Sentences with phrase «n't get a bill passed»

And if you don't get a bill passed, then there is no progress.

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«When a youth gets into the juvenile justice system, everybody thinks their sins are forgiven when that youth turns 18, and I will assure you that doesn't happen,» the bill's sponsor, Florida Sen. Stephen Wise (R - Jacksonville), said before the legislation was passed.

«Not only did we get this bill passed, but the fact that we had debate on these amendments on the floor was huge.

Ryan said nothing will stop a Harvey aid bill from getting through Congress and he didn't foresee any problems with it passing, despite opposition to federal aid from some Republicans following Superstorm Sandy.

Under Omnibus Bill C - 38, passed last year, the Harper government gets to overrule any NEB recommendation it doesn't like, whether negative or positive, in the «national interest.»

i don't think it will pass but its just about getting it in the headlines... the next bill will be more to the point and far more misunderstood so it make really make it past the vote.

When President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act on Monday, he joked that if he hadn't been able to get the bill passed he would have been «sleeping on the couch.»

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.

The other two bills (HB 329 and HB 3898) are not expected to move at all at this point, and it's getting late for HB 742 and HB 443, but there's still time for them to pass.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

Advocates are making a last - ditch attempt to get reform bills passed before the session ends, but the outlook is not good.

But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing budget bills, I'm not doing it through the extenders.»

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

Its absolutely true that identifying our people and then giving them something worth doing is a fundamental precept of organizing (even if you are just trying to pass a bill and not getting a candidate elected), and we often fail on the identification front.

Or, the legislature can simply pass whatever bill they want and hope that it doesn't get challenged in court, which is also possible.

Despite the stagecraft of theoretical debates that don't end in votes, the partisan gridlock, the inertia that seemed to settle over the Capitol dome at times, bills did get passed, especially in the final, frenzied days of the 22 - week session.

Don't expect a lot of fanfare when the reported deal on the 9/11 health bill finally gets passed today in Senate, signaling an end to a long and ardous negotiation process.

Perhaps, if and when Lord Lester's Libel Bill gets passed into law some people will follow Corporal Jones» advice «Don't panic!».

Sampson has been hoping to get the Assembly to come back to town, which Silver made clear he didn't want to do, to pass some form of stand - alone FMAP and SUNY empowerment bills.

I'm using the scenario of the bill passing to specify what they wanted to get it passed not to emphasize the hypothetical of it passing.

Silver and Sampson have been somewhat at odds since the Senate failed to uphold its end of the two - way deal and pass the revenue bill (which would enable all 212 lawmakers to finally get paid, which they haven't since the April 1 deadline was blown).

Despite last week's deadline, the legislature's appropriations committee took no vote after Democrats could not get enough votes to pass the budget bill.

The state budget season in Albany is often rife with bills that get passed by one house of the Legislature and not the other.

While he doesn't expect the state legislature to pass a bill granting undocumented immigrants the ability to get New York driver's licenses, he does believe the governor might move the policy forward through executive order.

«I don't think the IDC played a definitive role in any of that,» Lipton said, «and I think a progressive majority in the state Senate could have gotten much better raise the age legislation passed, could have gotten a much stronger minimum wage bill, not to mention all the stuff that's left undone.»

Quinn retorted that even some of the bills biggest supporters in labor accused de Blasio of being «not part of the that got that law passed.»

«I don't think that has to be part of that bill to get passed, and people should be willing to negotiate.»

«Once again this year, the budget falls short on transparency, both in process and in content,» DiNapoli said, in part referring to the fact that this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo once again issued messages of necessity to waive the constitutional three - day aging period for budget bills in order to get the state budget passed before the April 1 deadline (technically, it wasn't, but Cuomo and legislative leaders had a general deal in place on March 31).

Mullins said he plans to ask Cuomo to intervene in getting certain policing bills passed in Albany, though he did not specify which ones.

Supporters of raising New York's minimum wage have not given up hope of getting a bill passed this session.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

The governor's counsel, David, disagrees with accusations that the governor did not work hard enough to get the bills passed.

In the end, the Governor and the state legislature came together in December and quickly passed a bill restructuring the tax code so that millionaire's wouldn't get as big of a break as they had been expecting — creating roughly $ 1.5 billion more in revenue.

If you're not going to get a bill passed, you're not going to get progress.»

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

That shouldn't come as any surprise, since the split over how best to maneuver in hopes of getting the Senate to finally pass the marriage bill has been going on for some time.

A day after a vote was scrapped in the U.S. Senate on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare after congressional leaders said the votes weren't there, Trump said he expects to get the bill passed early next year «long before the November election.»

He added, «If you're not willing to talk to a Republican, then you're not going to get a bill passed.

Boykin and other Democrats say they will work to get a bill passed that protects undocumented immigrants and a bill that ends gun shows on county property, two items that couldn't be passed under former county executive and Republican Rob Astorino.

Trump warned Senate Republicans through Twitter a week ago that they should get the annual spending bills passed before the August recess, a high bar for a chamber that didn't pass any regular appropriations bills in 2017.

Drawing a sharp contrast between himself and de Blasio, Cuomo said he'd gotten bills passed on gun control, same - sex marriage and sexual assault on college campuses «by working with people, staying calm, not getting personal and finding commonality.»

In an attempt to move the stalled paid sick leave bill, advocates showed up at Central Park yesterday to point out carriage horses get time off (the result of a bill passed earlier this year), but people aren't guaranteed sick time.

«The No Budget, No Pay Act ensures that if members of Congress don't do their jobs and pass appropriations bills and a budget on time, they don't get paid.

But, Senator Cousins says, she doesn't know if the minimum wage bill or any other legislation will get passed in before the session ends.

The bill passed the Assembly last year but didn't get a vote in the Senate.

This appears to mean that HB 32, the ballot access bill that passed the House last year, won't get a vote in the State Senate until May at the earliest.

Finally, if members of Congress didn't have to spend so much of their work week raising campaign financing, they'll have more time to do the work voters elected them to do, expect of them... and get bills passed in a timely fashion.

Passing this bill would mean that immigrant youth wouldn't have to take 10 years to finish college, like it took me, because they would be able to get financial aid and not have to work several jobs.

Asked earlier this week what would happen to the amendment if it didn't pass as part of the health bill, Collins vowed to press on and find another way to get his proposal into law.

Near the end of the campaign he goes for days without sleep and food ending up mentally so deranged that he gets a large insurance company to issue a policy to him for $ 10 million dollars for bottling up a bill in his senate committee that the insurance company doesn't want passed.