Sentences with phrase «support moving the bill»

«We have made a great deal of progress, and I think that with the addition of the manager's amendment and my own amendment, I can support moving the bill forward in the legislative process.»

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Their moves comes after Collins told reporters on Tuesday that she had confirmed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he would support the two insurance bills as well as a measure waiving an automatic cut in Medicare that the tax bill could trigger.

The Land Trust Alliance, a land conservation advocacy organization, supports that bill and hopes to see it continue to move through Congress.

The state is currently moving closer to adopting a bill that would subject religious higher - education institutions to regulations forbidding them to act on their religious tenets if their students receive state grants to support their studies.

But for those with families to support and lots of bills to pay, «the challenge becomes what kind of policies can help people move up,» says Kazis, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston group that specializes in workforce development issues.

Bill Steele, convener of the Church's Social Care Council explained to The Herald why the move had been made: «Having consulted widely and having sought employment law advice, the Council does not believe that the requirement for all care and support staff to be Christian is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.»

They hoped to persuade political leaders, particularly House Speaker John Boehner, to move on the now stalled comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed with bi-partisan support nearly six months ago.

Home Office minister Baroness Williams of Trafford offered support to the Registration of Marriage Bill, which seeks to implement reforms to move from a paper - based system to an electronic register.

They have the option of being distant fathers, deadbeat dads, and moving on with their lives with little repercussions but a child support bill they may or may not pay.

In a highly unusual move, a bill to ban a cancer - causing ingredient in children's products that cleared the Assembly in a unanimous vote got hung up in the Senate Finance Committee despite bipartisan support.

The talk of tax cuts come as New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is seeking a tax increase on the wealthy from Albany in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten, a move that faces an uncertain future at the Capitol (Assembly Democrats and IDC Sen. Jeff Klein support it, the Senate Republicans not so much and Cuomo says he wants more information on the plan).

Support for moving the primary away from Sept. 11 has been historically bipartisan in Albany and the Democratic - led Assembly has previously approved a bill to move the date.

This same source suggested that perhaps Cox was hopeful that this move would somehow improve his relationship with Orange County GOP Chairman Bill DeProspo, who has not only endorsed Rick Lazio for governor, but suggested Cox's support of Lazio's primary opponent, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, is a resignation - worthy offense.

De Blasio is moving to gut a bill that would quiet down construction noise next to schools — a bill drafted in response to an Upper West Side building project supported by one of his big donors.

For example, the mayor said today that he will support Sen. Craig Johnson, a Nassau County Democrat, simply because he decided to buck his fellow downstate Dems and vote «yes» on the charter school bill — a move Bloomberg deemed «courageous.»

Matthiessen noted that Move New York has received support in all five boroughs, with Republican Sen. Andrew Lanza sponsoring a Move New York bill as a representative of Staten Island, the city's most car - dependent borough.

«We need this kind of support to move forward and we're calling on Governor Cuomo to sign the bill,» said Bill Nowak of the New York Geothermal Energy Organizatbill,» said Bill Nowak of the New York Geothermal Energy OrganizatBill Nowak of the New York Geothermal Energy Organization.

A group of Buffalo Bills supporters plans to deliver a dozen U.S. mailbags to the Bills» training camp at St. John Fisher College, filled with 13,000 letters from fans pledging continued support if the team stays in Buffalo and no support if it moves to another city.

I think we ought to move on,» said Sen. Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Not only do we need to support veterans, but their caregivers, too Trump Jr. prepares to hit the campaign trail ahead of midterms MORE (D - Mont.).

Asked about newer versions of the bill, which last year drew support from Republican Sen. John Bonacic, Young said, «that I don't believe will be an issue moving forward for our conference.»

«The bill has received some internal support, it has had its hearing and negotiations are ongoing to possibly move it forward,» said a spokesperson for Kallos regarding the bill's status.

One idea for improving oversight of the NYPD is to create an inspector general for the department, a move that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and more recently City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, have supported.

«I'm not sure that they're not moving for slightly different reasons: Bill because it's what he believes,» Mr. Samuels said, «and Andrew because he's looking at the tea leaves, and 2016 may be his last chance to pass some substantive legislation that he's always said he's supported but hasn't done as much [to pass].»

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Board of Supervisors moved a resolution in support of a state Senate bill giving counties the ability to create countywide EMS districts to the full board during its Economic Development Committee meeting Dec. 11.

