Sentences with phrase «pass sweeping laws»

Congressional leaders back in the politically turbulent 1970s managed to pass sweeping laws to ensure clean air and water, protect endangered species and keep toxic substances out of everyday household products.

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It's been four years since the Affordable Care Act passed into law — promising sweeping reforms in the way Americans receive health - care coverage.

The House passed the sweeping Republican tax bill on Wednesday, sending the bill to President Donald Trump for his signature before it becomes law.

Following several controversial LGBT laws in the Southern states, the Mississippi state Senate joined the club, and passed «the most sweeping anti-LGBT legislation» in the U.S., according to critics, on Wednesday.

Broward County commissioners on Tuesday passed a sweeping new law regulating app - based ride services such as Uber, despite the company's threat to leave town if they did.

Congress successfully passed sweeping changes to US tax policy, which President Trump signed into law in December.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.

Republicans and Democrats banded together to create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Congress passed the most sweeping laws since Roosevelt's New Deal.

The same controversial and sweeping powers on data retention were added to the Investigatory Powers Act (AKA the Snoopers» Charter), which passed into law late last year a matter of weeks before Dripa — which at the insistence of the Liberal Democrats had a built - in self - distruct date of 31 December, 2016 — was set to expire.

The event comes on the heels of a sweeping gun control law that passed last month in Albany that updates the state's assault weapons ban and limits the number of rounds in a high - capacity magazine.

That Ortiz's bill stands little chance of passing seems like a given after the passage of the sweeping law last month and the expending of political capital to do so.

Cuomo used his authority under state law to appoint a panel with sweeping subpoena powers only after the Legislature refused to pass his anti-corruption bills.

BREAKING: SENATE PASSES SWEEPING IMMIGRATION BILL... The Senate gave final approval Thursday to an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that would create a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while increasing security along the Mexican border.

With Cuomo, Skelos allowed votes on a host of long - sought Democratic measures ranging from the legalization of same - sex marriage to a sweeping gun control law in 2013 that was passed in the wake of a school shooting in Connecticut.

Senate Republicans had taken political heat from its conservative base over passing Cuomo's sweeping gun control law in January.

Lawyers for Skelos tried to focus the judge on the senator's accomplishments, which they included as his help in getting passed — over considerable GOP opposition over the years — sweeping gun control laws and the 2011 same - sex marriage statute.

Although the charter sector ultimately gained an advocate in Governor Andrew Cuomo and successfully lobbied for a sweeping pro-charter law passed during the last legislative session, Moskowitz said she refers to this spring as «the dark period.»

Washington — In the wake of the Senate's passage of sweeping anti-busing legislation last week, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives are acting to prevent the bill, which must be passed by the House to become law, from being brought to the House floor for a vote.

The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one - size - fits - all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.

In January 2010, Massachusetts passed a sweeping education law that allowed for virtual innovation schools for the first time.

Aside from the general belief that a law as sweeping as NCLB is unlikely to be passed after the end of 2011 — during an election year — no one has a good sense of the timeline.

Allying with suburban white conservatives, Williams and her coalition fought for and helped pass the most sweeping school choice law at the time.

This all occurred provided a sweeping educator effectiveness law — Senate Bill 191 — passed throughout Colorado six years ago.

Connecticut, which has one of the largest achievement gaps in the country, is on the hook for a $ 300 million reform agenda, which was created when state lawmakers passed a sweeping new law.

Google tried to defuse the France situation before they managed to convince the EU to pass sweeping new laws to tax Google for local news that makes Google News and is ridden with adverts.

You may have heard by now that congress recently passed sweeping credit card reform laws.

In 2010, the pact was put on hold indefinitely, after Republicans swept the midterm elections and Congress failed to pass a national carbon trading law.

The first Earth Day was held in 1970, and, over the next three years, Congress passed and (a Republican) President Nixon signed into law sweeping environmental statutes.

On March 18, 2013, B.C. passed its new Family Law Act, which replaced the former Family Relations Act and made some sweeping changes to the law in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as weLaw Act, which replaced the former Family Relations Act and made some sweeping changes to the law in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as welaw in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as well.

yro.slashdot.org - schwit1 shares a report from CNET, written by Claire Reilly: In 2015, during the transition from paper to Opal [contactless public transit cards], Australia passed sweeping new data retention laws.

But nowhere in the West has the backlash been bigger than Germany, which last year passed a sweeping anti-hate speech law requiring websites to promptly investigate reports of posts illegal under German law and delete them.

Congress has passed and the President has signed into law, sweeping legislation of more than two - thousand pages to fund the Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2016.