Last year, Republicans defeated a White House-backed bill that would have established voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies running critical infrastructure such as the electrical grid, citing concerns about a government role in cybersecurity.
Fifteen Republicans voted for the largely Democrat-backed bill.
The Republican-backed bill expanding Indiana's program is awaiting action in the state Senate, where there have been concerns about its cost and whether the Legislature should start making exceptions to the 2011 compromise that then-Gov. Mitch Daniels touted as giving public schools a chance to win over students and parents.
The upper house, the Senate, backed the bill by 177 votes to 151 on Tuesday.
Some coalition MPs rebelled, but some former Labour ministers backed the bill, which passed by 71 votes.
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One joked he also didn't relish telling his wife he backed a bill making it legal to cheat on her.
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MSPs backed the bill, to tackle sectarianism with new jail terms of up to five years, by five votes to four.
MSPs on the committee backed the bill to tackle sectarianism with new jail terms of up to five years by five votes to four.
She recognised the minority of the committee who were doubtful of the need for the law and who provided but stressed the majority backed the bill.
Last night the House of Representatives backed a bill to raise the country's borrowing limit by more than two trillion dollars, cutting spending over 10 years by around the same amount.
Since the House bill passed comfortably (without Republican support) but the Senate bill passed with only a vote to spare, Mr Obama still needed to keep the support of at least two of the three Republican senators who backed the bill Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania if the reconciled bill were to pass.
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Democrats backed a similar bill last year but it never came up for a vote.
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In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
In Costa Rica, however, gay rights activists and some deputies have backed a proposed bill to guarantee civil rights.
The Senate is considering a Democratic bill backed by Obama that would expand background checks, strengthen laws against illegal gun trafficking and slightly increase school security aid.
But right now, 41 Senate Republicans remain opposed to the bill backed by President Obama and the Democrats and can block it from coming to a vote.
West filmed a series of public service announcements this summer for "ED in '08, " an initiative of Strong American Schools, which is backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Other initiatives, including a bipartisan bill backed by Sens.
The "Marriage for All" bill was backed by President Francois Hollande's Socialists and other left-wing MPs.
They are due to lobby members of Congress who have not yet backed the gun control bill.
The bill is backed by the government and has a good chance of going forward for detailed consideration.
But at least five of the eight senators writing the bill have backed biometric ID cards in the past.
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Bill was backed by the committee's SNP MSPs, but Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative members dissented.
The bill was backed by mental health groups, and gay rights activists say reparative or "conversion therapy" can increase risk of depression or suicide.
The bill was backed by several religious organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Jewish Federations of North America.
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