Sentences with phrase «congressional debates»

This links to parliamentary or congressional debates.

Coal advertising themes like «coal is abundant,» «coal is clean,» and «EPA kills jobs» are completely integrated now into Presidential and Congressional debates.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

Based on policy documents, congressional debates, session minutes from government agencies, and in - depth interviews with education stakeholders, I examine the enactment of the Education Quality Assurance Law in response to student protests in 2006.

Indeed, the role of subgroups has been a significant flashpoint in congressional debates about the future of the ESEA.

The energetic congressional debates look like old newspaper drawings come to life.

Each year we sift through the President's budget, monitor ongoing Congressional debates, and keep an eye on longer - term budget trends to provide timely and objective information and perspectives on the federal R&D enterprise to policymakers and the science and engineering community.

Trump's infrastructure plan so far has not lifted off the ground amid congressional debates on health care legislation and, likely coming next, tax cuts.

We were pleased with how the Congressional debates we sponsored went and are happy to be doing it again.

A footnote on congressional debates.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

The very first argument advanced in the first congressional debates over extending Medicaid funding to abortion referred to the many millions of dollars in future welfare costs that abortion would save.

Indeed, he was so enthusiastic in his editing that he recast a good many of the direct quotations I had included from congressional debates.

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

As the congressional debate over President Donald Trump's tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher - income households should be raised rather than lowered.

[246] On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.

(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional debate.)

To speak of «values» during a presidential campaign or a congressional debate was to speak of Protestant «values.»

It might seem strange to most Americans, but the building congressional debate over the Bush administration's proposed 2007 farm bill involves something unusual: actual food.

The US Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause generally protects members of Congress from prosecution for anything they say as part of congressional debate or business.

The NY - 19 Democratic Congressional Debate was sponsored by Ulster County Democratic Women and the Democratic committees of Woodstock, Denning, Olive, Shandaken and Hurley.

In May 2012, the Associated Students at Cal State University sponsored a congressional debate on campus, for candidates running in the 30th district.

That being said, Collins said as the congressional debate continues, he does expect a compromise will be reached to accommodate the more highly - taxed states.

A congressional debate in New York's 19th district took place in Ulster County Monday night amid a standing - room only audience.

RELATED: Candidates on the issues; 3 takeaways from Congressional debate between Colleen Deacon, John Katko in Syracuse

The President's annual budget and the Congressional debate around it are the mechanisms through which that role is defined and embellished.

Meanwhile, biomedical lobbyists are girding themselves for what promises to be a bruising congressional debate this spring over legislation that would ban or restrict federal support for fetal tissue studies.

In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.

July 31, 2015 • Disagreements remain among the 12 countries regarding drug patents, market access and more, and likely will delay congressional debate of any eventual agreement into 2016.

As research became salient, so did «good» research, and as the congressional debate over education became inseparable from a broad endorsement of «accountability,» an autonomous IES became a marker of members» commitment to that cause.

As congressional debate bogged down over an array of spending and philosophical issues late last week, it appeared that the House and the Senate would not vote on their education spending bills until this week.

One of the most substantive issues of the Congressional debate this year was the need to shore up the funding gap in the Pell Grant Program.

It modifies the Department's DBE program in light of developments in case law requiring «narrow tailoring» of such programs and last year's Congressional debate concerning the continuation of the DBE program.

During congressional debate over last year's federal tax overhaul, lawmakers considered changes to this provision; in fact, the bill initially passed by the U.S. House of Representatives slated the deduction for elimination.

I beleive that is the same Steve that was involved in a congressional debate about the hockey stick his conclusions had substance but no significant relevance.

I believe that Congressional debate should be guided by certain core principles and a clear appreciation that there is a wrong way and a right way to approach reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Keep that in mind as the Congressional debate begins.

The letter is aimed at influencing Congressional debate on several energy and climate bills, Dr. Hoffert explained in a note circulated in October to drum up supporters.

The congressional debate touched only lightly on the relative merits of various policy options to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

I am very familiar with policies related to carbon taxes and rebates, having worked on Capitol Hill during the congressional debate of similar federal policy almost a decade ago.

Given the major environmental, jobs and energy security questions that have been raised about Keystone XL, and the fact that President Obama can take a stand for the environment on this issue without the usual (and fully tedious) Congressional debate, if he does in fact approve it, it certainly calls into question his entire environmental platform — if how he handled the climate change debate in 2009 didn't already.

I loved watching the one congressional debate in which Steyn defended Curry and shot down some jerk congressman.

Hannah Hawsl - Kelcher of the Legal Literacy Blog hosts this week's holiday - themed installment of Blawg Review # 87, which features both the naughty (like Leon Gettler's discussion of prosecutors behaving badly or use of PowerPoint to improve congressional debate as described at Freedom to Differ) and the nice (such as Bruce McEwan's discussion of ways to use technology to effect an exchange of ideas).

So, for example, you can learn how to find a bill, a hearing or a congressional debate.

NAR strongly supported the creation of the Advocate's Office during congressional debate of the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act (HFIAA).

«After Rep. Scott Garrett (R - N.J.) complained this month that the Fed had crossed a line, Bernanke said publicly that he was sorry if the lawmaker thought that the white paper intruded on a congressional debate.

Not exact matches

Instead of supporting new free trade deals, as most Congressional Republicans do, Donald Trump has opposed deals like NAFTA and the current Trans - Pacific Partnership now being debated in Congress.

The new deal essentially shelves the issue, leaving it up for debate sometime down the road, possibly by the special Congressional committee.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

Though these numbers are simply used to demonstrate the loophole, this helps explain why, in the debate over this year's Congressional Budget, both Republicans and Democrats agreed that the loophole needed to be closed.