Sentences with phrase «raises opposition to bill»

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All ministers had to do was to raise in front of them the spectre of being an irresponsible opposition, and that children will die if they do not vote for the bill on this timetable, and they succumbed.»

Skelos reiterated his opposition to Silver's bill to raise the minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.50 and then tie it to the rate of inflation.

Mr. Crespo's opposition to the Women's Equality Act, a ten - point package of bills, raised eyebrows because it has been championed by Assembly Democrats and Mr. Cuomo, who even created the Women's Equality Party as he ran for re-election last year.

The bill to raise the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 cents an hour to $ 8.50 cents has been approved in the Democratic led State Assembly, but faces opposition form Republicans who control the Senate.

Opposition to the bill, they said, centers on a general reluctance to raise taxes, rather than the House transportation committee's recent vote to give none of the new funds to schools, which would have received...

Through the entire legislative process, only one Democratic legislator voted against the bill (In the State House) and neither Malloy nor his administration ever raised any public opposition to the common sense bill.