The Obama administration is allied with state treasurers and the Senate Democratic leadership in pushing for renewal, arguing that the program eases the state budget pinch by cutting borrowing costs and gets job-creating projects up and rolling in an anemic economy.
Archey says a committee of the AEA board of directors is pushing for renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act a five year plan of federal funding for not only improved science and math training, but also for disadvantaged youth and curriculum improvement.
One ad agency executive tells me that the iAd salespeople are suddenly calling a lot more and becoming very aggressive in pushing for renewals.
Crucial provisions of the law do not expire until the end of 2005, and Mr. Bush's push for their renewal in his State of the Union speech, which he repeated on Wednesday, caught many lawmakers off guard.
Fifa sources have denied that, pointed out that Uefa did not push for the renewal of Eckert and Borbély following the end of their four-year terms, and said there was a push in the Fifa council for diversity away from European men.
When close allies of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg banded together last summer to create a political organization to push for the renewal of a 2002 state law that gave New York City's mayor control over its public schools, the initial buzz was that it would become a powerhouse lobbying group, raising as much as $20 million and helping shape the debate over the year.
As downtown residents push for urban renewal (complete streets, one-way to two-way road conversions, increased public transportation and pedestrian access) they are often fought by suburbanites who typically consider downtown less a destination than a thoroughfare on the way to the office – by car – and back.
McAuliffe (D) announced in December that he would push for a renewal of the state's one-a-month limit on handgun purchases, a requirement that buyers at gun shows undergo background checks, a ban on anyone subject to a protection-from-abuse order from having a gun and the revoking of concealed-handgun permits for parents who are behind on child-support payments.
As with the International Whaling Commission IWCC) meetings where Japan continues to push for a renewal of commercial whaling, many of these "friends" are in fact delegates from poor developing countries who are given financial aid by Japan in exchange for their votes.
Such a debate would belie their claim that AR-15s are "modern sporting rifles" with no military application whatsoever and invigorate the push for a renewal of the assault weapons ban.
