Sentences with phrase «to move the bill»

Moving the bill forward, she said, would be the only way to force further negotiations this year.

As the members of your team move bills through the successive steps of the legislative process and onto the president's desk, you score points.

But his legislation died after it was not brought up for discussion before the deadline to move bills out of committee this session.

In all, a large and diverse group of more than 24 children's organizations, foundations, government watchdog entities, and lobbyists worked together to move the bill towards passage.

You also have the ability to move your billing due date to a different time of the month.

Each hearing ended with a vote to move the bill onto the next step.

Among other things, the changes make audio and video of committee meetings available online and give lawmakers a greater ability to move bills through the committee process.

Yet, our political leaders did not even have the will to move this bill out of committee.

CCSA advocated strongly against this costly bill, and the author did not move the bill forward.

Your member of the Pennsylvania House matters in moving this bill forward.

Senate Republicans pushed back against the Democrats» plans to move the bill as early as next week.

Not surprisingly, the Democrats took issue with this classification, saying Klein could have used his clout as the deputy majority leader at that time to push his fellow members to move the bill along.

«The governor asked if we could move the bill quickly.

Former Attorney General, Deputy Dominic Ayine in 2015, moved the bill for second reading in Parliament.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

«It's been our position that there is a majority for a reason and we feel that to really move bills in this house we should have a consensus of enough Democrats to pass the bill,» he said.

«On the one hand, the legislative session wraps up in June and you want to get a head of steam up and move an issue to the top of the legislative agenda, moving bills does that.»

Or Murkowski's committee could move the bill on its own, the aide says.

GOP leaders moved the bill through the chamber at breakneck speed as they attempt to send legislation to Trump's desk by Christmas.

Lady O'Loan, moving her Bill at second reading, said: «It simply can't be consistent with conscience to say «I can not do this but I will you order you to do it».

The Assembly never moved the bill out of committee and despite numerous comments about reviewing, discussing, considering, and conferencing the legislation, ultimately didn't change the bill from the Senate amended version and only amended the bill in the final week of the legislative session.

New York has been moving the bill relatively quickly.

Klein moved the bill to the floor earlier this year, and he and the four senators of his conference voted for it.

The committee moved the bill shortly after Dean and Adam Skelos were in a Manhattan courtroom, pleading not guilty to federal charges of extortion, fraud and bribe - solicitation charges.

When John Flanagan edged out John DeFrancisco to become the State Senate leader, he promised to move a bill modifying the law to eliminate background checks on ammunition and allow for the inheritance of newly banned «assault weapons.»

She gave members more leeway to not only move bills forward (sometimes to the surprise or consternation of the mayor's office), but also allowed individual members to reject projects in their districts, even if they had mayoral backing, like a zoning change sought by a developer in Upper Manhattan, blocked by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, or another in Sunnyside, Queens, blocked by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

But Senator Barbara Boxer (D — CA), the committee chair, moved the bill without any Republicans present to offer amendments, potentially further alienating a party she may need to work with over the next month to pass a 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.»

And so, after months of watching House Republicans wrestle with moving their bill through the House, Scott — who had views similar to the White House, and could deliver Democrats» votes — finally «had a seat at the table,» he said.

(Ky.) Lawmakers moved bills to the governor that would gradually repeal and replace the Common Core State Standards, require new Bible literacy courses and put new restrictions on student athletes suspected of having a concussion.

JUNEAU, Alaska — The House Finance Committee on Thursday moved a bill that would end the high school exit examination.

Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) promised that the committee would address the law's rewrite «in the coming months,» possibly moving a bill to the House floor by the end of summer.

The Senate's vote moves the bill, which rolls back a significant amount of federal power over K - 12 education, to the president's desk.

Kline has also moved a bill out of committee that would slash half of NCLB's federal education programs and another one that would give more states flexibility over spending federal education funds intended to serve disadvantaged students.

Assuming it works, I will move 50 % the next month so I can start moving my bills to my new bank, but I want money at ING in case an unexpected bill comes in there.

During this process, Ismawati succeeded in moving the bill away from environmentally damaging practices such as incineration.

The opposite has happened: The House of Representatives could vote on climate regulations in the next couple of weeks, and now some are suggesting that the Senate could begin to move a bill next month.

Only Nine More Votes Needed to Move Bill Forward The bill, which needed 60 votes to move forward, only garnered 51 votes of support, with 43 opposed.

The president is expected to meet next week with key legislators in the Senate on steps to move the bill ahead, Reuters reported Wednesday.

Centerbase allows you to do things like write down invoices and moving billing entries if they were originally attached to the wrong matter.

This legislation takes a major step forward in curbing the worst abuses of patent trolls, and CPF supports efforts to move the bill promptly through the House Judiciary Committee and toward full House approval as quickly as possible.

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moved that Bill C - 560, An Act to amend the Divorce Act (equal parenting) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be read the second time and referred to a committee.

It has been sitting in the Mental Health Committee since 2012 and the New Harlem East Merchants Association thinks it's time to move the bill along.

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.

CAARA is trying to get the support of NYS Senator Patty Richie, Chair of the Senate Agricultural Committee, and her support would really help move the bill forward.

«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.

Though the bill has wide - spread support in both the Massachusetts House and Senate, the challenge is to move the bill forward for a vote before the end of the month.

Now, for the first time ever: · Senators may move a bill from committee to the calendar, so good ideas from both parties can get a hearing