Sentences with phrase «chance of passing legislation»

With that support and the need to promote job creation here at home, we feel the chances of passing this legislation and reforming the patent system to support fairness and innovation have increased.»

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An immigration advocated told Politico they believed Congress has a «30 - 70 chance» of passing legislation that would protect Dreamers.

Lawmakers then passed legislation saying it was a game of skill rather than chance.

A sign of how difficult it has been to see legislation into law: His Financial Choice Act stands a slim chance of passing the Senate, where Republicans hold only a narrow majority.

Cuomo urged Felder to reconsider, and said that unless the Democrats take the Senate, there's little chance of meaningful legislation passing.

The lack of a meeting between Dolan and Heastie is a signal the tax credit legislation has little chance of passing in the Assembly.

Agreements on the highest - priority issues are frequently reached on or after the last scheduled meeting, so lawmakers dedicate their gatherings to passing one - house bills that stand little chance of becoming law in the immediate future and plowing through hundreds of completely uncontroversial pieces of legislation that rename bridges or create new license plate designs.

Nixon said she'd received a mailer from the Women's Equality Party that didn't actually feature any women on it, and she said the lack of State Senate candidates running on the ballot line would hurt the chances for passing legislation to help women.

But the chances of gun control legislation passing in New York — generally considered to be one of the stronger firearm regulated states in the country — are complicated by a governing coalition in the Senate of six Democrats and at least 30 Republicans.

But both Clarke and Meng are members of the largely powerless Democratic minority, meaning their legislation has little chance of passing in the GOP - dominated House.

Says Paterson of the marriage equality bill: «People who've lived together for 10, 20, 30 years are waiting, hoping that this legislation will pass while they still have the breath to elicit an «I do» on the altar, and I think it's time that it happens, and if I have to see legislation fail so I can identify who voted against it to better persuade them, then I'll take that chance.»

House Democrats are already at work on a bill that they expect to pass this summer, but chances of the Senate getting climate legislation approved this year aren't nearly as strong.

Environmental organizations lit into the legislation — which advances to the full House but has minute chances of passing in the Senate — as a desperate attempt to rush a dangerous and unnecessary project.

That means the resolution has a good chance of becoming EU legislation, when it is passed on for a vote in the Parliament on June 23rd.