Sentences with phrase «fight over the legislation»

But that positive attitude masks deep wounds from the fight over the legislation.

But House Democrats continued objecting to the financing for those tax provisions and plan to alter the language later this week, prolonging a fight over legislation that industry and environmental activists have championed all year.

Not exact matches

The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday his province will support Alberta in the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by introducing its own legislation on oil exports.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

«The Senate Democrats have led the fight to Raise The Age in New York State, and Senator Velmanette Montgomery has sponsored this legislation for over 5 years.

Here's a quick overview of the key battlegrounds being fought over as the government prepares its final legislation for parliament.

President Obama's re-election campaign is in town in San Francisco fund - raising fresh off of the heels of the national fight over anti-piracy legislation.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

But even if the legislation Mr. de Blasio supports passes the City Council as soon as tomorrow, his fight with Uber may not be over.

The RTI bill, which is expected to make information easily accessible by the media and Ghanaians to boost the fight against corruption has been in legislation for well over 17 years now because successive governments have failed to implement it despite several assurances.

So I won't be surprised if the most common and most heated state - level legislative fights in the next six months are over Common Core - repeal legislation.

«It will be the largest piece of legislation regarding education that has passed in over a decade,» said Erin Tuttle, an Indiana mom who has gained national attention for fighting Common Core standards and has established herself as an effective advocate on the matter.

Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion organization, fought for weeks to maintain a clause in the legislation designed to discourage a court challenge over its ban on drug - induced abortions.

The recent fight over the just - passed tax reform package, current budget proposals from the Trump administration, and legislation just introduced into Congress all point to an uncertain future for student borrowers.

Your generous gift will allow us to fight to protect all the important gains we've made over the years as well as continue our work to advocate for legislation taking on domestic violence against pets, horse slaughter and horse soring, animal testing for cosmetics, shark finning, the dangerous exotic pet trade and dog meat trade, and other cruelties.

Her continuing efforts to draft and help pass legislation protecting children and animals resulted in local and state laws She has trained over 3,000 professionals and continues training law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, veterinarians, animal shelter staff and more throughout Georgia on animal law, animal cruelty, dog fighting, dangerous dog laws and dog bite cases.

When it comes to fighting attempts at video game legislation, the ESA has traditionally chosen pragmatism over principles.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

This means that such fights, which are at the core of the delays over energy legislation, are a distraction from the simpler process of building the first stages of a sustained energy quest after a long comfortable nap facilitated by cheap abundant fossil fuels for which longer - term and indirect costs are finally being gauged.

Just have a look at the fights over finding 60 votes for health care legislation to ponder the likelihood of 67 for a climate treaty.

In the fight over climate legislation, environmentalists» early rejection of a «safety valve» looks kind of lamentable in retrospect.

Bernardi, who helped establish «grassroots» groups to fight Australia's carbon price legislation, had been Abbott's shadow parliamentary secretary until he was forced to resign last year over remarks linking same - sex marriage to bestiality.

Fighting climate legislation has become a central priority for their organization over the last decade, according to fundraising documents.

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

Tackling energy legislation gives Democrats a strategy they believe resonates with voters — though one that would expose them to GOP taunts over higher taxes, a fight Republicans would relish.

Big Coal is fighting for loopholes and safety valves to keep CO2 costs low, because if legislation passes that actually puts a serious price on CO2, coal's reign as a «cheap» energy source is officially over.

It's important to keep in mind, however, that this legislation will be aggressively contested and debated over the next several weeks as Republicans fight to have a finalized version on President Trump's desk by Christmas.