Sentences with phrase «favor of this bill passing»

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Small businesses across the country support the Republican tax reform plan, with 55 percent saying they are in favor of seeing a tax bill passed.

On Tuesday, the E.U. parliament passed a bill that its authors claim will provide much - needed clarity on how the Internet should work, but which its opponents say is full of loopholes that will allow providers to favor their biggest commercial partners.

When it reached the full Senate, the bill, which has passed the House, faced no opposition — after all, who is in favor of selling the bodies of vulnerable children?

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house [Deut.

In fact our charter bill passed Senate with all GOP voting in favor and a number of Democrats, but without the minority, that wouldn't have been done.»

Four of the 27 House representatives from New York voted in favor of the tax bill, which passed 227 - 205: Claudia Tenney, 22nd district; Tom Reed, 23rd; John Katko, 24th; and Chris Collins, 27th, all Republicans.

But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Reps. John Katko, R - Camillus, and Claudia Tenney, R - New Hartford, were among only four of the 27 New York House members to vote in favor of the bill, which passed the House 227 - 205.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

State Senator Tom Duane of Manhattan, the openly gay, hyper - vocal proponent of marriage equality, said yesterday that he's received private assurances from at least 32 of his colleagues that they will vote in favor of a marriage - equality bill introduced by Governor Paterson and recently passed by the State Assembly.

Demonstrators by the hundreds — both those in favor of same - sex marriage and those opposed — jammed the halls of the capital Monday as lawmakers continued to haggle over language that will protect religious institutions and garner enough support in the Republican - controlled Senate for the bill to pass.

The county board of legislators has 17 members and nine lawmakers would have to vote in favor of the bill to pass.

The final vote Mr. Losquadro cast after midnight Friday was in favor of a 2 percent property tax cap bill, which the governor proposed and passed in both houses.

It appears the bill will only be able to pass with a significant number of GOP senators voting in favor of it.

Assembly members voted 83 to 44 in favor of the bill, but there are still concerns that if passed, it will undermine the relationship between the U.S. and Canada.

Although the State Assembly has passed a bill extending mayoral control of city public schools, Republicans in the State Senate have proposed bills that extend mayoral control only with conditions that favor charter and private schools.

The larger and more comprehensive COMPETES bill passed last year by a margin of 217 to 205, with 23 Republicans voting against it and no Democrats in favor.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

No Florida parent group has come out in favor of the parent trigger, but Parent Revolution's astroturfers have staged a full - court press in the state legislature, where the bill passed the house last week.

Many of the youth in the room were leaders who were instrumental in LAUSD's passing the Student Climate Bill of Rights, which favors alternatives that promote positive behavior over punitive school discipline policies.

Unfortunately, the final vote last week was 4 - 3 in favor of the bill, the bare minimum requirement for it to pass.

With a vote of 221 to 207 on July 19, 2013 — with only House Republicans in favor — the U.S. House approved the Student Success Act, the ESEA (NCLB) reauthorization bill that passed out of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in June.

This bill passed the Oklahoma House by a margin of 74 in favor and 26 opposed, it sailed through the House by nearly two thirds and suddenly, in the Senate General Conference Committee on Appropriations, it died in the final week of the session due to a lack of signatures to pass out of that committee.

As to whether these bills are passed, heavily modified, or ignored in favor of whatever the next big Internet controversy is, the story is absolutely worth keeping a close eye on — as is whatever developers like EA, Blizzard, and * any * mobile developer who make their salt on Loot Boxes, have to say.

Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a «cap - and - trade» bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

In a statement, the Chamber said it favors «mainstream, common sense views» on climate change but opposes the carbon - capping bill that the House of Representatives passed on June 26.

The bill, which was authored by Energy and Commerce Henry Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, appears to be one of the boldest drafts of energy legislation that's ever been favored to pass.

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.