Sentences with phrase «block bills because»

Democrats (the minority) have blocked the bill because it does not contain an amendment to help the Flint, Michigan water crisis.

Moreover, many courts do not permit block billing because it hinders effective reimbursement of attorney fees following a judgment.

Not exact matches

Providers should not be allowed to accomplish blocking, throttling, paid prioritization, etc., further upstream in the network, just because the bill could be construed to address only the network facilities closer to consumers, such as the «last mile.»

They showed great compassion for their coach, Bill Parcells, because if they had dumped the Gatorade over his head when the game was wrapped up, as is their custom, Parcells would have had to stand out in the cold of Giants Stadium for the whole second half of the San Francisco game, turning into a block of ice, and he would probably be in bed with pneumonia right now.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

«Senate Democrats blocked the passage of the Bill and while it passed in the House it failed in the Senate because of the Democrats.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday he gave the order to throw out a Hell's Kitchen hoarder's block - long train of trash because «it just wasn't fair» that residents were being forced to put up with the eyesore.

Democrats have the ability to demand changes in the spending bills because Republicans do not have enough Senate votes to block a Democratic filibuster in that chamber.

Your taxes went up in January because the «Making Work Pay» tax credit that was passed through the Recovery Bill expired and the Republicans (who now control the House) blocked an extension which would have been part of the tax cuts package the House passed in December.

During an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gillibrand took Sen. John McCain to task for filibustering to block the bill, saying his argument in favor of waiting for a military report doesn't hold water because today's vote would merely have given officials the go - ahead to repeal DADT, not directed them how to do that.

Republican leadership said Monday it was prepared to insert into the budget measures that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers unless the High Court ruled on the bill, which had been blocked by circuit court judge Maryann Sumi because of concerns over the state's open meetings law.

If the Republicans are being sincere, they would help us pass this long overdue bill to help the first responders whose health and livelihoods have been devastated because of their bravery on 911, rather than continuing to block this much - needed legislation.»

Two of Long Island's three Democrats and both of its Republicans in the House joined the veto - proof majority in a 289 - 137 vote, a setback for the president even though Senate Democratic leaders said a veto won't be needed because they'll block the bill in the upper chamber.

The only reason that horse and buggies still work in the most congested city streets in the country is because Christine Quinn, the extraordinarily corrupt head of the NYC Council, has blocked all of the bills that would ban this trade or replace the carriages with electric cars.

Obama has threatened to veto the bill because it would block spending on his executive actions on immigration, including an order to stop deporting illegal immigrants brought into the United States as young children.

CLAS supports this bill because it allows local school systems to use any unappropriated revenue in this fund as a block grant for school security and all other expenditures already identified in the law.

Plus, our daycare bills will be tiny because we have two sets of grandparents a few blocks away anxious to watch the baby when I return to work.»

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The Alexander Pryor legislation, I think Senator Alexander, who we might think of as the next Dick Lugar, is trying to provide cover for Democrats in tough election races to say that they're voting for something that has absolutely no chance of passage, because their bill would take 60 votes, whereas Senator Inhofe's much better resolution, which would block the rule entirely, only takes 50.

Environmental groups also say the bill could set off a boom in the construction of new coal plants because of provisions that would restrict legal efforts to block such projects.

I have no idea how many hours the lawyers in my firm bill because in our boutique criminal practice, the vast majority of our retainers are based on a block fee to complete a case.

Because the corporate client commits to a substantial block of the virtual counsel's time, it is more economical than hourly billing.

That's because Senate Democrats will block the bill, and Republicans don't have the 60 vote super-majority needed to advance the legislation.