Sentences with phrase «pushes national legislation»

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will visit Niagara Gear, which has an employee stock ownership plan, on Monday to get feedback from workers as she pushes national legislation to support such plans around the country.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has championed gun control legislation, has pushed Democrats to act on the national level.

Assembly Democrats relaunched a push for a statewide single - payer health - care program in hopes that the national debate over health care will give their legislation new momentum.

A Democratic State Committeewoman, Cooper took credit for pushing the city and state clinic access bills that later became the model for national legislation.

With Congress poised to make further gains on its tax overhaul legislation this week, a group is launching a national digital ad campaign to push for the preservation of state and local tax deductions.

At 1 p.m., IDC lawmakers will hold a news conference to call on federal representatives to block right - to - work legislation and announce a four - point IDC Labor Protection Plan to combat anti-worker legislation being pushed at the national level, RWDSU Headquarters, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York City.

A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an Orlando club.

Republican sportsmen in two GOP - leaning congressional districts are opposed to including the push to drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in the omnibus tax overhaul legislation, according to a poll released Friday by the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel capitalized upon the resignation of President Donald Trump «s Russian - tainted National Security Advisor to push legislation that would hit Moscow and its agents with even tougher financial sanctions.

Democrats in the New York Assembly are relaunching a push for a statewide single - payer health - care program in hopes that the national debate over health care will give their legislation new momentum.

New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in Plattsburgh this morning to continue to push her federal legislation to create a national paid family and medical leave insurance program.

A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an...

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, another Democrat whose national profile is rising, was widely credited with pushing the legislation through a divided legislature in his state.

Officials of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and other national groups said their local chapters are pushing referendums, state legislation, and Congressional action to deny services to illegal immigrants.

The experiences stand in contrast to a national push (e.g., the 17 programs listed in the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program legislation; see Herman, 1999) for off - the - shelf reading intervention programs and school reform models (American Federation of Teachers, 1997; Herman & Stringfield, 1997; Slavin & Fashola, 1998; Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, 1998).

Rep. Rob Bryan is working behind the scenes on legislation pushed by national right - wing forces that could turn over struggling public schools to for - profit charter school operators who would have the freedom to fire all the teachers.

And although teachers unions opposed the legislation in Colorado, the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, in an unexpected twist, endorsed it after securing several amendments that both the AFT and the Colorado Education Assn., an affiliate of the National Education Assn., had pushed.

Peabody, which operates three coal mines in the Powder River Basin, has argued against climate change legislation at the national and international level, pushing instead for coal gasification and carbon sequestration technologies, under the name clean coal.

The coordinated national push for carbon cap - and - trade legislation, which had united virtually every major environmental group in the country, proved fruitless.

NSP accuses Conservatives of using private member's bills to push through legislation, The National Post