Sentences with phrase «negotiations over the bill»

Three sources close to the negotiations over the bill said the police department initially raised concerns, but that the mayor supports the legislation.

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That bill would extend current federal spending into December, allowing time for further negotiations over key GOP priorities — including the Mexican border wall demanded by Trump.

Senior Trump administration officials involved in the talks about the spending bill are prepared to concede that in the main, the fight over funding for President Trump's border wall will now be put off until the fiscal 2018 negotiations.

HOFFMAN: Mariam then turns this risky negotiation over to her lead investor, the legendary start - up whisperer, Bill Gross.

The Senate Agriculture Committee and House Education and Workforce Committee are hoping to attach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) to the pending omnibus spending bill, negotiations over which are likely to be extended (via a pending continuing resolution) at least until December 16th, if not later.

Indeed, today's Politico Morning Agriculture newsletter reports that negotiations over the CNR fell apart precisely because «House Republicans felt entitled to a much more conservative bill after sweeping GOP victories in the election.»

Negotiations between the Scottish and UK governments over the EU Withdrawal Bill had been going rather well, but on Monday Sturgeon couldn't resist the political opportunity presented by events in Brussels to dust off her call for a «differentiated» settlement for Scotland.

Closed - door negotiations over the ethics reform bill have been dragging on for weeks now, despite the fact that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said repeatedly that his house has an agreement with the governor.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

After weeks of hard - fought negotiations over raise the age, the resulting bill left some who had sought the law disappointed in its many subsections and stipulations.

The bitter stand - off over mayoral control of city schools continued over the weekend with state Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan slamming NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for his resistance to charter schools and de Blasio arguing charters shouldn't be part of negotiations.

«Mr. Klein outlined a system in which the leaders of the Republican caucus and the Independent Democratic Conference would work together to run the Senate, with joint control over committee agendas, the bills that are taken up on the floor and state budget negotiations,» Tom Kaplan wrote.

The omnibus approach allows for greater range of negotiation than any individual bill would and also makes a possible presidential veto over a particular issue less likely.

UPDATE2: Coburn put out a press release that details the changes in the bill as a result of negotiations over the past 24 hours.

The outside income issue came up during a 2010 show, recorded during negotiations over an ethics bill with then - Governor David Paterson.

A bill to repeal the vacancy allowance has languished in the State Assembly for years, but some see an opening to inject the issue into negotiations over the renewal of a tax exemption for developers who build affordable housing.

The notification kick starts months of what will be protracted and difficult negotiations between London and Brussels over outstanding bills, immigration and future trade ties.

Spitzer said he was a «f — ing steamroller» who would roll over Tedisco as he criticized the governor for cutting him out of negotiations on an ethics enforcement bill.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed progress in negotiations between the UK and Welsh Governments over the EU Withdrawal Bill's impact on devolution.

Earlier this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose top counsel Jim Yates has been involved in negotiations on the marijuana bill, said the governor's concerns over keeping the drug out of the wrong hands were a priority in negotiations.

The tensions raised at the Capitol over the past few weeks — punctuated by late nights and weekends of negotiations coming together, breaking down and then finally getting resolved — have been evident as both houses took up the final set of budget bills to enact a 2017 - 18 budget.

Negotiations continue over renewing the law, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio both vowing to go after landlords who might try to exploit the law's expiration.

As part of the deal, Republican and IDC leaders were to have joint authority over bills, committee assignments, and budget negotiations.

Whitehall negotiations are currently ongoing over whether to toughen up community sentences in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently working its way through parliament.

So it remains to be seen just how bomb - proof this bill actually is over the next couple of weeks, but much will hinge on whether there is a clear legal separation between notification and negotiation.

Bill Mohl, president of Entergy Wholesale Commodities, declined to discuss details of the negotiations the company had held with Mr. Cuomo's staff over the past several weeks.

Miller sent a letter Monday to Walker and the Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald asking for an in - person meeting «as soon as possible to resume negotiations» on how to resolve the impasse over the union bill.

But the status of the talks was in question after the Senate sponsor, Senator Diane Savino, became angry over what she said were leaks by the Cuomo Administration to the New York Daily News over bill negotiations.

(CNN)- Some Senate Democrats were concerned and frustrated last year about outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley's handling of the high - stakes negotiations with Republicans over government funding, the debt ceiling and job creation, according to a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill.

(CNN)-- A key player in negotiations over potential gun control legislation said on Tuesday a planned GOP filibuster of the bill won't occur if Democrats allow Republicans to bring amendments up for a vote.

The City Council is in the preliminary stages of drafting legislation to create the program, in negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, which the city is hoping will help resolve a long - standing dispute over who drives the school buses, which was at the root of the 2013 strike.

Eventually, President Bush may use the bureaucratic resistance to public school choice to revive the proposal for private school vouchers that he dropped early in the negotiations over the education bill in 2001.

The ESSA emerged after months of bipartisan negotiations and is the combination of two bills that were passed in the House and Senate over the summer.

Lynch and the PBA were already incensed at de Blasio over protracted negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, annoyed with the mayor's move to formally end a police practice called stop - and - frisk (which criminal justice reformers say has been used disproportionately and abusively against young black men), and looking to weaken him by convincing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by the legislature that would allow the PBA to all but stifle any efforts by the city to discipline corrupt and incompetent cops.

The Senate, however, decided to scrap hearing any House bills yesterday, a tactic frequently employed by lawmakers during the waning days of session as leaders jockey for leverage in negotiations over the state budget and other major issues.

During negotiations over the House bill, the President made clear that assistance should be provided to vulnerable families, communities, and businesses to help in the transition to a clean energy economy.

As the Billings Gazette reported, the calves had initially been slated to go to a quarantined research facility, but federal officials couldn't finish negotiations over a necessary land lease.

In the past several weeks, both chambers of Congress have been engaged in highly public fisticuffs over the final version of the energy bill — a brawl that even President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were not able to prevent, despite efforts last week to make peace between the warring Republican chairs of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, who are overseeing negotiations on the tax - related aspects of the energy bill.

Some Conservative MPs, who will have their say on the Bill when it returns to the House of Commons in two weeks» time, had argued that giving guarantees to EU citizens in Britain would reduce the UK's bargaining power in negotiations over the status of its own nationals living in Member States.

Just when it looked like a grand compromise was finally coming together, Senate negotiations over a major bill designed to curb abusive patent trolling have fallen apart.

In fact, I've found that handing over a crisp $ 1.00 bill to the seller actually makes everyone smile and laugh, and it's a great way to end the negotiations on a positive note.

Ryan is a 14 - year House veteran, and it is easy to envision him playing a key role in any negotiations with Capitol Hill over a housing finance reform bill.