Sentences with phrase «of debate on bill»

There will be about eight more hours of debate on the Bill to allow newly elected members of the assembly to provide their opinions.

In the first three days of the debate on the bill, according to my rough calculation, about 246 million more tons of carbon dioxide flowed into the atmosphere from human activities worldwide.

Democrats offered a slew of amendments over eight hours of debate on the bill, including a permanent ban on assault weapons and the elimination of the armed - teacher program.

Not exact matches

«But it does mean that it has to be a grown - up debate where we acknowledge that borrowing to fund consumption is merely passing the bill to the next generation and reject the fallacy that the burden of additional taxation can always fall on someone else.»

The batch of sanctions would be added to a bill imposing penalties on Iran that the Senate is currently debating.

* The U.S. Senate debated the bill late into Thursday and adjourned as fiscal conservatives were unsettled about the effect on the deficit of the bill.

On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Sopan Deb, who covered the Trump campaign in 2016 as an embedded reporter for CBS News, criticized a passage in the book in which Bossie and Lewandowski said he was «literally crying» at a press conference before the second presidential debate when Trump appeared with women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

Conway hoped to encourage more women to come forward with allegations against Bill Clinton, building on the campaign's decision to bring three of the former president's accusers to the second presidential debate.

But in the maelstrom of last - minute action before the House heads home Friday, the bill has not been scheduled for what was expected to be a contentious debate on the floor.

«Despite what President (Donald) Trump says, despite what my colleagues here will tell you, the tax bills both in the House and the Senate give the lion's share of tax breaks to the top 1 percent,» Sanders said on CNN Tuesday during a televised debate with other senators.

This is a government that is fond of putting everything but the kitchen sink in omnibus bills, limiting debate on them, and then passing them without a comma changed.

By introducing Bill 10, the PCs have stifled debate over Bill 202 and by invoking closure on Bill 10, opposition debate over the shortcomings of the bill will be significantly limiBill 10, the PCs have stifled debate over Bill 202 and by invoking closure on Bill 10, opposition debate over the shortcomings of the bill will be significantly limiBill 202 and by invoking closure on Bill 10, opposition debate over the shortcomings of the bill will be significantly limiBill 10, opposition debate over the shortcomings of the bill will be significantly limibill will be significantly limited.

On March 21, a bill to limit a website's immunity for content when it knowingly facilitates sex trafficking passed Congress — one of the first impositions of liability for online platforms as the U.S. debates their responsibility for what users post.

In response to the ongoing debate over H.R. 4015 — a bill that was submitted to the U.S. Senate for consideration after approval by the House of Representatives on December 21, 2017 — Glass Lewis would like to -LSB-...]

Reconciliation bills are privileged in a number of ways, including with a 20 - hour limit on debate in the Senate, a non-debatable motion to proceed to the bill, and a strict germaneness test for amendments.

Paul Jewett's Man as Male and Female, Letha Scanzoni's and Nancy Hardesty's All We're Meant to Be, Elisabeth Elliot's Let Me Be a Woman, and George W. Knight's The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women have taken varying positions and have been widely read and debated in evangelical circles.1 Bill Gothard, through his Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, has offered teaching on the subject of women's rightful place to thousands, as have Francis Schaeffer, Howard Hendricks, and Tim LaHaye.

Perhaps the most striking recognition of this superordinate sovereignty comes from the hand of Madison in 1785 during the debate on the bill establishing religious freedom in Virginia: «It such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

So I look forward to a spirited yet cordial debate on Tuesday with Bill Nye, the «Science Guy» of television fame.

I'm surprised CNN is willing to wage a debate on «science» vs. «creationism» with Bill as the spokesperson for the «science» side of the debate... I know, he IS the «Science Guy»... well, I'm bald and fat, but that doesn't make me an expert on follicular transplants or endocrinology.

The signs are that the Catholic Church will at least make its voice heard when the Bill comes to be debated in the Commons: but any hope that the C of E will come up to scratch seems, on the evidence so far available, dubious to say the least.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's big chance to make a substantial contribution to the debate on the Bill's second reading: an extempore intervention (that it was unprepared is indicated by the barely coherent assertion that «any lack of clarity in this area seems fatally compromising and ambiguous») of 124 words.

Debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2016 is set to resume in the House of Representatives today, with Treasurer Scott Morrison set to move the amendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics CommitBill 2016 is set to resume in the House of Representatives today, with Treasurer Scott Morrison set to move the amendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics Commitbill proposed by the Senate Economics Committee.

There has been extensive industry debate and consultation on the bill but to dump a lot of material on industry at the 11th hour will understandably make people suspicious.

The effectiveness of the pro-cannabis side of the debate depends on America's ability to believe — just this once, after decades of being sold bills of goods — that something isn't too good to be true.

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

Yesterday marked the beginning of House debate on the waiver language, with Rep. Sam Farr (D - CA) seeking to strip the waiver from the House spending bill.

With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media's attention has been focused on how direct payments — subsidies doled out regardless of actual farming — are being replaced with crop insurance, in a classic shell game that Big Ag's powerful lobby is likely to pull off.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

The ears of the Chartered Institute of Taxation were pricked by the debate this week about VAT on energy bills and the EU.

10:20 - Some procedural nonsense from Alexander now, who engages in nit - picking on the «vital stages» of debate which will be missed if the bill even makes it through the Commons.

Saraki also stated that the 2017 — 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF / FSP) would be debated and passed this week, while the consideration on the 2017 Appropriation Bill would occupy the three sitting days of next week.

Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill Debate - Economic Affairs Committee on Auditors: market concentration and their role

«Decentralization will address the fact that the majority of bills are debated for less than a minute on the floor of our Assembly — a travesty to our supposedly democratic legislature,» Chen said.

If things were in any way normal, we would expect the creation of a public body to involve primary legislation: an actual bill, debated in parliament, talked about on TV stations and radio programmes - the standard democratic routine.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken a position in the heated debate over whether Brooklyn or Texas produces better barbecue — on the side of Texas.

Questions - Ensuring media plurality in the UK, abolition of the death penalty in China and in other countries, diagnostic testing for children with dyslexia Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Report stage Debate - Rebalancing the responsibilities of motorists and cyclists on the roads

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

But on the last day of debate, the government attempted to amend the bill to delay implementation of the ban to July 2007.

What they expect from me as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is that every bill, every motion and every debate on the floor of the house must be looked at within the prism of what is in the best interest of the Urhobo and Delta Central people.

Likewise, there was little debate on the option of subsidizing operations and medicine, which are major causes of rising medical bills.

MPs are due to debate the second reading of the EU amendment bill, in which Mr Davidson planned to insert an amendment calling for the bill to be thrown out on the grounds of lack of public consent.

His comments, made during a House of Commons debate on climate change, were welcomed by opposition parties, who have been calling for a bill for some time.

At the end of the committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.

The most common form of filibuster occurs when a senator attempts to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure.

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

It means that throughout the parliamentary debates on any particular bill the government of the day will face the prospect of a potential English veto ruining everything.

«I have always lived my life with dignity, integrity and honesty; and I can say without hesitation that I brought those same characteristics everyday when I proposed bills, passed legislation, debated public policy, and fought tooth and nail to protect western New York on the floor of the New York State Senate for the past 38 years.»

Two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky — that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, who made the same pledge on Friday.

At 11:30 a.m., in advance of debate on the 2018 Farm Bill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will convene dozens of Hudson Valley hunger organizations to discuss his priorities for hunger programs in the bill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell JunctBill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will convene dozens of Hudson Valley hunger organizations to discuss his priorities for hunger programs in the bill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell Junctbill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell Junction.