Sentences with phrase «trade bill passed»

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The bill S. 2115 was purportedly passed to exempt smaller banks from oversight and requirements for loans, mortgages, and trading.

U.S. stocks traded sharply higher on Monday as investor sentiment was boosted the Senate narrowly passing a major tax bill over the weekend.

Prior to the announcement, the Organic Trade Association filed a lawsuit against the USDA for delaying the passed bill.

Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008 Reported 2009 - Bill passed with minor amendments in 2009.

Assuming Jackson is the 5th QB taken and assuming no team to trades up to get him, in order for him to be available at # 17 three of these teams to pass on taking a QB: Browns, Giants, Jets, Broncos, Dolphins, Bills and Cardinals.

Here's a fresh - ish batch of it: SHARK FINS: Yesterday the Illinois House passed a bill to ban the sale, trade and distribution of shark fins, which are used in Chinese delicacies including shark fin soup.

In the massive budget bill just passed, Congress stuck in language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost / benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science - based nutrition guidelines for marketing to children.

If the trade union bill passes, it's certainly likely that Labour will struggle to rely so heavily on the financial backing of trade unions.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Mann suggested that the new members could help avert a funding crisis that would come if the government's trade union bill passes.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have joined other AMs in voting against the «undemocratic» Trade Union Bill in an Assembly vote today, in the hope that the Bill's provisions won't apply to Wales if eventually passed by Westminster.

President Obama cited Slaughter by name during a signing ceremony today for the the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, lauding her six - year effort in getting the bill passed.

One activist involved in the campaign to pass GENDA told Gay City News that the bill's supporters were disappointed that the Assembly did not put it forward in the current horse trading surrounding the state budget.

Questions included what he plans to do to get the bill passed, a ban's likely effect on tourism in the City and whether he intends to engage in any political «horse trading» to win passage of the bill.

Attack crime, the drug trade and corruption aggressively using leadership by example, being modest in government, passing and implementing the Right to Information Bill and ensuring an independent prosecutor's office exists separate from the Ministry of Justice.

The deeply unpopular cap and trade bills wound up activists, couldn't pass the Senate and were then a potent campaign issue in Congressional races.

The final budget bill, passed by the Senate Tuesday night after a long day of political horse - trading, calls for a 4 % state sales tax beginning Oct. 1 on clothing and shoe purchases of $ 110 or less.

Over the summer President Obama sketched a concept for a cap - and - trade bill that would legislate significant cuts in the United States» carbon emissions, but widespread skepticism — along with a weak economy — forced Senate majority leader Harry Reid to concede last July that such a bill would not pass.

A tradition of opposition The survey was completed in 2011, five years after the California Legislature passed A.B. 32, the bill to create a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gases.

Just 2 weeks ago, the U.S. Senate passed the permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) bill, a measure aimed at further opening China's markets, bringing billions of dollars in new business to American companies.

«I'd trade every one of my bills I've passed, every single one of them, to get the chance to hear HB 810.»

Another issue might be trade, as China is no doubt alarmed that the House included trade penalties in its bill for countries who do not pass greenhouse gas limits.

After the House passed a tough cap - and - trade bill by a razor - thin vote last summer, the onus was on the Senate to step up.

«The most controversial aspects of the energy debate that we've been having: the House passed an energy bill and people complained that, «Well, there's this cap - and - trade thing,»» Obama told the crowd.

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president, congressional climate change advocates set their sights on passing a cap - and - trade bill in time for him to bring a firm U.S.commitment on emissions reductions to this week's climate meeting in Copenhagen.

CIOMA is no longer lobbying for legislation to keep fuels out of cap and trade, McKeeman said, having lost a quest to get a bill passed last year.

The Federal Trade Commission and individual states are in the process of passing new guidance and laws that prohibit debt settlement companies from advising people to fall behind on their bills.

The bill passed last fall, closing loopholes that had allowed the illegal trade to continue.

Dr. Wil Burns wrote: «This is a particularly distressing time for the salience of this issue to be declining given impending efforts in Congress to pass a comprehensive cap and trade bill.»

This is a particularly distressing time for the salience of this issue to be declining given impending efforts in Congress to pass a comprehensive cap and trade bill.

The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.

The end came with the failure of a seven - year effort in the Senate to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade system for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

The uniformity in outlook among Republicans and the divide among Democrats, in combination with the 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass legislation, again underscores the mobilization challenge in regards to a «big bill» strategy such as cap and trade as discussed earlier.

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

2) I would argue that even before discussing strategic errors related to compromise around specific areas of legislation, we need to consider whether a «big bill» approach such as cap and trade — that required technically complex deals with almost every relevant special interest and industry sector in the country — was ever even politically possible or sustainable if it did manage to pass.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

If passed, the fast track bill introduced in the House and Senate last month would strip Congress of its right to improve trade deals, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal and a Transatlantic deal with the European Union.

Between 1995 and 2002, 53 bills were introduced in state legislatures, and 25 of those passed, according to the 2002/2003 report of Vote Hemp, one of the industry's trade groups.

Oregon lawmakers are hopeful they can pass a cap - and - trade bill of their own next month, which would pave the way for the state to join California's program.

More recently, of course, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Waxman - Markey bill in June of 2009, including a significant economy - wide cap - and - trade system.

«Given that a cogent political analysis indicates that the loss of control of the House of Representatives by the Democratic Party was the result of their passing the unpopular cap - and - trade bill in 2009 - in the 2010 election they lost 64 seats - you would think that this is kind of a political hot potato,» he continued.

When Democrats controlled Congress, a cap - and - trade bill was passed.

This cap & trade scam bill, if it passes the Senate, will put a lot of small businesses out of business.

Based on a year - long intensive study, the Governor of Tokyo submitted a bill, which was passed by Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, introducing mandatory targets for GHG reductions for large - scale emitters as part of an emissions trading program.

Though some expressed concerns with specific components of the bill, the entirety of the panel called for the committee to pass a cap - and - trade plan this year.

It's easier and cheaper to lobby the state legislature to pass a cap - and - trade bill than to convince the public to tax itself.

The prospects for passing a cap - and - trade bill are significantly tougher in the Senate.

Inhofe appeared at the Third International Climate Conference on Copenhagen to spread the message that «Global warming is a hoax, and there's no way the Senate is going to pass a cap - and - trade bill.»

«Why, when the United Nations IPCC is totally refuted, when Al Gore is totally discredited, when man - made global warming is totally debunked, when passing a global - warming cap - and - trade bill is totally shot down, why is this book necessary?»

At this moment, our national economy is under threat by carbon regulation schemes on three fronts: The Copenhagen conference designed to create a world carbon regulatory authority which could undermine our sovereignty; The cap and trade bill thatâ $ ™ s been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits Senate approval; and the Obama Administrationâ $ ™ s decision that it can regulate carbon dioxide via the EPA even without approval by Congress.