Sentences with phrase «controversial bill»

The more controversial bill is the one requiring police to get proof of consent before searching a person when there is no warrant or probable cause.

Copyright reform has been a hot topic for years, with many controversial bills being drafted but never passed.

Apparently, Barack voted «present» rather than take a stand on controversial bills several times in the Illinois legislature, which is apparently a reason to take after him (sounds like a bit of a stretch, but what do I know).

While the next few days will be telling in terms of where the story goes, there is, traditionally, real political danger in using legislative maneuvering to pass controversial bills.

What's more, as Tom Daschle has pointed out, it's not even true that Congress shies away from controversial bills in election years.

One of the most controversial bills of the early 2011 state legislative session is a proposal advanced by legislative Republicans to dramatically loosen state regulations on charter schools.

Aresimowicz says controversial bills aimed at raising new revenue, like the return of highway tolls, casino expansion and legalization of recreational use of marijuana will probably be on the agenda in the budget session.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told Democrats that she would not move controversial bills.

«Those were majority government situations as well and were less controversial bills in much simpler times.

George Takei just called for a boycott of Indiana after governor signs controversial bill into law.Will you join him?

With the exception of one very controversial bill that brings time - sharing into the administrative child support realm, the 2017 legislative session was rather sedate as relating -LSB-...]

Not long after controversial Bill 45 and Bill 46 received royal assent from Lieutenant Governor Donald Ethell this week, the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees submitted a statement of claim against Bill 46 laws to the Court of Queen's Bench.

The most controversial bill gave the state board of education extensive powers to regulate independent study or «nonclassroom» - based instruction that uses computers as the main instructional tool.

What we do not understand is the Legislature's willful abandonment of the regular legislative process to rush through a very complicated and controversial bill without giving even the members of the Legislature, much less the citizenry, time to analyze and respond to the proposal.

The City Council is expected to vote on two controversial bills next week that will temporarily cap the growth of new for - hire car services, Council sources confirmed to Capital.

The two controversial bills known as the Right to Know Act would require cops to inform people that they have the right to refuse to be searched without probable cause, and to identify themselves with business cards when they stop somebody.

The Audit Commission will finally be closed in a local audit and accountability bill, controversial bills paving the way for HS2 will be introduced and the energy bill and water bill will continue their progress through the Commons after being carried over from the last session.

Indeed, the economic stimulus bill passed in February increased funding for NCLB by 80 percent, and these provisions of the massive and controversial bill met no objections.

New Jersey's Assembly and Senate are both poised to vote on controversial bills that seek to subsidize the state's nuclear power plants, modify the renewables portfolio standard, and support a pilot offshore wind farm.

This may change, of course - many pundits expect that with its reduced UK majority, Labour will increasingly depend on its Scottish MPs to pass controversial bills.

Regardless of whether it does go to an election, a vote on abortion could be one of the most divisive and controversial bills in Canada for some time, resurrecting what has been considered a settled issue in Canada for 25 - years.

A clue to the inaction: Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly told Democrats that she would not move controversial bills.

Still, federal lawmakers in the coming weeks may consider a handful of less controversial bills that will have implications in Virginia.

The Senate Sunday night spent nearly four hours debating the most controversial bill — dubbed the «big ugly» for its many unrelated items and tens of billions of dollars in spending.

One of the more controversial bills would require semiautomatic handguns made and sold in New York to have unique identifying information on spent bullet casing — a process known as microstamping.

With the exception of one very controversial bill that brings time - sharing into the administrative child support realm, the 2017 legislative session was rather sedate as relating to children and families.

The controversial bill not only allows officers to question a people about their residency status but also allows police chiefs, sheriffs, constables, and jail administrators to be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if they refuse to comply with a federal detention request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

On Tuesday, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a controversial bill that would encourage companies to voluntarily share information related to hackers with one another and the government.

On Tuesday, the Senate passed a controversial bill called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).

A day after religious leaders released an open letter calling on California to protect religious liberty in higher education, the lawmaker behind a controversial bill dropped the proposal in question, allowing religious schools to keep exemptions to anti-discrimination laws related to sexuality.

The parliament of Denmark approved a controversial bill this week that will allow its government to confiscate valuables from refugees.

UPDATE: The governor of Oklahoma vetoed a controversial bill that would make abortions a felony, according to the Washington Post.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (ranking member of the committee) «said there is an agreement among Democrats, Republicans and the White House on the controversial bill that has been held up for months.»

According to yesterday's Politico's Morning Agriculture report, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (ranking member of the committee) «said there is an agreement among Democrats, Republicans and the White House on the controversial bill that has been held up for months.»

The signers — a diverse group that ranges from the Rev. Calvin Butts (a longtime ally and suopporter of charter champion Mayor Bloomberg) to Sister Paulette LoMonaco to Phillip Banks, Jr. — are seeking reforms that actually surpass what was in the controversial bill passed Monday by the Senate, including:

As I write, the controversial bill has passed the Commons, and is being considered by Their (unelected) Lordships, who have no scruples about amending bills on how to elect another house.

Undocumented farm workers plan to rally in Albany tomorrow where if passed a controversial bill would give undocumented immigrants in New York a state driver's license.

According to a source, Mosley was «hiding» outside the Assembly chamber when the controversial bill establishing a monitor was being debated.

Even though shareholders for public corporations are becoming increasingly curious about political giving, it could set a precedent where companies have re-evaluate their contributions anytime there's a controversial bill.

On certain occasions, where less controversial bills have been passed into law, a package of the remaining appropriations bills will be bundled to finish funding work, and this package is known colloquially as a «minibus.»

Lawmakers passed a controversial bill on Monday that takes aim at the Gary School Board — cutting its meetings and allowing the district to make mid-year staff layoffs in a rare one - day special session.

And this play is about a man who is ideologically committed to the hilts to doing something and doesn't see - he is warned several times during the play - that he is a pawn in a bigger game and that the reason he has been chosen to carry out this very, very difficult and radical, controversial bill, is precisely because he is not a member of the Tory party.

Critics note that even as lawmakers seek to expand pension benefits for public employees, they are close to approving a controversial bill that would allow financially troubled local governments to borrow from the state's pension fund to cover payments they owe to the same fund.

In 2006, Paterson sponsored a controversial bill to limit the use of deadly force by the police, but later changed that position.

Word of negotiations between County Executive Steve Bellone and public employee unions came as the legislature's Government Operations Committee delayed a controversial bill that would require all nonunion employees to pay 15 percent of their health care costs in 2018.

One controversial bill he sponsored would have allowed payday loans, which are illegal in New York, with check - cashing stores offering loans with as much as 200 percent interest.

He even supports that controversial bill the Arizona governor will sign sometime this week.

A controversial bill to allow a third casino in Connecticut was approved by a key legislative committee today.

Is the tide shifting on a controversial bill that would give the government and copyright holders broad new powers to stop online piracy?Over the weekend, the White House signaled that it has strong reservations about the controversial Stop Online...

Some officials feel that Cuomo's recent ratings are also a positive sign that he could garner support for the controversial bill.