Sentences with phrase «opponents of the bill for»

When the Legislature voted on this fiscal year's budget, many lawmakers in the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus admonished opponents of the bill for blocking their push to fund the legislation.

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Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

U.S. lawmakers are close to delivering a draft of the Federal Aviation Authority's reauthorization bill, which will include rules for nonmilitary drones, and drone opponents are lobbying hard against the unmanned flying machines, The New York Times reports.

Price is an opponent of Obamacare and voted for a bill that would have banned state labeling of genetically - modified ingredients.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

But that largely changed this year after most pro-life Democrats voted for the federal healthcare bill that many abortion opponents say allows for federal funding of abortion.

Those who think an amended C - 14, with some regulatory tightening and some provision for religious or conscientious objection, is what even opponents of the bill should now aim at, as the lesser of evils, should think again.

The Rev. Floyd Flake is supporting Bill Thompson for mayor — four years after he turned his back on the former NYC comptroller in favor of his opponent, Mayor Bloomberg.

This same source suggested that perhaps Cox was hopeful that this move would somehow improve his relationship with Orange County GOP Chairman Bill DeProspo, who has not only endorsed Rick Lazio for governor, but suggested Cox's support of Lazio's primary opponent, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, is a resignation - worthy offense.

If Perry sticks to his online - only strategy in the face of a strong opponent in the Fall — and this former Texas Democratic political staffer (for one) hopes that Bill White WILL be a strong opponent.

A fundraising email from the campaign of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday criticized his likely Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis for meeting with Donald Trump in 2013.

Mr. Brindisi, a well - regarded member of a younger, progressive bloc of Democrats in Albany, noted that he had publicly criticized the Cuomo administration's economic development plans, and had voted against the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control bill that has been a galvanizing issue for the governor's opponents upstate.

Smith's bill also precedes the March for Life in Washington, which is expected to draw large crowds of abortion rights opponents on Friday.

Not 48 hours later, Bill Daley, the former Obama chief of staff and JP Morgan executive, ended his primary campaign for governor of Illinois after internal polls showed him trailing his populist opponent.

Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota outraged Democrats this week by releasing a commercial linking his opponent Bill de Blasio to the supposedly criminal - friendly policies of the Dinkins administration, for which de Blasio worked early in his career.

Schumer's opponent, Republican Wendy Long, argues any federal representative of Western New York should and would have fought for the Bills.

Sal Albanese, a Democrat running for mayor, says the deal is part of a pattern for his opponent, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Coffey has made a point of calling for more stringent ethics reform than his primary opponents, saying the bill sponsored by Schneiderman, passed by both houses of the Legislature and vetoed by Gov. David Paterson doesn't go far enough in its disclosure requirements.

Congressman Michael Grimm slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for allowing top officials to take leave and work on political campaigns — including that of his opponent — during the city's Ebola scare.

Washington (CNN)- Backers of a bipartisan Senate immigration reform plan Thursday defeated an attempt by Republican opponents to alter the border security requirements in the bill, which could have significantly undermined support for the compromise legislation.

Conservative opponents of reform will be able to make common cause with Labour to insert a call for a referendum in the bill, something the Liberal Democrats oppose.

Unlike Mayor Bill de Blasio, his potential Democratic opponent this fall, Catsimatidis would not lay blame for the recent rash of anti-Semitic and racist incidents on President Donald Trump.

Charter - school supporters slammed Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins yesterday for canceling a promised follow - up hearing — after they had been shut out of an initial session packed with charter opponents last month.

Democrats note that Republican advertising this year focuses not on Ms. Stewart - Cousins» reign, but on the failings of her predecessors and on the liberal specter of the Mayor Bill de Blasio, meaning that even her opponents can find little to fault her for.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm sought to take advantage of the absence of his opponent Domenic Recchia at their first scheduled debate in Bay Ridge on Tuesday, telling voters in the audience that a vote for Recchia is a vote for the policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and then telling reporters at a post-debate press conference his opponent is not ready for prime time.

Democratic Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke on Monday released a TV ad knocking her Republican opponent Tom O'Mara over a bill that would make it easier for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

19:26 - The Freedom To Marry organisation, which put out yesterday's pro-reform letter countering Tory opponents to the bill, has this to say: «We believe today's vote was a momentous step towards the goal of securing the freedom for gay people to marry.»

