The problem lay solely in his having
voted on this matter, a matter in which he had a personal stake.
The Mayor insisted on chairing the discussion, and indeed even
voted on the matter when it came up for a vote.
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The snap ballot came only days after Mrs Merkel changed her long - held stance on the issue by allowing members of her conservative coalition a free
vote on the matter.
In 1854, the Kansas - Nebraska Hill was passed allowing the sovereign citizens to
vote on the matter.
Last week, the group wrote a letter to the mayor and city council of Temecula, California, urging officials there to approve the construction of a 25,000 - square - foot mosque project ahead of
a vote on the matter this Tuesday.
Considering that achieving the greatest good for the greatest number is kind of the point of democracy and any other coercive form of government, I guess you can say that Rand is opposed to the Republic as well, although in public she essentially gutted her own philosophy and said that she was only opposed to people being allowed to
vote on matters of private enterprise.
The conservative lawyers who screen the candidates for judgeships seek to be prudent by nimbly avoiding anything so plain and direct as asking the candidates exactly how they would
vote on these matters.
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The board is expected to take a final
vote on the matter Tuesday night.
MPs from outside of England are able to
vote on matters that affect only England, while MPs from England are unable to
vote on matters that have been devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
The Commons will
vote on the matter in backbench business time amid growing pressure about current arrangements.
We call on the government to publish these proposals as a Bill and give Parliament a free
vote on the matter.
Knocking on doors all the time people say it is outrageous that Scottish MPs, Welsh MPs - whatever it is -
vote on matters that only affect South Derbyshire.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to hold a Holyrood
vote on the matter regardless of the ruling, having argued that the wishes of Scots to stay in the EU are being ignored.
Meaningful ethics reform will pass with 100 % support in the Senate if Flanagan quits blocking
a vote on the matter.
When casting his initial
votes on the matter, Carlucci can be seen looking at how his colleagues were voting, then siding with Democrats even after Savino explained the vote to him.
According to the release, the Seneca County GOP Committee members are joining their chairman in backing Paladino, taking
a vote on the matter Monday night prior to a local campaign event this evening.
I did not tell any ethics commission member how to
vote on a matter.
In this model, homeowners in the community each buy one low - cost share and become members of the resident corporation, with one
vote on matters of the community.
It is difficult to imagine which would annoy the voters more, ever being given anything other than what they voted for in 2011, or ever being asked to
vote on the matter a second time.
Democrats in the Senate attempted to force
a vote on the matter last year but were stymied by parliamentary regulations; a similar attempt this year seems fated for the same end.
If Parliament
votes on a matter agreed as a «non party political» vote, where no party has a policy on the matter, the system of MPs party vote values does not apply.
The party leadership wants to accompany enhanced devolution for Scotland with a new rule that Scottish MPs can not
vote on matters that only affect people in England.
[280] He suggested the party's MPs
vote on the matter rather than party members as currently required by party rules.
But their caveat about Welsh MPs remaining free to
vote on matters that do have implications for Wales touches on the difficult issue (which the manifesto does not talk about explicitly).
The Prime Minister has called on the Labour leader to make clear whether he would support measures to stop Scottish MPs
voting on matters that only affect people in England.
The report will now go to Ipsa for consideration without MPs themselves being able to
vote on the matter.
This raises the «West Lothian question», a quandary first posited in 1977 by Tam Dalyell, who asked why he, as MP for the Scottish seat of West Lothian, should
vote on matters concerning English constituents but not his own.
«The SNP have a longstanding position of not
voting on matters that purely affect England — such as foxhunting south of the border, for example — and we stand by that.»
You may recall, last November we had
a vote on the matter.
But parliamentary sources say that promise has now been transmuted into a motion on whether there should be a free
vote on the matter.
«There is a feeling that England is at a disadvantage, and that it's not right that MPs representing the devolved nations should be able to
vote on matters affecting England.
When the confidential settlement agreement was approved by the Town Board last October, Lewza abstained from
voting on the matter without disclosing why.
Leasing of town land is subject to permissive referendum, which gives the public 30 days to submit a petition demanding the town to hold a public
vote on the matter much like a bond issue.