Sentences with phrase «senate on a voice vote»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Court of Appeals nominee was approved in the New York State Senate on a voice vote, after an unusually contentious process.
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We need voices like Julie Killian's in the State Senate and we encourage voters in the 37th Senate district to vote for Julie Killian on April 24th.»
BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a floor vote.
Supporters of the SOCE measure, who also pressed for a vote, voiced strong confidence they would have won on the Senate floor, with sponsor Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, pointing to public support for the measure from Republicans.
Voicing frustration at what he characterized as allies unwilling to walk the walk after the LGBT community's strong financial support for electing a Senate Democratic majority last year, Van Capelle had warned that if no vote happened on marriage equality, «We can find other friends who will do that job for us and do it faster.
The Senate delayed a vote on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's nomination to become secretary of state after a Republican lawmaker objected to a planned voice vote today.
The House backed the bill by a vote of 363 to 47, while the Senate approved it on a voice vote.
The measure, which cleared the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on a voice vote Feb. 14, advanced the same week a report commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that Head Start continue to administer the test — and possibly expand it to cover content areas beyond mathematics and literacy.
The Senate, by voice vote, has passed a bill that would end the ban on the teaching of secular humanism in programs funded by federal magnet - school money.
The Republican - controlled Senate passed the bill on a voice vote with no debate.
The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, applauds the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) after the committee voted favorably to send Betsy DeVos» nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education to the Senate floor.
The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, signed by President Donald Trump in October, was passed by voice vote in the House and Senate, where dramatic statistics on elder fraud and abuse prompted overwhelming support for the legislation.
The students learned how the state Senate works upon hearing an unrecorded voice vote of yea or nay actually passed a two - year moratorium on selling AR - 15 assault rifles like the one used in the school shooting.