Sentences with phrase «cosponsors for»

This year's Hill visits helped REALTORS ® secure 17 cosponsors for S. 98 and majority support for the House companion bill, H.R. 111.

«Planned Parenthood commends Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - NY) and her 114 cosponsors for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act.

«The Coalition for Patent Fairness commends the leadership of Chairman Leahy, Chairman Conyers, ranking members Senator Hatch and Representative Smith and their cosponsors for introducing bipartisan legislation to modernize our patent system.

This amendment failed to be attached to the 2012 Farm Bill, but did help to find original cosponsors for the introduction of S. 3501, the «Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2012.»

Rep. Allen was a cosponsor for the Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act.

Sen. King «fought to keep college affordable... by spearheading passage of bipartisan legislation to lower federal student loan interest rates;» in fact, he was a cosponsor for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

He supported Federal refinancing for student loans as a cosponsor for the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.

Republican Graves does not have much legislative activity related to student loans, but he was a cosponsor for the Veteran Education Empowerment Act.

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The majority last for a week, are held at state universities, and are cosponsored by the state alcoholism programs and the universities.

Such a gathering took place late this past fall in Madrid, the European headquarters of cosponsor Opera Pia International for Active Aging (OPIAA), a Catholic group long involved in innovative work with the elderly in a number of nations.

When the Worcester Area Mission Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, cosponsored a program to help women move from welfare to work, the program included training for jobs as practical nurses and legal secretaries.

API thanks cosponsors of this special edition of Attached Family: Arm's Reach Concepts, Katie M. Berggren, Green Child Magazine, Momzelle and The Infant - Parent Institute for their generous contributions.

To voice your support for Congressman Nadler's initiative, urge your Members of Congress to cosponsor the Families Flying Together Act.

I am a cosponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act that would repeal DOMA and I am dedicated to ensuring protections against any form of discrimination, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The NYU School of Law will host U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series, cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network, Law Women and the Women of Color Collective.

The proposed local law was filed for consideration on Sept. 21 and cosponsored by Legislature Chairwoman Barbara Miller - Williams, Minority Leader John Mills and Legislators Lynne Dixon, Dino Fudoli, Kevin Hardwick, Ray Walter and Lynn Marinelli.

On Thursday, just before sitting at a desk to sign the bill, Ulrich and councilman Peter Vallone, who cosponsored the legislation, heaped praise on the mayor for coming around on their proposal.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick cosponsored a resolution at the May 8, 2014 session to transfer $ 5 million from the undesignated fund balance, which is currently at $ 89 million, to allow for additional road projects this year.

First, the Erie County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution at the Dec. 1 session that I cosponsored that supports the federal Broadband Connects for Rural Opportunities Program (B - CROP) Act.

Legislator Dixon cosponsored a resolution with several of her colleagues in response to a letter sent from 20 Central Police Services employees asking for assistance.

«We have been working with a lot of Republicans offices for a while to try to find a cosponsor, [and] we are still working on it,» Gillibrand said.

Shelley Mayer has been a vigorous advocate for the protection of our environment, cosponsoring a bill that prohibited oil barges from anchoring in the Hudson River and securing $ 3 million for flood mitigation aid after Hurricane Sandy.

A spokesperson for Mr. Zeldin offered the following response to the candidates» criticisms: «The Congressman did vote to expand Pell Grants and cosponsored bills that supported advance energy research at BNL and Stony Brook, while opposing cuts to the Department of Science.

Cosponsors: Coalition for Advancement of Moslem Women Erie County Commission on the Status of Women Justice and Security Institute, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester Social Work Department, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester

Robert Holden president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, cosponsor of the debate, said he checked in with Weprin's campaign earlier today and was told «logistics» would make it impossible for Weprin to appear un idle Village tonight.

Maffei's ad — the first negative commercial of the 2014 campaign — criticizes Katko, R - Camillus, for comments he made in opposition to the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is cosponsored by Maffei in the House of Representatives.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) is cosponsoring a bill called the TREAT Act in Congress that would increase the number of patients that medical practitioners can prescribe medication for treatment of drug abuse from 30 to 100.

With the exception of some bills while Walker was running for Milwaukee County Executive, Walker either sponsored or cosponsored all but three bills that would have restricted abortions.

Maffei says he is ready for the fight, and that's why he is among 52 original House cosponsors of the Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 269), introduced Jan. 15 by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky.

«If there's one killer stat, it's that we've produced a declining number of [bachelor's degree] engineers for the last 10 years,» explains David Peyton, vice president for technology at the National Association of Manufacturers and vice chair of the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America, which cosponsored the Hill visits.

McCain has cosponsored a bill, so far rejected by his colleagues, that would set up a national system of tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases and would require U.S. emissions in 2010 to be no more than in 2000 — not quite Kyoto, which sets the levels 7 percent below 1990 — but a start.

A total of 14 NIH institutes and centers, plus the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) cosponsored the RFAs.

She's also found a Republican to replace earlier bill cosponsor Mike Castle (R - DE), who lost a bid for the Senate last fall: Charlie Dent (R - PA).

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hypothyroidism in Adults: Cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association.

Clinical practice guidelines for hypothyroidism in adults: cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association.

I'm also a huge fan of Home Away too, which is cosponsoring the contest, because they are always a great option for accommodations when traveling.

Students from Allston - Brighton, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury came to campus for the event, Leadership and Learning: Celebrating the Accomplishments of our Young Men, cosponsored by Harvard Public Affairs & Communications and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, during which they presented their year - long projects, met with their mentors, and saw firsthand what it's like on a college campus.

Tickets for this event, cosponsored by HGSE and Harvard Divinity School, are no longer available.

The study, Paying for College: The Rising Cost of Higher Education, cosponsored by the Massachusetts Institute for New Commonwealth (MassINC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, points out that families are also spending more money to send students to the region's public four - year colleges and wracking up debt.

Ford Foundation Professor Fernando Reimers moderated the forum which was cosponsored by the University Committee for Human Rights.

During the event, Educating America: The Will and The Way Forward, cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Spellings addressed the audience and answered questions on the achievement gap, a need for better teachers, as well as the divisive state of American education today.

The 21st annual Learning Differences Conference, cosponsored by the Research Institute for Learning and Development (ResearchILD) and HGSE's Program in Professional Education, featured over 20 experts addressing topics ranging from strategies for motivating struggling learners to methods for assessing executive function.

The research studies in the book and released at the «Latinos at the Crossroads» conference are based on presentations given originally at the conference «Latinos in the 21st Century: Mapping the Research Agenda,» held in April 2000 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

The meeting, cosponsored by HGSE and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies, closed with the keynote address by HGSE Professor Richard Murnane, who spoke about how to improve education in developing countries.

The report was released today at a national event, cosponsored by LPI, the Center for American Progress and Learning Forward.

It is sponsored by PACER Center and cosponsored by National PTA, National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education, and National Education Association.

Cosponsors were the National PTA, National Education Association, American Federation for Teachers, National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education, and School Social Work Association of America.

They praised the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Induction Program as «a state - funded program, cosponsored by the California Department of Education and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, designed to support the professional development of newly credentialed beginning teachers and to fulfill the requirements for the California Clear Multiple and Single Subject Credentials.»

Matt McClure, Arkansas ASCD's legislative chair and superintendent of Cross County School District, thanked Elliott, Gov. Beebe, and the bill's cosponsors and said that Arkansas ASCD looks forward to working with the entire Arkansas education community to ensure that whole child education remains the number one priority for the state.

When a piece of legislation has a large number of cosponsors, it is more likely to receive the attention of congressional leadership and be scheduled for a floor vote.