Sentences with phrase «in favor of each bill in»

Reinvent Albany testified in favor of this bill in December 2016.

The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.

Representing the 128th assembly district, which includes Syracuse, Hunter was not part of the Assembly during the vote in 2015, but she did vote in favor of the bill in 2016.

Matt Forrest, a lobbyist at Ballard Partners and registered lobbyist for Bequest, gave testimony (pdf, page 149) in favor of the bill in its first Florida Senate committee stop this year.

Not exact matches

He voted in favor of a motion to proceed to debate the healthcare bill, a move for which Democrats criticized him.

Similarly, Paul used the same opportunity to bring up Rubio's wavering on immigration, and his support of the so - called Gang of Eight immigration overhaul bill in 2013, where he voted with Democrats, including New York Senator Chuck Schumer, in favor of the bill.

Small businesses across the country support the Republican tax reform plan, with 55 percent saying they are in favor of seeing a tax bill passed.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

When it reached the full Senate, the bill, which has passed the House, faced no opposition — after all, who is in favor of selling the bodies of vulnerable children?

Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

This republican tax bill claims to adjust tax structures in favor of small businesses and big businesses alike.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) also spoke in favor of the bill, giving the effort a bipartisan hue.

«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is much less committed, in terms of size of position at least (but still a sizeable swing at 9 %), and has chosen to purchase the common shares of both Fannie and Freddie (although he has been rumoured to be selling common in favor of the prefs).

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

Just when you think an issue will be settled in favor of investors, a Senator oozes under the door and slides a quick pro-business, anti-investor change into a bill.

That might not be so far - fetched given the deep tension between Benchmark's Bill Gurley — who left the Uber board in favor of his partner Cohler — and Kalanick and the level of mistrust that has developed over time.

Before he scratched out «God» in favor of his «as we understood Him» compromise language, Bill was telling the story far differently, far more accurately, and far more consistently in terms of what he had learned from his sponsor Ebby Thacher, from Dr. Bob, from Anne Smith and her journal, from Shoemaker, and from Oxford Group writings and talks.

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

In 2013, political elites of both parties favored an immigration bill that primarily increased low - skill immigration, even though the unemployment rate for low - skill workers was over 10 percent.

3 Divorce was easy, and by giving her a written bill of divorcement a husband on any pretext could send away his wife «if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her» (Deut.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house [Deut.

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

If you've ever gotten in trouble for coming home with almond milk instead of cow milk, and if you favor labeling food containing GMOs because of your right to know, you are going to love Missouri House Bill 2607.

Most important, he has scrapped the grind - it - out ground game that dates from Cookie Gilchrist's day in favor of a wide - open offense, replete with slots and swings that can set O. J. Simpson, Wide Receiver Haven Moses or even rookie Fullback Bill Enyart man - to - man on linebackers or safeties.

Thus far, the betting public is slightly in favor of the Bills circling the wagons and taking down the Jets by at least 2 points at home.

The PRC vote to ask Fay to fade was 7 - 2 in favor, with Ravitch, Selig, Reinsdorf, Fred Kuhlmann of the St. Louis Cardinals, Carl Pohlad of the Minnesota Twins, National League president Bill White and American League president Bobby Brown on one side, and Fred Wilpon of the New York Mets and John McMullen of the Houston Astros on the other.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

J.T. King's Red Raiders opened up a 21 - 0 halftime lead, which prompted Bellard and Royal to bench disappointing former blue - chipper Bill Bradley in favor of unheralded James Street, who threw for 108 yards and engineered the triple option to perfection.

I think this analysis, like JonR points out, overstates how many spots the Bills need filled and it embellishes the case in favor of trading up.

Things couldn't have worked out much better in Lincoln, but it's still wild to wonder what a stronger vote of confidence or a cleaner bill of health in Newcombe's favor might have meant to Crouch's place in Huskers history — and how his hypothetical transfer might have changed the college football landscape in the early 2000s.

With the unranked Aggies coming to Bill Snyder Stadium, the betting public is taking the points and overwhelmingly in favor of the # 14 Wildcats either winning straight up or losing by four or less in front of their home crowd.

There are some people who seem to take pride in freezing the other members of their household in favor of the energy bill.

According to Trustee Bill Vogel, who voted in favor of retaining the class, «I think adults should be allowed to make their own choices.»

Seventeen Republicans broke party ranks to join Democrats in favor of the bill.

Audrina Patridge, Nick Carter, Mario Lopez, and Bill and Giuliana Rancic have all spoken out in favor of (or in official partnership with) private cord - blood banks.

Noting the connection between childhood hunger and obesity and impaired military recruitment, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of an amendment to a military spending bill expressing support for adequate funding for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

Naturally, perhaps the critical choice in a contentious bill's history is who goes on that conference committee, since selecting one member over another will ultimately favor one set of provisions or one philosophical approach over another.

The Rev. Floyd Flake is supporting Bill Thompson for mayor — four years after he turned his back on the former NYC comptroller in favor of his opponent, Mayor Bloomberg.

Skelos and other Senate GOP lawmakers have begun to push back against the notion that they aren't in favor of the cap by staging an online petition drive and accusing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of holding up the bill.

To protest legislation in Congress that (among other things) would make it much easier to shut down websites that host content that someone claims is pirated, sites ranging from Wikipedia to Google have painted themselves black or shut down their normal content in favor of asking readers to pressure their representatives to kill the bill.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness is calling on Liberal Democrats to vote in favor of a motion opposing aspects of the Welfare Reform Bill at their party conference tomorrow (Saturday 17 September).

This is not good news for Stachowski, who has made quite a name for himself of late by refusing to vote in favor of the budget revenue bill until there's some sort of agreement on the SUNY empowerment plan that helps further UB's 2020 proposal.

Albany has the ultimate say, and Governor Cuomo has now stood with the unions in favor of their more generous bill and against the Mayor and the City Council Speaker.

Faso did vote in favor of a motion to recommend that provisions related to stopping funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates for one year be taken out of the bill.

In fact our charter bill passed Senate with all GOP voting in favor and a number of Democrats, but without the minority, that wouldn't have been done.&raquIn fact our charter bill passed Senate with all GOP voting in favor and a number of Democrats, but without the minority, that wouldn't have been done.&raquin favor and a number of Democrats, but without the minority, that wouldn't have been done.»

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

He previously defied New York Democrats» backing of Clinton in 2008 in favor of Barack Obama, and has backed progressive candidates like Bill de Blasio, occasionally in opposition to the party's preferred choice.