Sentences with phrase «stop blocking this bill»

Her rivals were aggressive during the forum in taking her on over the issue, with Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller, saying, «Speaker Quinn, you need to stop blocking this bill right now.»

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Mar blocked Maryland global warming Bill Alberta's representative in Washington DC Gary Mar helped stop a piece of global warming legislation in the State of Maryland in 2009.

I just wish they would stop blocking all his bills so we can actually get some progress going.

Vanderbilt University will stand by its «all - comers» policy for student groups next fall, after a veto from Tennessee governor Bill Haslam in May stopped popular legislation that sought to block it.

Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio scored what seemed to be a win in his ongoing feud with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the deteriorating subway system: The city was able to temporarily block more than $ 200 million in upgrades, as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative, that would bring improvements to subway stops — but not the system's aging signals or other issues the city deemed more pressing.

Governor Cuomo also called on Congress to stop the so - called Graham - Cassidy bill, Congress's latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.The bill uses block grants and per capita spending caps to dramatically cut Medicaid funding for New York.

The Times questions Cuomo's motives for pushing his cap bill and calls on Assembly Sheldon Silver to stop making noises about negotiating and block the measure outright.

Obama has threatened to veto the bill because it would block spending on his executive actions on immigration, including an order to stop deporting illegal immigrants brought into the United States as young children.

The union representing NYPD sergeants has vowed to do what it can to block the City Council from overriding Mayor Bloomberg's veto on a bill to reform the controversial stop - and - frisk policy.

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