Sentences with phrase «for debate on the bill»

For this reason, more critical MPs asked for the debate on the bill to be held behind closed doors, as well as the vote.

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On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Sopan Deb, who covered the Trump campaign in 2016 as an embedded reporter for CBS News, criticized a passage in the book in which Bossie and Lewandowski said he was «literally crying» at a press conference before the second presidential debate when Trump appeared with women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that prior to Equifax's data breach disclosure on Thursday, a congressional panel was debating a proposed bill that would lower the fines credit - monitoring companies receive when they issue flawed credit reports for their customers.

Euro zone officials have long debated setting up a deposit insurance scheme but Germany opposes this, fearing that German taxpayers would be asked to foot the bill for bailing out weaker banks on the currency bloc's periphery.

But in the maelstrom of last - minute action before the House heads home Friday, the bill has not been scheduled for what was expected to be a contentious debate on the floor.

On March 21, a bill to limit a website's immunity for content when it knowingly facilitates sex trafficking passed Congress — one of the first impositions of liability for online platforms as the U.S. debates their responsibility for what users post.

Trump on Saturday also attempted to blame the Parkland shooting on Democrats» inaction on gun control, likening it to the immigration debate and what to do about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA)-- which the Senate tried and failed to write a bill on this week.

In response to the ongoing debate over H.R. 4015 — a bill that was submitted to the U.S. Senate for consideration after approval by the House of Representatives on December 21, 2017 — Glass Lewis would like to -LSB-...]

Reconciliation bills are privileged in a number of ways, including with a 20 - hour limit on debate in the Senate, a non-debatable motion to proceed to the bill, and a strict germaneness test for amendments.

His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

I'm surprised CNN is willing to wage a debate on «science» vs. «creationism» with Bill as the spokesperson for the «science» side of the debate... I know, he IS the «Science Guy»... well, I'm bald and fat, but that doesn't make me an expert on follicular transplants or endocrinology.

The emotional scenes emerged during debate on the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill, which includes introducing formal recording for a stillborn child born before 24 weeks» gestation and giving coroners the power to investigate late - stage stillbirths.

A central midfielder or a number ten the player certainly fits the bill because we need players for almost every position on the park, maybe excluding right - back and even that will cause some debate.

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

«Decentralization will address the fact that the majority of bills are debated for less than a minute on the floor of our Assembly — a travesty to our supposedly democratic legislature,» Chen said.

Questions - Ensuring media plurality in the UK, abolition of the death penalty in China and in other countries, diagnostic testing for children with dyslexia Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Report stage Debate - Rebalancing the responsibilities of motorists and cyclists on the roads

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

MPs are due to debate the second reading of the EU amendment bill, in which Mr Davidson planned to insert an amendment calling for the bill to be thrown out on the grounds of lack of public consent.

His comments, made during a House of Commons debate on climate change, were welcomed by opposition parties, who have been calling for a bill for some time.

At the end of the committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.

«I have always lived my life with dignity, integrity and honesty; and I can say without hesitation that I brought those same characteristics everyday when I proposed bills, passed legislation, debated public policy, and fought tooth and nail to protect western New York on the floor of the New York State Senate for the past 38 years.»

At 11:30 a.m., in advance of debate on the 2018 Farm Bill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will convene dozens of Hudson Valley hunger organizations to discuss his priorities for hunger programs in the bill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell JunctBill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will convene dozens of Hudson Valley hunger organizations to discuss his priorities for hunger programs in the bill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell Junctbill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell Junction.

In the House of Lords debate on the withdrawal bill last week, Brexit minister Lord Callanan repeated the line that Article 127 was not necessary in order for the EEA to cease legal effect.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

On Tuesday, the New York Senate Finance Committee voted to send the S - 3898 online poker bill introduced earlier this year by Sen. John Bonacic to the Senate floor for debate and a possible vote.

He's an outspoken lawmaker known for his skills and pointed jabs in debating bills on the Senate floor.

Morgan made her maiden speech in Parliament on 22 May 1997 in the debate on the Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill, designed to pave the way for devolution.

Community engagement on Twitter can be anything from responding to @ - messages or asking your Twitter followers for their opinions on a particular bill that is being debated in committee, to having a Q&A session with the Twitter community.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted: «We need to ban plastic bags — the time for debate on this is over.

Hours before a mayoral debate on NY1 that Bill de Blasio is skipping, his campaign fired off invitations to a fundraiser Hillary Clinton is hosting for him later this month.

«Liam Fox expresses his fear that Iran may have a nuclear weapon next year as Lib Dems demand to know if money is already being spent on components for Trident Main Tory MPs debate the merits of the Health and Social Care Bill»

«This bill, frankly, is like taking an aspirin for a broken arm,» said Sen. Daniel Squadron during his chamber's debate on the bill.

The letter was released as Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, prepared to appeal for unity over proposals for an 80 % - elected upper chamber as he opened a two - day debate on the bill on Monday afternoon.

In a recent Politico.com article, one unnamed executive was quoted as saying Gillibrand had «Chutzpah» to raise money from Wall Street, and then not stand up for the industry during the debate on the bill.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

Debate stretched longest on a spending policy bill that overhauled the evaluation system for educators and tightened disclosure requirements for policymakers and legislators.

Mr Davies used up parliamentary time by talking for four and a half hours on a short bill to deport foreign criminals — so there wasn't time to debate it.

The poll is revealed after some Tory MPs joined Labour in calling for the vote on the final deal to carry proper weight, when debate on the Article 50 Bill got under way in the Commons.

David Cameron has been delaying the next stage of the debate on the immigration bill for weeks, because he knew that the report stage debate would see dozens of Tory MPs trying to vote against the government and in favour of a much tougher stance on immigration.

Delighted to see that since the debate on my Private Members Bill on Friday the petition for equal civil partnerships has gone from 80,000 to over 100,000 now!

During the debate, aired on WWRL 1600 AM and moderated by Daily News editorial page columnist Errol Louis, Saujani hit Maloney out of the gate for two fundraisers that Maloney held on one of the days during which she served on the conference committee for the financial services reform bill.

At the end of proceedings on the European Union Bill yesterday, there was an opportunity for the Commons to debate and vote on the amendment from Wellingborough MP Peter Bone, which he wrote about here on ConHome last month.

David Cameron's official spokesman later suggested to reporters at a regular Westminster briefing that the government's efforts during the coming months may be focused on seeking a timetable for debate which would satisfy Labour, rather than trying to win over Tory rebels with concessions in the bill.

New York's City Council debated nine bills on Wednesday that are aimed at expanding protections for the city's undocumented immigrants.

Richard Reeves has said that there would be «broader consequences» for the government's programme of parliamentary reform if Tory rebels defeat a motion to cut short debate on the House of Lords Reform Bill.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm sought to take advantage of the absence of his opponent Domenic Recchia at their first scheduled debate in Bay Ridge on Tuesday, telling voters in the audience that a vote for Recchia is a vote for the policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and then telling reporters at a post-debate press conference his opponent is not ready for prime time.

A massive spending bill to provide money for five Cabinet departments for the upcoming budget year is about to hit the Senate floor, giving senators a rare opportunity for open debate on legislation of any kind.

Peers rounded on Downing Street on the first day's debate in the House of Lords on a private member's bill that would pave the way for a referendum by 2017.

The programme motion is basically the programme for the further consideration of the bill — the time limit for further debates on the bill.