Sentences with phrase «key committee votes»

It was 2010, the federal Race to the Top competition was well under way, and Terrance Carroll, a Democrat who was then the speaker of the House of Representatives, had the task of getting a bill that the state's largest and most powerful teachers» union refused to support through several key committee votes.

A key committee vote to determine support for the government's controversial plans on housing benefit takes place today.

After serving on the City Council, Diaz was elected to the State Senate in 2002, voting against every major LGBTQ rights initiative right up to opposing GENDA, the transgender rights bill, this year in a key committee vote.

The country is now one step closer to obtaining the full approval for a visa - free entry to European Union for its citizens after a key committee voted to accept the proposal on Monday 26 September.

(Calif.) With a key committee vote set for today on legislation that would place a $ 9 billion, statewide school facilities bond on the November ballot, one group backing the proposal is already nearly a third of the way toward reaching its campaign finance goal of $ 1.6 million.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

In a key House committee vote Thursday, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), or Trumpcare, officially got its first GOP «nay» votes.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

The resolution, which contains instructions for key health care - related committees to begin drafting legislation to undo the health law, must also be passed by the House of Representatives (and is expected to get a vote there this week).

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

The state Democratic Committee on Tuesday morning released a get - out - the - vote email signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed at boosting voter turnout in the key 37th Senate district.

The bill, which cleared key committees in both the Assembly and Senate last week, is expected to be voted on by the full Assembly sometime this week.

This would intensify the already existing corporatist dynamic that exists within the EP, whereby the socialist group and the centre - right EPP group often stitch up agreements on appointments to key committees and votes on key pieces of legislation in backroom deals.

A key vote by a European Parliament committee has set the scene for a battle royal over the toughest technical proposals yet to threaten European motorcyclists say the BMF.

While Savino estimates that at least 39 senators support the measure - seven more than is needed for approval - it is unclear whether the new revisions will be enough to persuade key Senate leaders, including GOP leader Dean Skelos and Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, both Republicans from Long Island, to allow a vote.

Stop the Hospital Closure Clause - UPDATE - the Clause has finished the Committee Stage (where serious concerns were raised) and will return for the Report stage and the key, final vote, in March.

Although Bonacic said the Legislature must know in advance of a vote what the terms are, Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow, D - Mount Vernon, said the key is to first remove the constitutional ban on games of chance, and deal with issues such as casino locations later.

Mark - Viverito, who has repeatedly engaged the community and ethnic media since taking office, touched on many of the key points from her State of the City speech, as well as other topics that have made recent headlines, such as the City Council's controversial February 5 vote to give its members a pay raise of $ 36,000 a year, a higher rate than a special salary committee had initially recommended.

A key Senate committee voted along party lines yesterday to endorse former Exxon Mobil Corp..

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

-- A key question that was still unanswered as of Monday night was how two moderate Republicans on the committee will vote.

One week before the bill was slated for a vote in the Senate Education Committee, however, the bill was stripped of several key provisions, including a requirement that teacher tenure be based partly on performance evaluations rather than just length of service.

A key Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of Betsy DeVos, a school choice activist and billionaire Republican donor, to be secretary of education, despite the fierce objections of Senate Democrats, teachers unions and others.

The House education committee approved Chairman John Kline's (R - MN) legislation to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) on a strictly party - line vote, indicating a partisan split on key aspects of fixing NCLB.

A downsized version of that plan — SB 6203, which would impose a $ 10 tax in 2019 and raise it by $ 2 a year to a $ 30 cap)-- passed out of a key Senate committee in February, on a 6 - 4 vote.

The committee voted on two key files of the European Commission's «Clean Energy for All Europeans» package of climate measures up to 2030.

In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources last June came together and unanimously voted out a bipartisan bill to address the key problems uncovered by our hearings on the disaster.

The EU's carbon markets could become more unstable too, its analysts argued, if votes in the European Parliament's key environment committee become less predictable and more frequently subject to challenge.

The European Parliament's environment committee voted today to limit loopholes in the EU's key climate legislation, preventing European countries from stalling emissions reductions in sectors such as agriculture and transport.

A key provision, which would have provided a way to challenge software patents at the Patent Office, is no longer in the bill, which passed 33 - 5 in a Wednesday night vote by the committee.

The Committee hears and votes on recommendations from workgroups and other key stakeholders during these monthly meetings.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which met this week, announced no change to the key rate on Wednesday, stating that «the labor market has continued to strengthen even as growth in economic activity slowed» since its meeting in March, when it last voted to raise the rate.