Sentences with phrase «supported bipartisan efforts»

The Senate has led broadly - supported bipartisan efforts to update grid cybersecurity.

At 11 a.m., US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, SUNY Commissioner of University Police Bruce McBride, SUNY Canton President Zvi Szafran and other SUNY representatives, Manhattan BP Gale Brewer, attorney Leslie Crocker Snyder and student «survivors» support a bipartisan effort in Congress to combat sexual assaults at colleges and universities, 780 Third Ave., Suite 2601, Manhattan.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.

He also supported the bipartisan effort to keep student loan interest rates low.

Not exact matches

If they didn't need to do that, they might find that without constant effort, their bipartisan political support might erode.

«New York leads the nation's efforts in strengthening climate security, and through the RGGI program and this latest bipartisan proposal to reduce emissions even further, the investment of proceeds will continue to support and create thousands of jobs and reduce electricity bills for residents,» Governor Cuomo said.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on 7/16 Washington (CNN)-- An effort to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command received a bipartisan boost Tuesday as conservative Republicans joined the bill's main backer, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to voice their support for the measure.

«I've worked extremely hard alongside numerous state legislators,» Carey said of his efforts to pass Jonathan's Law, which had bipartisan support.

in support of reigniting bipartisan efforts to bring about immigration reform.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

The Cable Telecommunications Association of New York issued a similar statement on behalf of its members, saying it supports a bipartisan federal effort to address net neutrality.

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.

«Furthermore the collaboration and bipartisan engagement that supports these efforts, and drives our recent success, will enable us to advance the goals and missions of the IPP program.»

Other Republican leaders criticized Democrats when the legislation was introduced, saying polices should be developed and supported in a bipartisan effort.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

He told reporters that he had been working with the group «to establish a bipartisan rapport with the new Trump team,» as part of an effort to make «clear to them how important it is to support our cities.»

Cuomo is not on board with legislative efforts to authorize medicinal marijuana, and Savino has amended her bill to win enough bipartisan support to passif it ever comes to a floor vote.

Research and development areas with strong bipartisan support — such as efforts to combat cancer, brain disorders, and antibiotic resistance, as well as cybersecurity and computing initiatives — will likely continue to receive support under any new White House Administration, Holdren noted.

President Bill Clinton's science adviser Neal Lane immediately hailed the study as «a rigorous analytic review» that gives a green light to the program and called for bipartisan support for the effort.

Known popularly as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress, this new legislation promises an important shift in efforts at all levels to improve the quality of public education.

My point is not that other policies are therefore unimportant, but rather that the policies mentioned here have broad support, have moderate to strong research evidence of positive effects (except for the case of nonurban charters, which have strong evidence of neutral to negative effects), and could therefore be a prime target for ongoing bipartisan policy efforts.

ESSA indicates that states must use evidence - based strategies to support low - performing schools, but Education Secretary DeVos will evaluate whether the strategies described in each state plan conform to that requirement.19 During an exchange with Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) at a hearing to defend the fiscal year 2018 proposed presidential budget, DeVos refused to dismiss painting walls as a evidence - based strategy to improve school performance.20 And after a celebrated bipartisan effort to reauthorize ESSA — in addition to other federal education policies — the possibility of progress rests largely in the hands of the Education Department.

Of particular note are their efforts to build bipartisan support for prevention, particularly in the realm of juvenile justice policy.

In the letter, Mr. Gentzel wrote «The National School Boards Association (NSBA), representing more than 90,000 local school board members across the nation, working with and through our state associations, supports passage of the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» and applauds the work of the Conference Committee for its bipartisan effort to modernize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

The bill, authored by State Sens. José Menéndez (D - San Antonio) and Paul Bettencourt (R - Houston) reflects another bipartisan effort to support neighborhood schools while acknowledging the growing role of charters.

(District of Columbia) In an effort to increase economic and educational opportunities for Native American youth, federal officials are looking to unify resources available to often underserved communities with bipartisan support.

There is no effort more worthy of bipartisan support than the reform of public education.

Of those initial efforts, only the charter school measure received bipartisan support.

He voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act in an effort to keep interest rates from rising, but he does not fully support tying federal rates to the market.

He voted in support of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act in an effort to keep rates low; additionally, he cosponsored legislation that would have expanded Pell Grant availability.

This effort has been joined by growing bipartisan support encouraging FHFA to expand and better define the development of credit risk transfer programs.

Working closely with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D - Ore., he has steadily built bipartisan support, with a record 184 Representatives joining the effort in 2017 and 190 this year.

EPA preemption was previously used as a bargaining chip in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act in an effort to bring bipartisan support on board.

«This effort to solve global warming puts to rest all the excuses for doing nothing: This bill is bipartisan, it achieves environmental goals by encouraging innovation and American ingenuity, and its flexible approach is supported by industry,» said Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federation.

While most members of the U.S. Climate Action Network applauded the committee and Senator Boxer for their efforts in passing the bill, others have spoken out, pleading with senators to not weaken the bill in the effort of gaining bipartisan support.

Kudos to REP for supporting Graham's bipartisan efforts to address the twin issues of climate and energy security.

Moreover, despite broad bipartisan support, the SRCA is still yet to get a floor vote in either chamber of Congress after three years of considerable effort.

On behalf of millions of small businesses, startups, innovators and Main Street America, we urge your strong support for bipartisan legislation that provides urgently needed relief and reform, and encourage your continued efforts until the job is done and the bill becomes law.

In what appears to be an effort to stoke the fires of the Honest Ads Act, CNN Money reported that the act has «bipartisan support and is also sponsored by Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and John McCain of Arizona.»

Efforts here in WA State to make SEL a requirement in schools have had bipartisan support in the legislature.

In the House Ways and Means Committee, there is bipartisan support for reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, a national funding stream that supports efforts to support young and expecting mothers.

CHIP and MIECHV have enjoyed strong bipartisan support over the years, but Congress left them out in the cold in its rush to pass the tax bill, and previous efforts in September to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Another extension has bipartisan support, but the effort could get snagged as Congress takes up trillions of dollars» worth of tax provisions set to expire.

The Consumer Bankers Association, the Credit Union National Association, the Independent Community Bankers Association and the National Association of Federal Credit Unions had supported Hensarling's previous effort to establish a bipartisan commission to run the agency.