Sentences with phrase «on a bipartisan basis of»

Today, the Illinois State Senate passed a $ 100 million tax credit scholarship program, and charter funding equity on a bipartisan basis of 38 - 13 votes after the House approved the measure yesterday.

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«On a bipartisan basis, we believe Mr. Zuckerberg's testimony is necessary to gain a better understanding of how the company plans to restore lost trust, safeguard users» data, and end a troubling series of belated responses to serious problems,» the two senators added.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

With the debt limit set to be hit in a matter of hours, Republicans and Democrats in Congress reluctantly accepted the president's demand for the sequester, and a revised version of the Budget Control Act was passed on a bipartisan basis.

Last year Congress acted on a bipartisan basis to pass child care legislation that includes much - needed reforms to improve the quality and safety in child care settings, including requiring training for providers to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, instituting annual inspections of child care facilities, and comprehensive background checks of all providers.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Sen. Liz Krueger, and Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Pro-Choice Legislative Caucus, wrote to HHS Director Roger Severino, opposing proposed rule changes that would vastly expand the ability of healthcare providers to deny care to patients based on their personal beliefs.

For the first time in 11 years, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted 15 - 7 in favor of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

I look forward to working on a bipartisan basis with members of the Assembly to support passage of this critical legislation, SWAP, and acquire the necessary funding to upgrade our city's infrastructure,» said Troy City Council President Carmella Mantello.

«We're going to support a number of bills on a bipartisan basis.

«We applaud the President's statement that he will sign the Zadroga Act, and we hope that he will join us in urging both houses of Congress to pass the bill on a bipartisan basis when we return in September.

The House overwhelmingly passed a bill based on a bipartisan agreement crafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate's Budget Committee.

The ad goes on to claim that Faso supported «privatizing Social Security» based on a 2004 op - ed in the New York Times that expressed some support for the findings of former President Bush's bipartisan Commission to Strengthen Social Security, in particular individual savings accounts for young workers in order to preserve the earned benefit and ensure its future solvency.

She expressed frustration over lack of progress on passage of a bipartisan DREAM Act in Congress and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression.

In a dramatic finish after 3 1/2 hours of contentious debate, the House voted 75 - 74 on a bipartisan basis to send the nomination to the state Senate.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers joined officials in proposing a program that would provide annual repair and maintenance funds to villages, towns and cities based on the size of their water systems.

As a result of my bipartisan Ten - in - Ten Fuel Economy Act, which was signed into law in 2007, vehicles are more fuel - efficient and the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are headed toward responsible levels, based on the best science available.

To Casey Dreier, director of space policy at The Planetary Society, supporting such ambitious yet unsanctioned missions while acting to undermine ones like WFIRST makes little sense, particularly because Congress has proactively provided hundreds of millions of dollars for that mission already on a bipartisan basis.

The Members of Congress who authorize and appropriate funds for NASA clearly are enthusiasts on a bipartisan basis, but where NASA will fit in national priorities for government spending is always the question.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

The basic architecture of the legislation already had been negotiated on a bipartisan basis, and the Senate (as well as the House) approved the bill by a wide margin.

By all accounts, including their own press release, they fought against an accountability plan developed by a broad - based, bipartisan group of educators and policymakers, and on top of it, wrote the group off as «big city bosses.»

For many years, Congress has hotly debated this issue of control, and on a bipartisan basis passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015.

Currently, Digital Promise (an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization originally authorized by Congress in 2008) is spearheading a national effort to develop what it calls an «ecosystem» of microcredentials or digital badges for educators, all of them competency - based, on demand, personalized, and easily displayed on one's web site or CV.

Despite historic bipartisan agreement on the concept of needs - based funding, Labor is throwing Gonski 2.0 back in the Coalition's face.

The Commission on Evidence - Based Policymaking has issued its final report — The Promise of Evidence - Based Policymaking — which includes nearly two dozen bipartisan recommendations for how the federal government can use data and evidence to improve outcomes for all.

Tennessee, a historically low - achieving state, won about $ 500 million in the first round with an application that garnered bipartisan and teachers» union support for, among other things, basing 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation on student performance data.

Based on the bipartisan budget, the new ECS formula is scheduled to be phased - in over 10 years, and over that period, would increase overall ECS funding by an estimated $ 380 million to reach full funding — including an increase of $ 88.9 million in FY 2019 over FY 2018 funding levels when the November 2017 budgetary holdbacks are included.

A majority of Americans favor that, on a bipartisan basis.

Ocean Champions is the first national organization to focus solely on developing a broad, bipartisan base of supporters for ocean conservation in the U.S. Congress and in key states.

If for some reason they actually do the right thing and work on bipartisan, incremental health care improvements, maybe they can campaign in 2018 on the basis of governance rather than emotion.

Fortunately, the current tax credits were extended on a bipartisan basis by Congress at the end of 2015 and continue to enjoy strong support from both sides of the aisle due to the jobs and investments that renewables have generated in both red and blue states nationwide.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

An appeal to corporations and foundations to help CCNF advance climate literacy on a national scale, establish a new brand and new standard of climate journalism, and facilitate an unprecedented national dialogue and bipartisan debate based on sound science and shared values regarding what can or should be done as a nation.

«We think it represents the basis for a true bipartisan breakthrough on climate,» says Alex Posner, a 22 - year - old American history student at Yale University, and the founding president of the student coalition.

Last December, under the leadership of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass The Innovation Act on a strong bipartisan basis, 325 - 91.

Lastly, in August of 2016, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a bipartisan pay equity bill — S. 2119, An Act to Establish Pay Equity — to prevent wage discrimination on the basis of gender.

This extension passed on a bipartisan basis in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

This NAR - supported bill was introduced five years ago on a bipartisan basis in response to the proposed rules by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to define real estate brokerage and management as financial in nature and thus permissible lines of business for banking conglomerates.

The bill never came up for a vote on the floor of either chamber, but thanks to the outpouring of REALTORS ® activism, 255 members of the House, a majority, and 28 members of the Senate cosponsored the legislation on a bipartisan basis.

On a broad, bipartisan basis, committee members at the hearing favored revisiting the compromise to keep banks out of brokerage.