Sentences with phrase «passed with bipartisan support»

It is of great significance that this motion was passed with bipartisan support.

The bill, which passed with bipartisan support, will now go to the Senate, where it is expected to pass and to the White House, which is also in favor.

Given President Obama's focus on the climate and green jobs, it may be a surprise that much of what the Obama administration has done on those issues is implementing a bill that Congress passed with bipartisan support and President George W. Bush signed: the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).

EISA was passed with bipartisan support in Congress, signed by President George W. Bush, and implemented mostly by President Obama's administration.

Legislation passed with bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly would enable the development of community solar in the Silver State

Legislation passed with bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly would enable the development of community solar in the Silver State Carson City, NV (June 8, 2017)-- The Coalition Read More

AB 2743 was authored by Pedro Nava of the district of Santa Barbara, and was passed with bipartisan support of 63 to 7 by the California Assembly in May and passed 21 - 12 by the California Senate in early September.

Such statements might have been viable in 2001 when the NCLB legislation was passed with bipartisan support, but after nearly a decade and a half, there is no evidence to be found that test based accountability is telling us anything we did not already know from other means, nor is there evidence that the children whose plights provided NCLB's rationale are prospering.

Under Colorado's law, passed with bipartisan support and signed by Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. on Thursday, even tenured teachers who are found to be «ineffective» for two consecutive years could lose job protections, and possibly their jobs.

NCLB, passed with bipartisan support in 2001, sought through a variety of provisions to close the achievement gap among racial and socioeconomic groups but was highly proscriptive with Adequate Yearly Progress and intervention measures.

Evidence for ESSA sets the standard for the most up - to - date and reliable information on education programs that meet ESSA evidence requirements, which were passed with bipartisan support in Congress.

HB780 — Signed into law by Gov. Jindal, Friday morning, this bill passed with bipartisan support and will expand options for students already in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The law, passed with bipartisan support in 2001, is now almost universally seen as broken thanks to mandating standards, such as universal proficiency in math and reading, that have proven impossible to reach.

Flexer's bill (HB 5866) which was passed with bipartisan support would require dating sites charging fees to provide their customers with safety tips and advice designed to make their dating experience, both on - and offline, safer.

Cook - Deegan pointed to one «bright spot» for biomedical research amid all this uncertainty: in last year's lame duck session of Congress, the 21st Century Cures Act passed with bipartisan support.

Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican - led House's failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013, or advance legislation of its own.

Cohen noted that a similar cap passed with bipartisan support almost unanimously in New Jersey just two weeks ago, and that today Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo is headlining a rally for a cap with Nassau Republican County Executive Ed Mangano.

The proposal passed with bipartisan support in the House and Senate before being approved by Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

«Later this afternoon, the President is going to be signing two bills that were both passed with bipartisan support that help protect those who protect us,» then - White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at a press briefing in 2017.

Although the original JOBS Act passed with bipartisan support in 2012, this is an election year, and so the fate of the bill could be subject to political whims.

The legislation, which both chambers of Congress passed with bipartisan support, would fund the government through the end of September.

Not exact matches

Trump sent shockwaves through Congress when he made the threat to reject t $ 1.3 billion spending bill after it passed the Senate late last night with bipartisan support.

With last - minute support from Maryland's Republicans, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill Friday to raise the nation's debt ceiling, but the high - stakes hunt for a bipartisan plan that could pass both chambers of Congress was set to...

As students across the country walked out of their schools for the National Student Walkout in honor of the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, House lawmakers passed a narrow gun violence prevention measure with overwhelming bipartisan support.

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.

This provides funding for the state to implement the Early Start Act, which passed the legislature with bipartisan support.

That 2010 bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

The bill passed the Assembly earlier this week with bipartisan support, but then stalled in the Senate.

The measure passed both legislative chambers with strong bipartisan support, and I urge the governor to sign this bill into law as soon as possible.»

A bill closing the LLC Loophole has already passed in the Assembly with overwhelming bipartisan support, 120 - 8.

First introduced 12 years ago, the CVA has passed the State Assembly several times with bipartisan support, only to die within the Senate.

Aubertine says Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, «has set an agenda that includes a permanent successor to Power for Jobs in the mold of the Energize New York legislation I sponsored and passed in the Senate with broad bipartisan support.»

A Kavanagh bill to close the LLC loophole passed the Assembly with bipartisan support last year.

Squadron and Kavanagh's bills to close the LLC Loophole passed the Assembly with broad bipartisan support in 2015, including Speaker Carl Heastie, but were blocked from a full Senate vote by the Senate Majority.

It passed with broad bipartisan support and was signed by then - Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Last year, the Assembly passed our bill by a wide margin, with broad bipartisan support.

«The goal of START - UP NY — the game - changing initiative passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last year — is to create new jobs, attract new businesses, and encourage current companies to expand, which is why we are investing the resources necessary to get the word out to companies in New York State and across the country,» Conwall said.

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a $ 7.85 billion aid package for Hurricane Harvey victims with broad bipartisan support.

The State Legislature passed a bill with bipartisan support to automatically register people to vote.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers passed the two - year $ 41.3 billion bipartisan plan last week with enough support to override a veto, if that became necessary.

The gun control measure passed with Republican support and Klein pointed to the input of the GOP lawmakers in the process for making it happen, giving it the appearance of bipartisan deal making.

The two - year budget deal passed the House 332 - 94 with overwhelming bipartisan support.

President Obama signed legislation naming the courthouse after Jackson on October 5, 2012 after it passed in Congress with bipartisan support.

The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses of the legislature.

As predicted by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax cap program bill passed the chamber today with bipartisan support.

This past spring, I co-sponsored key legislation that the New York State Assembly passed with strong bipartisan support that would close the LLC loophole (A.6975 - B).

With numerous mass shootings in recent public memory, he urged a number of Republican Senators to support the bill, eventually passing it in a bipartisan effort.

Much of the legal community has lined up in support of the proposal, which passed the Assembly and Senate with comfortable, bipartisan majorities, though the New York State Bar Association has not taken an official position.

Deregulation «passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support, including every single Republican member of New York's congressional delegation,» Keller said.