Sentences with phrase «bipartisan effort with»

The most significant expansion of ESOP legislation happened under President Ronald Reagan in a bipartisan effort with Democratic Senator Russell Long.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

Ten years later, in another bipartisan effort, this time led by President Ronald Reagan and Senator Russell Long, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 altered the tax incentives to make ESOPs with modest levels of generally 5 - 20 % of employee stock ownership attractive to publicly traded stock market corporations.

Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federalEfforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federalefforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, did not comment on the specifics on the meeting with the Republicans, but he said, «The governor campaigned for Democrats during the election cycle and the Senate Democrats thanked him for his efforts,» adding, «He is now governing and is working in a bipartisan way.»

It will in all likelihood pass the House tomorrow and, with the efforts of Barrow and Matheson, will be hailed as a «bipartisan» bill.

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.

«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.

Senate Republicans and the White House pressed ahead with their suddenly resurgent effort to undo Obamacare, even as their attempt was dealt a setback when a bipartisan group of governors and several influential interest groups came out against the proposal.

Rep. Tom Reed, a Corning Republican whose district includes Wellsville, has also been working with company officials and stressing that the effort to save the plant ought to be bipartisan.

He told reporters that he had been working with the group «to establish a bipartisan rapport with the new Trump team,» as part of an effort to make «clear to them how important it is to support our cities.»

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.

«In Congress, I have been working as part of a bipartisan coalition with various levels of government to protect our parks and expand our growing network of trails here on Long Island through the Rails to Trails program and other efforts,» he said.

Research and development areas with strong bipartisan support — such as efforts to combat cancer, brain disorders, and antibiotic resistance, as well as cybersecurity and computing initiatives — will likely continue to receive support under any new White House Administration, Holdren noted.

But in an effort to rectify long - standing inequalities, federal involvement expanded slowly during the second half of the twentieth century, culminating in 2001 with the bipartisan passage of NCLB.

Known popularly as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress, this new legislation promises an important shift in efforts at all levels to improve the quality of public education.

At a time when Democrats and Republicans are divided on many issues, it's particularly noteworthy that efforts to address teacher shortages have been largely bipartisan affairs, with similar bills introduced by both Democratic and Republican governors and legislators.

ESSA indicates that states must use evidence - based strategies to support low - performing schools, but Education Secretary DeVos will evaluate whether the strategies described in each state plan conform to that requirement.19 During an exchange with Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) at a hearing to defend the fiscal year 2018 proposed presidential budget, DeVos refused to dismiss painting walls as a evidence - based strategy to improve school performance.20 And after a celebrated bipartisan effort to reauthorize ESSA — in addition to other federal education policies — the possibility of progress rests largely in the hands of the Education Department.

In the letter, Mr. Gentzel wrote «The National School Boards Association (NSBA), representing more than 90,000 local school board members across the nation, working with and through our state associations, supports passage of the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» and applauds the work of the Conference Committee for its bipartisan effort to modernize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

(District of Columbia) In an effort to increase economic and educational opportunities for Native American youth, federal officials are looking to unify resources available to often underserved communities with bipartisan support.

All of his major proposals, except the economic stimulus financial windfall, have met with bipartisan resistance, including efforts to promote common standards and tests, teacher evaluations using student test scores and charter schools.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.

In an effort to help those who are dealing with financial hardship, namely those struggling with student loan debt, a bipartisan bill was introduced in Congress at the start of May that would allow student loan debt to be dismissed in bankruptcy.

is proposing to work with Sen. Susan Collins (R - Maine) in a bipartisan effort to help seniors undergoing garnishment and introduce inflation indexing to keep garnishment above the current poverty level.

Since 2012, this office has worked tirelessly to bring to light systemic issues with our student loan system, recovering billions of dollars on behalf of student loan borrowers and driving bipartisan reform efforts to further protect them.

Working closely with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D - Ore., he has steadily built bipartisan support, with a record 184 Representatives joining the effort in 2017 and 190 this year.

That level of federal investment on energy frontiers, after decades of bipartisan disinterest in energy sciences, has been widely seen as a critical component of any meaningful effort to expand the world's energy menu without overloading the atmosphere with heat - trapping gases.

«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..

While most members of the U.S. Climate Action Network applauded the committee and Senator Boxer for their efforts in passing the bill, others have spoken out, pleading with senators to not weaken the bill in the effort of gaining bipartisan support.

«Accordingly, and consistent with requests made by a bipartisan group of members of this very subcommittee, we are asking that the bureau or, if necessary, Congress, take action to establish a period until Jan. 31, 2016, suspending enforcement and liability where those subject to the rule use the forms and make their best efforts to follow the rule.

About 300 lawmakers from both the House and Senate have waged a bipartisan effort urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to offer a «grace period» for lenders to comply with a new mortgage disclosure rule that is slated to take effect Aug. 1.