Sentences with phrase «passed on a bipartisan basis»

With the debt limit set to be hit in a matter of hours, Republicans and Democrats in Congress reluctantly accepted the president's demand for the sequester, and a revised version of the Budget Control Act was passed on a bipartisan basis.

Carson City, NV (June 19, 2017)-- Late Friday, Nevada Governor Sandoval vetoed Senate Bill 392, legislation passed on a bipartisan basis by the Nevada Legislature which would have made Nevada the 15th state to have a community solar program.

This extension passed on a bipartisan basis in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

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Congress passed updated healthy school lunch standards, based on recommendations from pediatricians, with overwhelming bipartisan support to help reduce our country's childhood obesity epidemic and ensure kids are able to get nutritious food at school.

Last year Congress acted on a bipartisan basis to pass child care legislation that includes much - needed reforms to improve the quality and safety in child care settings, including requiring training for providers to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, instituting annual inspections of child care facilities, and comprehensive background checks of all providers.

The airline companies flying into the US are subject to certain reporting requirements established under a certain US law written on a bipartisan basis and passed so after 9/11.

Working on a bipartisan basis, we passed a budget giving minimum wage workers three raises over the next two - and - a-half years.

«We applaud the President's statement that he will sign the Zadroga Act, and we hope that he will join us in urging both houses of Congress to pass the bill on a bipartisan basis when we return in September.

The House overwhelmingly passed a bill based on a bipartisan agreement crafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate's Budget Committee.

For many years, Congress has hotly debated this issue of control, and on a bipartisan basis passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015.

Today, the Illinois State Senate passed a $ 100 million tax credit scholarship program, and charter funding equity on a bipartisan basis of 38 - 13 votes after the House approved the measure yesterday.

Michigan has seen major school reform this year, passing a law with bipartisan support that limited teachers» collective bargaining and made it easier to fire teachers based on performance.

«Renewable standards passed over the last decade have been supported on a bipartisan basis, and that was before the dramatic growth in manufacturing and construction jobs the industry created,» said Rob Gramlich, the American Wind Energy Association's senior vice president for public policy.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

Last December, under the leadership of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass The Innovation Act on a strong bipartisan basis, 325 - 91.