Sentences with phrase «compromise over legislation»

Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a compromise over legislation that includes a new state agency that Cuomo is calling the Justice Center, which he says will help prevent abuse of people with physical and mental disabilities in state care.

Not exact matches

While a temporary compromise over the country's debt ceiling pushed that deadline back to at least August, the sequester — sweeping automatic spending cuts mandated by cliff legislation — could kick in as soon as March 1.

With nagging questions over the leadership of the Buffalo Public School District, and some suggesting full mayoral control is the answer, a Buffalo - area state senator has drafted compromise legislation that would give the mayor «input.»

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

«This legislation will hopefully be a wise compromise that satisfies both sides of the argument over a fee on plastic bags,» Sepulveda said.

There was also a compromise to appease France, one of the main opponents of the new agreement, which will see the rules phased in over three years, rather than the usual two - year period for implementing EU legislation.

Those issues could threaten the peace at City Hall, where both sides have exhibited a preference for compromise over any public breach, most notably exemplified by the complete absence of mayoral vetoes of council legislation up to this point.

Republican House members like Stefanik from battleground districts will be closely watched in the upcoming vote over the compromise tax legislation, which top lawmakers want to see pass by the end of the month.

In several respects, the House's compromise legislation is an improvement over the administration's plan to allow every state to assume control over Head Start.

Indeed, some people involved in the negotiations said that a key reason the compromise legislation wasn't made public until shortly before the House voted was to appease conservatives in the House who might have staged a revolt over continued federal involvement and persuaded some moderates to go along with them in a bid to torpedo the new law.

Stakeholders battling over legislation that would restrict schools from using long - term bonds appeared Wednesday to find compromise on amendments that would make the bill more palatable to districts.

So we can debate strategic errors at compromise — which there have been many — but that glosses over the more fundamental question of whether or not cap and trade legislation was ever politically viable, and even if passed, politically sustainable in the long term.

«We applaud Governor Cooper for his thoughtful consideration of this compromise energy legislation over the last four weeks, and again express our appreciation to Rep. John Szoka, Rep. Dean Arp and House Speaker Tim Moore for their leadership in advancing a positive, forward - thinking clean energy bill through the House in early June.

Below is a statement by Ivan Urlaub, Executive Director of the NC Sustainable Energy Association: «We applaud Governor Cooper for his thoughtful consideration of this compromise energy legislation over the last four weeks, and again express our appreciation to Rep. John...

The legislation, HB 819, actually represented a compromise over a previous draft of the law, which mandated consideration of a possible 8 - inch sea level rise, based solely upon historical patterns rather than climate change models.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Friday aimed at forging a compromise between Democrats and Republicans deadlocked in the Senate over energy issues.