Sentences with phrase «began voting on legislation»

The Polish Parliament this month began voting on legislation creating a new national agency charged with distributing competitive grants for frontier research.

The governor said that he hopes to begin voting on the legislation, which he described as «good news for the people of New York,» on Tuesday.

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House democrats began their sit - in before noon Wednesday to force a vote on gun control legislation.

The vote — which came hours after the Senate narrowly approved a motion to begin debate on the legislation — is a setback for Republicans hoping to mark passage of a final repeal bill this week.

The protest began when unruly Democrats — with Connecticut Rep. John Larson at the helm — took control of the chamber late Wednesday morning, vowing to stay and disrupt normal legislative activity until Republican leaders agreed to hold a vote on gun control legislation.

Quinn's approval, which will allow the legislation to come to a vote, comes as a federal trial is beginning on a class - action lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy.

U.S. lawmakers always have reasons for what they do, so there must be one for why they didn't make public the 1,059 - page rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind until a few days before Congress began voting on the compromise legislation last week.

The legislation began its swift march through Congress on March 1, 2000 when the full House of Representatives passed H.R. 5 by a vote of 422 to 0.