Sentences with phrase «won house support»

After science adviser and OSTP Director John Holdren acknowledged holding joint meetings with Chinese officials shortly after the ban went into effect this spring, Wolf took the next step and won House support this summer for a 55 % cut in OSTP's budget.

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House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., had worked this week to win Trump's support for the plan.

Trump, traveling in Asia this week, called in to a meeting between White House officials and a collection of moderate Senate Democrats on Tuesday, hoping he could win their support for his tax effort.

The change was enough to win support for the House bill from a key holdout, the National Federation of Independent Business.

That support was politically important for the White House because the administration doubted it could ever win support from the bishops, even after Friday's revision.

But without public support (and with a financial crisis), Bush's party was ejected from the White House, and the Obama administration abandoned Bush's counterinsurgency strategy — along with the hard - won gains of 2007.

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

There are many good reasons to scrap tuition fees - but for the Tories to win the support of younger voters, they must prioritise housing

House leaders also sought to win support from centrist Republicans from upstate New York leaders by adding a provision that would ban the federal government from reimbursing state Medicaid funds raised by local governments, according to New York Rep. Chris Collins.

The prime minister is desperate to make sure he wins enough support in the House of Commons to send RAF jets to fight ISIS in Syria.

Mr. Carroll added, however, that his support for Mr. Recchia was more about trying to help the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives than about any particular problem with Mr. Grimm's record.

Tea Party supported candidates won 5 of 10 Senate races (50 %) contested, and 40 of 130 House races (31 %) contested.

«Sparked by the conservative activist group Club for Growth,» the repeal movement has won the support of Sen. Jim DeMint (R - SC) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R - OH), who said Republicans would «have an effort to repeal the bill.»

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

Collins and Faso worked to include the amendment in the health bill not just to free counties of Medicaid costs, but also to win the support of Republican House members from New York who had concerns about the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Four out of seven «Blue Dogs» on the Energy and Commerce Committee were won over; with a similar level of conservative support the full House, reform will pass with about 235 votes, probably including a public option.

In two Senate races, one Governors» race and six House races, libertarian candidates won enough support to potentially cost Read more»

He's already won the support of a majority of the state committee, but still faces state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) and Joe Holland, a former state housing commissioner.

The de Blasio administration recently ran into some trouble when attempting to win community board support for its citywide rezoning proposals meant to spur affordable housing development.

This experience prepared him for the great job he is now doing at the National Assembly as the Chairman of LG Committee in the Hs of Rep. «Dateline 2011, all other Aspirants were asked to drop their ambition to support Ladi for the Hs of Rep.. These Aspirants included Hon Fatai Sowemimo, Prince Niyi Akisanya and Hon John Obafemi who was asked to settle for the House of Assembly which he won.

President Donald Trump, after a halting start, is now marshaling the full power of his office — and the salesman tactics he sharpened over several decades in New York real estate — to win over holdout conservatives and waffling senators to support the House Republicans» replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE With the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, AIDS groups believe they can win long - sought legislation that would cap rent at 30 percent of income for people with AIDS who receive housing assistance.

The four - storeyed edifice on Wellington Bassey Way, not far from the Government House, is christened, «Hilltop Mansion» by the National Committee of Buhari's Support Groups, NCBSG, which vowed to win the state in both the presidential and governorship polls.

By the way, last polls show support for GOP in the House is at 12 percent... kind of hard to win anything other than a Loser's Whig Party Primary with numbers like that...

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

Bland references to declining support for the major parties tend to obscure just how difficult it is for minor parties to win lower house seats, especially if their electoral support is evenly spread over a wide range of districts.

To hear Catsimatidis tell it, Bloomberg personally came to him after deciding he had no chance at winning the White House and asked for his support in pushing to change the term limits law to facilitate a third term.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has called the N.R.A. «enablers of mass murder» and consistently ranks among the most liberal members in the House, also put out an unsolicited statement of support for Hochul yesterday, focusing on her campaign against Paul Ryan's budget, when she first won a special election in 2011.

In fact, for the last 10 years the upper house at Westminster has continued to function with no overall control, with the Labour government having to secure the support of one or more other parties in order to win a vote.

