Sentences with phrase «before the vote change»

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The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

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The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

We're also doing the change in our voting patterns to really have «new management»; we want to ensure that we will have some money left in the Heritage Trust Fund so that our grandchildren will be able to pay for the land, air and water that the oil and gas industry has contaminated — that they will not do the remediation work on — before they leave Alberta.

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(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI is considering changing the Vatican constitution to allow a vote for his successor to begin before March 15, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Wednesday.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

The Australian Parliament is expected to vote before the end of the year on a change to legislation which will enshrine same - sex marriage in law.

Prayer changes things according to God's will not our own... Jesus wasn't Catholic, he is Lord... Pray before your vote... have Godly wisdom and discernment as well.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

Reid, and other majority leaders before him, have developed a clever workaround: Just change your vote at the last minute if it looks as though you're going to lose, then move to reconsider.

But researchers also found that 12 per cent of people could change their minds in the few hours left before they cast their vote.

For 12 years, advocates have tried to change that limit with the Child Victims Act, and for 12 years, the act has failed before reaching a vote on the state Senate floor.

For starters, the committee rules were changed and presented to members just three days before the Sunday vote.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

Because of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires that states with a history of discrimination receive preclearance before making changes to voting laws.

It should say I GOT MY JOB THROUGH SHELLY SILVER IN 2007, and now I need your vote to keep it before they find out why Shelly Silver changed the rules in the middle of the game and supported me.

Importantly, any changes such a committee would vote through could be voted down by the Commons in its entirety before the final vote on legislation.

Besides VOIP, good ol' spam will also work nicely — let's us go tell some voters that their polling places have changed or that they need to renew their registration before they can vote.

Cuomo's plan would change that be requiring counties to offer at least one early voting polling location for every 50,000 residents during a 12 - day period before Election Day.

Two thirds of swing voters say Labour will have to change quite fundamentally before they will consider voting for it again, even if they do not like what the coalition is doing.

In an age of instant communication, advocates for changing the voting rules say there's no reason to require voters be registered at least 25 days before the next election.

Joiners, who say they would vote Tory tomorrow despite not having done so last time (two thirds of them having come from the Liberal Democrats), think similarly but are more likely to prefer coalition government and to say they may change their mind again before the election.

My generation, like many before us, tended to vote for the party that our parents had always supported, but nowadays that's all changed.

If the errors are not systematic, than before a vote is set aside it must be shown that the errors could reasonably have resulted in changing the outcome of the election.

Joining the Lords I got announced a week before I gave birth, so in terms of life - changing events, having the baby was way more impactful... It was actually Neil and Glenys Kinnock who told me, «If you want to vote with your baby, sit in the voting lobby before the vote's called.

Unfortunately voters will need to feel the pain before they change voting habits.

There is also the question of Gordon Brown — voting intention figures 4 years from a general election are of little importance at the best of times, let alone when we know the sitting Prime Minister will probably change before the next election.

Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.

His voting law change would allow New Yorkers to cast their ballots 12 days before elections.

Tony Blair has sparked a major political row by effectively ruling out a referendum on changing Britain's voting system before the next general election.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver predicts that Republican Senators will change their minds and might even come back to the Capitol before the November elections to vote on the measure.

Carroll views early voting as a first step in modernizing our voting systems, but feels that there is so much more to do, «from allowing same day registration, no fault absentee voting, allowing for party enrollment changes to take place 10 days before an election and more.»

Six days before that, the Legislature had voted to request approval of a different version of the bill that would have changed the way bonds counted toward Metroplex's cap.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

He also urged early voters who had «made a mistake» by voting for Mrs Clinton to change their ballots before Thursday's deadline.

Before recommending change we considered carefully if some people might be deterred from voting because of it.

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

Rep. John Katko says he has concerns about the plan, which he has shared with the House leadership, and believes the final version will have changed significantly before it comes up for a vote.

He was able to achieve concessions from the two largest unions, the Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employees Federation (though PEF's rank and file initially voted down their agreement before approving one with revenue - neutral changes after the governor vowed to begin thousands of layoffs).

Before the vote Thursday afternoon, the National Association of Manufacturers hosted a telephone town hall meeting with Katko where he talked about the tax changes that will offer businesses an incentive to expand in the United States.

The New York Republican delegation met several times before the vote with House GOP leaders to express concerns about easing the path toward passage of a tax reform plan that they would like to change.

Those proposals would then go before voters as a slate of changes to be voted up or down.

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.