While we support increased competition in areas where it demonstrates benefits to patients, the bill appears to move towards promoting competition at the expense of collaboration and integration.»

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

The bill hopes to improve local planning of services by bolstering information about people with autism, improve inter-agency working for those moving from child to adult services and ensure access to appropriate support and services for people with autism in adult life.

All three of Westminster's mainstream parties supported such a move in their 2010 general election manifestos and will not stand in the way of the bill as it progresses through the Commons.

Forty of the Council's 51 members have signed onto the bill, but it has languished without receiving a floor vote — adding it to a growing list of bills with strong support among council members that have failed to move forward under Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a close de Blasio ally, despite promises of more democratic Council rules reform.

The Brooklyn comptroller candidate's campaign has accused Liu of not moving the bill, which has the support of several environmental and transportation advocacy groups as well as the mayor, forward to prevent Yassky from touting it as an accomplishment prior to the September Democratic primary.

As the amendment and the Senate's version of the bill moved forward, there was fear among city officials that New York could be punished twice; its taxpayers may also be called upon to help cover the lost county support for Medicaid statewide.

Washington (CNN)- A top Senate Democrat has offered a pair of amendments to an immigration reform bill bolstering rights for same - sex couples, a politically risky move that threatens to shatter Republican support for the sweeping legislation.

While the State Legislature failed to agree on a bill that would protect minors from prosecution — or to «raise the age,» as Mr. Cuomo put it — to governor said he would issue an executive order barring persons under the age of 18 from the state's adult correctional facilities, a move he said had Mr. Heastie and Mr. Flanagan's support.

She is a member of the Assembly's Committee on Transportation, and is an original co-sponsor of a bill supporting the Move New York Fair Plan, along with Felix Ortiz.

Grimm said his Democratic target, Rep. Mike McMahon, would have been in physical danger had he voted «yes» on the health care reform bill — a move that cost the incumbent congressman the support of the labor - backed Working Families Party and SEIU / 1199.

The Independence Party has released a bill memorandum supporting a measure designed to crack down the advertising of multi-family residential properties — a move seen as an effort to rein in the online rental company Airbnb.

«We're in the process of moving towards a bill that we can all support,» said Savino, who added that the legislative sponsors and the governor are seeking the «tightest, most regulated medical marijuana program in the country.»

Monday, Reed announced he would not support the Senate bill if it moved forward without the so - called Collins - Faso amendment, designed to shift Medicaid costs in New York from the counties to the state.

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.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Little more than a week after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience of hundreds at an LGBT Democratic mayoral forum that she was not in favor of moving forward now on pending paid sick leave legislation, she will announce support for a modified bill at a City Hall press -LSB-...]

National Republicans have seized on a provision in the bill — written by Connecticut Sen > Chris Dodd — that limited executive salaries but allowed those same executives to keep their bonuses as evidence that Murphy supports the move by AIG.

State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava's (R) stunning Sunday decision to support Democrat Bill Owens over Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the special election in New York's 23rd district got us to thinking about where such a move fits into our Fix endorsement hierarchy.

«I strongly support the Mayor's move to focus the juvenile justice system more on prevention and less on detention,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in a statement.

«We wanted to make sure that when members signed onto bills, they were strong supporters of the bills,» said Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, who added that it was important «members who signed on to make it a majority or a super-majority were cognizant of the fact that their support for the bill would mean that it would move forward.»

Bills that would create such a program have been introduced in the Assembly, but Cuomo's support is widely seen as instrumental in moving campaign finance reform through the Senate

The bill, one of the Democratic governor's marque initiatives, passed the Senate on a bipartisan vote of 22 to 14; it now moves to the House of Representatives, where it also has bipartisan support.

Gibson insists he did not vote to cut anything from SNAP, and that after the farm bill passed New York State moved to increase its support of program from $ 1 to $ 20 a month per family, via the heating assistance program.

Despite his own move to reduce arrests for marijuana possession, Mayor Bill de Blasio said tonight he does not support Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's call to decriminalize other offenses, like fare - beating.

Back in January Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order preventing ISPs with state contracts from blocking, throttling or prioritizing internet content, a move supported by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who confirmed that city contracts in the coming years will only go to compliant ISPs.

«Our hope is that the democratic process will proceed to move these bills towards passage, just like any other legislation with such significant support,» said Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program Manager with the Center for Constitutional Rights.