Sentences with phrase «gut key provisions»

And even before the Senate voted to gut key provisions of the ACA in early December, he introduced a bill to overturn the 2010 health care law in 2013.

The 2016 election was our first since the Supreme Court decision that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act,» said the party's interim chairwoman, Donna Brazile, in a statement.

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As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

House Republicans made clear they wanted no part of the bipartisan school food compromise brokered in the Senate Agriculture Committee, instead offering up their own Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, one that would gut many key provisions of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

However, in a surprising move, an amendment introduced by Conservative Senator Hugh Segal and passed by a majority of Senators, including 15 other Conservative senators, gutted the key substantive provisions of the bill.

While Congress did pass a reform law in 2011 known as the America Invents Act, it had virtually no effect since lobbyists for patent owners had gutted almost every key provision by the time President Obama signed it into law.