Sentences with phrase «bipartisan federal bill»

Not exact matches

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement that Trump spoke with Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas about a bipartisan bill to improve federal background checks for prospective gun buyers.

«The President spoke to Senator Cornyn on Friday about the bipartisan bill he and Sen. Murphy introduced to improve Federal Compliance with Criminal Background check Legislation,» Sanders said.

President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill that gives three weeks of funding to the federal government in exchange for a promise that the Republican - controlled Senate will reopen negotiations on the future of «Dreamers» and border security.

WASHINGTON — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday criticized a bipartisan bill intended to overhaul federal chemical regulations because it would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to preempt the oversight of some chemicals by...

This hashtag activism seeks to punish the state for enacting legislation similar to laws already passed in nineteen other states that mirror a federal bill that received widespread bipartisan support in 1993.

The bill, which garnered strong bipartisan support, is also expected to pass the Senate, and would address what its sponsors consider a discriminatory practice that keeps federal disaster money from religious groups.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American Beverage Association (ABA) today commends the U.S. Senate for bipartisan passage of the «Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act,» a bill that will provide necessary funding to federal child nutrition programs.

Federal programs that aid Upstate New York will be preserved as part of a bipartisan deal in Congress for a $ 1 trillion spending bill, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

With 106 Democrats supporting the bill, the «Federal Reserve Transparency Act» was approved by a bipartisan vote of 333 - 92.

At 1:45 p.m., U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker along with Rep. Steve Cohen will reintroduce a bipartisan bill that would allow patients to access medical marijuana in states where it is legal without fear of federal prosecution, SVC 203, Washington, D.C.

The feud between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio took a new turn Tuesday over the mayor's decision to join a Republican — Cuomo's election foe in 2014 — at a bipartisan event seeking more federal transportation funding.

The feud between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took a new turn yesterday over the mayor's decision to join a Republican — Cuomo's election foe in 2014, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino — at a bipartisan event seeking more federal transportation funding.

Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, has called on the state to adopt legislation similar to a bill recently introduced in California known as the California Values Act — which has bipartisan support — would establish a statewide policy that recognizes immigrants as «valuable and essential members of the California community» and would limit the state's participation in federal immigration law enforcement.

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Tom Suozzi will host a tele - press conference call to announce the introduction of his bipartisan bill, the Close Official Acts Loophole (COAL) Act, in response to the overturning of federal corruption convictions of two ex-state legislative leaders.

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.

We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.

In May 2015, on a voice vote, lawmakers approved a bipartisan bill (H.R. 1119) from the science committee that would simply create a working group within the interagency National Science and Technology Council within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to review existing federal policies.

And, this week, there's the (bipartisan) Harkin - Enzi bill, authored by the chairman and ranking member (respectively) of the Senate education committee, which, well, it's hard to tell exactly what it does, but it surely reduces the federal footprint around accountability.

The bill, HR 1523, enjoyed bipartisan support until last week, when the House Subcommittee on Select Education approved an amendment that would incorporate federal regulations protecting the rights of all handicapped individuals into the statute — thus barring changes in the rules without Congressional approval.

The Senate education committee last week approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize Head Start that would expand eligibility for the federal preschool program, tighten accountability for local grantees, and abolish the National Reporting System, a federal test given to all 4 - and 5 - year - old Head Start pupils.

In short, if those in our nation's capital want to modify federal education policy along lines preferred by the public at large, they will enact a law that resembles the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate.

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

Last year, the House and Senate education committees passed legislation to update the law, but the bills — approved with bipartisan support in the Senate but by only Republicans in the House — clashed in terms of the federal role in education.

The bipartisan bill would retain the current fifty percent whole grain requirement for lunch and breakfast, and prevent federal mandates for further reducing the sodium levels for school meals beyond the July 1, 2014 Target I level.

«After successful passage in the House, the Senate will soon act on a bipartisan education bill — the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- which will return control of education to the states and local school districts from the federal government.

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.

The House's timing is key because Senate Education Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) says that further progress on a comprehensive bipartisan reauthorization bill that passed out of his committee last month and is awaiting full Senate action is unlikely if the House doesn't produce its own bipartisan rewrite of the federal education law.

The result is a spate of articles in such places as The Christian Post and Breitbart that give two thumbs down to this solid (though imperfect) conservative victory (under such headlines as «Rhetoric of «Bipartisan» Every Student Succeeds Act Can't Mask Its Federal Control of Education» and «Republican Congress Thwarts Americans, Passes Obama - Backed Education Bill»).

Alexander's and Isakson's announcement comes one day after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan NCLB bill that alters the federal government's ability to start charter schools, which are publicly funded but can be privately run, adding new oversight provisions.

Last December, after years of delays and gridlock, Congress stepped up and passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a bipartisan bill outlining the federal role in education policy going forward.

One example of popular legislation falling victim to bipartisan politics is the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, introduced by Sen. Warren as a bout for a federal alternative to student loan refinancing; this bill did not gain support in any Congress chamber, excluding it from this list.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate with broad housing industry support last month would require the Federal Housing Finance Agency to direct the government - sponsored enterprises to accept new credit scoring models, like the VantageScore model created by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

This bipartisan bill would exempt from income tax federal and private student loans that are canceled due to the death of the student or the total and permanent disability of the borrower.

The removal of the information comes a day after a bipartisan bill - known as the Federal Accountability in Chemical Testing (FACT) Act (HR 816), which would require labs to disclose how many animals they are using for testing - was introduced by Rep. Ken Calvert (R - Calif.).

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representatives Scott Peters (D - CA) and Carlos Curbelo (R - FL) introduced a bipartisan bill which would direct federal agencies to work together on a plan to reduce emissions of super greenhouse gases.

Led by business titans Bill Gates and Jeff Immelt, and backed by the Bipartisan Policy Center, the organization is calling for $ 16 billion annually in federal investment.

The most effective solution to this problem is to enact federal legislation, such as the BRIDGE Act, a bill with broad bipartisan support in Congress, with an amendment that would extend DACA protections until comprehensive immigration reform is enacted.

After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).

WASHINGTON A federal spending bill released late on Wednesday included bipartisan legislation that would amend a decades - old privacy law to clarify that a U.S. warrant seeking data stored overseas is valid in certain circumstances.

That all changed at the end of 2014 when, after months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed a funding bill with bipartisan support that amended this policy to ensure that Peace Corps Volunteers have equitable coverage for abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the woman, consistent with the coverage that federal employees and women serving in the military receive.

DAI submitted comments on the Family First Prevention Services Act — a federal bipartisan bill that would better align federal child welfare funding with the critical goals of supporting family stability and preventing unnecessary foster care and institutional placements.

This bipartisan bill reauthorizes and modernizes the outdated law governing federal support of elementary and secondary education known as No Child Left Behind.

The commission endorsed the Family First Act, a bipartisan bill in development by the Senate Finance Committee, which would enable states to draw federal entitlement money formerly earmarked for foster care to offer family preservation and reunification services.

This NAR - supported bill was introduced five years ago on a bipartisan basis in response to the proposed rules by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to define real estate brokerage and management as financial in nature and thus permissible lines of business for banking conglomerates.

The bill that passed in the Senate last week with overwhelming, bipartisan support provides the federal backstop necessary to allow insurers, employers, and property owners to continue to manage terrorism risk.