Sentences with phrase «debate over housing»

In the long - running debate over housing subsidies, experts tend to focus on the mortgage interest deduction, a $ 70 billion tax break that functions as an expensive subsidy for wealthy Americans.

The campaign, called Up4NYC, is the opening shot in what promises to be a highly contentious debate over housing laws in the State Legislature over the next six weeks.

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Even though Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, the debate over replacing Obamacare has revealed the unified government to be more like a dysfunctional family at a Christmas dinner.

The debate over what to do about housing prices is hobbled by a lack of reliable data.

As Vancouver's house prices lift off into lotus land, the debate over just how much local real estate activity is fuelled by wealthy Asian investors is getting more heated.

If you listen to the latest buzz, House Republicans are now thinking of triggering a crisis over the debt - ceiling debate, likely coming up in late October, rather than the federal budget.

With Trump presiding over a majority - Republican House and Senate, Democrats have been debating internally about how and when to work with Trump's agenda.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto over Mayor Rob Ford's attempt to sell social housing units to private buyers.

The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

Even before the House of Commons can debate the options for electoral reform, it is arguing over how to choose.

On Tuesday, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn announced his resignation after a fierce debate with Trump over the president's plan to impose tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

In the debate over who deserves more credit from the 2018 White House Correspondents» Dinner — comedian Michelle Wolf or one of her main joke...

That group and other students from across the Denver area also held a «lie - in» at the state Capitol around noon Wednesday ahead of debate in a House committee over a handful of pro-gun bills introduced by Republicans expected to happen Wednesday afternoon.

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White House economic adviser Gary Cohn will resign amid a fierce internal debate over proposed tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

WASHINGTON — White House economic adviser Gary Cohn will resign amid a fierce internal debate over proposed tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

Little - known comic Michelle Wolf becomes the latest surrogate for partisan warfare, as her edgy White House Correspondents Association speech over the weekend continued to be debated.

But people on both sides say the proposal has become mired in debate over affordable housing, with one resident at a recent Village Board meeting, for example, warning against attracting bums to the neighborhood.

Lengthy debates over the Crystal Lake Park District's acquisition of the Colonel Palmer House ended last week, as the board agreed to lease the property.

The SNA found allies in Congress among conservative House Republicans, and the debate over school food became unusually rancorous and partisan.

In the U.S. House, debate over dismantling the USDA's lunch program has been rancorous and split along party lines, observers say.

The Ryan budget, which has proved once again to be a lighting rod in the national debate over taxes and spending, passed in the House of Representatives along largely partisan lines 228 to 191.

The American journalist Bob Woodward has been given unique access to President George W Bush and his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006 - 2008 (Simon Schuster, # 18.99), uses interviews with Bush and leading members of the administration to examine the debates over the Iraq War from 2006 to the summer of 2008.

Then again, Maloney and Cuomo have something in common that pre-dates Troopergate: They both worked in the Clinton White House — a fact Maloney has reminded voters of over and over in mailers and TV ads and during debates.

The CIOT also calls for a debate on whether the House of Lords should play a greater role in scrutinising tax legislation as it goes through Parliament, without detracting from the powers of the House of Commons over tax matters.

A nervous Vince Cable started debating the measure just after midday, as a packed House of Commons saw emotional MPs argue over the ethics of the decision to try and triple the fees.

«Right now there are over 400 former members of the House and Senate who are registered lobbyists in Washington,» Pataki said during a Republican primary debate in 2015, according to a transcript.

The laws that keep housing affordable for millions of New Yorkers will expire tomorrow and the debate over whether to simply renew or strengthen the laws is front and center today in Albany.

The debate continues over the future of Ascension Church, the landmark Linwood Avenue structure which the Episcopal Diocese wants to turn into senior housing.

The usual suspects have shouldered their political quivers as debate rages over the White House's decision to withhold a Democratic House Intelligence Committee memo rebutting one from the Republican side.

While the public worry about housing, jobs and healthcare, our politicians obsess over debates, coalitions, buses and kitchens.

The renewed debate over advance care planning threatened to become a distraction to administration officials who were gearing up to defend the health law against attack by the new Republican majority in the House.

This hierarchy is often reflected in political priorities, and one current debate where this may be seen is the discussion over prioritising house building over the protection of the countryside.

The end of day adjournment debate is undertaken after all the other usual business of the House — Departmental questions, Private Member's Bills, government legislation, and Dennis Skinner roaring about «posh boys» — is over.

In the first televised debate of the party's primary race for the White House, Sanders had the chance to further embarrass front - runner Hillary Clinton over the private email server she used as U.S. secretary of state.

The debate over the abatement has been a source of consternation for both Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who's version of the renewal plan includes an expansion of affordable housing, but not the abatement.

There is an internal debate in the Trump White House over staying in the climate change pact, pitting Ivanka Trump against Steve Bannon.

Republican White House hopefuls insisted that President Obama step aside and let his successor nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a raucous Saturday night debate that also featured harshly personal jousting over immigration and foreign policy.

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

* At a White House press conference, a visibly angry President Obama defended the tax - cut deal he hammered out with congressional Republicans, calling the debate over the cuts «the public option debate all over again.»

Over the past legislative session, the issue of divesting state pension funds of fossil fuel investments received considerable debate both in the State House and around Vermont.

Sounding faintly Nixonian, he spoke of «the silent majority» (rarely heard during the 14 months of debate over this project), which he said «deplored substandard off - campus housing that is basically obsolete.»

The measure passed the House on Wednesday on a 98 - 49 vote after hours of debate over proposed amendments.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

Overshadowed by all the internal drama and debate this legislative session over sexual harassment in the Maryland State House — and how to police it — was broader legislation...

The backbench business committee, which for the first time gives parliamentarians some control over what is debated in the house, is being sidelined and decisions on its motions ignored.

The White House, meanwhile, has been silent on Senate debate over the cloture vote.