Sentences with phrase «series of amendments to the bill»

But last week the Senate made a series of amendments to the bill, and the Assembly did not follow suit, indicating they are in no hurry to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

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The skinny bill included a series of amendments that aimed to repeal certain unpopular parts of the Affordable Care Act.

The skinny bill includes a series of amendments that would aim to repeal certain unpopular parts of the Affordable Care Act, like the individual and employer mandate.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

«One produces a bill that throws in the entire kitchen sink and is so outrageous that the house recoils from it, and one then introduces a series of amendments and members skip through the Lobby happily, thinking that they have obtained major victories and amendments,» he said, adding this bill «is close to it».

A cross party group of peers has challenged the government's mental health bill, with the Lords voting for a series of amendments that weaken the proposed act's power to detain people with severe personality disorders without consent.

Fears are growing across the labour movement that unless the Government backs a series of key amendments to the Employment Bill as it enters its key Commons» stages on Tuesday (November 4th) trade unions will become highly vulnerable to infiltration from the BNP and the far right.

Critics had attempted to delay the bill again, tabling their own series of amendments and even complaining of a stray bucket in the lobby.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted down.

And on the tax bill last week, he met with his Democratic committee colleagues before and after each committee session, crafting a series of amendments that aimed to correct what they see as the committee's worst flaws.

Labour MPs could still be ordered to vote against the triggering of Brexit if the Government refuses to adopt a series of amendments to its Article 50 bill, Diane Abbott has suggested.

More than 100 Tory MPs planned to register their opposition to the marriage (same - sex couples) bill by voting in favour of a series of amendments to water down the measure.

The moves came in a series of amendments to a 2016 spending bill for the Department of Commerce, home of the Census Bureau, and several other agencies that passed last night on a mostly party line vote of 242 to 183.

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

Finally, he said that the Labour party would «seek to reshape the bill with a series of pro-devolution amendments».

Labour used the second reading of the bill to table a series of amendments during the committee stage that it hopes will «reshape» the bill.

During a lengthy debate on a budget bill, state Rep. Russ Jennings offered what at first appeared to be just another in a series of amendments.

Part 2 of our series on workplace investigations focused on the recent amendments made to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the «OHSA») and Limitations Act by Bill 132, An Act to amend various statutes with respect to sexual violence, sexual harassment, domestic violence and related matters («Bill 132»).

Democrats tried to attach a series of gun control amendments to a sweeping bill on school safety, mental health and gun access meant to address the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The House Ways and Means Committee released a final version of its bill after failing to pass a series of amendments last week.

On this basis, the Social Justice Report 2000 recommended as the third pillar of a rights framework, constitutional amendments to entrench non-discrimination in Australian law, examination of proposals for a Bill of Rights, acceptance of a series of social justice principles to underpin negotiations with Indigenous people, and consideration of the possibility of a treaty.

The Ways and Means panel is scheduled to begin a four - day series of meetings today to consider amendments to the bill that was released last week.