Sentences with phrase «bipartisan support for»

Other policymakers agree, given the broad bipartisan support for an extension of the law.

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes that the Australian Health Minister's Conference agree to a National Commitment to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality and that bipartisan support for this commitment be sought in federal Parliament and in all state and territory parliaments.

These results have led to broad and bipartisan support for home visiting programs.

In the House Ways and Means Committee, there is bipartisan support for reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, a national funding stream that supports efforts to support young and expecting mothers.

The bipartisan support for the Family First Act suggests that the bill, with some changes and refinements, is likely to be re-submitted in the 115th Congress.

«I continue to hear that there remains strong bipartisan support for community health centers, so I remain optimistic,» she added.

At the federal level, bipartisan support for amending the Constitution in this regard has been maintained since 2007.

It is now time to harness the bipartisan support for change, and truly make this a process of the people.

On the heels of the unanimous, bipartisan support for an ESEA reauthorization in the Senate HELP committee, this visit is perfectly timed to support inclusion of social - emotional learning when the full Senate debates the bill in June.

At the moment bipartisan support for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution has been expressed by the Labor Party, the Coalition and the Greens.

This universally shared view translates to broad bipartisan support for policy approaches that support parents» choices and preferences, that empower and engage parents in program design and implementation, and that emphasize voluntary rather than mandatory participation.

«We need bipartisan support for high quality early learning.

July 5 From the June 28, 2012 CASEL newsletter: Bipartisan Support for SEL in Congress Conventional wisdom suggests that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, or No Child Left Behind) will have to wait until after the November elections.

Bipartisan support for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program is strong.

Child mental health expert Professor Louise Newman has said it is clear they are at risk of serious mental health and developmental problems, and not clear, given the bipartisan support for detention, what can be done in response.

The LNP Coalition: Withdrew their support for justice targets in August 2013, after previously committing to provide bipartisan support for Labor's proposed Closing the Gap targets on incarceration rates (read more here).

«Kelly Ayotte continues to advance an extreme agenda which would deprive New Hampshire women of critical reproductive health services in direct contrast to the wishes of the citizens of New Hampshire who demonstrate strong bipartisan support for access to safe, legal abortion and for access to Planned Parenthood health services.

long term bipartisan support for the process... The Indigenous community needs to be assured that this matter is a high priority for government, irrespective of which party is in government.

There is not too much of a distance to travel to obtain bipartisan support for the apology.

While this is a positive contribution by the government bipartisan support for such projects is required to ensure funding and program sustainability into the future.

Senate leaders have offered bipartisan support for a reform bill as has President Obama.

Despite bipartisan support for «patent reform,» lawmakers in 2014 offered up a potpourri of different bills that drew supporters in different directions.

There's bipartisan support for his testimony.

Fortunately, there is strong bipartisan support for LSC in Congress, and the likelihood of the elimination of LSC is small.

This hearing comes at a time when there is burgeoning diverse and bipartisan support for ending anonymous companies in the U.S. Major financial institutions, national security experts, law enforcement organizations, anti-human trafficking groups and public interest organizations have all endorsed legislation that would require the disclosure of the real people who own American companies.

Friends of Browns Canyon officially forms to obtain local community and bipartisan support for getting formal wilderness protection for the area.

She reached across the aisle to build bipartisan support for one of Ocean Champions» highest priority pieces of legislation, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act, which would have languished without Republican support.

Kerry said he believed he could get bipartisan support for including national security more explicitly in the climate bill.

With increasing bipartisan support for the Electrify Africa Act, alongside Obama's Power Africa initiative to double energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, calls for more equitable definitions of energy access are gaining traction.

The strong bipartisan support for carbon capture reflects a broad recognition of its importance to our energy mix.

So when bipartisan support for a proactive environmental program comes around, it's time to take notice.

There's pretty strong bipartisan support for energy R&D,» he added.

SEATTLE, June 17, 2016 — Republican Senator Steve Litzow, a long - time resident of Mercer Island serving the 41st District since 2010, today announced his endorsement of Initiative 732, demonstrating growing bipartisan support for the policy.

We have had tremendous bipartisan support for legislation we've introduced in North Dakota.»

Today, there is growing bipartisan support for governments across the world to price carbon emissions.

So both the CBO budget procedures and the GOP's position on using royalties for an energy R&D trust fund means that if President Obama wants to secure truly bipartisan support for this new Energy Security Trust proposal and ensure it doesn't increase the deficit, he's ultimately going to have to offer a real trade: new oil and gas production areas for new revenues dedicated to clean energy R&D.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

This is in line with broad, bipartisan support for clean energy policies.

The pet - friendly Hill office findings were relatively consistent across party lines, geographic regions, and both chambers, suggesting wide bipartisan support for having pets at work.

S, there is bipartisan support for it being capped at the minimum.

Importantly, the «strong and visible black support for the No campaign upended the Obama - era consensus of broad, bipartisan support for charter schools.»

At the same time that DoDEA is expanding data collection on its graduates, there is strong bipartisan support for an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would require states and school districts to report the academic achievements of children from military families.

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

While there is bipartisan support for improving teacher evaluations, holding teachers accountable for student test scores has been controversial.

«One of the most notable traits from the data is the bipartisan support for the issue — an important message for our state's leaders.

The Trump - DeVos brand of «school choice» stands in stark contrast to the broad bipartisan support for policies and federal programs that support public schools, from charters to traditional area schools.

Furthermore, the bipartisan support for the REA in the House and in the Senate implied a unified front toward improving nationwide reading achievement (Kennedy, 1998).

In a late - breaking change designed to garner more bipartisan support for the Harkin - Enzi bill, states and districts would be able to decide whether and how to evaluate teachers.

The session saw bipartisan support for Louisiana's Scholarship Program as it was renewed and strengthened, creation of a public school choice program and more options made available -LSB-...]

As the years went by, there was strong bipartisan support for this program.