Sentences with phrase «build bipartisan support»

The Commission and its equal justice stakeholders have also worked diligently to build bipartisan support in the Wisconsin Legislature for state funding of civil legal services in Wisconsin.

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.

Of particular note are their efforts to build bipartisan support for prevention, particularly in the realm of juvenile justice policy.

On the other hand, those who have been trying to build bipartisan support for charter schools worry that Trump's negative comments about African - Americans and Latinos during the campaign could create a backlash and weaken support among progressives, Education Week reports.

In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.

Chemical safety reform is not a Democratic or Republican issue, it is a common - sense issue and I look forward to building bipartisan support for this measure.»

Working closely with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D - Ore., he has steadily built bipartisan support, with a record 184 Representatives joining the effort in 2017 and 190 this year.

There are other opportunities for building bipartisan support on energy issues and, potentially, taking the conversation back from polarizing partisans — one being moving toward a clean slate on energy subsidies.

Not exact matches

Paul Snyder [email protected] The state Building Commission's bipartisan support for changing Wisconsin's project - delivery system is not enough on its own to persuade the rest of the Legislature to vote for changes.

The Wisconsin Assembly approved a $ 3 billion tax break Thursday with bipartisan support for Taiwan - based Foxconn Technology Group to build a massive display panel factory in the state, a project President Donald Trump touted as a transformational win for the U.S. economy.

Holt added, however, that «it always has been possible to find some bipartisan support for science,» and therefore «now is the time to build on that latent bipartisanship.»

Building on those foundations, the bipartisan support and ultimate passage of NCLB heralded an even greater continuation of focus on setting expectations and obligations high — with requirements that, among other things, required disaggregation of data in the reporting and accountability for school, school system and state performance toward high standards (set state - by - state), and transparency in reporting of those results.

Building on strong bipartisan support within the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Pat Roberts (R - Kan.)

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

The president likes to say that his Energy Security Trust «builds on a proposal supported by a broad bipartisan coalition, including retired military leaders.»

In addition to leading legislation designed to combat ocean acidification, and opposing Congressman's Southerland's misguided fisheries amendment, Kilmer has built strong bipartisan coalitions to support his priorities, and he is a founding member of the Puget Sound Recovery Caucus.

Since vehicles are also part of what we've built, with bipartisan support, we will enact a similar program: «Drive Star.»

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

The fundamentals of the... Closing the Gap strategy have bipartisan support and give us solid ground to build on.