Sentences with phrase «chief sponsor»

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D - Calif., chief sponsor of legislation that Democrats are pushing following Orlando, got numbers in March from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens), chief sponsor in the Assembly of the Child Victims Act, told advocates she decided to fight for reform because of a family member who was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

The bill was written with the help of Vote Hemp by chief sponsor Rep. Ron Paul (R - TX), and it garnered 11 additional cosponsors.

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«We do not want to use tax payer money... to subsidize projects that pay poverty wages,» City Councilman and chief sponsor Oliver Koppell told the riled - up crowd.

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But Rep. Lance Harris, R - Alexandria, chief sponsor of House Bill 672, disagreed with White's logic.

«They have not been specific about any objections,» said Assemblyman James F. Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat who is the bill's chief sponsor in that chamber.

Chief sponsor Rep. Brooks Coleman, R - Duluth, said after the hearing that the schools on that list are struggling and in need of money.

City Councilman Tim Burgess, the measure's chief sponsor, said those details would be ironed out through implementing regulations still to be developed by the mayor's office.

«I did think, wow, that's more money than I thought it was going to be, but no one blinked an eye,» said Rep. Alissa Keny - Guyer of Portland, the bill's chief sponsor.

«As the chief sponsor of House Bill 400, Rep. McCoy was instrumental in securing the successful passage of this landmark legislation that will elevate our Kentucky Bourbon Trail ® experiences and answer visitor's number one demand — the ability to ship souvenir bottles home,» KDA President Eric Gregory said.

The bill's chief sponsor, state senator Ricardo Lara, has said that his goal is to protect LGBT students at religious colleges.

In 2002, frustrated with his chief sponsor, Rossignol, and what he felt was the company's overemphasis on traditional, racing - specific products, Hall joined with five fellow pros and all dropped their ski endorsement deals, partnered with a British venture capital firm and formed Armada Skis, a freeride - only manufacturer.

The drastic shift in colour was due to the chief sponsor and cigarette company Rothmans opting to promote its Winfield cigarette brand, meaning that the iconic white and blue livery was switched for red.

«This is the right thing to do,» said Trotter, the bills» chief sponsor.

Netsch and Galland said park district officials have had no contact with the Chicago Central Area Committee, the stadium plan «s chief sponsor, for two months.

The bill passed thanks to its chief sponsors, Brennan and Senate Republican Marty Golden, as well as a very strong political coalition that included both labor, notably TWU Local 100, and business groups such as the New York Building Congress.

Tedisco is the prime sponsor of the bill in the Assembly and Murphy is the chief sponsor in the Senate.

The two chief sponsors of the Right to Know Act are renewing a call to hold a vote on the set of bills tabled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito last month after she reached an agreement with outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton to adopt the rules administratively at the department.

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is a solid legislator and the chief sponsor of a law that requires the New York Police Department to discard data about anyone who has been stopped and frisked but not charged with a crime.

He was the chief sponsor of legislation that repealed many of the most severe criminal drug penalties, known as the Rockefeller drug laws.

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is the chief sponsor of the Zadroga Act renewal in the Senate.

Assemblyman Ron Kim (D - Queens) the bill's chief sponsor, sees high - speed rail, not casinos and «corporate giveways,» as a way to revive the upstate economy.

Senator Chris Dodd, the chief sponsor of the financial - reform bill now making its way through the upper chamber of Congress, chatted with Murdoch while Larry Summers, Colin Powell, Eric Holder, Jane Harman, Richard Holbrooke, and Austan Goolsbee circulated nearby.

A member familiar with the negotiations said the deal was finalized on Monday night despite the absence of the two chief sponsors.

Schneiderman was the chief sponsor of the Rockefeller Drug Law reforms, which were passed and signed into law in 2009.

Joan Millman, the incumbent, has been the chief sponsor of legislation on visitability in housing in the Assembly.

He was the chief sponsor of legislation which requires school buses which transport children with disabilities to have air conditioning in summer.

A new state bill would make it a hate crime to use physical force on a police officer — and its chief sponsor argued the past two years of Black Lives Matter demonstrations have made cops a target for violence.

Advocates are pushing NYC Councilmen Ritchie Torres and Antonio Reynoso, the chief sponsors of a police reform bill called the Right to Know Act, to use a motion to discharge to force a vote on the legislation by Nov. 16.

«I'm elated,» said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D - Manhattan), the chief sponsor in the Democratic - controlled Assembly.

The chief sponsor of the legislation, Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell, said every year the city spends millions of tax dollars subsidizing developers, while paying their workers «poverty - level» wages that make it nearly impossible to make ends meet.

Speaking at a Westminster press conference, Mr Clegg said: «I think it is utterly grotesque that Nigel Farage apparently admires someone, Vladimir Putin, who has been the chief sponsor and protector of one of the most brutal dictators on the planet, President Assad.»

Last year, the bill's chief sponsor, Upper West Side Councilwoman Gale Brewer, told Gay City News that the speaker «has kept her commitment to keep talking» about prospects for moving forward.

The current fines are seen as «the cost of doing business» and are not high enough to deter apartment and building owners from renting rooms illegally to tourists, said Councilwoman Gale Brewer, one of the bill's chief sponsors.

Tonko was a chief sponsor of the Northeast Dairy Compact, [7] and the Chairman of the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, [8] He was appointed by Speaker Sheldon Silver to serve as Commissioner for the Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor Commission.

Said Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat and chief sponsor, to the AP: «Because same sex couples can't get married and some heterosexual people don't want to get married, they were not allowed to adopt a non-related child together.

It's going to happen — one way or another,» said Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D - Brooklyn), one of the chief sponsors.

Vos said Thursday that the bill's chief sponsor, Majority Leader Jim Steineke, is working on changes in response to concerns raised at a public hearing last month.

«Under the current system, we educate scientists and engineers only to send them back home where they often work for our competitors,» said its chief sponsor, Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), during debate on the measure.

But now, the chief sponsors, most of whom are Democrats, worry that they are running out of time to debate the details of the overall plan and shepherd...

The plan will test the theory that children can learn more if they spend more time in the classroom, said C.D. Spangler, chairman of the state board of education and the plan's chief sponsor.

«We know they are going to support 80 percent of the content of the bill,» Rep. Major R. Owens, its chief sponsor, said in an interview.

Reichgott Junge, as a Minnesota state senator in the early 1990s, was one of the chief sponsors of the nation's first charter school law, a legislative victory that presaged the expansion of charters across the country.

The chief sponsor of the measure, state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), said she was unlikely to see the bill passed without the unions» support.