Sentences with phrase «legislation passed this year»

Christians, on the other hand, try to get legislation passed every year practically.

Despite multiple failures getting her legislation passed this year, parents must continue to remain vigilant and fight to protect and strengthen our public schools.»

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«But I do believe that from leadership to the Republican Study Committee, it's very problematic when one of, maybe the major pieces of legislation obviously we get passed this year, that you have been a naysayer from day one,» he said.

Similarly, California and New York recently passed legislation that would increase their minimum wage levels to $ 15 in phases over the next few years.

Moreover, according to Hurley, parliament is expected to pass legislation by year's end that will increase Genworth's mortgage - insurance cap to $ 300 billion.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

The companies, working with privacy rights activists, successfully lobbied Congress two years ago to pass legislation that curtailed the NSA's bulk collection of call records.

Even if the Republican - controlled Congress passes legislation to halt the DOL rule - making process, President Obama will veto it, enabling the biggest changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) since it was drafted 40 years ago.

The state of Washington became the first state to pass its own net neutrality legislation after the Federal Communications Commission last year repealed its own rules barring discrimination against online sites and content.

This year, our legislature passed several pieces of legislation which easies the regulatory burden on those who seek to create jobs in our state.

Barring the most dramatic rewrite of the U.S. tax code in 20 years enacted last week, Trump and Republican lawmakers have struggled to pass legislation.

Earlier this year, Indiana passed right - to - work legislation and two cities in California voted to curb the pensions of public sector workers.

CNBC's Jim Cramer questioned Friday whether Republicans would be able to pass their tax overhaul bill this year — or if concerns from within the party about the legislation would cause them to fall short, like in their attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Within a year, a Malaysian government pension plan sponsor had invested $ 30 million in Uber and Malaysia's government had passed legislation favorable to Uber, Bloomberg said.

The likelihood of any patent legislation being passed during the rest of this year is very remote.

The first way in which Social Security benefits are shrinking stems from legislation passed 35 years ago.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

Once the legislation passes the Senate with opposition support as expected, all proprietary and unlisted public companies with an annual turnover or gross assets of up to $ 25 million will be able to advertise their business plans on licensed crowdfunding portals and raise up to $ 5 million a year to carry them out.

All three party leaders pledged to pass ridesharing enabling legislation by the end of the year, and we call on the new government to follow through.»

Double the Deficit: After an unprecedented debt binge by Congress, the dust has settled and we estimate that 55 percent of next year's deficit will be a result of legislation passed since 2015 — mostly last year's tax cuts and this year's bipartisan spending deal.

Industry veteran Caitlin Long spent much of this year working to get legislation passed in Wyoming that recognized the legitimacy of utility tokens at the state level.

If legislation is passed and signed into law sometime next year, it is uncertain whether or not the changes will be made retroactive to January 1, 2017.

The tax reform legislation recently passed by Congress significantly changes the landscape for individuals beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing for many years come.

More than a year ago, Congress passed legislation that its supporters said would help revive new company offerings.

It would be far better if Congress passed legislation before a crisis hit to phase - in adjustments in program spending over many years.

Within the business cuts, the legislation would reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent ($ 1.5 trillion), allow companies to fully deduct the cost of business investments in the year they are made through 2022 ($ 25 billion), and limit the top rate on certain pass - through business income paid on the individual side to 25 percent ($ 448 billion).

Tax reform has become a «pass / fail» exercise under which any legislation would signal a win for the Trump administration, but a bill will come by the end of the year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

Even once legislation is passed, it can take months or years to launch infrastructure projects — given extensive permitting and environmental processes — which dilutes their stimulatory economic effects.

This is the year privacy safeguards finally kick in for consumers after outraged lawmakers wasted no time passing legislation in the wake of the Equifax data breach, which exposed the personal information of more than 145 million Americans.

Still, passing any major piece of legislation through Congress is a challenge, especially in an election year.

«If the Senate can conjure up enough votes to pass this, then we might get some more legislation done this year,» said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.

When New York passed legislation in 2011 redefining marriage as between any two consenting adults, it made marriage into something very different from what the Bible teaches and Christianity has promoted for two thousand years.

It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

Consider the Partial - Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 — the first two pieces of federal pro-life legislation to pass in years.

Congress passed encouraging legislation, and if in successive years we had built on that, real change in our culture and our economy might have occurred.

They tried to pass some legislation in the national assembly but as you know Korean workers struggled against the bill and it was finally postponed to year 2000.

The bill is the first dedicated anti-slavery legislation to be passed into law by any UK parliament or assembly in more than 200 years.

If the legislation passes the Senate, «peacekeeping could be mortally wounded in this UN anniversary year,» said Geyer.

Under legislation passed last year, relationships education is now compulsory in all primary schools, while sex and relationships education is compulsory in secondaries.

The event marks almost one year since the historic vote passed legislation to allow women bishops within the Church of Wales.

Last week the General Synod voted to pass legislation that mean females could be in the Church's top jobs by the end of the year.

The lobby for assisted suicide has repeatedly attempted to pass their desired legislation over the last ten years.

For the next two years, symbolic but strategic pro-life legislation can be passed, forcing the president's veto.

In 1965, the year Congress passed the historic civil rights legislation, black representation in these elite institutions was ZERO.

On December 20, 2017, the 115th United States Congress passed legislation that includes a two - year provision of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which lowers the federal excise tax (FET) for breweries, wineries and distilled spirits producers.

Last year Congress acted on a bipartisan basis to pass child care legislation that includes much - needed reforms to improve the quality and safety in child care settings, including requiring training for providers to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, instituting annual inspections of child care facilities, and comprehensive background checks of all providers.

But in a frantic effort to pass the legislation before Congress adjourned last year, the Senate's version imposing indefinite price hikes was adopted unchanged.

Earlier this year, Vermont passed legislation requiring the creation of an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Working Group to examine how the state could strengthen its response to ACEs.

The trio will first appear at aveterans benefits presentation highlighting legislation passed and proposed in the Senate this past year.

Ethics legislation now would come after several years of reform measures passing, which good - government advocates criticized as being watered - down.