Sentences with phrase «senate supermajority»

It is perhaps surprising, then, that in July a bipartisan Senate supermajority of 81 — 17 passed a revision of NCLB that keeps the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in grades 3 to 8 and again in high school.

Eight years ago, as a once - in - a-generation Democratic Senate supermajority debated health care reform, Sen. Max Baucus, D - Mont., kept their focus narrow.

Not exact matches

House leadership has vowed to create its own immigration bill, in effect rejecting any Senate bill even if it passes with a supermajority.

But unlike most legislation, which requires a supermajority in the Senate to even be considered, the resolutions only need a majority vote in both houses to pass.

President Trump said the U.S. needed «a good «shutdown»» this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules that effectively require a supermajority to approve most major pieces of legislation.

Title IV: Budget Process - Subtitle A: Budget Enforcement -(Sec. 401) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this resolution to be exceeded, except by a supermajority waiver.

He built strong ties within the Democratic caucus after helping them win control of the Senate in 2006 and build a 60 - vote supermajority in 2008 as a strategist and prolific fundraiser.

The New York City cap approved by the Senate on Tuesday would allow for a supermajority on the city Council to override the measure in the event of an emergency, a provision de Blasio also questioned.

However, he is undaunted by moving from a Democratic supermajority in the state senate to a probable minority in the House, promising to «confront and refute the Tea Party at every conceivable turn.»

Senate Democrats lost their supermajority last month when Los Angeles - area Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned rather than face an extremely rare expulsion vote over sexual misconduct allegations, and he's running again for the same seat.

Complimenting the disorder of the Senate the whole time was the unassailable lethargy of the Assembly, where Ent - like speaker Sheldon Silver controls a Democratic supermajority that is seemingly impervious to public opinion, editorial outrage and, as Eliot Spitzer can unhappily attest, governors with «popular mandates.»

In the state Senate, the GOP prevented Democrats from regaining a two - thirds supermajority.

Unlike the Democrats near the beginning of Obama's term, the GOP does not have a filibuster - proof supermajority in the Senate - or anything close to one.

The GOP victory was widely considered a referendum on the senate's Democratic supermajority in Congress.

Assignment editors — U.S. Senate candidate Scott will highlight the second proposal of his «Make Washington Work» Plan requiring a supermajority vote of each house of Congress to approve any tax or fee increase with two events.

In 2011, with a Democratic majority in the Senate (but not a supermajority), Senators Jeff Merkley (D - Ore.)

According to this answer, only a simple majority is needed to change the Senate's rules not a supermajority.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

Senate Republicans say even if they lost a member, it would be impossible for the Dems to take control because chamber rules require a supermajority — 38 votes — to make such a move.

SB1947 garnered a bipartisan supermajority of 38 votes in the Senate, and the bill will now be sent to Gov. Rauner, who has said he will sign it.

«I think the fact we have a supermajority in the House and Senate speaks highly to that.»

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

Add that to the hard reality of the 60 - vote «supermajority» required for guaranteed passage of a bill in the Senate — a reality stressed for years by David Roberts of Grist — and you can see why such a bill was doomed.

Yet even the three congressmen who headed a panel on «Politics and Other Realities» avoided mention of the Senate, focusing on micro-issues like gas stamps and impossibilities like «bringing America together» instead of ways legislation could feasibly get passed by a supermajority in the upper chamber of Congress.

Second, senators need to stop talking about «60 votes» as though it's in the Constitution that the U.S. Senate — unlike every other legislative body on the planet — has a supermajority requirement.

A successful veto override requires a supermajority (67 votes) of the Senate and there were insufficient Democrats to vote yes to override the veto.