Sentences with phrase «committee votes on amendments»

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In party - line votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee voted down eight Democratic amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

Nothing will be concrete until August, when the full committee meets to vote on amendments to the draft, and then that draft is sent to Charlotte for the convention in the first week of September.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

European Parliament Agriculture Committee MEPs are making their final preparations ahead of a vote on proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform amendments — including the adoption of supply management measures.

Brooklyn, NY Members of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Democratic Party voted on Tuesday night to make final amendments to their by - laws to incorporate major changes to the way the party does business.

As a member of the committee, Legislator Dixon will vote on any amendments to the budget before a package is sent to the full Legislature for consideration.

Budget amendments proposed subsequent to the tabling of the Budget Committee report, or less than forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting, shall be considered separately with each line item voted on individually on the floor of the legislature.

Spending five figures on the ad buy, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting nine members who voted for an amendment that would defund a program that allows some young undocumented immigrants to defer deportation.

Robert was a lead sponsor of Right To Life legislation and supported the North Carolina marriage amendment, [5] although he was not serving in the NC Senate when the North Carolina marriage amendment passed out of committee and was finally voted on by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011.

The Assembly's Judiciary Committee moved a version of a constitutional amendment requiring public officials convicted of felonies to forfeit their pensions that had passed the Senate last year, but Speaker Carl Heastie was completely noncommittal when asked if it would be voted on by the full chamber.

«While acknowledging the potential negatives of such a convention — e.g., the risk of amendments being approved that would weaken the home rule authority of local governments — the Executive Committee viewed the opportunity to strengthen the position of municipalities in New York's governmental structure as more important and voted to approve NYCOM's support of a «Yes» vote on the constitutional convention question facing New York voters this November, with the additional stipulation that municipal officials would need to run for and be elected as delegates to the convention if our intended outcomes are to be achieved,» the guide states

In June 2013, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) posted a blog entry demanding a vote on new 2nd amendment restrictions in response to the tragedy, alongside a giant red «CONTRIBUTE NOW» button.

A committee vote shall be by roll call vote if the members are voting on the disposition of bills, constitutional amendments, concurrent resolutions and joint resolutions by committees.

The Budget Committee will be meeting with each department and elected office to review the proposed budget before voting on any amendments.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In effort to show fellow Democrats he hears their deep concerns about his health care plan, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus plans to make changes to his own proposal even before the committee starts voting Tuesday on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion dollar plan.

But on Tuesday, March 15, all the committee's Republicans voted down that amendment, as well as two others acknowledging the threat of climate change to public well - being.

All Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against an amendment that states that global warming exists, regardless of cause.

The need for prohibitory language, which does not mention NSF by name, was never brought up during any of the committee's 48 hearings on the legislation, nor was it proposed when the committee waded through 50 amendments before voting out the bill on 28 April.

After two recesses, the committee finished grinding through all the amendments, including a dozen roll call votes, a parliamentary maneuver by Democrats to put all members on record.

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

A demand from Democrats for recorded votes on most of the 28 amendments before the committee prevented Smith from completing work on a bill that has provoked strong opposition from academic leaders, professional societies, and university - industry coalitions that advocate for science.

Knowing that his amendment was fated to lose on the same party - line vote as the other amendments, Lipinski told ScienceInsider that he withdrew it so that the committee's Republicans did not have to publicly vote against the higher spending level for NSF.

The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee took up a workforce - development bill last week but delayed a vote on the measure until this week after several members, primarily Democrats, brought up a varied array of amendments.

The Education Committee adopted Assembly Amendment 3 on a 9 - 5 vote, that ran along party lines with the exception of Rep. Kitchens who voted «No.»

The bill was not heard in committee but it was offered as a floor amendment to the House agriculture policy bill (HF1717) but failed on an 80 - 53 vote.

These committees will discuss and vote on amendments to the proposal during the next few months.

Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told Politico that the decision by Reid, who planned to bring the bill up for a vote without amendments, reflects the fact that «the majority leader can't work in bipartisan manner to help the residents in the Gulf.»

The notoriously anti-science House Science Committee has hit a new low, voting on Thursday to approve a spending bill amendment that «would prohibit defense spending on climate change research and the social cost of carbon analysis.»

Even with the amendment the House Judiciary committee recommended rejecting the bill as amended on a 9 - 5 vote.

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At the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules» meeting last week in Portland, Oregon, the Committee voted to adopt the Duke Conference «package» of amendments, as well as a last minute revised and streamlined Rule 37 (e).

The Senate and House of Commons should review and revise their respective amendment admissibility rules to allow committees to debate and vote on amendments that address Charter concerns regardless of whether they go beyond the «scope and principle» of a bill.