Sentences with phrase «getting a bill passed through»

«The mayor chose to go this route because he knew he would never get this bill passed through the City Council.»

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

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If passed by the Senate, the spending bill would fund all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would get an extension only through Feb. 27.

Under the Senate bill, the top rate for corporations is 20 percent, and the top pass - through rate for people getting the full benefit is 31.8 percent.

Ryan said nothing will stop a Harvey aid bill from getting through Congress and he didn't foresee any problems with it passing, despite opposition to federal aid from some Republicans following Superstorm Sandy.

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.

It hardly seems long enough to get anything big done, especially when bills move so slowly through a process designed not to pass them, but to kill them.

But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing budget bills, I'm not doing it through the extenders.»

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.

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.

While he doesn't expect the state legislature to pass a bill granting undocumented immigrants the ability to get New York driver's licenses, he does believe the governor might move the policy forward through executive order.

Although the legislature did pass an increased minimum wage in 2016, substantial campaign finance reform bills, for example, have failed to get through both legislative chambers.

Trump warned Senate Republicans through Twitter a week ago that they should get the annual spending bills passed before the August recess, a high bar for a chamber that didn't pass any regular appropriations bills in 2017.

It was the Republican Senate — spearheaded by Senator Marty Golden — who took the bill and quickly passed it through the Senate Education Committee to get it to the Senate Floor, today Monday, February 6, 2012 in order to give all 62 Senators the opportunity to vote yes or no.

«No family should ever go through the grief of losing a loved one and then watching his killer get a slap on the wrist,» State Sen. Jeff Klein, who sponsored the bill, said after it passed the Senate.

We get in our own way when we don't see the big tenets through over a five to ten year period, and when folks think that a bill passing is the work.

You don't know what people go through, people get sick and can't work, breadwinners of households pass away and bills aren't paid they way they were.

You Democrats have a hold on the Congress, so we need to have a Republican in office to guide this thing through and to bring enough Republicans in Congress along to get the important bills passed.

They tried to pass a sweeping regulatory reform bill, which got through the House and was sponsored by Dole as S. 1 — his first priority.

If this Copyright bill gets passed through parliament and becomes law, as a Canadian citizen I will have lost all faith in the PC government, and refuse to vote your party back into power again.

The majority leader told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy this morning that a patent - litigation reform bill would not get to the floor even if it passed through Leahy's panel, according to multiple sources close to the negotiations on and off Capitol Hill.

Even if the Democrats do get one more Republican to vote for the bill, and successfully pass it through Congress, the chances of preserving net neutrality via the Congressional Review Act seem slim.

Redfin went public, Amazon got the Key to your house, a new tax bill cut taxes on corporations and pass - through entities — and that doesn't even begin to cover all the disruption that happened during 2017.