Sentences with phrase «as the legislature voted»

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Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

Prior to the adoption of general incorporation statutes in the mid-1800s, the best evidence as to corporate voting rights is found in individual corporate charters granted by legislatures.

The Liberals won 17 seats and 29 percent of the vote, returning to the legislature as the province's Official Opposition (CBC, Alberta Votes).

Christians do not vote to kill babies before, during and after they are born as Obama did 3 times while in the Illinois legislature.

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

By the end of the session in June, nothing had been voted on by the upper house so Cuomo created the now infamous Moreland Commission to «use as a hammer» against the legislature.

DiNapoli says so far, around one fifth of counties have taken preliminary steps to override the cap, as they are permitted to do under the law as long as they can muster a 60 % majority vote from their county legislature or board of supervisors.

Despite the fact that the state has voted for Republicans in every presidential election from 1980 until 2008 the governorship (until 2012), legislature (until 2010), as well as most statewide offices, it remains in Democratic control.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

Cannon described Colorado as a state where Democrats had the best chances of flipping the legislature — where President Obama did well in 2008, Democrats held the Senate by five votes, and Republicans held the House by just a one - vote margin.

As chairman of the legislature, Reynolds has the power to not bring a resolution to a vote or table it until a future date.

The UN's failures can be traced to the way the Security Council (SC) is currently able to act in a judicial manner in determining whether states have complied with SC resolutions, while also acting as the executive in drawing up those resolutions, and also as the principal legislature in voting on them.

After futile appeals to the legislature and a court rejection, Auerbach has circled back through a seldom - used procedure known as a petition to discharge to try to force another legislative vote.

As for the veto, yes, the president can veto any bill passed by both houses of the legislature before it has become law (the president can not veto an existing law), but the veto can be overruled by a 2/3 majority vote by both the House and Senate.

As has been reported earlier, if one party has control of both the Assembly and Senate then a 2/3 60 % majority of the legislature has to vote to approve the commission's plan.

It would not preclude the legislature or County Executive Steve Bellone, who has voluntarily frozen his salary since taking office, from proposing raises as part of the budget, on which lawmakers would have to vote.

Curran has touted her vote with legislative Republicans last year to approve borrowing for capital projects as a sign she'll work in a bipartisan way, even if the GOP maintains control of the legislature.

Both houses of the legislature voted twice to approve the amendment, as required under the state's constitution, and Governor Cuomo signed the bill, at the time calling it «historic».

Memo to Shelly Silver, the method of election pursuant to statue is by a «JOINT BALLOT» which means a «SECRET VOTE», not a public one as you do as an elective member of the legislature.

The Nassau County legislature voted unanimously to confirm Curran's appointment of Jared Kasschau as county attorney after the Rockville Centre lawyer pledged to run his office with integrity and transparency.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

For an amendment to be placed before the voters as a referendum, a state constitutional convention, a joint meeting of both houses of the legislature sitting as one body, in each of two successive two - year legislative sessions, must provide the required number of votes.

The Nassau County legislature voted unanimously Monday to confirm Democrat County Executive Laura Curran's appointment of Jared Kasschau as county attorney after the Rockville Centre lawyer pledged to run his office with integrity and transparency.

He voted with Republicans twice to elect his father John as legislature chairman.

It was first introduced as a bill in the legislature in 2011, but was repeatedly postponed and then defeated by one vote in March 2014.

If that next session of the legislature agrees with the amendment by a simple majority vote of both chambers, «it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit each proposed amendment or amendments to the people for approval in such manner and at such times as the legislature shall prescribe.»

[15] The 2014 regular session included a total of 515 votes in the State House and 396 in the State Senate, as well as 1,372 bills introduced total in the legislature and 237 bills passed.

It should be noted that after this year's European elections it will no longer be permissible for an MEP to be a peer sitting and voting in the House of Lords (since MEPs will not be allowed to have a dual mandate as a member of a national legislature).

When mayoral control lapsed in 2009, a reconstituted Board of Education voted to keep Joel Klein as chancellor and let him and then - Mayor Mike Bloomberg run the schools until the legislature restored things to normal.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the New York State legislature prepares for the state budget vote, cries for ridesharing to come to Buffalo continue.

The legislature voted on September 19 to hold Brega as the lowest responsible bidder, pointing to Brega's prior transportation record in Rockland County, acting to end a protracted legal conflict between Brega, MV Transportation, and the legislature.

Boggs is now a Georgia Court of Appeals judge, but his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing focused on votes and statements from when he served as a conservative Democrat in the George state legislature, from 2000 - 2004.

And if Cuomo opens New York to hydrofracking — as we expect he will — we will demand that the legislature ban fracking and run candidates against legislators who don't vote for the ban,» Hawkins said.

Stec, who has positioned himself as the state legislature's leading voice on stripping corrupted officials of their pensions, theorized something happened when three men went into a room on March 31, and hours later, the assembly opted against voting on their pension forfeiture bill.

No date has been set on when the legislature would vote, but Cafero said it should be scheduled as soon as possible.

I hope they will bring it to the floor for an up or down vote because I want to know where the legislature stands on this issue, as well as the county executive, because no one has publicly sent us anything in terms of a proposal of what they want, so I'm telling the county what I want, what I think is the best for the City of Kingston residents.»

Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger, a Democrat, says the legislature will vote September 3 whether to join a municipal consortium that currently counts five towns and a village as members.

Assemblyman Robert Oaks, R - Macedon: No «I have opposed past efforts to create a full - time legislature, as I believe it is a strength to have people serving and voting on laws who come from various walks of life and various professional backgrounds.

As you might remember, one of the arguments that Senate Republicans made for an August primary was that a June primary could potentially create chaos in the state legislature with Senators unable to make it to the capitol for votes because of their campaigns.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

Patterson is unpopular because he's making those unpleasant decisions, meanwhile the NY legislature plays politics like they always do, and NY residents refuse to vote for a politician that speaks to them as adults.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Environmentalists are also starting to focus on Proposition 26, a little - noticed California ballot measure that would reclassify environmental impact fees as taxes and require a two - thirds vote of the state legislature to impose them rather than a simple majority.

In the latter case, as Ms. Schmickle notes, there's unlikely to be enough votes in the legislature to override a veto but there is consistent support for such research among the general population (as high as 2 - to - 1 depending on the poll) and particularly among those oh - so - important «moderates» that Senator McCain is going to need to have a chance at winning in November.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.

Regardless of these amusing possibilities, it is unlikely that the Alabama Supreme Court will side with Price's brazenly unconstitutional power grab if party identification is as good a predictor of voting behavior there as it is in the legislature.