Sentences with phrase «passage of the bill is»

The Colorado Republican said passage of his bill is time sensitive given the actions taken by the Maduro regime and the suffering within the country, which he warns could become the next Cuban - style dictatorship.

But the period after passage of the bill was especially impressive.

For if the sheer passage of the bill was all that was needed, even without abortion coverage, then the bill was never a serious bill to begin with.

Sadly, passage of this bill isn't a slam - dunk.

(¶ 15) When the House of Lords reconsidered the bill after the Commons rejected the amendments, eight bishops voted against a similar wrecking amendment, but the statement issued after passage of the bill was not unconditional in its support:

The passage of the bills is an escalation of the growing tensions Republicans have toward Cuomo, who is actively working to help Democrats gain control of the Senate later this year.

«The passage of the bill is an indication that our federal legislators are diligent and reform - minded, and are committed to fulfilling the promises our party made to Nigerians.»

Smooth passage of the bill is far from guaranteed with members of both houses opposing 42 - day detention without charge.

Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, told newsmen at a press briefing in Abuja that the expeditious consideration and passage of the bill was laudable.

The statement read further, «The passage of the bill was sequel to the presentation of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Akanbi Bankole, who thereafter moved the motion for its adoption.

Despite the DCCC's criticism, the passage of both bills is a milestone for Katko.

«The passage of this bill is a real victory for Colorado's students and their parents,» Gov. Owens, a Republican, said in a statement.

Representative Bruce Ayers stated, «The passage of the bill is evidence that lawmakers are listening to their constituents, who — especially in the wake of the horrific Puppy Doe animal abuse case in Quincy, my district, last year — are demanding stricter penalties for those who abuse or kill animals.

Today, on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we wrote to BC Premier Clark urging her to support the passage of Bill M - 222, a legislative amendment that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of trans people.

Not exact matches

«These bills are the greatest political achievement for startup and growth - company entrepreneurs since passage of the JOBS Act in 2012.

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

Stock markets around the world continue to celebrate the imminent passage of the tax bill, which is likely to be approved in the House today and in the Senate by mid-week.

And, of course, there's the more recent passage of the tax bill, which will have an effect on what you pay and hopefully get back from Uncle Sam.

It is almost a rite of passage for developers to carefully monitor their monthly cloud service bills and dedicate time each month to call customer service for refunds when something has gone awry.

It arrived as about a half - dozen senators were at the White House meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the next steps in the GOP effort to ensure passage of the bill.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Sopan Deb, who covered the Trump campaign in 2016 as an embedded reporter for CBS News, criticized a passage in the book in which Bossie and Lewandowski said he was «literally crying» at a press conference before the second presidential debate when Trump appeared with women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

With the passage of a tax cut bill by Congress late last year, small businesses need to be aware of the changes in tax rates and deductions that will take effect this year.

Reps. Dave Brat, Gary Palmer, and Mark Sanford joined all of the House Budget Committee's Democrats in opposing the legislation, leading to a razor thin 19 - 17 passage (that rate of defection would be enough to sink the bill in the full House).

The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (including those in the White House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.

Our aim was to see whether the economic expansion that was already under way actually accelerated after passage of the bill, or whether it simply continued the existing expansion (or even if it slowed down).

So, the statistics are unanimous: Not only was the Clinton presidency after the bill's passage a time of vigorous economic growth, but that growth was also demonstrably more robust than what occurred during the first two and a half years of the recovery.

The U.S. was claiming it was willing to make big reductions to its agricultural subsidies, but the recent passage of a $ 300 billion farm bill by the U.S. Congress make it unlikely that the U.S. is serious about real reductions.

«As the chief sponsor of House Bill 400, Rep. McCoy was instrumental in securing the successful passage of this landmark legislation that will elevate our Kentucky Bourbon Trail ® experiences and answer visitor's number one demand — the ability to ship souvenir bottles home,» KDA President Eric Gregory said.

«As the chief sponsor of House Bill 400, Rep. McCoy was instrumental in securing the successful passage...

Passage of this bill will be a big win for Main Street in rural America and the small financial institutions that help our families, farmers, and small businesses thrive.»

While the bill has yet to achieve final passage and be signed into law, if it is successful it would mark the first step towards full acceptance of Bitcoin as a digital currency.

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The biggest financial news last week, and possibly the entire 2017, has to be the passage of the new Republican tax bill.

But keep in mind: There could be significant delay from a proposal of greater infrastructure spending to passage of a bill and actual disbursement of money.

In anticipation of the tax bill's passage and of municipalities losing their ability to refund bonds prior to maturity, there was a surge in supply of muni bonds in November and December, with new supply increasing 29.3 % and 207 %, respectively, over prior - year levels.

(12) When Glass's bill, having made it through the House Banking Committee, was attacked by Bryanite Democrats at the party caucus, Glass stunned and silenced them by brandishing Bryan's letter calling for his supporters «to stand by the president and assist him in securing the passage of this bill at the earliest possible moment» (13).

Business Groups Call for Passage of Miscellaneous Tariff Bill The U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined the National Association of Manufacturers and more than 200 other associations and businesses to send a letter to both chambers of Congress urging that the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill of 2018 (MTB) be included in the upcoming omnibus spending package.

With the passage of the new tax bill in December, the Affordable Care Act is effectively being put in limbo by Congress.

This extended duration is what historians usually have in mind when they think of the «passage» of the Reform Bill.

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

Norman Gash, for instance, disputes Halevey's contention that the French Revolution of 1830 was a decisive influence in the passage of the Reform Bill by detailing the reactions of several groups, including the ultra-radicals and the ultra-Tories.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

The field can also be characterized geographically, so that if revolutionary activity on the Continent was an element in the emerging constitution of the Reform Bill passage, then the same area ought to be considered when analyzing its antecedent world.

Since the passage of this «religious harmony» bill, which was touted by lawmakers as a long - term solution to religious conflicts, more than 1,000 Indonesian Christian churches have closed.

The last time they hit the headlines was under the Labour government, during the passage of Ed Balls» fortunately doomed Education Bill, when after a supposedly heroic process of negotiation with the government, they almost totally capitulated.

What Nippert leaves unsaid is one of the main causes for the passage of the «Pastor Protection» bill.

In some passages, for example, Bill Dean and Nancy Frankenberry seem to endorse the rhetoric of «the myth of the given,» and completely to relinquish the idea of any prelinguistic, preinterpretative, given element in experience (Dean, ARE 16, 80; HMH 139; Frankenberry, RRE 3 - 6, 31 - 32, 70, 83, 91, 131, 137 - 43).

The Nickles bill was introduced in March (CT, May 18, 1998, p. 20) after the U.S. House had already considered passage of the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, commonly known as the Wolf - Specter bill after its cosponsors Rep. Frank Wolf (R. - Va.)