Sentences with phrase «act came to a vote»

The SAFE Act came to a vote in the Republican - controlled Senate and passed with the help of a number of prominent Republican votes.

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After last week's Iowa caucuses, Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will have a hard act to follow after the excitement and controversy that came out of the first voting event of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

And for those of us who come under the Public Service Labour Relations Act, a minority of bargaining unit members can decertify a union: a 55 % vote of the unit would be required to keep the union in place.

In the coming weeks, the Senate is expected to vote on its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has estimated would add $ 1.4 trillion to the debt under conventional scoring.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

«I came to Albany to enact real reform and the SOLE Act will bring a lot of issues up for a vote that have stalled out in past years,» Johns said in a statement.

The Marriage Equality Act came up for its first and only vote in the Senate in 2009 and failed by a margin of 38 to 24.

Advocates pushing for passage of the Child Victims Act have begun running a digital ad campaign that largely targets those living in the district of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has kept the legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.

N.Y. — As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.

During his weekly news conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio), who has opposed efforts to pass ENDA, was non-committal when asked by the Blade if he'd be open to allowing the Equality Act to come up for a House floor vote.

A final vote to convict may only come after receipt of a judgment from the Constitutional Court that «the acts, of which the President of Ukraine is accused, contain elements of treason or other crime.»

Flanagan killed the bill's chances a day after the hopes of survivors for a vote before the legislative session's scheduled end on Wednesday were raised by Sen. James Tedisco, of Schenectady, who became the first Senate Republican to come out in favor of the Child Victims Act.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.

«Maryland lawmakers came to the right conclusion and voted to send the death penalty where it belongs - into the dustbin of history,» said Brian Evans, acting director of the organisation's death penalty abolition campaign.

A tireless civil rights advocate, he was one of only 67 with the gumption to vote no when the Defense of Marriage Act came up in 1996 — versus 342 who embraced the anti-gay measure.

Sen. Stewart Cousins would be wise to recall what she said just three short years ago, when she explained that «the [Reproductive Health Act] hasn't come on the floor because it doesn't have the votes to pass... I think it's really too important to put a bill out there, again, that for whatever reason, fails.»

Updade: IDC spokesman Eric Soufer responds, noting that three years ago Stewart - Cousins said of the Reproductive Health Act at the time that it couldn't come to the floor because it didn't have the votes to pass.

Let the NPP continue to make noise about the alleged bribe, the people who are benefiting from the road will act accordingly by voting for the NDC come December 7.»

The Plattsburgh resident was among nearly 200 people who came to the Mountain Lake PBS studio to protest the lawmaker's recent vote in favor of the American Health Care Act.

But it also came after Flanagan pledged to enact some changes to the gun control law, which is deeply opposed by gun - rights advocates, who are skeptical of the Long Islander's leadership in the chamber given his vote in favor of the SAFE Act in 2013.

As for the DREAM Act, no matter how much supporters would like to see a «clean» bill pass, at least one member of the immigrant advocacy community recognizes the reality of the situation, which is that letting the measure come up for a vote in the Senate is likely a recipe for disaster — an all - but certain repeat of the bill's 2014 failure.

The vote comes the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to back both the tax credit legislation as well as the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

The Democrats have been hammering Martins over his opposition to the 10 - point Women's Equality Act due to the abortion - rights plank that the GOP has refused to let come to the floor for a vote.

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

Martins has been under attack from his Democratic opponent, Adam Haber, for the Senate GOP's refusal to allow Gov. Andrew Cuomo's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act to come to the floor for a vote as a result of opposition to the abortion - rights plank.

As President Obama urged the House to vote, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo also decried the «failure» to act, saying in a statement: «When American citizens are in need we come to their aid.

The 39 - page SAFE Act was enacted at the onset of the 2013 legislative session pursuant to the governor's «message of necessity,» which allowed it to come to a vote before most legislators had a chance to read or digest it.

Lawmakers came one vote short of overriding a veto of a bill that would've given protections to undocumented immigrants in Westchester County, after County Executive Rob Astorino vetoed the Immigrant Protection Act last month.

The position of the Federal Government is that in view of the fact that Cameroon has been a major key player in the war against insurgency and the involvement of Cameroon in fighting for the stability of Nigeria, it will be out of the foreign policy context of Nigeria to abandon Cameroon and the acting president directed me — and I have communicated appropriately that if the only vote that will come to Hayatou will be from Nigeria, Nigeria should stand with Hayatou.»

The IDC noted that there are a number of right - leaning members of the larger Democratic caucus who would likely vote against the DREAM Act and other liberal measures if they came to the State Senate floor — and challenged their fellow partisans to «call the role.»

Katko said he wants to change the Affordable Care Act, but refuses to vote for a repeal bill until Republicans come up with a viable replacement.

In exchange, the speaker agreed to prevent either component of the Right to Know Act from coming up for a vote.

The Republican healthcare plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will likely change significantly before it comes to the House for a vote, according to Rep. John Katko.

The committee vote sent the Financial Choice Act to the full House, where it likely will be approved in the coming weeks.

«Reform will therefore never be a vote - winner, and will only come about when the parties act in concert,» added Lloyd, who recently gave evidence on care funding to the health select committee.

The Compassionate Care Act, a bill sponsored by the senator and Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, has passed in the Assembly before but has yet to come to the floor for a vote in the senate.

Then came the arrests of Mangano and Venditto, which seemed to have acted as a drag on the campaign of the latter's state senator son, who lost his re-election to Democrat John Brooks by a few dozen votes.

Mark - Viverito came into office vowing a more democratic approach to Council proceedings, but has come under fire for blocking a vote on a pair of controversial police reform bills called the Right to Know Act.

The governor recalled how the 2002 Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act deliberately excluded transgender persons from its protections for fear it would poison the bill's chances of passage, and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act — which would have extended those legal shields to individuals who do not conform to prevailing sexual identification norms — has passed the Assembly eight times, but State Senate leadership prevented it from coming up for a vote.

Shannon Maher Bañaga, a senior manager of governmental affairs for Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., told attendees at an Energy Bar Association conference this week that while she doesn't imagine that the Senate will ultimately come up with enough votes to override a veto, that doesn't mean Republicans won't look to the Congressional Review Act.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Issued more than a week ago, Minister Berry's warning comes after an ACT Christian college asked parents to vote no in the postal survey on same - sex marriage, Fairfax Media reports.

The «responsible tax - reform act of 1989,» sponsored by the Republican Representatives Glenn Oxender and Michael Nye, now moves to the Republican - dominated Senate, where it is expected to come up for a vote late this week.

WASHINGTON — In advance of a House vote to roll back the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 35 groups representing people of color, people with disabilities, children, and teachers are coming together to oppose the changes.

Fast forward twelve years, and the first comprehensive education bill to pass either chamber since 2001 — the so - called Student Success Act — came out of the House without a single Democratic vote — a sign that there was little collaboration to forge a compromise.

Over the course of the quarter, multiple attempts were made to repeal the Affordable Care Act, with the most recent attempt, the Graham - Cassidy bill, failing to come to an official vote.

He voted in support of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, so it is safe to assume that he trusts the private market over federal intervention when it comes to student loan interest rates.

When it came to higher education and student loans, Rep. Thompson made it known that he supported tying interest rates to the private market, and he voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act (he was also a cosponsor).