Sentences with phrase «more controversial bills»

It's unclear, however, whether today's vote signals that more controversial bills are headed for the Senate floor.

One of the more controversial bills would require semiautomatic handguns made and sold in New York to have unique identifying information on spent bullet casing — a process known as microstamping.

Not exact matches

The controversial tax reform bill, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, hasn't sat well with more than half of Americans, who say it would help neither their family's financial situation nor the U.S. economy, according to research by Gallup.

A coalition of industry associations says Bill Morneau must make more changes to the controversial tax proposals he first unveiled last summer

One of the more controversial areas of the recently passed House bill (subject to reconciliation with any Senate bill), is the excise tax of 20 % on payments from U.S. entities to their related foreign affiliates for services, cost of goods sold and capital assets in exceess of $ 100 mn.

That could create a political quandary for House Republicans, faced with voting next week on a tax bill with scores of controversial provisions, while another version sits across the Capitol that could be more palatable.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks... More

But she insisted the government would consult widely on the draft bill, hinting at a softening of some of Mr Reid's more controversial proposals.

The government's controversial health and social care bill came under even more scrutiny today as Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords requested sweeping changes to the legislation.

Clinton's speech praised Cuomo, who had recently endorsed her, for the bill's expansion of background checks but did not mention its potentially more controversial prohibitions on high - capacity magazines and broadened definition of assault weapons.

Three of the five developers who received «controversial» 421 - a tax emptions in a 2013 bill gave more than $ 500,000 apiece.

Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.

A pair of left - leaning advocacy groups criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reform a controversial real estate tax break, calling on the progressive mayor to extract more concessions from the city's powerful real estate industry.

Democrat Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, promised to more closely monitor the controversial stop - and - frisk practice of New York City police, which he equated with racial profiling.

In the Assembly Saturday, meanwhile, the house took eight hours to complete two bills, including an omnibus measure that had hundreds of unrelated items stuffed into it, including some of the more controversial measures involving criminal justice and education issues.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

Another bill, Intro 541, is more controversial, and would require police officers to obtain proof of consent before searching a suspect when there is no warrant or probable cause.

ALBANY — The one - house budget bills introduced by the Assembly on Tuesday strip some of the larger, more controversial pieces of Governor Andrew Cuomo's health budget, ignoring several proposals that would increase the administration's power to remake state health policy.

That was never more apparent than about a week ago when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher seniority.

There's still more to be done — next week they'll tackle mayoral control and rules reform, while the future of the controversial gay - marriage bill is still up in the air.

The council also voted to override the mayor's veto of a controversial bill that would force developers who receive more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the minimum wage.

As with some other controversial pieces of legislation, the stalemate over the Child Victims Act could continue for years more if the Senate doesn't approve the bill in this session.

More controversial budget bills were not finalized until March 31 this year — the last day of the previous fiscal year.

More than a dozen East Harlem residents were tossed out a town hall meeting Thursday night after giving Mayor Bill de Blasio an earful over his controversial rezoning plan to...

They'll also talk about his latest controversial ideas including legislation to prevent DWI's, a bill to prevent domestic violence and much more.

The building project is the first individual project built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing rezoning, which promised to change zoning rules in some neighborhoods to make way for more affordable units.

More than a dozen East Harlem residents were tossed out a town hall meeting Thursday night after giving Mayor Bill de Blasio an earful over his controversial rezoning plan to bring more high - rise housing to the neighborhMore than a dozen East Harlem residents were tossed out a town hall meeting Thursday night after giving Mayor Bill de Blasio an earful over his controversial rezoning plan to bring more high - rise housing to the neighborhmore high - rise housing to the neighborhood.

Mark - Viverito came into office vowing a more democratic approach to Council proceedings, but has come under fire for blocking a vote on a pair of controversial police reform bills called the Right to Know Act.

The state attorney general's office formally nudged a Las Vegas judge on Friday to move more quickly on a case that challenges the constitutionality of Nevada's controversial new school choice bill.

LAUSD's school Board President Steve Zimmer led the board in March to make a controversial — and largely symbolic — vote in favor of one of the more noxious school - union - backed bills to get a hearing in the state Capitol.

Last month, in a 4 - 3 vote, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to endorse three controversial bills in the state legislature that would place more oversight and restrictions on charter schools.

A controversial bill aimed at ensuring teachers accused of sexual misconduct and other immoral acts can be more easily removed from the classroom is now awaiting referral in the Senate Rules Committee before its eventual hearing by the Senate Education Committee.

King's legislation is highly controversial — a diverse array of more than 180 groups opposes it — and it must be kept out of the final Farm Bill.

North Carolina's controversial «Bathroom Bill» — known more commonly as House Bill 2 or more politically as Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act — has set ablaze the national dialogue about transgender rights.

What's more, as Tom Daschle has pointed out, it's not even true that Congress shies away from controversial bills in election years.

The question of a new tax or fee being included in a climate bill has been a controversial issue because many Republicans have long dismissed climate control legislation as nothing more than a new tax on consumers, who would face higher energy prices when more expensive alternative energy like wind and solar power replace dirty - burning coal and oil.

TALLAHASSEE — For the second time in three years, Gov. Rick Scott has vetoed a controversial alimony proposal, this time blaming an even more - contentious child custody component included in the latest bill.