Sentences with phrase «killing bills»

During one State of the State address, he compared legislators to clapping monkeys for mindlessly applauding him while killing his bills.

After all, it appears that the effort to kill the bill began before there even was one.

Many of the action scenes he had planned would eventually be used in «Kill Bill.»

«I could read body language and know that Sen. McCain seemed like he was going to vote no and kill the bill, which is what he did,» Gill tells CNBC.

Adding ACA repeal to tax reform is a distraction that could kill the bill and sink the market, says Jack Bouroudjian.

It was apparent that no GOP senator wanted to be the third to announce opposition and become responsible for killing the bill, so the news from Lee and Moran came simultaneously.

The bill in question, the Honest Ads Act, is a long overdue correction, and not something that would fundamentally alter the way that Facebook does business — a fact that hadn't previously stopped Facebook from using its lobbying might to try to kill the bill earlier this year.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Republicans such as Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and James Lankford (Okla.) have said they would not support a tax plan that adds too much to the debt, creating a bloc of votes that would be able to kill the bill if they aren't appeased.

I can only wonder when he's going to jump out with his samurai sword to «Kill Bill».

Still my «old buddy» Derek Fildebrandt gets up in the Leg and says «it's unanimous farmers want to Kill Bill 6».

As an unofficial conclusion, Abernathy McGraw's essay «Life Lessons from Kill Bill» commends readers to five themes of Tarantino's films: the world as a stage, the response to injustice, the importance of family, the limits of revenge, and the cost of redemption.

In «The Old Testament and Kill Bill,» Lawson Stone compares Beatrix in Kill Bill to several classic heroes (e.g. Joshua, Beowulf, etc.).

How many times have Republicans tried to kill the bill, over fifty by now?

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How and why did my boss kill every bill a particular legislator had one day, and what were the results?

The Log Cabin Republicans were very involved in the lobbying effort last December to try to convince some GOP senators to vote «yes» on marriage — an effort that ultimately failed when the entire 30 - member conference, joined by eight Democrats, voted «no» on the measure, killing the bill in the process.

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.

This year, they fought successfully to kill a bill that would have required all wine sold in NY to be held for 48 hours before it could be sold.

As disabled protesters shouted: «Kill the bill, don't kill us,» in a Capitol Hill hearing room, the Senate Budget Committee, with no discussion, quickly approved the legislation on a 12 - 11 party - line vote that left Democrats fuming.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney is expressing disappointment with the failure of the Farm Bill to pass the House of Representatives Friday after a group of right - wing Republicans joined Democrats in killing the bill.

The only sensible debate within the wider party should be when, not if, the Party should kill this bill.

Many of his colleagues seem to have little faith in their arguments and are determined to kill the bill, while «reduce and equalise» plans have energised Labour ranks.

Flanagan killed the bill's chances a day after the hopes of survivors for a vote before the legislative session's scheduled end on Wednesday were raised by Sen. James Tedisco, of Schenectady, who became the first Senate Republican to come out in favor of the Child Victims Act.

He blames special interests, including the insurance industry, for killing the bill.

Last session, the Senate Majority used a disingenuous interpretation of the Motion for Committee Consideration to kill the bill in secondary committee.

Anti-Social Media Bill: CNPP Wants Legislators to kill bill, apologise to Nigerians.

One source said: «There will be a vote to flush out those in favour and those against to ensure that Labour and the Lib Dems can not kill the bill without fingerprints.»

State lawmakers have voted to delay the implementation of a five - cent fee on plastic and paper grocery bags in New York City, which effectively kills the bill.

Groups opposing the federal tax overhaul plan held a demonstration Friday at the State Capitol, chanting «kill the bill,» and saying the measure is bad for New York and the nation.

I can only hope their diagnosis will be to kill the bill.»

Bit like Kill Bill without the samurai swords, perhaps...?

Trial lawyers will likely kill a bill that would exempt owners from liability lawsuits from those who fall after wearing their bowling shoes outside, as long as the owners post warning signs.

Fifteen people chanting «kill the bill!»

The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.

The White House had lobbied senators heavily to kill the bill.

This is a ruse to allow the Republicans to kill the bill.

Davies spoke at length in a calculated move to kill the bill by using up the Commons time allotted to it.

All Diaz and his fellow opponents need is three more votes to kill the bill, a number that appears a lot more achievable than the twelve that proponents need to earn.

Speakers can kill a bill quietly, Little notes, simply by assigning legislation to hostile committees.

President Donald Trump and House Republican leaders continued to negotiate today with the undecided members, singling out members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who say they have enough votes to kill the bill.

It's unclear if the outcry will kill the bill or if it will be enacted.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Manhattan Democrat who sponsored the legislation, questioned why Airbnb is fighting so hard to kill a bill dealing with the illegal posting of housing units.

Bloomberg and his former Albany lobbyist, Micah Lasher, aggressively worked the phones before last Thursday's vote, while top aide Howard Wolfson was dispatched to the Capitol to try and kill the bill — which released scores without names, giving both only to parents.

The unusual move, to be announced Tuesday, comes in direct response to Mayor de Blasio killing a bill that would have done the same thing.

The administration released two of those threats hours before the president delivered his address, including one that would kill a bill to grant automatic approval of natural gas pipelines if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fails to act quickly enough.

Protesters gathered in Sacramento last June to try to kill a bill that aimed to make it more difficult for parents to opt - out of vaccinations required for public schools.

Like Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2 and turn it into an event.