Sentences with phrase «key senators»

Key senators say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars to stiffen the immigration bill's border security requirements.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump, poised to restore the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, met with key senators on Tuesday and promised to unveil his nominee next week, with three U.S. appeals court judges among those under close consideration.
D.C. Parents for School Choice ran television advertisements targeting key senators including Massachusetts Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, accusing him of fighting efforts to help black children and comparing him to segregationist Bull Connor, the police chief in Birmingham, Alabama, who used violent tactics to disperse civil - rights demonstrators in the 1960s.
This exciting news comes as the result of months of advocacy by FightSMA's researchers and families who conducted extensive outreach to key senators on the committee.
Republican leadership (from key Senators to primary candidates) stated their firm opposition to an Obama nomination, arguing that the winner of the presidential election ought to pick his successor.
Key Senators including John McCain and Tim Kaine have publicly come out against her in the last few days, which means we have a chance to win this fight.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and several key senators traveled to India last week to examine how that country, whose schools generally have fewer resources than those in the United States, has managed to produce top - notch engineers and technology professionals.
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With key Senators working on two very ambitious bills, something had to be postponed.
Our new report uses more than 250,000 interviews with registered voters to provide insights at the national, state, and aggregated district level on President Trump's approval, key senator approval & re-elect ratings, generic ballot, and top issues for voters.
She says they will target key Senators who are either pro-choice or live in predominantly pro-choice districts who oppose the reproductive health act in the November elections.
ITER appears to enjoy bipartisan support in the House of Representatives — and bipartisan opposition among key senators.
Other key senators are beneficiaries of the largesse of the privatization industry's campaign cash machine.
The introduction of the LFTA signals that key Senators realize the dangers that secretive lawsuit funding deals pose to fairness and justice in our courts.
Key Senator Expresses Support for Formation of Important Innocence Commission Senator Mike Haridopolos Sends Letter to Florida Supreme Court Pledging Legislative Assistance Tallahassee, Florida — The Petitioners seeking the establishment of an Innocence Commission in Florida have received several signifiant indications -LSB-...]
The House bill that passed in June doesn't include such authority, and aides to key senators say it's not in the discussion right now.
The conservative Independent Women's Forum is also targeting key senators, running more than $ 2 million worth of anti-public-option ads in Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and North Dakota.
Almost 200 House members and several key senators have cosponsored NAR - backed bills to keep the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury from finalizing a rule that would define real estate brokerage and management as financial activities.
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Several Republican governors and key senators and House members have expressed concern over abruptly cutting federal Medicaid funding and therefore taking insurance away from millions of people.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United, said Ben Nelson is only one of the six key senators and estimated that only two or three votes from those six are needed to advance repeal.
Less than a month after it was enacted, Governor Cuomo's new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents Chancellor calling for a year's delay and a key Senator saying the legislature needs to revisit the issue.
Less than a month after it was enacted, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents chancellor calling for a year's delay and a key senator saying the legislature needs to revisit the issue.
The threat that the Families of Continental Flight 3407 worried about finally started to take shape, as a key senator — John Thune, a South Dakota Republican — said he would propose changes to the pilot experience requirements that the families fought to get enacted into law seven years ago.
Congress's rush to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, once seemingly unstoppable, is flagging badly as Republicans struggle to come up with a replacement and a key senator has declared that the effort is more a repair job than a demolition.
Once the document is finalized it will be immediately distributed to Tea Party activists to use as a guide as they request meetings with key senators to discuss Kagan's nomination.
Sen. Patrick Gallivan (R - Elma), one of the key senators negotiating the bill, says there will eventually be an accord.
In Passing Campaign Finance Reform, Senator Klein Holds the Key Senator Jeffrey Klein has been in the news quite often lately over the Independent Democratic Conference's decision to create a ruling coalition with the Republicans in the New York State Senate.
Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, says the progressive groups will target key senators to try to get them to sign on to their plan for tax reform instead.
Senator Patrick Gallivan, one of the key Senators negotiating the bill, says there will eventually be an accord.
Meanwhile, a key senator said he canceled a budget hearing because administration officials failed to deliver proposals to offset increased education funding with entitlement cuts.
In 2014, Florida voters will elect their Governor, key Senators and 121 members to the state House.
While we were not successful including consumer cost protection guarantees in the House - passed version of the bill, we are now working with key Senators to seek their inclusion in any bill the Senate passes.
As of early May, more than 220 House members, a majority, had signed on as cosponsors, and 10 key Senators had sponsored a companion bill.
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