Sentences with phrase «block the bill with»

Recent news suggests that figures in both Labour and Conservative are mobilising forces to block the bill with proposals for both thresholds and date changes discussed in recent days.

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«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.

In addition, a «first - in - first - out» investment rule could be enforced with the Senate tax bill, which would require investors to sell their oldest shares first when they have acquired multiple blocks of shares over time.

The SOPA bill (and DNS blocking) is what happens when someone with the title of anti-piracy or copyright lawyer has greater clout than your head of new technology.

Moreover, the Senate recently reached bipartisan consensus on a bill to broaden and intensify current U.S. sanctions on select Russian entities and individuals, as well as provide Congress with additional powers to block the president from loosening sanctions in the future.

Republicans hold 23 of the Senate's 40 seats (two are vacant), leaving Democrats with too few votes to block bills on their own.

Tax preparation firm H&R Block announced Tuesday (Jan. 16) that it would link up with megaretailer Walmart in what is being billed...

And although we don't know how this is all going to end up we do know one thing and I'd like to steal a quote from Bill Gates whenever he said block chain technology is a tour de force and we couldn't agree more with Bill Gates on that.

I have been presented with business conspiracies in droves, including ones related to the ability to liquidate holdings (Benchmark allegedly wants to and Kalanick has blocked that always) and the impact of the deteriorating relationship between Kalanick and Benchmark's Bill Gurley (hurt feelings all around, apparently, to which I say boo hoo hoo).

The discriminatory bill C - 377 was one of those, blocked in the Senate with the help of Conservative Senators for whom this Harper move was a bridge too far.

H&R Block's stock dropped this fall, some of which was associated with the anticipation of a Republican tax reform bill.

CNN: Pizza magnate wins temporary ruling on contraception coverage dispute The billionaire founder of Domino's Pizza has won a temporary court victory, with a federal judge blocking enforcement of part of the health care reform bill requiring most employers to provide a range of contraception and reproductive health services.

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.

Nowhere was the juxtaposition between divertissement and gravity more awkward than at Chelsea Piers, the self - billed «30 - acre sports village» on the West Side waterfront, a six - block - long rec center complete with bowling alley, driving range and rock - climbing walls that serves as one of Manhattan's primary playgrounds.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

As if that was not enough misery for our democracy, damaging state of illiteracy and attempt to regulate freedom of speech as we have recently witnessed with the attempted introduction of hate speech bill, has but become another stumbling block standing on the way to achieving a people - purposed leadership.

Here's Sen. Eric Schneiderman's brief appearance last week on «Countdown With Keith Olbermann» during which he discussed the passage of what's come to be known as «Ian's Law» — a bill that blocks insurance companies from dropping high - claims patients under the auspices of keeping costs lower for the majority of policy holders.

Organizing For America (itself an online - enabled entity), labor unions and progressive organizations have cranked up the heat this weekend, making hundreds of thousands of calls and neighborhood visits and flooding the airwaves with commercials, helping to make it possible possible and perhaps even likely that Massachusetts will keep Kennedy's seat in the Democratic column and deny Republicans and chance to block the heathcare reform bill.

Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio scored what seemed to be a win in his ongoing feud with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the deteriorating subway system: The city was able to temporarily block more than $ 200 million in upgrades, as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative, that would bring improvements to subway stops — but not the system's aging signals or other issues the city deemed more pressing.

Squadron and Kavanagh's bills to close the LLC Loophole passed the Assembly with broad bipartisan support in 2015, including Speaker Carl Heastie, but were blocked from a full Senate vote by the Senate Majority.

In case he's unfamiliar with how a bill becomes a law, a vote on the Women's Reproductive Health Act was blocked by Democratic Senators Ruben Diaz Sr. and Simcha Felder — neither of whom are members of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

60 blocks have failed fire tests, including 3 NHS buildings and they have another 500 to be looked at, which leaves them with a # 600 million cladding safety bill.

Sen. Bill Stachowski's colleagues are furious with him for holding up the final piece of the budget and blocking their paychecks.

Senate Democrats tweaked Cuomo again this past week, with Manhattan Sen. Liz Krueger announcing plans to introduce a bill that would block the administration's 90 - day email purge policy.

But on Tuesday evening, it was the Republican leader in a statement praising Cuomo for signing a bill that blocks the implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic bags in New York City — a measure that had been pushed by the GOP conference, most prominently Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who aligns with the Republicans and is a key vote.

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.

The city was ready to start imposing a nickel bag fee on shoppers as of Oct. 1, with the money kept by merchants, until lawmakers in the state Senate rebelled and passed a bill blocking the move.

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.

But in the state Senate, Republicans control the chamber, along with several independent Democrats, and they successfully blocked the public campaign finance bill in the past legislative session.

With the Federal Communications Commission set to vote next week on its proposed repeal of net neutrality rules, a New York congressman has introduced a bill to block such a rollback.

Senate candidates have been circling around the issue as well, with Republicans accusing Democrats of blocking the passage of bills that have a chance to become law.

Stewart - Cousins and Teachout are slated to discuss the IDC coalition with the Senate GOP and how, in the age of President Trump, it blocks progressive bills that passed the Assembly.

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.

The bill has support in the council, but Quinn, who has tried to beef up support with the business community, has blocked it.

The Lords are not meant to interfere with financial matters when a bill has been so designated by the Speaker, although they were willing to override the convention when they blocked the tax credit secondary legislation.

Five Democrats voted to end debate, while four Republicans voted with most of the Democrats to block the bill.

Blodgett said the GOP bill blocks people with Medicaid from accessing preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control and cancer screenings; undermines Essential Health Benefits standards, including maternity coverage; and imposes a nationwide ban on private insurance coverage of abortion.

«Some noticeably problematic amendments are absent from this bill, such as allowing the oil minister to decide what to do with any surplus or allowing the Nigerian president to allocate oil blocks for exploration.

Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday signed a bill blocking the city from imposing the fee for at least a year, saying it makes more sense to come up with a program statewide.

Her rivals were aggressive during the forum in taking her on over the issue, with Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller, saying, «Speaker Quinn, you need to stop blocking this bill right now.&raBill Thompson, the former city comptroller, saying, «Speaker Quinn, you need to stop blocking this bill right now.&rabill right now.»

As such, the Republicans, in coalition with the I.D.C., would retain the sway needed to block the W.F.P.'s bills.

In December, he was among 10 Republicans who split with the party over a bill that would have blocked the first nationwide rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says entire blocks of voters and buildings were missing from the rolls after election officials said they were merely catching up with a routine clean up of outdated voter lists.

He began airing his first television ad Tuesday which points to his service in the U.S. Army in Iraq, working to secure a permanent extension of the Zadroga Act for health care for people with 9 / 11 - related illnesses and on a bill to allow law enforcement agencies to go to court to block certain gun purchases.

The most likely outcome of the Strathclyde review is that the House of Lords will have its wings clipped, with its power to block secondary legislation replaced with the ability to ask the Commons to «look again» at a bill.

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.

Back in January Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order preventing ISPs with state contracts from blocking, throttling or prioritizing internet content, a move supported by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who confirmed that city contracts in the coming years will only go to compliant ISPs.

A judge earlier this year blocked a $ 183 water bill credit the mayor wanted to give homeowners, along with a 2.1 % water rate increase.

They could form a voting block with the unhappy New York GOP members that is large enough to defeat the bill.