Sentences with phrase «got a bill passed last»

CIOMA is no longer lobbying for legislation to keep fuels out of cap and trade, McKeeman said, having lost a quest to get a bill passed last year.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

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.

Under Omnibus Bill C - 38, passed last year, the Harper government gets to overrule any NEB recommendation it doesn't like, whether negative or positive, in the «national interest.»

If Congress wants to put healthier food into school lunches, it may have to go with the bill the Senate passed last month, or risk rehashing the whole thing later and getting nothing.

Advocates are making a last - ditch attempt to get reform bills passed before the session ends, but the outlook is not good.

ICYMI: Sean Eldrige and Steve Cohen joined me on CapTon last night to discuss Protect Our Democracy, a new campaign that will work with the Cuomo administration on a coordinated push for campaign finance reform using a similar model to the one successfully employed last year to get a same - same marriage bill passed in Albany.

It was a question about the unlikely chance of that bill passing the Republican - controlled Senate that got Dolan talking about the need for vigilance after last year's gay marriage vote.

Despite last week's deadline, the legislature's appropriations committee took no vote after Democrats could not get enough votes to pass the budget bill.

Cuomo had tried to get the exchange passed in June, but the pitched battle over his same - sex marriage bill last year forced the administration to put the measure on hold.

After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadlbill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadlBill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadlbill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide propobill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide propoBill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

The package of bills includes two laws already passed by the State Senate last year to add more speed cameras to school zones and suspend drivers who repeatedly get issued violations.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next moBill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next mobill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next month.

At the end of last year the Cuomo administration was trying desperately to get the legislature to return for an emergency session where they would pass a «big ugly» of bills wrapped together a pay raise was thought to be part of the deal.

The bill passed the Assembly last year but didn't get a vote in the Senate.

And it also happened with Tony Blair's last big education bill: they all got passed by the Commons because Conservatives backing the Government outvoted Labour rebels opposing their own party.

This appears to mean that HB 32, the ballot access bill that passed the House last year, won't get a vote in the State Senate until May at the earliest.

So how many of these proposed bills last does the CEA or AFT «adults» disagree with and why Call your legislator and get these passed

«So we're completely eliminating the requirement that they try out the public schools, which is the condition we actually got the votes to pass that bill the last time?»

A clean energy bill may get its moment in the sun as a major piece of legislation in the Senate, long overdue after the House version of the bill passed last summer.

Pricing carbon emissions was the bedrock of the climate bill that passed the House of Representatives last year, and the Renewable Energy Standard that required utilities to get a percentage of their energy from clean sources was a secondary (though still important) complement.

The statement could be viewed as an ominous warning that some Big Green groups are prepared to follow the same course that they did during the debate over Waxman - Markey, the House climate and energy bill that passed last year — compromise early and often to get a bill, seemingly any bill, passed.

They're lighting a fire under Republican politicians who are now determined to get something, anything, passed in Washington — even if it's a last - minute tax bill that most voters don't agree with and legislators barely had time to read.

When was the last time you took your car in for service and got a big bill back and almost passed out?