Sentences with phrase «veto threats»

Veto threats loom The speech comes amid a flurry of veto threats by the White House this month alone on legislative attempts to, among other things, approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Senate Democratic boss John Sampson conceded Wednesday that Gov. Paterson's veto threats are pushing him back to the negotiating table to cut a deal on the budget.

(To drive home his displeasure with the GOP agenda, the president issued veto threats for several initiatives hours before he spoke).

The Democratically - controlled Vermont Legislature adjourned late Saturday despite state budget and property tax bill veto threats from the Republican governor.

If anything people feared his «violent» veto threats.

Yet his veto threats have been piling up rapidly since Republicans took full control of Congress, numbering more than a dozen so far this year.

The veto threat injected chaos into what appeared to be the end of a protracted struggle to settle on a funding plan for the federal government.

Some notable Republicans who opposed the spending bill encouraged Trump to torpedo it on Friday after his veto threat.

The newly modified plan by House Speaker John Boehner however, faced a veto threat by the White House and unanimous opposition among Senate Democrats.

Texas» Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat AUSTIN, Texas — A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century....

A coalition of good government groups and former elected officials are urging Governor Cuomo to use his veto threat as leverage to achieve lasting reform of the process for once and for all.

It was here, after being provoked, that the governor came closest to applying his veto threat to LATFOR.

But while the governor has wielded his veto threat, he seems to be softening his language on the issue over the last several weeks and has rarely used the word «veto» when it comes to redistricting and is pushing more of the onus onto the courts (a fact that Reid Pillifant of Capital New York picked up on yesterday).

Let's start with the veto threat.

It becomes, by default, the only game in town, even if it is ultimately subject to Cuomo's veto threat and possible court oversight.

She urges Cuomo not to trade away his veto threat.

After an earlier veto threat, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill on March 23 that provides $ 70 billion for federal education initiatives — a 6 percent increase over the previous year.

We've always wanted the governor to use his veto threat to achieve reform, not to have these lines go into court.

The redistricting - veto threat was supposed to function similarly.

Shortly after, almost mandatorily, came the veto threat, in a terse statement from Cuomo's spokesman Josh Vlasto: «At first glance, these lines are simply unacceptable and would be vetoed by the Governor.

Backing up his veto threat would be an excellent way to return the favor.

Lerner has much more confidence in the courts» ability to redraw district lines if Gov. Andrew Cuomo does go ahead with his veto threat than Citizens Union.

Citizens Union believes your veto threat provides you with valuable leverage because it poses the threat of uncertainty: the last thing the legislature can tolerate, particularly with regard to their own districts.

Citizens Union released a letter to Cuomo yesterday asking him to use his veto threat to get a constitutional amendment.

The House bill has already drawn a veto threat from the White House.

The bill has already drawn a veiled veto threat from the White House, however, in part because of the cuts it would make to DOE's applied research programs.

, CISPA's primary author, described the veto threat as «flabbergasting.»

The White House had threatened a CISPA veto last year, but its backers had hoped that some changes they made, coupled with a related presidential executive order in January, meant the veto threat would not be renewed.

The White House today delivered a formal veto threat against a controversial data - sharing bill called CISPA that would allow intelligence agencies to collect personal information about Americans from private companies.

The bill passed on a 217 - 205 vote, in spite of the President's veto threat.

«The fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill, formally signed into law by President Trump March 23 after a last - minute veto threat, includes $ 20.736 billion for NASA.»

March 23, 2018 • Congress passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending bill overnight, that President Trump sharply criticized as he signed it on Friday following a veto threat.

That's not to say that a dramatically slimmed - down ESEA is in the bag; the veto threat might appear later.

The National Education Association backed away last week from a lobbyist's earlier statement that President Clinton had promised to protect education spending with a veto threat.

She blew him off, resulting in the Obama veto threat.

Indeed, Rogers quoted Representative Obey, chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, asserting that a White House veto threat (in response to a proposed $ 500 million cut to Race to the Top) actually helped Dems pass the bill in the House.

In fact, Obey told Rogers, «I think their veto threat helped us pass the amendment.»

Chairman Kline has already gotten approval from Speaker Boehner to bring the bill to the House floor by the end of the month, but even if it passes, President Obama is likely to issue a veto threat on it because it is just not in line with the administration's views.

The White House veto threat called out a provision that would allow education funds for low - income students to follow students as a particularly harmful measure.

Six months later, when a bill came to the Senate floor that was in conflict with the administration's priorities, the White House stopped short of a veto threat.

President Obama's veto threat of the House education bill specifically cited the portability section as a reason to veto the bill.

The White House stopped short of issuing a veto threat.

What Trump does is probably remove the veto threat.

The term «comprehensive» can be seen as an indirect reference to an emissions cap, but there was no specific reference to it, much less a veto threat.

Last month, to far (FAR) less attention than it merited, the House of Representatives (facing an Administration veto threat) passed the 21st Century Green High - Performing Public School Facilities Act with $ 20 billion for greening public schools across the nation.

Senate to vote on net neutrality repeal today, Obama counters with a veto threat (update: 52 - 46 vote in favor of net neutrality)

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama made good Tuesday on a threat to veto a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing the two sides in the long - running controversy to a rare point of agreement: their battle is far from over.

God's Revelation can in fact and in principle concern realities which themselves are accessible to secular experience of a scientific or historical kind, so that on the one hand what Revelation states about them is open to possible threat of an eventual at least apparently opposed discovery of secular science and on the other hand natural science must in principle always reckon on a possible veto on the part of theology (Cf. Denzinger 1947 ff., 2187).

Trump's threat to veto funding for a new rail tunnel into New York City is showing — as it did in last year's tax debate — that Republicans from the region don't necessarily have the ear of a president whom they consider a local.

The very first question Andrew Cuomo was asked at his Cabinet meeting this afternoon was in reference to an interview he gave with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in which he sounded like he was backing down from his threat to veto any lines drawn by lawmakers in the once - a-decade redistricting process.