Sentences with phrase «opposed similar bills»

The Conservative government opposed similar Bills introduced in 1981 and 1984.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who vigorously opposed a similar bill that House Republicans narrowly passed in May, dispensed with the Senate's version in just four words.

Not exact matches

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.»

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, voted for the bill — even though some of his most vulnerable colleagues opposed it — while Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Jon Tester of Montana opposed it, with similar divergences in his own party.

Now Flanagan says a similar system should be in place in the city — a move opposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration uses tax revenue to build affordable housing.

Cuomo vetoed 129 bills in 2015, the highest total of his five years in office and among the highest in four decades, with much of what he rejected being similar to other bills he has opposed in the past.

Much of the legislation he vetoed had similar aims to bills he's opposed throughout his tenure: He has routinely nixed proposals to classify various officials as peace officers and to allow individuals to retroactively enter into a higher pension tier.

The Senate passed a similar bill last April on a 36 - 26 vote with all Republicans and four DFLers opposing it.

Medical billing auditors» duties are similar to those of claims auditors, but they work in the billing departments of health care companies as opposed to the claims departments of insurance companies.