.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.