Sentences with phrase «house brought its bill to the floor»

When the House brought its bill to the floor for a vote, 20 Republicans opposed it.

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The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

Waxman, a California Democrat, indicated that he would bypass a committee vote if necessary and bring the bill directly to the House floor for a final vote.

He says the «majority» of Republicans in the house are against the aid, and he needs to convince the leadership to bring the bill to the floor, so supporters can vote on it.

He is encouraged that a member of the Assembly majority is backing the bill in that house, but he remained unsure if that would be enough to bring a vote to the Assembly floor.

Slaughter voted Thursday to bring the bill to the House floor, a procedural effort that failed.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic procedural move to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.

Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, Speaker John Boehner said today, «I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans.»

House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon — as early as tomorrow — to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor.

- We call upon the House Democratic Leadership to bring this bill quickly back to the House floor — this time allowing it to pass under the standard rule of a simple majority.

At the beginning of each session, the House of Representatives agrees to the Rules of the House (link) which proscribe the conditions under which a bill can be brought to the floor, and the rules by which a bill is adopted.

The Democratic - led Assembly is yet to move forward on the bill this session; both chambers advanced it last year, but it was not brought to the floor of either house for a vote.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a statement, saying the Senate will look to pass the House bill by seeking an agreement with Republicans to bring the bill to the floor in the coming days.

Before the Deputy Attorney General took to the floor to lay the bill, the majority leader, Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu bemoaned media commentary that suggested he had said the right to information bill will not be brought before the house before it rises.

Deacon also chastised Katko for sticking with the Republican Party on a number of issues, like voting to defund Planned Parenthood and voting against bringing a bill to the House floor that would have banned people on the suspected terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.

«We write today asking you to move quickly on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by bringing a bill inclusive of protections for all victims of domestic violence, similar to that which has already passed the Senate, to the House floor for a vote during these final weeks of the 112th Congress,» the letter said.

I mean, will having another Democrat in the House really change the fact that, as of now, Speaker Pelosi is bringing a weak health care reform bill to the House floor and that Majority Leader Reid is bringing an even weaker one to the Senate floor.

The Majority Leader determines which bills are brought to the floor for debate (from an Agenda prepared by the Speaker of the House) and manages debates and floor votes.

He's been at loggerheads with the 40 or 50 members of the House Freedom Caucus for years and his bringing a conference bill to the floor was going to be one more round in that fight.

Washington — In the wake of the Senate's passage of sweeping anti-busing legislation last week, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives are acting to prevent the bill, which must be passed by the House to become law, from being brought to the House floor for a vote.

In a sane world, leaders from both parties would welcome the Alexander approach and bring these bills to the floor of the House and Senate as soon as possible, and the Obama Administration would laud the package for its fidelity to its «blueprint.»

Bringing attention to the importance of magnet schools and ending school segregation on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives during the consideration of the FY 2018 Appropriations bill.

Chairman Kline has already gotten approval from Speaker Boehner to bring the bill to the House floor by the end of the month, but even if it passes, President Obama is likely to issue a veto threat on it because it is just not in line with the administration's views.

They'd bring it to the House floor for a vote soon, when Ryan was still new to the speakership and the bill could arguably pass off as part of Boehner's legacy, according to Alexander.

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House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D - MD), one of the authors of the ADA 27 years ago pleaded with Majority leader Paul Ryan (R - WI) urging him not to bring the bill up on the floor.

On February 25, 2016 MP Nathaniel Erskine - Smith brought a bill to the floor of the House of Commons that will ensure those who abuse or hurt animals get the maximum sentence possible and that all animals have a humane life and death.

Curbelo is seeking to circumvent Republican leaders to bring an immigration bill to the House floor.

Efforts to pass energy legislation addressing grid security and resilience floundered in 2016 when a broadly supported Senate bill was never brought to the House floor.

Like most other big bills brought to the Senate (and House) floor these days, the bill is being put together in secret, so it's hard to find out what might be in it.

Some of the most outspoken survivors of the «Never Again» movement were in Tallahassee, where 71 Florida House representatives voted against bringing a bill to ban the rifles to the floor, and traveled back to Sunrise for the town hall.