Sentences with phrase «get this bill passed as»

«The Krohn family are true heroes in helping to get this bill passed as they have turned their terrible tragedy into something positive to help others.

Groups like ALEC actually write the laws they want passed, wine and dine (and probably pay outright) to get those bills passed as law.

Not exact matches

A version of the bill overwhelmingly passed the House last year before getting stuck as Senate Republicans and Democrats dueled over funding specifics and certain controversial provisions.

As Senate Republicans push to get their tax bill passed before Christmas, a research and development (R&D) tax credit used by many businesses to boost innovation could be in trouble.

Senate Republican leaders face a challenge in getting legislation through their chamber, as, to pass, a bill would require support from nearly all 52 GOP senators.

So, if a Gang of Eight - style bill passes, we will get political trench warfare in which the Democrats will treat those who get amnesty as future citizens of a social democratic America and Republicans will treat them as bipedal automatons for benefit of the entrepreneurs who «built that.»

During the fight to get the bill passed, North Carolina lawmakers voted down amendments that would have created pro-choice alternatives such as «Trust Women.

Even ESPN's networks, which carried two of the five games on the schedule, relentlessly promoted next Thursday's Indiana — Ohio State Megacast as the official start of the season, but for those who passed on the day's other sporting events to get their first glimpse of the gridiron regardless of how modestly it may have been billed, there were a few moments worthy of carrying over into the real Week 1.

But if, for better or worse, the bill passes as written and districts get the additional six cents, is that increase going to be sufficient to «fix» school food?

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

As the state's legislative session winds to a close, Cuomo has yet to announce his support for the Child Victims Act despite his promises to survivors that he'd help get a bill passed this year.

Klein was roundly criticized by liberals for working with Senate Republicans, but he has argued the IDC was able to get big - ticket accomplishments through the chamber, such as two bills to increase the state's minimum wage, the most recent of which passed this year.

Thus by passing the marriage bill in the House in early March, as supporters now hope to do, opponents could get more than a month of additional time to obtain the petition signatures than if the bill passed at the end of the session in late April.

Despite the coalition's determination to get the legislation passed quickly, enabling same - sex couples to marry as soon as this summer, the government may find it harder than it expects to get the bill through parliament.

This comes as the Cuomo administration is preparing a major post-budget push in hopes of getting the Legislature — particularly the Senate — to take another crack at passing the same - sex marriage bill.

She quickly recovered however, describing her vote as a response to combination of supporting the enhanced penalties included for killing a police officer and the quandary of the bill presenting an infrequent opportunity for a minority member to get any legislation passed.

But this is where it gets gray very quickly: You're a lawyer in private practice, and someone's trying to get a bill passed in Albany, and they happen to retain you as their lawyer.

He says his staff is working with the legislature to get bills printed and passed as soon as possible.

As I reported yesterday, these phone banks will be a twice - weekly occurrance and are part of the coordinated effort to get the Senate to pass a marriage bill before the session ends in June.

Exceptions are made for public safety (per standing law), the active duty military (per a bill which did get passed to approve it), and things which are funded outside the standard budgeting process (such as Social Security).

Councilman Jumaane Williams, one of the Council's most outspoken proponents of police reform, said members are getting anxious to pass their police reform bills, which have a majority of members signed on as co-sponsors.

In the end, the Governor and the state legislature came together in December and quickly passed a bill restructuring the tax code so that millionaire's wouldn't get as big of a break as they had been expecting — creating roughly $ 1.5 billion more in revenue.

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

That shouldn't come as any surprise, since the split over how best to maneuver in hopes of getting the Senate to finally pass the marriage bill has been going on for some time.

Ironically, Maziarz had just come from a bill signing ceremony in North Tonawanda at which the governor put pen to paper on Recharge New York and spoke of the bipartisan effort that went into getting it passed as part of the budget earlier this month.

During this session, high profile bills got passed — such as a new law allowing, in select circumstances, the medicinal use of marijuana.

Should the insurance bill pass, Uber would still have to get regulatory approval to actually operate in upstate New York and Long Island from one municipality at a time, be it Poughkeepsie, Utica, Ithaca, Buffalo, etc. (In New York City, where ridesharing is forbidden, Uber now operates mostly as a black car service).