Former Gov. George Pataki's Revere America Committee has added a second New Yorker — Democratic Rep. Bill Owens — to its list of members of Congress being lambasted in TV ads for voting «yes» on the health care reform bill opponents have taken to calling «Obamacare.&raBill Owens — to its list of members of Congress being lambasted in TV ads for voting «yes» on the health care reform bill opponents have taken to calling «Obamacare.&rabill opponents have taken to calling «Obamacare.»

However, there is one amendment to the Report Stage of the Bill which I have tabled for next week around which opponents and supporters of the principle of same sex marriage can all rally.

Opponents said the bill was unfair to the tens of thousands of residents who are in the country legally but who don't qualify for state education aid.

The winner, Democrat Bill Foster, focused heavily on the troubled state of the economy and hit his Republican opponent — dairy magnate Jim Oberweis — as a willing advocate for the President Bush and the administration's policies on Iraq.

The drive for the bill has won editorial support from newspapers across the state, and advocates have also enjoyed assists from top law enforcement officials — including James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany — who aggressively knocked down criticism from opponents of transgender civil rights protections that such laws create public safety problems in locations such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

Opponents argue that the bill will needlessly multiply the number of questions before voters and make it harder for voters to stay informed.

One of her opponents in the hotly contested battle that could determine which party controls the Senate, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, immediately sent a fundraising appeal to supporters saying the allegation «isn't actually surprising because Senator Landrieu has represented DC values for a long time.»

Bloomberg's opponent was Democratic and Working Families Party nominee Bill Thompson, who had been New York City Comptroller for the past eight years and before that, President of the New York City Board of Education.

The company netted tens of thousands of dollars of work for literature boosting Republican senators Bill Larkin, Carl Marcellino and George Amedore of Rotterdam, or knocking their opponents, according to the invoices.

One of Quinn's opponents for mayor, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio quickly followed suit, saying that he was «proud to stand with him in his campaign for NYC Comptroller.»

A group advocating for the Child Victims Act is raising awareness about the measure in hopes of countering opponents of the bill... and perhaps making New York safer for kids.

Opponents of «affirmative consent» in that state succeeded in amending the definition from an early draft of the bill in order to place less emphasis on the need for verbal consent.

Gay former NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is not happy that Cynthia Nixon, who supported her opponent, Mayor Bill De Blasio, in the 2013 Democratic primary for mayor, is running for governor of New York.

Mid-Hudson Congressman John Faso voted in favor of the American Health Care Act on Thursday — and took heat for it from opponents of the bill.

The two are so entwined that the governor deployed the assemblyman as proxy to an endorsement meeting of the Village Independent Democrats club that year — only for the group to endorse Mr. Cuomo's long - shot primary opponent Zephyr Teachout, and cite the minimum wage bill as a reason.

The governor spent much of the speech emphasizing that the state is the «progressive capital of the nation» — perhaps giving Mayor Bill de Blasio a bit of a run for his money as what the New York Time's coined as Trump's «Opponent in Chief.»

Lander told Patch that opponents of the bag bill «just don't care» about finding a way to reduce the use of non-reusable bags, and «have no plan» for how to do so.

Both supporters and opponents of the bill directed many of their criticisms at state officials who they argued had not adequately reimbursed the county for Medicare, Medicaid and other costs while continuing to cut healthcare spending.

And, using very harsh words, Clinton accused national labor unions campaigning for Lincoln's opponent, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, of trying to manipulate Arkansas voters to «terrify» other Democrats in Congress into cowering to union demands.

The second of two Democratic mayoral primary debates is set for Wednesday, but leading public opinion pollsters have yet to study the full Democratic primary field or take stock of the competition between Mayor Bill de Blasio and his lone debate opponent, challenger Sal Albanese.

Opponents of the hot - button Upper East Side waste transfer station are sending out 80,000 direct mailings on the eve of Tuesday's primary that blasts Democratic mayoral candidates Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio for their support of the project.

Gottfried did add a few of Savino's amendments in order to make the bill more palatable to opponents, including eliminating glaucoma as a condition that would qualify a patient for prescription of the drug, and requiring that medical marijuana be a last resort treatment.

In the ad, the former city comptroller takes on opponent Bill de Blasio, who has been a fierce critic of stop - and - frisk, for what Thompson called misleading claims.