Sentences with phrase «house floor debates»

But because House floor debates are televised, reporters often monitor the proceedings from their desks outside the chamber where they can more easily take notes and work on computers.

Her death creates a vacancy at the top of the Democratic side of the rules panel, which sets the terms of House floor debates.

Her death creates a vacancy at the top of the Democratic side of the Rules panel, which sets the terms of House floor debates.

«By excluding these items from the calculation, it will allow more loans to qualify as QM and open up more credit to potential homebuyers,» Rep. Keith Rothfus, R - Pa., said in the House floor debate Wednesday.

Not exact matches

The House debated the legislation Friday but abruptly pulled the bill from the floor once it was clear the bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act, was short on votes, according to the Associated Press.

Republican leaders hope to move the legislation to the House floor for debate as early as Thursday.

But in the maelstrom of last - minute action before the House heads home Friday, the bill has not been scheduled for what was expected to be a contentious debate on the floor.

Amid rising tensions at the Capitol, Democrats used a highly unusual procedure to try to move the proposal directly to the House floor for a debate and vote.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

What they expect from me as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is that every bill, every motion and every debate on the floor of the house must be looked at within the prism of what is in the best interest of the Urhobo and Delta Central people.

This is manifested by the quality of debates on the floor of the house», he observed.

He disclosed that this has had a toll on the quality of debates on the floor of the house because most of them are not well trained to have been elected to the house because they lack the quality as required to make meaningful impacts in terms of contributions.

«It is a rare privilege and honour for me to open this, the first of the Backbench Business Committee debates on the Floor of the House.

Back - bench MPs seek adjournment debates in order to raise specific issues and particular concerns with Ministers on the floor of the House.

During the floor debate, Senator Cathy Young, chairwoman of the chamber's housing committee, defended the legislation saying it «would give eight years of predictability and stability» for tenants in rent regulated apartments.

Debates on the floor of the House of Commons do not generally win a mass audience, even at moments of high drama — the knife - edge vote that settles great affairs of state.

MPs will scrutinise new laws less, under plans to bypass debate on the floor of the House of Commons and hand power to ministers

In both houses, issues that held up a budget agreement and weren't included in the extender were debated on the floor, including a proposal to increase the age at which a teenager can be tried as an adult.

Speaker of the House, Ikuinyi - Owaji Ibani referred the Bill after an exhaustive debate on the floor of the House.

Although floor debates in the main Commons chamber — and the rowdy weekly showcase of Prime Minister's Question Time — are the dominant images of the UK Parliament, like any legislature the House of Commons also does a lot of detailed work holding the government to account.

The approval was done by only Majority Members of Parliament because the Minority staged a walkout during the debate on the Floor of the House.

A prayer offered during the tax overhaul debate this winter on the House floor is reportedly a reason that Speaker Paul Ryan may have asked for the House chaplain's resignation earlier this month...

The agreement was however passed by a one - sided parliament after a charge debate on the floor of the house.

Again in 2010 Back - Bench MPs for the first time secured the right to set up debates of their own choosing on the floor of the House, rather than being dependent on Government's willingness to stage such debates (which in most cases they refused to do), but this still needs to be supplemented by a House Business Committee so that all the business taken in the Chamber has to be negotiated between the Executive and the Legislature.

According to the Washington Post's Web site, Fossella could be seen talking with House chaplain, Rev. Daniel Coughlan, in the back of the House chamber during a floor debate shortly after his admission.

The PAC should be empowered in at least the cases of the most egregious misfeasance to table a resolution for debate and voting on the floor of the House of Commons which, if passed, would then be sent to the Lords, and if agreed there too, would command the force of law for being implemented.

A quota of perhaps half a dozen reports each year, selected by the Liaison Committee composed of the chairs of all the Select Committees, should be put on to the floor of the House for debate and vote, and likewise if passed, referred on to the Lords for confirmation (or otherwise) and thence to being implemented.

He was contributing to a debate on the floor of the house for the approval of some GHc 33 million for the EC...

The Member of Parliament for Asawase was contributing to a motion on the floor debating the State of the Nation Address presented to the House on the 21st of February 2017 by President Nana Akufo - Addo.

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.

The deputy leader of the mainline Democratic conference was using the free day to prepare for the debate on the Senate's one - house budget resolution, which is expected to make it to the floor on Wednesday.

After all, the nation's laws ultimately get debated and passed on the floors of the House of Representatives and Senate.

«We are in a global competition for the best scientists and engineers,» said Chu in comments to reporters about the 2011 continuing resolution being debated this week on the floor of the House after he defended the president's 2012 budget to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning.

The sharply partisan nature of the debate on the House floor this afternoon — only 16 of 146 Republicans supported its passage, along with all 212 Democrats who voted — signaled that the new Republican House leadership won't take kindly to bills that promise large increases in federal spending, no matter how worthy the cause.

The White House will not make a formal statement about the bill until it is scheduled for debate on the House floor «but you shouldn't take the silence officially up until now as assent,» Holdren said, adding «I will make clear my personal opinion that the COMPETES act is bad for science, bad for scientists and engineers, and bad for the federal science agencies that would be authorized by the bill.

Indeed, «the amendment's sponsors... made this intent [to transfer funds] explicit during floor debate,» says an aide on Smith's House science committee.

The HHC had moved House Bill 639 further than any previous proposal to set up tax credits for scholarship donations; no prior proposal had made it to a floor debate in either the House or Senate.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

Also still on the horizon is the House version (H.R. 5) which has been debated on the House Floor, with no final votes yet taken.

Opponents of the U.S. Senate tradition of the filibuster — or the extensive debate on the floor of the federal upper house geared toward preventing a vote on legislation or confirming a presidential appointee — certainly don't welcome Sen. Rand Paul's move today to exercise that privilege to prevent what would certainly be the speedy confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

After the bill leaves committee, it will head to the House floor where a long and perhaps contentious debate awaits it.

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Rooker has emerged as a leader in the school funding debate, helping to manage the bill on the House floor.

Committee members want their proposals debated and conference on the House and Senate floors to emerge with an improved ESEA reauthorization bill.

On April 10, hundreds of people on both sides of the charter - school question gathered outside the second - floor committee room where the House Education Committee was set to vote on whether to send the Senate's charter - school bill to the House floor for debate and, ultimately, the first vote to ever take place on charter school legislation in the chamber.

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

We were especially humbled last night when members of the House of Representatives invited our parent leaders Jessica Garcia and Ami Lara to join them on the floor for the bill debate and final passage, as an acknowledgement of their leadership on this issue.

After much debate and testimony that stated how much education and training these proposed veterinary nurses had received and the difference between the veterinary office workers, who are the techs, the bill passed out of the Ag Committee and moves on toward the House floor.»

Wichita, KS — A Senate Bill that would adjust inspection policies for puppy mill breeders was pulled from the House debate floor during Kansas lawmakers last session.