Sentences with phrase «decision against bill»

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Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, introduced a bill last summer that would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against employees «for the purposes of making adverse employment decisions.»

Conway hoped to encourage more women to come forward with allegations against Bill Clinton, building on the campaign's decision to bring three of the former president's accusers to the second presidential debate.

Allen Sinai, CEO and chief global economist for Decision Economics, tested this question against the piece of the bill that extends the Bush tax cuts.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday pushed back against Senate Republicans for criticizing his decision not to appear at a hearing on the future of mayoral control of city schools.

Grover Norquist told the Washington Independent's Dave Weigel that Specter's commitment to voting against the labor bill is the «one silver lining in this decision.»

Her decision to join the party leader saw the bill win key votes in the Lords and unleashed another wave of anger against the Liberal Democrats from NHS campaigners.

In an article in the Evening Standard defending her decision to vote against the government last night, the Conservative former education secretary Nicky Morgan says the government should drop the amendment to the EU withdrawal bill fixing 29 March 2019 as Brexit day before it gets debated next week.

On law enforcement, she rapped his administration's increased focus on community policing as «stop - and - frisk by another name,» blasted the NYPD's decision to stop publicly disclosing disciplinary action against cops and criticized de Blasio's decision to appoint Bill Bratton's personal choice, James O'Neill, as police commissioner without conducting a national search.

But one person with direct knowledge of the county discussions said Mr. Cornegy's late decision on Tuesday to vote against a police reform bill, sponsored by Ritchie Torres of the Bronx and backed by a Bronx councilwoman, Vanessa L. Gibson, hurt him with Bronx county officials.

Markey has increased in prominence in recent months due to the Daily News» decision to vigorously support a bill of hers that would extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse crimes committed against children.

Sens. John McCain (R - AZ) and Jon Kyl (R - AZ) raced to the television cameras this afternoon to offer hyperbolic attacks against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following Reid's decision to pull the entire Defense Authorization bill from consideration.

But she felt that his decision to veto the bill was «something that we pushed back against» and said that it was «irresponsible» for the governor to claim the Council's passage of the measure was «flawed.»

A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver refused to confirm that the decision by the speaker's counsel, Bill Collins, to step down was directly connected to the failure to investigate harassment complaints lodged against Kellner.

In her speech, Labour former minister Maria Eagle bemoaned the lack of consultation, adding the «nature of the exit» the government appears to be pursuing has also influenced her decision to vote against the second reading of the bill tomorrow night.

The fact the bill passed 9 - 1 in July, with one legislator missing, gave Morton confidence he could override the decision, but Thursday, the vote was split on party lines with every Democrat against it.

Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»

Cuomo calls the bill an historic stand against dark money, the influence of Super PACs, and the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that opened up the floodgates for major, secretive political donations.

Following a series of Labor thought bubbles over the past twenty years relating to a second Sydney airport at Badgery's Creek which have all gone pop, Bill Shorten is fighting back against Tony's decision to actually do something about it by emitting a thought bubble of unprecedented dimensions.

I respect the decisions of colleagues whose assessment of the compromises in this bill led them to work against it.

``... there is something inherently troubling about a billing system that pits a lawyer's financial interest against that of its client and that has built in incentives for inefficiency,» the decision states.

The Data Protection Bill could interfere with legal professional privilege and stop legitimate legal challenges against Home Office immigration decisions, the Bar Council has warned.

Lord Justice Jackson has criticised the Law Society for its decision to run a «single campaign» against his proposals for the reform of the costs of civil litigation, and proposed changes to legal aid, which are both outlined in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.

the Bill should provide on its face that that there was a right of appeal to the Upper Tribunal against decisions to impose and to refuse trade defence remedies, and that such appeals should be «on the merits» rather than just by way of judicial review.

``... there have been powerful last - ditch efforts to get Clause 76 removed from the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill... There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law, and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital that the government and other parties should stand firm against any possible amendments.

The bill would prevent the government from discriminating against a woman on the basis of her reproductive decisions, about using birth control, having a child, or terminating a pregnancy.