Sentences with phrase «enda floor vote»

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote, which is expected to take place Thursday.

The GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare has stalled ever since leaders scrapped a planned floor vote in late March.

Minutes before the floor vote, Congressman Maxine Waters, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee spoke.

HR 3299, titled the Protecting Consumers» Access to Credit Act, passed the House on a 245 - 171 floor vote.

With this declaration that the two Democratic senators from Massachusetts were behind him, he cruised through his hearings and the subsequent Senate floor vote.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos has repeatedly said he has no plans to allow a floor vote on the abortion component, but indicated this week a willingness to negotiate the other points.

IDC spokesman Eric Soufer responded to Stewart - Cousin's criticism by noting that three years ago she didn't believe a floor vote should be held on the Reproductive Health Act without it gaining the necessary support.

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

The measure has no Assembly sponsor, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said there are no plans to move it out of committee for a floor vote.

Squadron, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker that his conference will begin circulating a petition among Senate lawmakers in order to force a floor vote on the bills.

Those nominations still require 60 senators before they can move to a floor vote.

Democrats have delayed the final floor vote on Trump's nominee for secretary of state, but Rex Tillerson was set to be confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

Almeida said that because every Democrat on the committee is a sponsor of ENDA, its successful markup and referall for a floor vote would be a «preordained conclusion.»

«Frosh must take this vote and not wait until the end of the legislative session so Sen. Mike Miller can find the time to schedule a floor vote.»

[5] Under the doctrine, the Speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.

Heastie voted in the affirmative on 98.6 percent of the 3,944 bills he cast a floor vote on between 2011 and 2014, a vote distribution that is close to the average among Assembly Democrats.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

Under House rules, the Speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation.

Rules Committee chairman has repeatedly blocked bipartisan medical marijuana legislation from floor vote

, the sponsor of the bill in that chamber, said last month a floor vote wouldn't take place until lawmakers receive cost offset information from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for implementing the measure within the agency's existing budget.

Liz Benjamin at the Daily Politics is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno will call a floor vote on congestion pricing today: Senators on both sides of aisle have received the heads up that the majority is preparing to call a vote on congestion pricing, despite the fact that both Senate Majority Leader Joseph -LSB-...]

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

The Corker concession was one of several lingering uncertainties in the bill that Senate aides said would be nailed down as the measure neared a floor vote.

We're asking you to contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi and ask that she move the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017) to a floor vote.

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

With rapidly dwindling legislative time until the House and Senate take their August break, the conservative Democrats also insisted there must be sufficient time to review any legislation and discuss it before a floor vote.

The current legislative session concludes at the end of June and an online poker bill needs to pass three Assembly committees before making it to a floor vote, although, as Tuesday's vote proved, such hurdles can be cleared relatively quickly if the will is there.

«The sad fact is that under the Republicans and the IDC, not much gets done in Committee Meetings or early floor votes, there are few hearings and virtually no debate.»

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.

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.

It appeared unlikely as of Friday that Pomepo's opponents would go so far as to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make procedural moves to discharge Pompeo's nomination from the committee before a floor vote.

«That's one of the challenges of Ryan announcing that he was not going to seek reelection: Now everybody is kind of looking to [McCarthy],» said Rep. Mike Simpson (R - Idaho), who has not signed on to the bid to force a floor vote on DACA but would like to see the situation resolved.

The Finance Committee is expected to discuss the bill next Tuesday, and, assuming it is similarly treated there, a floor vote will likely soon follow.

While there was no floor vote, Flanagan said, «It's been considered.

With full support of the Republican majority, Sessions appears to be on track to win approval in the Judiciary Committee, on which he serves, and in the floor vote.

It forced a floor vote on the agreement and its implementing legislation in both chambers of Congress; the matters could not «die in committee.»

The Senate, controlled by a Republican - dominated coalition, passed nine of its planks but refused to hold a floor vote on the abortion measure.

The bill was moved quickly through the Ways and Means committee, followed by a floor vote.

Tkaczyk said it was denied a floor vote by Skelos, then the Republican majority leader.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to hold a floor vote by the end of next week, although it is unclear whether enough of his Republican members support a plan to do so.

Each June, the last scheduled month of the annual legislative sessions, such bills pop up for quick floor votes with little debate or public review.

It is unclear how many of the Freedom Caucus members would be willing to back McCarthy before the floor vote.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter King said Senate Republicans should meet with and hold confirmation hearings on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland — and then reject him in committee or in a floor vote.

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

It passed the House and is awaiting a floor vote in the Senate.

Left message asking that she bring the bill to a floor vote.

He was then installed in a formal floor vote of the 63 - member Senate by a bare, 32 - vote majority.

MMA supporters have insisted a majority of the lawmakers in the chamber back the measure and it would pass if a floor vote is allowed.

Flanagan, after he was elected by the conference, held a floor vote on a package of SAFE Act changes that were unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic - led Assembly.