Sentences with phrase «conservative lawmakers»

To help employers adjust, and to win support from more conservative lawmakers, they spread the wage hike over three years.

An additional 109 among about 310 conservative lawmakers indicated reservations, although they went along with the vote.

The governor insisted that access to the voting booth is an integral benefit of citizenship, and suggested conservative lawmakers have deliberately inserted unnecessary hurdles into the process.

The talk followed a growing skepticism of the Common Core standards among mostly conservative lawmakers.

Some of conservative lawmakers in Texas are on the record for voting against increasing financial aid for Hurricane Sandy while today they ask for more aid for relief in their own state.

Two major groups who carry some sway with conservative lawmakers — the Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America — said the Boehner plan failed to address the fiscal mess and they urged members to contact lawmakers and express their opposition.

«There are serious problems with what appears to be our current path to repeal and replace Obamacare,» said Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, who leads an influential 170 - member bloc of conservative lawmakers called the Republican Study Committee, adding that he could not «in good conscience» vote for such policies.

Francis Maude, senior adviser at Covington and former Conservative lawmaker, speaks about the progression of the Brexit bill through U.K. parliament.

The Washington Post DeVos tells conservative lawmakers what they like to hear: More local control, school choice

Many of the estimated 296,000 clean energy jobs are located in Republican - controlled states and congressional districts, changing the calculus for conservative lawmakers who have long railed against wasteful clean energy spending.

Much of the fervor for charters in North Carolina came from conservative lawmakers who promised these schools would be more financially efficient.

With new, fiscally conservative lawmakers taking over the House of Representatives in January, however, that money probably won't be forthcoming.

Earlier this year, May's government was forced into a U-turn when it dropped a plan to increase national insurance contributions on self - employed workers after Conservative lawmakers protested that it broke the 2015 pledge.

If Trump does decide to take a risk and lead the charge on an issue that would require tough votes by conservative lawmakers — perhaps on strengthening background checks for gun purchases — it would be a departure for his presidency

Still, as Lalor's email indicates, The Poughkeepsie Journal has endorsed Republicans including Saland and Sen. Greg Ball, one of the most conservative lawmakers in Albany.

Although conservative lawmakers often take issue with certain NIH grants, what was surprising was that Collins said he was troubled by it as well.

For Cruz and other conservative lawmakers, the Ex-Im Bank represents corporate favoritism and cronyism.

He has been wooing lawmakers to vote for the bill and won the backing of a dozen conservative lawmakers on Friday after an Oval Office meeting in which the president endorsed a work requirement and block - grant option for Medicaid.

«This is a time for Brussels to listen to the British people and do what we are all doing, and that is cutting our cloth,» Conservative lawmaker Mark Pritchard, one of the revolt's leaders, told Sky News.

The Conservative minority government agreed Tuesday to back the opposition - proposed amendment to its Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill after enough Conservative lawmakers supported the measure.

Even conservative lawmakers like Paul Ryan seemed open to a ban on bump stocks.

A few minutes later, though, another top conservative lawmaker told me via text: «I believe we would have to throw a penalty flag on such a proposal.

Diaz, the outspoken social conservative lawmaker, is backing Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long, her campaign announced today.

Can otherwise conservative lawmakers survive the backlash, or will their unorthodoxies topple their political careers?

The pair of conservative lawmakers won an early victory against the administration in December, when a court initially granted their request for an injunction to keep the city from dumping the files.

From Upstate New York down to the Florida panhandle, protesters gathered outside conservative lawmakers» state and district offices to call for legislative action to prevent deadly shootings and pressure members not to accept money from pro-gun lobbying groups.

Moderate Republicans like Faso could be key to passing the measure in the House, after several conservative lawmakers and powerful conservative groups came out against the bill.

But odds are growing the Senate might ratify the treaty this year, though opposition from conservative lawmakers remains high.

7] «Conservative lawmakers push first two or three states to reverse course and abandon the Common Core, prompting fierce breaks in Republican ranks over the Common Core to spill out into the open.

The debate over how to handle DHS funding has angered conservative lawmakers — who House leaders will need to vote on the Student Success Act.

Muxlow said he was viciously attacked by DeVos - financed campaign mailers even though the law to lift the cap passed easily, and he is a reliably conservative lawmaker.

Conservative lawmakers made it clear that the Obama refinance programs have failed and now it's time to shut them down.

For the late 80's, it was a groundbreaking exhibit that pushed the boundaries of social norms, but it also enraged conservative lawmakers in DC.

Six years ago, after hundreds of climate researchers» email exchanges were posted online, fueling conservative lawmakers» attempts to challenge climate science, 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences signed a letter defending the integrity of research pointing to dangerous global warming.

Funding for new mental health services - one idea raised by some Republicans - would test conservative lawmakers» commitment to cutting social spending.

In the years that followed, conservative lawmakers attempted tirelessly to gut Planned Parenthood and shutter abortion providers throughout the country.

Evers, who was re-elected for a second term in 2013, also adopted the Common Core State Standards in 2010, and continued to support them in recent years as the standards became increasingly unpopular among conservative lawmakers.

Francis Maude, senior advisor at Covington and former Conservative lawmaker, speaks about the U.K.'s future trading relationship with the EU.

The more conservative lawmakers in the body have resisted at least some of the reforms proposed.

For anything but the most limited measures — for example, a push toward banning devices that boost the firing power of semiautomatic rifles, which he announced Tuesday — Trump must offer cover to conservative lawmakers in primary races and mount a consistent push for compromise in Congress.

This line of thinking began percolating on the right only a few days after the tragedy — first with conservative education reformers, then with conservative columnists, and now with conservative lawmakers.