Sentences with phrase «lawmakers over the legislation»

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Insurers are facing an upheaval in their health insurance businesses due to uncertainty over the healthcare legislation as Republican lawmakers seek to follow through on their promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

And I don't think the lawmakers want to discuss that over 1,300 «rights and responsibilities» all have potential legal challenges in the courts — and potential referendums — and potential legislation changing this law.

Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between the president and Democrats over his border wall.

An agreement on the legislation with the Assembly is yet to be reached, however, with lawmakers disagreeing over the terms of insurance for transit companies.

Cuomo and lawmakers did begin a process to rescind the pensions of legislators convicted of a felony, a concept they took credit for over a year ago but had never actually passed legislation.

Lawmakers this year were unable to agree on any comprehensive gambling legislation and did not approve a renewed deal with the Seminoles that would have guaranteed $ 3 billion to the state over seven years.

State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.

The battle over the so - called «toxic toy bill,» which would ban or force disclosure of harmful chemicals in some children's products and sporting equipment, has taken a nasty turn, with green advocates at odds with one another and one organization in particular exerting political pressure on lawmakers to take up a recently amended — and some say weaker — version of the legislation.

The debate over the «Raise The Age» legislation centered in large part around shifting cases involving teens to the family court system, which some lawmakers worried was overburdened and in need of more resources to begin with.

A campaign pushing for the Child Safe Products Act over the last several weeks have sent letters to state lawmakers urging them to pass the legislation in Albany.

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

The Senate GOP's fast - moving effort to overhaul the tax code hit an unexpected roadblock last night, with the collapse of a plan to win over recalcitrant lawmakers with a promise to limit the impact of the legislation on the federal deficit.

In a debate over city lawmakers being undercut, state lawmakers are proceeding with their own plan to give letter grades to food carts even though the City Council already passed that legislation Wednesday.

Many of the changes made to assuage the concerns of businesses and Republican lawmakers are expected to drive up the cost of the tax reform bill and will need to be paid for to ensure the legislation does not add more than $ 1.5 trillion to the deficit over a decade.

DEVELOPING: SENATOR STILL TRYING TO FIND VOTES FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS... Behind - the - scenes dealing over reviving stalled gun control legislation will get a push next week when Sen. Joe Manchin, a strong proponent of expanding background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source tells CNN.

In order for a permanent board to take over this fall, lawmakers would have to pass legislation this session, which ends June 16.

The report illustrated the problem by quoting blunt emails: from lobbyists prodding their clients to keep contributing tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers in a position to approve legislation, because «with the NYS Legislature it is not over until the fat lady sings,» and from one recipient of a state grant complaining that «it was likely over the last 15 years, we had paid [the official]... more than [the official] was now giving us.»

A month - long standoff between House and Senate lawmakers over bipartisan legislation to ease red tape for small - and medium - size banks may soon draw to a close, allowing the bill to clear the Congress and become law.

With Sens. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsDem rep to launch discharge petition to force net neutrality vote in House Hillicon Valley: Senate votes to save net neutrality Senate panel breaks with House, says Russia favored Trump in 2016 Latest from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Lawmakers push back on helping Chinese tech giant Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — ObamaCare premium wars are back MORE (R - Maine) and Jack ReedJohn (Jack) Francis ReedOvernight Defense: Trump aide's comment mocking McCain sparks outrage Haspel gets another «no» vote Pompeo floats North Korea aid for denuclearization Politicians, media explode over White House aide's comments Senate Dems urge Trump to remain in Iran deal ahead of announcement MORE (D - R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul's amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.

Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven - week break picked up right where they left off — feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito - borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget.

Republican House members like Stefanik from battleground districts will be closely watched in the upcoming vote over the compromise tax legislation, which top lawmakers want to see pass by the end of the month.

Legislation meant to give lawmakers more control over the cost of road projects is moving forward without a provision that would have let officials use an alternative to the design - bid - build system of awarding contracts.

Over the next few weeks, officials are hoping to improve the law and get as many lawmakers as possible to vote for the legislation.

The second half of the Assembly's legislation wades into a political tug - of - war between Mayor Bill de Blasio and a pair of Republican state lawmakers over New York City's policy towards undocumented immigrants and what will become of the data associated with New York City's municipal identification program (IDNYC).

Urged by anti-abortion rights groups and Republican lawmakers to take up their cause, the Florida senator is mulling over introducing legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationally — just a few days after he helped pass a comprehensive immigration bill that created waves among conservatives.

This upshot was an initial media blackout on an hours - long sit - in protest by Democratic lawmakers over gun control legislation, which had coalesced on social media around the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.

Education legislation faced another delay last week when concerns over anthrax contamination on Capitol Hill, which prompted the House to shut down for several days, led lawmakers to abruptly cancel a meeting on the bill.

Battle lines over teacher evaluations in California were drawn in Sacramento Wednesday, as lawmakers narrowly moved along legislation that would use student test scores as a key component.

A long - standing dispute over standardized testing of California's second graders has simmered back to the surface, as lawmakers consider legislation that would remove the assessment from the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, beginning July 2012.

When lawmakers first introduced the Opportunity Scholarship legislation back in April 2013, the intent was to provide $ 90 million over two years to students who reside in households with incomes of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level — that's $ 70,650 for a family of four.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Indiana are now pushing legislation that would make it easier for the state to more quickly take over schools that receive Ds or Fs and put them in the hands of charter school operators.

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund commend federal lawmakers for reintroducing legislation that will close a loophole in the Animal Welfare Act regulations that currently allows puppy mills to sell dogs over the Internet without any oversight or standards of care.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

When lawmakers get into partisan tangles over legislation and a bill dies a slow procedural death, as happened with a climate bill in the Senate this week, the result is ugly and incremental, and doesn't compete well with news of spiking oil prices.

In the back drop of the spectacle at DEA headquarters, dozens of hemp business owners in town attending the HIA convention over the weekend fanned out across Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers in support of hemp legislation introduced by Representatives Ron Paul (R - TX) and Barney Frank (D - MA) that would permit states to cultivate non-drug industrial hemp under state industrial hemp programs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Friday aimed at forging a compromise between Democrats and Republicans deadlocked in the Senate over energy issues.

Hawaii Proposes To Collect Taxes On Internet Sales Buying tax - free music, books and electronics over the Internet would be a thing of the past under legislation pending before Hawaii lawmakers.

But what about the other vexing issues lawmakers fretted over last year and then quietly enacted clever legislation to cover?

Both Uber and Lyft have been targeted by such legislation before, with lawmakers in some states showing concern over potential insurance gaps.

Joining the ever - increasing crowd of lawmakers who are angry over the patent troll problem, Senator Chuck Schumer has introduced new legislation targeting the issue: the Patent Quality Improvement Act.

NAR President Bill Brown, who opened the conference, said the mortgage interest deduction and other crucial incentives for home ownership are «not negotiable» and that's a message REALTORS ® will make sure lawmakers in Congress hear as they develop legislation over the next two years.

When lawmakers were hammering out major Wall Street reform legislation last year, one of the key debates was over a skin - in - the - game provision for residential mortgage lenders.