Sentences with phrase «floor vote amendment»

Farm Bill With Amendment to Allow Industrial Hemp Research Passes House in 216 to 208 Floor Vote Amendment Marks First Hemp Legislation to Pass in Congress in Over Fifty Years

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He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

The lobby team at my last nonpofit (enviro) job drove home this observation repeatedly, putting the procedural victories and losses along the legislative way in perspective — sure, the Senate might strip a critical provision out or add in something nasty while voting on floor amendments, but the matter really wasn't settled until conference.

Anthony Weiner, memorably ripped apart his GOP colleagues on the House floor when they voted against the Zadroga bill after attaching controverisal amendments to it that the Democrats opposed.

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.

But last week the Senate made a series of amendments to the bill, and the Assembly did not follow suit, indicating they are in no hurry to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Senators are starting to head to their conference room on the third floor of the state Capitol because they want to discuss some key bills expected to come up for a vote today — including Sen. John Bonacic's constitutional amendment redistricting measure — but they're pledging to walk out if Kruger shows up.

The American Civil Liberties Union strongly urges you vote «YES» on the Kennedy - Smith hate crimes prevention amendment to the Defense Department authorization bill, when the amendment likely comes to the Senate floor next week.

«After collecting thousands of dollars in checks, Mr. Crowley returned to the floor of the House just in time to vote against a series of amendments that would have imposed tougher restrictions on Wall Street.»

With Sens. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsDem rep to launch discharge petition to force net neutrality vote in House Hillicon Valley: Senate votes to save net neutrality Senate panel breaks with House, says Russia favored Trump in 2016 Latest from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Lawmakers push back on helping Chinese tech giant Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — ObamaCare premium wars are back MORE (R - Maine) and Jack ReedJohn (Jack) Francis ReedOvernight Defense: Trump aide's comment mocking McCain sparks outrage Haspel gets another «no» vote Pompeo floats North Korea aid for denuclearization Politicians, media explode over White House aide's comments Senate Dems urge Trump to remain in Iran deal ahead of announcement MORE (D - R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul's amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted down.

At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.

It's still not clear if he's bluffing, but the forfeiture amendment is set to be approved by the Assembly Rules Committee this afternoon, an action that would make it ripe for a floor vote.

In July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idea.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

In fact, he voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment both times it reached the House floor.

The House floor amendment to the FY 2013 Commerce, Justice, and Science spending bill, offered by Rep. Daniel Webster (R - FL), was approved with 232 votes in favor, of which Mulvaney was one (note the provision did not survive the Senate).

Senate floor debate could begin sometime in June, Udall said, after which it may take to 6 weeks to vote on amendments.

In late June 2008, on a close 41 — 30 vote to defeat a budget amendment on the House floor, the bill to create mayoral academies cleared its final meaningful hurdle.

Sen. Harkin has stated that his desire is for the amended ESEA reauthorization bill to go to the Senate floor for further debate, amendments and a final vote before the end of the calendar year.

7/18/2013: LULAC sends Members of Congress specific vote recommendations on various amendments being considered on the floor of the House on H.R. 5, the Student Success Act of 2013.

On the floor, the bullying and school choice amendments will face the Senate's 60 - vote threshold, which helps neutralize the possibility that they'll derail Alexander and Murray's carefully crafted compromise bill.

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.

Facing a close vote in the energy task force, a state legislator from Texas introduced an amendment on the floor that expanded the resolution's scope to any energy subsidies.

Although hundreds of amendments were offered during debate of the Farm Bill, many of the amendments were not brought to the floor for a vote, including this one.

Here's Politico: «Dozens of purple - state Republicans have broken ranks with their party leadership to take the pro-green position during floor and committee votes spanning more than 100 bills and amendments.»

On Monday night, Liberal MP Ken Wyatt told ABC TV's Q and A program that he would be prepared to cross the floor to vote against the proposed RDA amendments because he knew the pain that racism causes.

On the voting floor itself, an amendment calling for approval of the $ 25 increase for 2001, but separate debates on proposed future yearly increases, was defeated.