Sentences with phrase «house floor vote»

Both 0070 and 0019 have successfully passed the committee vote, and are ready for the House floor vote.

Baton Rouge, La. — Following today's House floor vote on Senate Bill 432, which passed by a vote of 55 - 16, Democrats for Education Reform Louisiana state director, Eva Kemp, released the following statement:

Tensions have only increased as the legislation nears a House floor vote.

Multiple GOP leadership aides told CNN there is no House floor vote scheduled yet on the measure.

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.

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,...

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This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando this year, Democrats in Congress held a sit - in on the floor of the House of Representatives simply to demand a vote on gun control legislation.

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.

But the House voted 71 - 36 to reject taking up the measure on the floor.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

After postponing the vote once on Thursday, the bill was ultimately yanked from the House of Representatives floor on Friday after it became clear it wouldn't pass.

It is unclear if either the Wagner bill or the Foxx / Roe bill will get a full vote on the House floor.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

The unveiling of the Senate plan, combined with a House committee vote to send a version of its bill to the House floor, is a step forward in the party's race to rewrite the U.S. tax code before year's end.

The vote, which clears the bill to advance to the House floor, included revisions meant to eliminate a $ 74 billion shortfall and address other issues complicating the bill's passage.

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.

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.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

When the House version of the proposed legislation, with the support of the state's 350,000 member youth soccer association, passed unanimously last week, Zackery and his father, Victor, were on the statehouse floor to witness the vote and hear Rodne tell them, though Zakery might never play football again, that the statute would be his legacy forever.

House Bill 158, which was voted onto Alabama's House floor by a health committee yesterday, would allow adoption agencies within the state to refuse services based on «deeply - held religious beliefs,» including theologically - motivated opposition to LGBTQ parents.

A central component of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity platform is set to get an up - or - down vote on the House floor Thursday, after delays prompted by opposition from lawmakers on both ends of the political spectrum.

And if enough people call and write the Calendars Committee and the bills are set for the House floor, then we must maintain that energy and contact the representatives and get them voted out of the House.

«If it was put on the floor of the House or the Senate it would get a majority vote in either one.»

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

Speaking on the floor of the House just prior to the vote, King said he plans to vote against censure.

In that case, several Republican congressmembers camped out on the House floor during the August recess to protest the lack of a vote on expanded oil - and - gas drilling, and supporters vigorously chronicled their activities through short messages to the Twitter - using audience.

If Rump can get a plan that the house freedom caucus will let him bring to the floor for a vote, let's see it first.

One week after surgery, Reed said he was back voting on the House floor.

Clarification: If the Speaker in the House and the Majority Leader in the Senate control the legislative agenda, how do these coalitions (Trump - Democrats - moderate Republicans) get a bill to the floor for a vote?

«Within our conference, there wasn't enough support to include it in our one - house resolution or bring the vote to the floor,» Heastie told WNBF this morning.

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.

A number of LGBT advocates are frustrated that ENDA didn't even see a House committee vote — let alone a vote on the House or Senate floor — during the 111th Congress when Democrats had control of both chambers of Congress.

Well, now he has heard from at least one of them: Congressman Bob Turner voted a reluctant «yes» on the floor of the House today.

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

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.

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.

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.

Rep. Greg Meeks (D - Queens) said he saw the four huddling in the back of the House floor, waiting to cast their negative votes until the resolution's passage was secured.

«I think right now the votes are not there to pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the budget deal.

The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.) for his repeated violations of the chamber's rules, marking the first time in nearly 30 years that a Member has been censured on the floor.

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted Nov. 18 to recommend censure, a lecture on the House floor that is the chamber's most stringent form of punishment short of expulsion.

The congressman said the bill, which is expected to come to the House floor for a vote tomorrow, increases the debt by $ 1.5 trillion to provide tax breaks to the wealth.

The Batavia Republican also proposed a measure on the Assembly floor Monday that would require a two - thirds vote of the house for Messages of Necessity to be accepted when issued by the governor.

Today's strategy session on gay marriage hosted at the Capitol by Gov. Andrew Cuomo focused mainly on what to do about the Senate, where the bill came to the floor for a full - house vote just once back in December 2009 and died, 38 - 24.

«So that's how I found out we voted to leave,» he explains, with the Palace of Westminster overlooking our second floor meeting room in Portcullis House.

Peers also expressed their anger on the floor of the House of Lords on Monday that the legislation had been effectively axed without a vote by MPs.

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.