Sentences with phrase «pushing legislation»

But instead of pushing legislation that would take health care away from millions, now is the time for Congress to work towards common sense, bipartisan health care solutions that put people first.»

«There are a lot of questions that Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer and I intend to ask what he is doing to protect the privacy of Americans,» Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat pushing legislation for more online ad transparency, said in an April 4 news release.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is pushing legislation, while House Speaker Paul Ryan said, «we need to think less about taking sides.»

GOP lawmakers have been trying to repeal the ACA ever since it was enacted, and they've spent 2017 pushing legislation that would repeal or change various aspects of the law.

I'm writing this blog to tell you that some in Congress are pushing legislation right now that will severely restrict that right in cases of medical malpractice and nursing home abuse.

Republican leaders are pushing legislation that would replace the Bureau.

Horse slaughter opponents are pushing legislation in Congress to ban domestic slaughter, as well as the export of horses to other countries for slaughter.

But tragically, groups like the Humane Society of the United States, the Michigan Humane Society, and even Best Friends are jumping on the bandwagon and pushing legislation to allow shelters to kill animals faster.

I personally am for pushing legislation that would treat digital products just like their real world counterparts when it comes to first sales rights and all that they encompass.

But parents need to be well - informed on what they're giving up with this bill, and I don't see the folks pushing this legislation providing the actual facts,» Spitzer - Resnick says in an interview.

She is pushing legislation to largely strip state schools chief Diane Douglas of much of her control over employees of the Board of Education.

A group of lawmakers have been pushing legislation that would end some of the harsher disciplinary practices in public schools in order to make school environments more supportive.

It is also pushing legislation through the Parliament that will remove the need for schools to register and be inspected separately with Ofsted for on - site nurseries.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Indiana are now pushing legislation that would make it easier for the state to more quickly take over schools that receive Ds or Fs and put them in the hands of charter school operators.

Prompted by a backlog of cases at the agency responsible for investigating teacher misconduct in Georgia, Gov. Zell Miller is pushing legislation that would do away with the agency and turn its duties over to another state office.

But Schumer is also looking at the state's hospitals, by pushing legislation through the Senate that will provide funding for Low Volume Hospital Programs and Medicare - dependent hospitals throughout the state.

A Queens state senator is pushing legislation that would give out $ 10,000 grants to small business owners with shops damaged by Hurricane Sandy in order to help them fix up their storefronts.

Several Nebraska state lawmakers were so outraged by the shenanigans that they are pushing legislation that would impose some of the country's most restrictive regulations on prerecorded campaign calls, both bogus and legitimate ones.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) is pushing legislation to help seniors who have been financially exploited by phone and online scams.

That case has already led to new trials for Silver, former speaker of the Assembly, and Skelos, former majority leader of the state Senate, by ruling that politician must take «official action,» like pushing legislation, to be guilty of bribery.

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.

Democratic officials in some high - tax states are pushing legislation that would retain a federal tax break for state and local taxes, a deduction that was capped in the recent GOP tax overhaul

Sen. Audrey Gibson, a Democrat poised to lead her caucus next Legislative Session, offered a look at the realities of pushing legislation when the numbers work against your party.

Republicans in the state legislature are pushing legislation that would repeal portions of the SAFE Act upstate.

With many local businesses struggling to find skilled workers in technical fields, a local assemblyman is pushing legislation that would create a new graduation option for high school students in New York State.

«If it wasn't bad enough that Chris Collins was pushing legislation to benefit a company that he's the largest stockholder of, now we find out that he doubled down on this egregious offense by urging other members of Congress to join his money - making scheme,» said Basil A. Smikle Jr., executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.

Mark - Viverito gave Levine credit for relentlessly pushing the legislation for the last three years.

That's why he's been pushing legislation to encourage that development.»

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan)-- who has been pushing legislation since June that would require the city to install bollards in front of schools, public plazas and busy corridors — said the bike path should have been made safer years ago.

A Connecticut lawmaker is once again pushing legislation he says will prevent controversial transfers of state land to municipalities, businesses or individuals.

Todd also has led the fight in the Assembly against the BDS movement, pushing legislation to prohibit businesses that do business with New York from boycotting Israel.

In the wake of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in the New York metro area and across the country last week, Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke is pushing legislation that would block President Donald Trump «s executive order targeting for so - called «sanctuary cities.»

New York lawmakers are pushing legislation to crack down on forced marriages of children by raising the age at which they can legally wed to as high as 18.

Squadron and Hoylman are also pushing legislation that would prevent profiteering on tickets for nonprofit events, especially after free tickets to see Pope Francis during his visit to New York last year were offered online for hundreds of dollars each.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

If this is the case, why does he even bother with pushing legislation through congress?

Sen. Tony Avella is pushing legislation that would prohibit the implantation of employer - sponsored microchips.

He's also pushing legislation that would allow these immigrants to apply for Cuomo's new Excelsior Scholarship, which covers the cost of in - state tuition at public colleges and universities.

ALBANY — Citing the 1 p.m. start times for many Buffalo Bills home games, several western New York lawmakers are pushing legislation that would allow beer and alcohol to be sold an hour earlier on Sundays.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, another Manhattan Democrat, has been pushing legislation to legalize and tax recreational use of marijuana, arguing state policy outlawing the drug has been costly in terms of law enforcement resources and the futures of people convicted of crimes.

Now, several state and local officials are pushing legislation that would reclassify the boards under the law.

ALBANY — A Republican senator is pushing legislation that would allow sports betting at four new casinos that have opened across upstate New York.

A group of Republican state lawmakers is pushing legislation they say strikes a balance between a desire across much of the state to repeal the SAFE Act gun control law and a desire to keep it in full effect in the New York City metropolis.

And he is pushing legislation to make it easier to remove bad operators.

Some parents are also pushing legislation to protect student data.

House Democrats will waste no time in the new Congress pushing legislation to tighten the nation's gun laws.

State lawmakers are pushing legislation again to restore more generous disability pensions to recently hired cops and firefighters — drawing fire from a budget watchdog who warned the cost would...

At the same time, DeFrancisco is pushing legislation that would give patients the ability to bring medical malpractice cases beginning from when they discover the error, not from when the mistake occurred, which is current law.

Senate lawmakers are pushing legislation that would block sex offenders from gaining access to homeless shelters.

After the tragic death this summer of an infant at an unlicensed Manhattan day care center, NYC Council members are pushing legislation to make it easier for parents to spot places operating illegally — and without proper training.