With on-bill repayment, commercial property owners in California can tap third-party financing to pay for energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades and repay the loans via monthly electricity bills.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, had warned Democrats before the vote that his party would want to amend the bill -- possibly with hot-button issues like repealing the health care reform law or extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels.
Ms Davidson, who is gay, has been among those giving cross-party support to a same-sex marriage bill which is being brought forward by the Scottish government, while Cardinal O'Brien has been a strong critic of the plans.
From passing the sweeping healthcare reform bill on a party-line vote, to the largest use of executive czars in our history, to initiating new policies on things like immigration and gun control by executive order, Obama seeks to leave 225 years of constitutional separation of powers behind.
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"There is a broad consensus on the land bill, " Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said after an all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the bill's provisions.
The actor, who wrote and starred in the 1998 political satire film Bulworth - about a senator who sold out to special interests - said he had become disillusioned with President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment.
The bill, presented to parliament by the Islamist al-Wasat party, is expected to drop the retirement age to 60 from 70.
In attempting to make the point that the President has failed to work with the opposition party to get things done, Romney referred to the Wyden-Bennett bill as an example of what Obama should have gotten behind rather than passing Obamacare without so much as one Republican vote.
The peer also said it would ensure that the boundary review was based on the new system of individual voter registration, to be brought in under the bill with all-party backing.
The Greens want all-party talks on Monday to rush the bill through as soon as possible.
Mr Tien heads a normally pro-government party whose support for the bill was essential to its passage.
The Conservatives have offered the government a compromise deal under which the party would not seek to block the bill - but only so long as the contentious "right to roam" is dropped.
These include about 600 third-party biller names that have been used to bill almost 3, 000 different line item charges.
The Bill, which has cross-party support, allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to delegate powers to set the salaries and allowances of its 108 members to an outside body.
Many commentators believe that the chaos leading to the adjournment of the anti-corruption Lokpal bill was orchestrated by the ruling party, something opposition parties have also alleged.
Ms MacDonald, who has Parkinson's disease, told BBC Scotland the membership of the cross-party health committee had been chosen prior to her bill being introduced and included two doctors, who had each come down on either side of the argument.
Lib Dem activists will press for a vote on axing the NHS bill at next week's spring conference - despite Nick Clegg's efforts to reassure his party.
Legislation cannot be carried forward between Parliaments and peers fear that the bill will enter the "wash-up" period, where party leaders and whips meet to decide which clauses will stay and which will disappear.
This time, "There is a new, I think, appreciation on both sides of the aisle -- including maybe more importantly on the Republican side of the aisle -- that we have to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill, " said McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
He and his party are pretty firmly stapled to the much-amended version of the bill which will probably become law next week.
Ms. Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat and the frontrunner in this year's race for mayor, faced mounting political pressure from council members and her party's left-wing activists to permit a vote on the bill.
They should put the country -- the interests of the country before the interests of their party and pass a bipartisan bill to keep American workers on the job.
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The Conservative Party says it will publish a draft parliamentary bill on Tuesday to legislate for an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union to be held by the end of 2017.
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In 2007, McCain infuriated the party's conservative base by co-sponsoring an immigration bill that would have provided a path to legal status for undocumented workers.
He said the commission hoped to publish an interim paper on the bill of rights in the autumn which would aid a proposed cross-party forum on the issue.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said support for the Lib Dems was now at an "all-time low" and it was "electoral suicide" for the party to support the bill.
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There has been much Lib Dem unease about the bill - last week the party's president Tim Farron called for the whole section dealing with increased competition to be dropped.
Perhaps the reason why he needed water during the rebuttal is because he got cotton-mouthed listening to his party's resounding approval when Obama mentioned the Senate passing the bill during the State of the Union address.
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