Sentences with phrase «of similar bills»

Opponents are bolstered by defeats of similar bills in Maryland and Rhode Island this year, and recent polls have shown New Yorkers slightly less supportive of gay marriage as the issue gained more attention this year.

Also on Tuesday, the Senate Democratic Conference, led by Andrea Stewart - Cousins, put forward its own slate of similar bills, which would also more clearly outline state agencies» and supervisors» responsibilities to address harassment in their ranks.

The signing comes after vetoes of similar bills in 2011 and 2013.

On Tuesday, a second Republican senator said he would support Cuomo's same - sex marriage bill, less than two years after he was part of a GOP - led defeat of a similar bill that dealt a blow to the national effort to legalize gay marriage.

The CBO analysis of a similar bill proposed by Senators Kerry and Boxer found the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $ 21 billion by 2019 and «would not increase the deficit in any of the four 10 - year periods following 2019.»

House passage is expected to pave the way for consideration of a similar bill in the Senate next year once Congress reconvenes.

Not exact matches

The current Republican control of the House has made the prospect of passing a similar bill even more unlikely.

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

«It's not about taking a bunch of dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director, noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.

Why he could vote no: Daines reportedly has similar concerns to Johnson over the tax bill's treatment of pass - through businesses.

Walmart, Comcast and AT&T made similar moves following the passage of the tax bill.

Similar prophecies have proved wrong before and doubters point out that electricity bills for American factories will rise if the U.S. starts selling its growing supply of natural gas abroad and lifts current curbs on gasoline exports.

AT&T, Boeing, and Fifth Third Bancorp made similar announcements at the time of the tax bill's passing.

Paypal was one of the first major fintech companies, and their CEO, Dan Schulman, has echoed similar sentiments about startups leading the charge to democratize financial freedom: «The simplest transaction - receiving a paycheck, paying bills or sending money to a loved one - can be distressingly inconvenient and disproportionately expensive.

Yet the nature of the health - care bill, which is similar to the House bill, loads a disproportionate share of gains to the wealthy — on both a dollar and percentage basis.

It seems like a trivial distinction between plans that are so similar (and similar as well to the proposals put forward by Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson) that without the obligatory «Paid for by» ¦» at the bottom of the fact sheet you'd be hard - pressed to say which campaign issued which proposal.

But while the announcement is no - doubt shocking (as Police Chief Bill Blair remarked, «We have no historical precedent for doing that in Ontario), it comes on the heels of a similar move in numerous U.S. cities, where the axe has already fallen on those previously considered to be untouchable.

The number of big - name investors calling a bond bear market added hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones on Thursday, following similar calls from Bill Gross, Bill Miller and Jeff Gundlach.

Georgia governor Nathan Deal struck down a similar bill on Monday, which critics said gave businesses the license to discriminate under the guise of religious freedom, after an outcry from businesses.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

Similar to your personal credit score, you business credit score is based on your credit - use history, how many lines of credit you have, how you pay your bills, the size of your company, and how long your company has been in business.

Although the number of online banking consumers in Canada is a fraction of the total in the U.S., bill payment users account for a similar percentage of total online banking customers, indicating a healthy demand for online payment services in Canada.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

The federal government is clearly headed down this path with the introduction of Bill C - 25 and actually, the Quebec government had joined the road forward with the creation of new VRSPs - another acronym that simply means Voluntary Registered Savings Plans - similar to the PRPP model.

In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, the Personal Information, the Billing Information, and the Other Information may be part of the transferred assets.

Wagner introduced several similar bills in recent years, and none of them have made it to the president's desk.

Twitter is working on a «transparency center» to show how much political campaigns spend on advertising, and the company endorsed the Honest Ads Act, a Senate bill that would subject online political ads to the same sort of disclosure rules that govern similar content on TV and radio.

If that sounds similar to how Bitcoin bills itself — as a cryptocurrency that «uses peer - to - peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network,» — you're on the money.

Many of the provisions are similar to the Invest Visa provisions of the comprehensive immigration reform bill of 2013 which I thought was a very good Startup Visa bill.

Bill Gurley compares Kalanick to Jeff Bezos, and it seems likely that Uber will follow a path similar to Amazon, relentlessly pushing to keep prices low while expanding — at the cost of short - term profits.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would allow for the testing and commercialization of driverless cars, and a similar bill has been marked up by the Senate.

A HELOC, in short, is a line of credit (similar to a credit card account) where the family home is used as collateral to borrow money against the house (the equity) in order to pay bills, do renovations, or take a vacation.

Other similar things might be investing in supermarkets and «consumer staples» (because if your weekly shopping basket inflates, their shares and divis probably will too) or investing in healthcare as a hedge against future healthcare costs inflating or investing in utilities as a hedge against utilities bills rising (I've yet to buy any but I quite like the idea of owning enough ~ 7 % yielding Centrica for the divis to cover the gas and electricity bills) or investing in travel and tourism companies as a hedge against holiday costs inflating.

Recent estimates produced with models similar to JCT's have found the tax bills may increase the growth rate by 0.03 to 0.09 percentage points per year, producing as much as $ 200 billion of dynamic feedback.

Both bills provide for similar changes in the corporate and international tax code but differ mostly in the structure of the individual tax code, including the tax treatment of pass - through businesses and individual income tax brackets as well as the status of the estate tax.

Gray has said the government would introduce legislation regulating PACs, and if this bill does that, it will likely remove Swann's bill off the Order Paper because of its similar focus.

Much like with «activist investors», the bill includes an extremely broad definition of proxy advisors, including any firm «that provides corporate governance ratings, proxy research, analyses, shareholder services, or other similar services to shareholders of publicly traded entity.»

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

The White House ultimately dropped the demand that the legislation include wall funding, and a coalition of Republicans and Democrats approved a bill in May that looked similar to spending measures that had been supported by the Obama administration.

Following submission of HB 2382, a similar bill was proposed in the Texas Senate.

Its safeguards are not safe... similar legislation's been rejected several times in Westminster, and a similar bill was rejected by the Scottish parliament just a couple of weeks ago.

SB 1146, one of two similar bills recently introduced into the California legislature, would essentially restrict fully faith - based education to seminaries.

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 «born alive» bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been «fully in support» of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.»

Whereas the earlier Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960 had only a statutory basis and was thus effectively beyond the scope of judicial review, the new Charter was an entrenched constitutional document similar to that of the United States.

This bill is a «companion» to similar legislation introduced in the House of Representatives back in December 2015.

Let me name just a few things that did happen: a stimulus bill was passed, GM and Chrysler were saved, affordable healthcare was passed, legislation was passed to guard against the possibility of similar bad behavior by our banks and corporations in the future.

The Court gave examples of such legislative violations of due process of law: «Acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments and acts directly transferring one man's estate to another, legislative judgments and decrees, and other similar special, partial, and arbitrary exertions of power under the forms of legislation.»

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Don't get me wrong, I've always rated Le Coq and would have be gutted if he was sold, but we need someone one of similar if not better qualities to Le Coq in order to maintain our balance if Coq gets injured, and I'm sorry but Arteta doesn't fit the bill and Flamini isn't good enough.

In fact, Bill James was (I believe) the first significant writer to make a similar suggestion about the voting population, in The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that book).