Sentences with phrase «favor of the bill since»

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Naturally, perhaps the critical choice in a contentious bill's history is who goes on that conference committee, since selecting one member over another will ultimately favor one set of provisions or one philosophical approach over another.

Nationally, attention has been riveted on New York state since early in the week when Cuomo announced he had won more votes in favor of the bill.

Teacher unions and other education advocates who favor the bill have been stressing that the Protect Our Schools Act serves as a preemptive measure against school privatization, particularly since Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, both advocates of charters and vouchers, now guide federal policy.

I responded not long ago to a plea about this issue and have been following it desultorily ever since, but the idea of selling old growth forests to pay local bills seems of a piece with the many other short - term «solutions» that permanently remove valuable community (in the larger earth - based community sense as well) resources in favor of paying a few bills.

Philosophically *, this reminds me of the bills of pains and penalties of the 14th through 18th centuries, which have since fallen out of favor.

Larry Dale Keeling on his Herald Leader blog reports that the Franklin Circuit Court has ruled in favor of Gov. Steve Beshear and found that the Transportation Bill was not valid since it was passed after the Legislature had been adjourned by law.