Sentences with phrase «popular vote legislation»
The passage of National Popular Vote legislation in both the Senate and Assembly is a coup for Tom Golisano.
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The National Popular Vote legislation is good for the senate Republicans as it should be an incentive for the party's presidential candidate to campaign in the state.
The so - called National Popular Vote legislation would guarantee that the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes in the country would become president.
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This fear of an NRA backlash might, at least in part, explain why Republican senators continue to vote against gun control legislation that's popular with their own conservative constituents.
Legislation is advancing to the Senate that adds Connecticut to a group of states wanting to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
Though Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a public stance on the legislation, Dr. Koza, the National Popular Vote co-founder, tells us that he has «indications that he would be supportive.»
, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...
Her votes against major sections of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 state budgets — omnibus bills that combined popular legislation with controversial policy and basic funding measures — may provide further ammunition for the opposition, according to Sherrill.