Sentences with phrase «support bill»

This is not accountable, this is not democracy, and that is why the Liberal Democrats can not support this Bill.

More than 75 people rallied Saturday outside Belmont Park, urging state legislators to support a bill banning video slot machines on Long Island.

Matt Fernando, a spokesman for the Republican legislative majority, said the GOP supports enhanced sexual harassment prevention training but declined to say if they would support the bill.

A spokesman for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who is also personally pressuring council members to support the bill, declined comment.

If a majority of the House Republican Caucus agrees that the bill should get a vote in the Senate, and if a majority of Senators on the Senate Judiciary say they support the bill, then the Senate President, Senator Phil Berger, will bring up the bill in the Senate.

As a result, the Partnership for New York City, a prominent business group that had pledged to support the bill, reversed course within minutes.

But Hoffnung says he would support the bill, sponsored by Senator Liz Krueger, even if it were revenue neutral.

In an emailed statement on Thursday, Bonacic said he decided to support the bill after hearing personal stories from people touched by the issue.

HURLEY, N.Y. — Timothy Cardinal Dolan wants to be an ally of those seeking justice for victims of child sex abuse — but he doesn't support their bill.

I am proud to support this bill, and the entire Religious Freedom Package that the IDC presented, and the continued religious freedom it will bring to many New Yorkers who struggle with adversity every day,» said Senator Tony Avella.

But in California, the three GOP Senate candidates vying to take on Sen. Barbara Boxer face a much more daunting task: convincing a majority of Californians who support the bill that they are wrong.

Those who support the bill within the New York Republican delegation could end up with new - found power in the GOP - controlled Congress and influence with the Trump White House that could ultimately help the Empire State.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, thanked de Blasio for expanding living wage while pressuring him to support a bill to be introduced in the Council that would disallow developers from retaliating against workers who unionize on projects covered under the living - wage law.

Eight Council members told Capital on Monday they support the bill while eight said they oppose it.

Democrats in the State Assembly support the bill.

The president and White House officials have made entreaties to some Democratic senators representing states that voted for Trump last year, but they have yet to persuade any to support the bill.

However, a spokesman for the Tories said the party «would support a bill on 0.7 % but clearly the government have stopped well short of doing this themselves».

He said he could not support a bill that would have «such a negative impact» on children and families said the Legislature's plan «compromises four years of work» by the state on the Buffalo facility that he said will lead to better mental health care offerings for the region.

Katko said he would support any bill that repeals the tax.

Meanwhile, Times writer Jeremy Peters reports that the state Conservative Party has been threatening to take away their ballot line from Republican senators who support the bill, which in some cases may count as thousands of votes.

However, new Tory leader David Cameron unexpectedly announced that these reforms were in line with Tory policies and that he would support the bill if presented in the proposed form.

We must move past the days when members of the Assembly could say they support a bill which never comes to the floor for a vote.

Congressman Daniel Donovan of Staten Island said he could not support the bill with the added amendment.

And in suburban Philadelphia, Chrissy Houlahan, an Air Force veteran challenging Representative Ryan A. Costello, said she would make Mr. Costello's decision to support the bill in committee, before opposing it on the floor, a central issue.

«I can not support a bill that would have such a negative impact on children and families in need of mental health services and directly compromises four years of work that will demonstrably provide better and more accessible care for children,» Cuomo said in an explanation of his veto.

That Peter Bone believes that the Liberal Democrat U-turn is «bad for politics», and may not support the bill.

If both the Republican caucus and the I.D.C. support the bill, it could well pass the Senate.

Governor Cuomo, who has spoken out strongly for immigrants and against President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries, is not committing right now to support a bill to designate New York as a sanctuary state for immigrants.

«Senator Flanagan knows I will not and do not support this bill without a significant offset in the cost of living so that employers could possibly afford this ridiculous idea,» he said.

Representative Claudia Tenney, Republican of New York, said she was likely to support the bill after House leaders added a section that would shift Medicaid costs from New York's counties to the state government.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is running for mayor, has said she won't support the bill but also will not block it from coming to a vote.

VID then passed a resolution supporting the Living Wage proposal and urging Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support the bill and to promptly take action to enact it.

With numerous mass shootings in recent public memory, he urged a number of Republican Senators to support the bill, eventually passing it in a bipartisan effort.

«Now that the governor's clearly messaging differently, there will be a lot more interest from people who privately told me they support the bill, but they couldn't see themselves pushing the envelope for a bill that wasn't going to become law,» Krueger said.

As you know, there were only 10 Democratic Senators, together with myself, who joined the Republicans in the Senate to support a bill sponsored by Senator Simcha Felder, to reject the City of New York's five cents (5 cents) per plastic bag fee to shoppers in the five boroughs.

That's why we Conservatives support this Bill.

Cynthia Nixon encouraged other celebrities to support Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign and organized a benefit for him.

At the meeting, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - New Hartford) invited Trump to the factory and asked him to support her bill that would require the U.S. military to get all of their silverware from American manufacturers.

She says polls show three quarters of New Yorkers support the bill, including 70 % of Catholics.

If you are active in any current campaigns, please email the Senator that you want her / him to support this Bill.

Councilmembers and advocacy groups support the bill in its current form, and are concerned that crucial pieces of it will be lost during negotiations to get it passed, committee chair Julissa Ferreras said.

Gillibrand hopes her claim of an economic benefit persuades other senators to support her bill.

Miller says some GOP Senators have told her privately that they would support the bill, but do not want to come out publicly until they are assured that a majority of the senators would vote yes.

About a thousand Asian Americans, most of Chinese heritage, converged on the Legislative Office Building Thursday to support a bill that would ban the separation of data about Connecticut's students into ethnic subgroups in the public school system unless...

The second - term Republican had made it clear for weeks that he could not support the bill, insisting that he would keep a 2014 campaign promise that he would not support a partial replacement for Obamacare.

Longtime gay activist Ethan Geto recalled that when the Assembly passed the marriage bill in 2007, «David, in what may have been an unprecedented act for a lieutenant governor, or any executive official, worked the floor of the State Assembly on the night that the vote on gay marriage was about to occur, encouraging and cajoling assemblymembers to support the bill and, importantly, making the crucial point that gay rights are fundamental civil rights.»

Ball had still insisted that he was undecided on the measure, even soliciting the input from his twitter following on whether he should support the bill.

«You consistently told advocates and constituents that you would support the bill if it was ever brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice has released her third TV ad of the Democratic AG primary campaign, which highlights her effort to help create «The Safe Place,» a multidisciplinary center for victims of child abuse and domestic violence and a pledge that she'll support a bill to make luring a child on the Internet a felony crime.

«I wanted to be here to support Bill,» said Governor Cuomo.