Sentences with phrase «testified against the bill»

Vernon Reaser, president of A + Texas Teachers, testified against the bill at a hearing in March.

Mothers with grade school children made the long drive to Tallahassee to testify against this bill.

Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the largest national teachers» union, which is the Colorado association's parent, testified against the bill here in April.

Northern Kentucky Mayor Eric Haas (HAHS) testified against the bill.

«Thankfully, a large number of advocates, including cat colony caregivers and animal welfare organizations, testified against the bill and it failed to move forward.

The ACLU of Missouri and NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri also testified against the bill.

Not exact matches

He's pushing passage of a bill that would eliminate the need for victims to testify against their traffickers, making it easier to put pimps behind bars — and for longer periods of time.

Many of the same - sex marriage bill's opponents, while testifying against that measure, testified in favor of a separate bill under consideration at the hearing that was introduced by Del..

Dozens of witnesses testified for and against a same - sex marriage bill before a committee of the Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis on Friday as the bill's sponsors cautioned supporters not to become complacent.

Errigo, advocates and other lawmakers want the Assembly to pass a bill that would eliminate the need for victims to testify against their traffickers, making it easier to put pimps behind bars — and for longer periods of time.

An Abuja High Court has knocked off an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Michael Adariku who was billed to testify against the former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in the charges brought against him by the Federal government.

Speaking after an unrelated education press conference in Brooklyn, Ms. Fariña fiercely reiterated a number of the arguments Mayor Bill de Blasio made against the governor's plan when testifying to the state legislature in Albany last month.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton testified at a City Council hearing on the matter Monday morning, where he pushed back against nine police reform bills.

Now, a year later, having failed to testify against the union's proposed bill or even voice any opposition what - so - ever, Malloy vetoed the very concept was submitted as a result of that AFL - CIO resolution.

McGovern was testifying in favor of Senate Bill 1155 and HB 1080, and against HB 3212.

When a bill was introduced in the last legislative session requiring licensing of commercial dog breeders, even the state DATCP testified against it.

I testified at the state legislature in Louisiana against one of the no - nothing bills you mentioned, and even though it was painfully obvious that the legislators had no real intention of being affected by any argument we might make, it was a necessary «waste» of time.

Taylor had testified against the same bill, and the Heartland Institute soon published a report that promoted Stacy's «compelling» testimony against the renewable energy standard.

[3] According to Bill Minor, «Recently Thigpen stacked a Mississippi legislative hearing on Medicaid expansion with alleged health care experts who testified against expansion.

Similarly, Miranda v. Arizona (right not to testify against yourself) reaffirmed civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and has become part of our expectations of legal process.

He is the Chairman of the Michigan Association for Justice's no - fault committee and has testified before the Michigan legislature against bills that would weaken this state's protections of injured motorists.

In addition, Grassley's bill ignores the reality that strong federal sentencing guidelines have another valuable byproduct — squeezing cooperation from reticent criminals so they will testify against other criminals, while incentivizing them to plead guilty to lesser offenses to get shorter prison terms...

Actuaries are auto insurance experts that testify against your medical providers» bills.

* When it comes to the retrial of sexual - assault charges against Bill Cosby, there are many women — 19, to be exact — willing to testify #MeToo.

Top intelligence officials testifying before Congress in February warned against using Huawei products, and a bill has been introduced in Congress that would block the government from buying or leasing equipment from either Huawei or fellow Chinese phone maker ZTE.