Sentences with phrase «when rejecting the bill»

But legislators did send a positive signal when they rejected a bill advanced during the waning days of the legislative session that would have further expanded the voucher program by allowing up to 45 % of vouchers to be awarded to kindergartners and first graders.

«While well intentioned, the collection of data for the interests of faraway authorities would not get to the root of the issue — keeping kids in school and on track,» Brown wrote in 2014 when rejecting the bill to track truancy.

Not exact matches

Trump sent shockwaves through Congress when he made the threat to reject t $ 1.3 billion spending bill after it passed the Senate late last night with bipartisan support.

A great deal of what's in the healthcare bill is actually original Republican ideas, including the controversial mandate to purchase insurance if you don't have it, that Republican leaders first endorsed, then rejected when Obama introduced it.

But, by gum, it sure sounds like it allows these Gen Z kids with their SnapDabs and their Vape Drives to return to the halcyon days of our own childhoods when we all walked over railroad trestles looking for dead bodies and rolled inside old tires up to the old Radley place and tricked other kids into whitewashing fences... and we liked it.Arkansas considered a similar bill last year and rejected it.

(¶ 15) When the House of Lords reconsidered the bill after the Commons rejected the amendments, eight bishops voted against a similar wrecking amendment, but the statement issued after passage of the bill was not unconditional in its support:

It's a question made all the more acute after the Scottish parliament set itself on a constitutional collision course with Westminster on Tuesday afternoon, when it voted decisively to reject the UK government's EU withdrawal bill.

The governor predicted the Senate GOP will «say Amen» after having a chance to read the tax cap bill, pointing out it would be difficult for them to reject this cap when they passed a four percent cap several years ago — not to mention his bill (although he didn't mention that).

The tipping point came when Harman announced on 12 July that the leadership would also abstain on the welfare reform bill and would not reject the two - child limit on tax credits.

«I believe this is a real first test for all the senators — both Democrat and Republican alike,» said Long, who sent a memo to the senators earlier today, urging them to reject the OTB bailout bill when they return to Albany next Tuesday.

Daniel Horwitz, who chaired the ethics panel that investigated NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, said he was stunned when the mayor rejected his nomination by the state's chief judge to serve on a judicial screening panel.

In the past, when mainstream Democrats have offered similar bills in the form of hostile amendments, the measures have been rejected by the GOP.

His campaign cast Mr. Behan's endorsement as a local issue, focusing on his involvement with the town's Republican committee and his falling - out with its leaders since last year's town election when the town board candidates Mr. Behan proposed — his wife, Marilyn Behan, and Bill Mott — were rejected by them.

The approval of same - sex marriage represented a reversal of fortune for gay - rights advocates, who just two years ago suffered a humiliating defeat when a same - sex marriage bill was easily rejected by the Senate, which was then controlled by Democrats.

The last time Senate appropriators used «reject» or a variant more often in report for the energy and water bill was fiscal year 2009, when it showed up eight times.

In Morocco, a boy accidentally shoots an American woman, Susan (Cate Blanchett), in the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advances.

Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Miami - Dade County, made a big splash this year when he accepted, and then rejected, an offer from Bill de Blasio to serve as New York City's schools chancellor.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

Governor Malloy's original «education reform» bill included language that mandated that when the State of Connecticut takes over a school system, the education commissioner will have the authority to approve or reject the local board's choice for superintendent.

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The bankruptcy judge rejected ECMC's demand, pointing out that the Murrays would never pay back the amount they owed and would be faced with a huge tax bill 20 years from now when their loan balance would be forgiven.

There was so much unjustified confidence that they rejected opportunities for compromise, including the McCain - Lieberman bill when provisions were added to advance nuclear power and the proposal for a «safety valve» from Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.

President Bill Clinton had signed the Kyoto treaty, but Congress had refused to endorse it; and when George W. Bush rejected it in March 2001, he ensured that the United States would be the only major developed nation besides Australia not to commit to the binding agreements of Kyoto.

You have to think about billing and business management, when to accept and reject clients, and maintaining a calm composure under a stressful situation...

When AP posted a photo of disappointed Marjory Stoneman Douglas students after Florida's NRA - infatuated lawmakers rejected a bill restricting assault weapons, conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza tweeted, «Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs.»