Sentences with phrase «bipartisan majority»

The federal law, proposed by President George W. Bush and passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress in his first year in office, sought to build on the standards movement with many new federal rules, including a requirement that states administer reading and math tests every year to students in grades three through eight and once in high school.

Indeed, it is not clear if DeVos fully supports the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and its various components, which were approved by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of both your committee and the full Senate.

In a media - hyped speech to the Association for a Better New York, Mr. Bennett attacked the new Bilingual Education Act, which was passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress last fall.

The election results from throughout the state are clear: Parents rallied behind pro-school choice candidates which is why Louisiana's educational choice programs are now backed by an even stronger bipartisan majority in the state legislature and on BESE.

It did not lobby for or against the bill, which Congress passed with large bipartisan majorities late that year.

Massive bipartisan majorities passed ESSA with an eye to returning Washington to a more modest and appropriate role.

The Senate started passing the first batch of legislation by broad bipartisan majorities on Tuesday night.

No Child Left Behind passed with huge bipartisan majorities but in recent years has come under attack from the political left and the right.

Strong, bipartisan majorities nationwide back the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule curbing forced arbitration and giving consumers their day in court.

«I am thrilled that the Queens Library reform bill has passed both houses of the Legislature with resounding bipartisan majorities,» Borough President Katz said.

On July 19 President Bush vetoed H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which passed both the House and Senate by solid bipartisan majorities.

Partisan polarization has given special interests and small minorities the power to twist public sentiment along partisan lines, even when bipartisan majorities support the substance of what is being proposed.

(Calif.) A bipartisan majority of a key legislative panel voted Tuesday to reject Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to delay a hike in reimbursements to child care providers in another sign lawmakers are looking to challenge the administration's frugal fiscal outlook for 2017 - 18.

«There are few other public policy areas where strong bipartisan majorities agree on a path forward.

New Jersey voters agree: A strong, bipartisan majority opposes the idea in a new poll.

A strong, bipartisan majority of registered voters recognize America's energy opportunity, broadly supporting increased oil and natural gas development.

In 2001, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress passed NCLB, a key initiative of the George W. Bush administration at a time when partisanship had been suppressed by the 9/11 tragedy.

Large bipartisan majorities in the Legislature approved the bill, and state Superintendent of Schools Tony Evers plans to flank Walker at Monday's signing ceremony.

The high water mark for ed reform, both in prestige and performance, came nearly twenty years ago, when Teach For America and KIPP were media darlings and strong bipartisan majorities in Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act.

In late 2001, three months after the September 11 attacks, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) passed both House and Senate with strong bipartisan majorities and was signed by a Republican president.

«In a series of decisions, many written by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist himself, the Court declared unconstitutional acts of Congress that had been passed by broad bipartisan majorities...» More here.

On Dec. 13, 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act became the law of the land after the landmark healthcare bill sailed through both the US House and Senate with huge bipartisan majorities.

That probably explains why lawmakers decided to show their independence from the governor by overriding bills that had been approved by bipartisan majorities.

The second bill that passed the House last night, also by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, is the Supporting America's Innovators Act of 2016 (H.R. 4854).

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

The survey also showed strong, bipartisan majorities of Americans taking an unfavorable view of the marchers protesting the removal of the statue, despite the president's contention that there were «some very fine people» in their ranks.

A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.

«All the country needs is for the Democratic leader to withdraw his filibuster and let a bipartisan majority pass this bill and reopen the United States government.»

He also pointed out that he was part of a bipartisan majority that pushed back against an attempt by Poloncarz to raise the tax rate in 2013.

Last year a bipartisan majority of the Legislature found $ 8.5 million to cut to eliminate the tax increase.

«We believe we had a bipartisan majority of the Senate to pass the legislation and send it to the governor for his signature,» Nathan M. Schaefer, ESPA's executive director, said in a written message posted on the group's website.

Amid increasing calls for New York to pass bold government ethics reform and minimize the role of money in elections, a bipartisan majority of state lawmakers has taken a symbolic but somewhat significant step in calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution overturning the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case.

«It's great news that a bipartisan majority of State Senators and Assemblymembers support closing the corporate contribution floodgate Citizens United opened,» said Senator Daniel Squadron, in an emailed statement.

In the State Senate, a bipartisan majority reportedly supports the bill.

The bill cleared the Senate with a comfortable, bipartisan majority — as it has in four previous years — but it has been blocked from consideration by Democrats who dominate the state Assembly.

Much of the legal community has lined up in support of the proposal, which passed the Assembly and Senate with comfortable, bipartisan majorities, though the New York State Bar Association has not taken an official position.

Eight senators in 2012 broke off to form a bipartisan majority coalition with Republicans, but on Monday the Senate passed a measure to expand the rolls of the Senate Democratic Conference as the eight returned.

I did not support either of these items, and in speaking to my colleagues, determined that neither did a bipartisan majority.

In other words, bipartisan majority or not, some Democrats aren't thrilled with the idea of destroying the electoral college as we know it, and that's apparently enough of a reason to forgo a vote entirely.

Cuomo proposed a regulatory framework for ride - hailing in his executive budget, and a bipartisan majority in the Senate has already passed a bill.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (S. 1053) is expected to pass by a large, bipartisan majority, said Albert H. Teich, head of the Directorate for Science and Policy Programs at the nonpartisan, nonprofit AAAS.

Instead, a bipartisan majority voted for a 3 - year freeze on the budgets for those agencies; it also cut all funding for DOE's new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.

Four years ago, bipartisan majorities in the California Legislature approved a landmark clean energy bill that many hoped would serve as a template for a national effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil and mitigate the threat of climate change.

This legislation, which passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, will help speed safe and effective medical products to patients and maintain our Nation's role as a leader in biomedical innovation.

The new president is supported in this view by a bipartisan majority in Congress, which has worked for many years to ensure that poor kids get the help they require.

The bill passed the House and the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, with the key negotiators from both parties claiming to be happy with their compromise.

With appropriate leadership, a bipartisan majority may yet rally in support of a significant school reform package.

If those deals get made, I suspect that a final bill will pass with a big bipartisan majority in the Senate and a smaller bipartisan majority in the House — though House Education Committee Chairman John Kline will have to be careful not to let the bill move so far left that he can't get a majority of his Republican caucus to vote for it.