The proposal carves out what tax relief the Senate majority wants in the 2016 - 17 state budget, but it's a one - house bill that would have to win support from Assembly Democrats, and they proposed a different plan last month which included a tax cut for the middle class and a tax hike for millionaires.

At the top of the ticket, the final round of national polls show Hillary Clinton poised to win the White House, netting 46 percent support from likely voters, with Donald J. Trump trailing at 43 percent.

To win the support of progressives, she said, Cuomo must move to the left on economic issues while offering a clearer agenda on infrastructure improvements, housing development and foreign policy, among other issues.

Elise Stefanik, a 29 - year - old former White House aide, has jumped to the fore of the pool of three existing candidates and has won support from several committees, according to political operatives following the race.

Washington (CNN) Three Democrats from states President Donald Trump won in 2016 will join the President on Tuesday evening for dinner as the White House seeks support for sweeping tax reform, congressional aides said.

Diaz Sr. went on to credit the relationship for winning the Bronx «over a billion dollars in housing,» tens of millions of dollars for the new Hunts Point Market facility, Cuomo's support of four new Metro North stations in the Bronx and cash dedicated to them, a reduced unemployment rate thanks to Cuomo's strikeforce, the opening of a New York State Department of Labor Office in the Bronx, and the allocation of «tens of millions of dollars to the Bronx County for the restoration of our waterfronts» after Hurricane Sandy.

Poland, a historical British ally, said Cameron would struggle to win support during the renegotiations for his more modest proposals to restrict access to in - work benefits such as tax credits and housing benefit.

Chaffetz won bipartisan support in the House more than a year ago for a more limited bill that would shorten the wait for visas for immigrants from countries with the highest number of applications.

Another reason to be skeptical is that Rockefeller's counterpart in the U.S. House of Representatives, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), has won his panel's support for a contrasting bill (H.R. 4186) that most scientists hope never becomes law.

It won support in spite of two previous House votes to outlaw all forms of cloning, including research cloning (otherwise known as nuclear transfer), which scientists say is essential to realize the promise of ES cell research.

Janney's talents have also been put on ample display on the small screen: in 1999, she joined the cast of the acclaimed NBC White House drama The West Wing, originating the role of tough press secretary C.J. Cregg.In addition to continuing her work on The West Wing, Janney played a supporting role in the award winning psychological drama The Hours (2002), and voiced Peach the Starfish in Pixar's wildly successful Finding Nemo (2003).

Why Game of Thrones will dominate the Emmys until it ends SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Michael Kelly, House of Cards Kit Harington, Game of Thrones Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline Jon Voight, Ray Donovan Who will win: Kit Harington, Game of Thrones If there isn't any vote splitting — a huge possibility now with the plurality system — between the Westeros dudes, look for Harington to win his first Emmy on his first nomination.

Supporting actor Lenny Kravitz was in the house, but couldn't win because he wasn't nominated.

White House LGBT Artists Champions of Change is intended to shore up the White House's support for LGBT awareness, and The Danish Girl will show alongside episodes of award - winning TV series Transparent, featuring Jeffrey Tambor as a transgender father.

Metcalf, coming off her Tony winning role in A Doll's House Part 2, is looking at a Supporting Actress nomination for her brilliantly crafted work here.

Linklater won the director honors, and «Boyhood's» Patricia Arquette received the supporting actress award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts» annual ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London.

Offering further evidence to support this claim, Woody has become convinced he's won $ 1 million in a Publisher's Clearing House - like sweepstakes — a prize he insists on collecting in person at the company's HQ in Lincoln, Neb..

I outlined how often NEA - supported candidates win federal elections and how often their favored federal policies are enacted in a time when their traditional Democrat allies ceded control of the House, Senate, and presidency.

(Texas) A sweeping overhaul of the school funding system won approval last week from the Legislature's lower house with bipartisan support, but still faces an uncertain future in the state Senate.

Erasing the line between homework support and fun exploration, The World Almanac ® for Kids includes exclusive online - only material as well as content from award - winning The World Almanac ®, Chelsea House, and Facts On File sets and series.

The open house also highlights a winning combination for local schools in terms of support.