Sentences with phrase «passed omnibus»

Congress passed the Omnibus Bill on Dec. 15th to fund the U.S. Government.

Ultimately, the legislature passed an omnibus TRAP (Targeted Regulations on Abortion Providers) bill (SB 1722 / HB 1411) that lists over 10 medically unnecessary and burdensome government regulations and mandatory reporting to restrict women's access to safe and legal abortion.

The waiting time before someone is eligible for a pardon has increased to 5 years under the Conservative's recently passed omnibus crime bill, Bill C - 10.

Just in time to make it home for the holidays, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that keeps the government open for another year and included a number of policy priorities for both parties.

In 1991, the United States Congress passed the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act.

Update, March 22, 2 p.m.: This afternoon the House of Representatives quickly passed the Omnibus package of 12 appropriations bills funding all government operations through the end of fiscal year 2018, which is six months away on September 30.

It didn't happen through clever, technocratic administrative fixes or a gigantic, rapidly passed omnibus legislative package.

House and Senate passed an omnibus spending package last week, which will fund The Document has moved

Early Thursday morning, the state Assembly passed an omnibus bill containing a two - year deal for mayoral control, which was scheduled to expire after Friday, and whose expiration had prompted the special session, convened by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Jamestown, NY (WBEN) Senator Charles Schumer in Jamestown Friday discussing the opioid epidemic and how the recently passed omnibus budget will help.

The Assembly passed an omnibus bill extending local sales taxes and included two - year control of schools for de Blasio.

Last month, the Assembly passed an omnibus bill that extends mayoral control for two years and included a package of sales tax extenders that impact upstate and suburban counties.

Stefanik, who is just wrapping up her first full year in Congress, also took some time to talk about the recently passed omnibus spending bill.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

When the Assembly passed the omnibus bill of all 10 points, women's advocates stood behind Speaker Silver cheering him on.

The ECPA however, was the first time the legislature passed an omnibus privacy law.

Republican leaders are figuring out whether to include the provisions in a must - pass omnibus spending bill before a March 23 deadline.

An attempt to pass omnibus gambling legislation failed during this year's Regular Session.

It is also easy to circumvent (pass an omnibus re-authorization every year).

The Assembly chose to pass the omnibus version of the bill; the Senate, controlled by Republicans in league with the four - member Independent Democratic Conference, passed nine of the piecemeal bills.

If you think that maybe the Democrats will offer something different than more spending, just remember that Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D — New York), said this following passing the omnibus spending bill:

March 25, 2009 — In passing the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Congress approved a demonstration project involving federal compensation for livestock losses to wolves, as well as federal funding for nonlethal activities to reduce the risk of livestock losses to wolves.

Jackson, Miss. — Urging the Congress to pass the omnibus education bill that died in the final hours of the 101st Congress will be a top priority for the Council of Chief State School Officers in the coming year, members agreed here last week.

With the regular legislative session scheduled to adjourn on May 5, lawmakers have about two weeks left to cobble together and pass an omnibus bill that would address issues for Connecticut's revised RTTT application.

Congress Passes Omnibus $ 1.3 Trillion Spending Bill Funding Government Through September; Two - Week Congressional Recess Begins

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Not exact matches

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

«I think they think their leverage has increased by including this in an omnibus discussion, including their hopes to pass DACA,» Cornyn told Business Insider.

This view was expressed in Bill C - 59, the recently passed Budget Omnibus Bill, which included legislation that would require future government's to maintain balanced budgets.

The deal included a variety of specifics, including new funding for disaster relief and opioid treatment, but more specifically, it extended current spending levels until March 23 and trusted Congress to use the intervening time to pass appropriations bills (or one big omnibus deal) in accordance with the terms of the deal.

This is a government that is fond of putting everything but the kitchen sink in omnibus bills, limiting debate on them, and then passing them without a comma changed.

However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

Under Omnibus Bill C - 38, passed last year, the Harper government gets to overrule any NEB recommendation it doesn't like, whether negative or positive, in the «national interest.»

This effort resulted in two subsequent omnibus budget bills passed in 2012, which further undermined the public's confidence in the NEB and its pipeline review process.

Lawmakers passed Fix NICS Act, a bipartisan plan first introduced after the Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting to strengthen the background check reporting system, in its omnibus spending bill.

They also folded a bill that strengthened the federal background check system into an omnibus spending bill passed in March.

The first, and most ideal, is to just pass a big bipartisan spending bill — called the «omnibus» — that funds the government.

The omnibus spending bill just passed in the House directs the FDA to strengthen and enforce dairy standards of identity in a bid to crack down on plant - based «imitators,» claim milk producers.

To fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown, while also specially carving out funding for the Department of Homeland Security, * this week Congress is on track to pass the so - called «CRomnibus» — a combination of a continuing resolution and an omnibus spending bill.

Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, complicating the outlook for the $ 1 trillion - plus spending measure, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to pass before government funding runs out on March 23.

The so - called omnibus bill abandons many of the most controversial provisions lawmakers were trying to include in the must - pass bill — which had painfully stalled the bill's release for days.

While lockbox language did make it into the omnibus legislation passed last night, the governor's office stripped out the meaningful provisions -LSB-...]

Rep. Jackie Speier, D - Calif., right, blames Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not including the House - passed sexual harassment legislation in the recent omnibus bill.

In reality, the money was approved last week as part of an omnibus bill the legislature passed after the governor called members back for an extraordinary session.

Reps. Maloney and Nydia Velazquez, who were both at the press conference Monday, said they are calling for Congress to include a permanent extension of Zadroga in the omnibus House spending bill that must be passed by December 11 this year.

One bill that did pass is one of the Secretary of State's omnibus election bills, HB 2.

While the Democratic - led Assembly has passed the legislation — which covers topics like pay equity, pregnancy discrimination and human trafficking — as an omnibus bill, Republicans in the Senate have been opposed to an abortion plank, which seeks to align state abortion law with federal law, setting up a continuing stalemate between both houses.

On March 4, the South Dakota Senate passed HB 1018, the omnibus election law bill that includes a provision that a ballot - qualified party may remove itself from the ballot.

While lockbox language did make it into the omnibus legislation passed last night, the governor's office stripped out the meaningful provisions and added a giant loophole.

The Senate passed two bills that are components of the omnibus Women's Equality Act, which has passed the Assembly twice but remains blocked in the Senate due to Republican opposition.