Since the State Legislature has been unsuccessful in its attempts to pass a same - sex marriage bill, the City Council is doing what little they can to get as close to marriage equality as possible under the confines of the state law, according to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The bill comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to get the Assembly to pass a cap on local property taxes.

«As Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, Senator Harkin was instrumental in passing the 9/11 Health Bill by giving the bill its first ever hearing in the U.S. Senate, and Senator Gillibrand appreciates his invitation to speak about her goal of getting more women elected to the halls of Congress this election cycle,» said Glen Caplin, a spokesman, in an emBill by giving the bill its first ever hearing in the U.S. Senate, and Senator Gillibrand appreciates his invitation to speak about her goal of getting more women elected to the halls of Congress this election cycle,» said Glen Caplin, a spokesman, in an embill its first ever hearing in the U.S. Senate, and Senator Gillibrand appreciates his invitation to speak about her goal of getting more women elected to the halls of Congress this election cycle,» said Glen Caplin, a spokesman, in an email.

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.

Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a lead proponent of the measure who has been working with the state Legislature to pass the bill, said the DOT needs to resolve any reservations it has to get the law implemented as soon as possible.

There's no doubt in my mind that as long as this bill is brought to the floor, it will get enough votes to pass and [Governor] Cuomo will sign off on it.»

Democrat Tom Duane, the sponsor of the Senate's marriage equality bill, is thought to be considering defecting to the majority coalition if it will get his legislation passed, the NYT reports: «Even as Democrats pursued a range of options — ... Read

Asked earlier this week what would happen to the amendment if it didn't pass as part of the health bill, Collins vowed to press on and find another way to get his proposal into law.

So, you know, I've worked within the committee to get as much agreement on both sides as I possibly can, and then I am able to work with the Senate to try to get bills passed and landing on the president's desk.

I agree, that the recent tax bill the Republicans are trying to passed has an effect that is not getting as much national attention: the impact on K - 12 education.

But it gets worse: now the CA legislature has passed a new bill, AB 375, as a guise for facilitating the firing of abusive teachers... but it actually makes it HARDER to do so!

Sen. Tim Scott, a tea party Republican on the Senate HELP Committee, said the debate over No Child Left Behind will get much more difficult once Congress is trying to negotiate a bill that the White House would sign, as opposed to just trying to pass one out of committee.

Undeterred by the bills that stalled or died in 2013, Parent Revolution spokesman Derrick Everett said that «laws as novel as the parent trigger process have often taken multiple legislative sessions to both get the law «right» and get it passed.»

And some school boards — including those overseeing the Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts — are passing measures like a «school climate bill of rights,» which, among other things, mandates that schools employ restorative justice as an alternative to traditional discipline when students get into fights or cause other trouble.

Brown's Funding Plan Faces Vigorous Review — and Speed Bump The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown's comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants.

Yesterday, Trumbull teachers and their Trumbull Education Association rejected ConnCAN's award as a way to protest Governor Malloy's education reform bill and ConnCAN's work to get it passed.

It was during this period that he earned the respect of opposition peers as he worked with Labour and the Liberal Democrats, delivering key concessions to get the bill passed in the upper house, where the government does not have a majority.

The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown's comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants.

I am about 20,000 Dalars in debt I have a student loan for 1500 on one and about 7500 hundred on the other one, I am savirley behind on my day to day bills I am now at the point of company's are passing me as a client around so I'm now getting charged by every company in town, I have a new baby due at the end of the month And I do not want to be in debt for the rest of my life, I also have moltaple payday loans owing, and I have a credit card that shouldn't have gone wrong its sitting about 580.00 it's starting to get really frusterating when I can't pay it all off plus not to mention I have a few collections in mobile companies, Rogers and Telus very frusterating -.

BUT, here's the catch: If inflation is above zero — meaning the prices of goods and services are rising over time — then as time passes you can buy less and less with a $ 100 bill you've got in your safe.

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Since founding a humane society next door to Madison County's pound, she has gotten more than 23 bills passed as the senior legislation director at the ASPCA and, most recently, helped to spearhead four other bills as the senior legislative attorney at Best Friends.

The country's parliament has now passed a bill that would ensure getting a fair share of water is part of all future bilateral negotiations with Turkey, as well as with its other upstream neighbors, Iran and Syria.