Sentences with phrase «passage of the bill because»

You urged Ghanaians to insist on the passage of the bill because they have a right to information.

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While on an overnight road trip north of the border with the Billings (Mont.) RimRockers of the now defunct International Basketball Association, Torres, who was born in Caracas, Venezuela, was denied passage into Canada because he lacked a work visa.

Alec Salmond just said in the commons that because the Brexit bill has passed its second reading without amendments that there will be no report stage and this would be the fastest passage for a bill since the defense of the realm act in WW1.

This he said is «because the committee has been involved in every step of the Bill formation and can easily ensure its swift passage.»

They're now saying that the reason they're not signing the ENDA Executive Order is because they are passionately and fiercely dedicated to passage of a much more comprehensive LGBT rights bill — the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

«Senate Democrats blocked the passage of the Bill and while it passed in the House it failed in the Senate because of the Democrats.»

This working weekend was expected — and necessary — because Cuomo said he would not issue any messages of necessity to circumvent the three - day aging process typically required to make bills eligible for passage.

The governor's rising star in the Democratic Party has been tied in part to passage of the bill, especially because in recent months it appeared that Maryland might be unable to keep pace with New York, where Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) was able to secure passage of a gay marriage bill in a divided state legislature.

But the chances of influencing that legislation are negligible because the government commands a whipped majority at every stage of a bill's passage through the commons.

Two weeks ago I wrote that the Conservative Party had, at an optimistic estimate, gained 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, TWENTY new MPs because of the passage of the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill.

The bills» passage was held up initially «because the Democrats in the Senate were hoping they'd achieve a better result in their election, and the women Democrats in the Assembly were hoping the same thing, so that the choice bill would also be part of the package.»

«We applaud the Senate's passage of this important piece of legislation and call on the House to similarly pass this bill quickly and we call on the Governor to sign this into law because our children can't wait.»

Public Works Financing thinks «chances of passage are better than in previous attempts because a broad coalition has been organized to support the bill against attacks from P3's nemesis, the Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG).

Passage of the new housing bill being pushed through Congress has stalled because of one senator's insistence on adding an energy bill he came up with to the package.

Miller — who lobbied for passage of the bill in Washington, D.C., in April — says the Marketplace Fairness Act is important because it sets a standard and provides consistency across all states.

Forcing House Democrats to take these politically difficult votes in the midst of the recession was especially galling to many moderate Democrats because the House climate bill never had a realistic chance of Senate passage, where centrist Senate allies of the president urged other measures like a renewable energy standard.

The Alexander Pryor legislation, I think Senator Alexander, who we might think of as the next Dick Lugar, is trying to provide cover for Democrats in tough election races to say that they're voting for something that has absolutely no chance of passage, because their bill would take 60 votes, whereas Senator Inhofe's much better resolution, which would block the rule entirely, only takes 50.

While Bradwell was waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court decision, however, Alta M. Hulett drafted and secured the passage of a bill providing that no person in the state of Illinois can be excluded from any profession because of sex.

I've designated Technology and the future of the law a Classic because Michael's message and argument are so true as the passage of time is proving — and yet the evidence is that the large majority (perhaps as much as 85 %, in Bill Henderson's rendition of the innovation of diffusion curve below) of law firms are not listening.

That said, 2007 is likely to prove to be one of the most important years in recent history for our profession and for the Law Society — primarily because the Legal Services Bill will complete its passage through Parliament.