Sentences with phrase «move bills through»

As the members of your team move bills through the successive steps of the legislative process and onto the president's desk, you score points.

Among other things, the changes make audio and video of committee meetings available online and give lawmakers a greater ability to move bills through the committee process.

I call on my Republican colleagues in the Senate to join Democratic Leader Stewart - Cousins to move these bills through the legislature and Governor Cuomo to work with us to get them enacted.»

That method allows Republicans to move the bill through the Senate with only a majority vote — avoiding a potential Democratic filibuster.

«We are the group that is directly responsible for reviewing and voting on legislation and moving bills through the process, so to ignore us as a whole would be grossly irresponsible,» said Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, R - Batavia, in a statement.

Cuomo used the «message of necessity» mechanism to move the bill through the legislature and avoid the usual three - day rule.

In the interview, Squadron indicated that the process in which the bill was killed is important: stuck in a committee after its chairman, Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer, said the proper paperwork had not been filed to move the bill through; Squadron insists the bill could have and should have been included on the agenda.

He believes Congress is on track to move the bill through both houses and get it on the president's desk by the end of the year.

In his closing statements at markup, Harkin said, «If senators think we will be deterred in our determination to move this bill through the committee, I can assure you that's not the case.

And so, after months of watching House Republicans wrestle with moving their bill through the House, Scott — who had views similar to the White House, and could deliver Democrats» votes — finally «had a seat at the table,» he said.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Tim Webb said Duncan's advocacy helped move the bill through a divided legislature.

He frequently spoke of moving a bill through the Senate and picking up Democratic support along the way to make it bipartisan enough to yield 60 votes — a far cry from the tight relationship between committee leaders on display this week.

Lawmakers plan to move the bill through committee and to the full House by the Memorial Day recess.

Not exact matches

Amazon (amzn) revamped its European tax practices in 2015 so that it can book sales and pay taxes in Britain, Germany, Spain, and Italy instead of channeling all sales through Luxembourg where it is headquartered, a move which may raise its tax bill.

The sight of bills moving through the legislative process could lift spirits, but it would be 2018 before the multipliers of that spending really kick in.

As the bill moved through Congress, the limited farm protection bill snowballed into a protectionist behemoth, raising nearly 900 tariff lines covering 20,000 agricultural and manufactured products.

And rather than continue to waste their dwindling political capital ramming through a massive cut in health coverage that an equally massive chunk of the country says it doesn't want, they would effectively stage a vote on an unpassable bill, blame everyone (but themselves), and then move on to what they really care about: corporate tax reform.

Should you think through business planning issues such as how you're going to move from thought to action, how you're going to find customers and how you're going to pay the bills?

The Land Trust Alliance, a land conservation advocacy organization, supports that bill and hopes to see it continue to move through Congress.

The Senate Education Committee voted Tuesday to include the requirement in a sweeping education bill that is now moving through the legislature.

Harris focused on moving Intuit's businesses to the Internet, through internal development and multiple acquisitions, introducing online tax preparation, online bill payment, online mortgage origination, online insurance brokerage, online payroll processing and an online financial portal.

The bill moved quickly through all three stages in the house, and was given Royal Assent just 10 days later.

The move contrasts with a bill working its way through the House.

Wealthy Chinese citizens are buying beachfront condos in Cyprus, paying big U.S. tuition bills for their children and stocking up on luxury goods in Singapore, frequently moving cash secretly through a flourishing network of money - transfer agents.

Negotiators have been working for days - and nights - on details of the bill, which is widely viewed as the last major piece of legislation likely to move through Congress in this election year.

That said, we don't expect to see an infrastructure bill moving swiftly through the US Congress in the near term.

Last week, Bill McCaffrey, chief executive of oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp., said his company is considering such exports as it becomes easier to move Canadian crude to Houston through expansions of the pipeline network.

Sure, there are practicalities we've learned about how we move through life — budgets and bills, babies and basketball practices, sex and laundry, communication and callings.

If the Bills move up to 5, take a player, then I think that 2 of the top five could last through about pick 20, with maybe one spectacular fall.

If you view this through my Bills - colored glasses (the opposite of rose - colored), I'd say Billicheck is going to trick us into over-paying to move up in order to hurt our team...

when Theo first burst on the scene he was one of the first YouTube sensations and expectations were threw the roof but over the years, for whatever reasons, he has failed to live up to his billing... instead of cutting our loses and moving on we refused to make the necessary decisions and instead kept believe he would come through if we were just willing to wait a little bit more..

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

The Chairman Bill Kenwright has come out to say that he's not for sale at any price, as he has done for the last month, and if he backed down on that then he'd probably need to move very quickly to stop Everton «fans» shouting at him through the gates of the drive to his mansion.

It hardly seems long enough to get anything big done, especially when bills move so slowly through a process designed not to pass them, but to kill them.

They are backing similar language in the appropriations bills moving through Congress now.

As the government seeks to move the political realm further into the religious sphere through the current Equality Bill, this is likely to be a major area of debate in the coming years.

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter advocate Shaun King has also joined the push for the bill, emailing potential supporters through a move on.org petition.

The bill last month moved through the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Democrats are planning to discuss it in conference.

The senator has claimed to have played an integral role in moving many major bills through the U.S. Senate, but Farley maintained that her characterization of Gillibrand's record is fair and accurate.

Coalition ministers are expected to propose the move in the lobbying bill, which will be published today, but Labour is promising to table amendments pushing the changes through if they do not appear in the government package.

Bill deBlasio: I think next year after extensive public discussion, after extensive hearings, I think we should move forward with an additional four - year term through the legislative process.

Gov. Cuomo held a not - so - secret meeting today with same - sex marriage advocates to discuss their strategy for moving a same - sex marriage bill through the legislature.

A bill that has begun to move through the state Legislature would extend the period between primary and run - off elections in New York City from two to three weeks.

The voter access bills moved through committee in the Assembly but are stalled in the state Senate.

At the same time, a separate bill by state legislators that includes the Mastic properties is moving swiftly through the Assembly and Senate this week, a spokesman for Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) said Monday.

ALBANY — A bill that has begun to move through the state Legislature would extend the period between primary and run - off elections in New York City from two to three weeks.

Whether through legislation like the PENCE bill or moves by private groups in making SU a sanctuary campus, it is clear we are not simply at the mercy of President - elect Trump.

At a moment when Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan are threatening to strip health care from millions of Americans, California is stepping up by moving a universal health care bill — one that would cover undocumented immigrants — through its legislature.

The move has also helped Valesky's bills move through the GOP - controlled Senate, including one that allowed Syracuse to establish a land bank to address the problem of abandoned and tax - delinquent properties.

The trap - neuter - release bill for dealing with feral cats is moving through Albany, but it has some opponents.