Sentences with phrase «bill before a vote»

Criticism of House Republicans increased after the bill passed without an updated analysis from the Congressional Budget Office — which initially estimated the AHCA would increase the number of uninsured to 24 million by 2026 — and after several Republicans conceded they had not fully read the bill before voting for it.

The House three - day rule was part of Republicans» 2010 «Pledge to America,» in which they promised to give «at least three days to read the bill before a vote.»

Their resistance forced Speaker Paul Ryan to pull out the bill before a vote.

«What he's basically saying is legislators should not review the bills before they vote on them.

Also, he plans to review all of the merits of the Defense Authorization bill before voting one way or another; hopefully it will be a fully open amendment process.»

What about telling us you read the health care bill before you voted yes... as instructed to do by Palosi... then found out it was a disaster?

We need to give the public the opportunity to review, discuss and express its opinions on this massive spending bill before a vote is cast.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell warned Democrats that his members might need more time to study the bill before voting on it.

Katko, R - Camillus, a member of the Tuesday Group, publicly stated his opposition to the GOP healthcare bill before the vote was postponed in March.

you should have read the bill before you voted for it and not lied to the american people.

Rep. Chris Collins, a key Trump supporter from western New York, copped in an interview to not reading the health care bill before voting in favor of it.

The House is planning to leave for holiday recess that day and its rules require that members get at least three days to read any bill before voting on it.

(The congresswoman came out against the bill before the vote.)

The office said that the Joint Committee on Taxation had not yet had enough time to analyze the full impact of the proposals, not that the office expected that it would be unable to analyze the bill before a vote.

As Democrats made a series of motions that McConnell turned aside, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., twice asked the GOP leader to ensure Democrats will have more than 10 hours to study and debate the bill before the vote.

There's also an online campaign called Read the Bill along with a group called Read to Vote that's collected more than 80,000 signatures asking lawmakers to promise to read every page of every bill before voting.

Amash prides himself on actually reading every bill before he votes and then explaining each of his votes on Facebook — referring back frequently to the Constitution as the basis for his position.

Not exact matches

And even before the Senate voted to gut key provisions of the ACA in early December, he introduced a bill to overturn the 2010 health care law in 2013.

HARWOOD: On the tax bill, one of the things you secured before voting the bill was a promise to do something about the «dreamers.»

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

Democrats counter that the ACA was debated for more than three months after the initial text of the legislation was released before it got its first House vote, and amendments offered by Republicans were added to the bill.

The original version of the bill was pulled from the House before a vote in March due to lackluster support from Republicans.

The House passed the bill Monday evening, the Senate votes today, and then the president is expected to sign it before the midnight deadline.

Republican leaders are pushing for the House to vote on a revised tax bill before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 23.

Republican leaders have pushed for the House to vote on the tax bill before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 23.

Canada Senate deal to vote on pot bill on June 7 means no actual sales before August, Canadian Press Garneau orders officials to crack down on people aiming laser pointers at planes, Toronto Star Regulator allows more Kinder Morgan pipeline construction, Reuters

Regardless of the «he said, she said» narrative, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; a bill would require drafting, after which it would need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

Regardless, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; the bill will require drafting, after which it will need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

The unveiling of the Senate plan, combined with a House committee vote to send a version of its bill to the House floor, is a step forward in the party's race to rewrite the U.S. tax code before year's end.

The law was added to the expense account teams in the last środową the night before the vote on 2232 - page bill, which took place on Thursday.

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

Two days before voting for the gender abortion bill, Silvestre Reyes (TX - 16) lost a reelection bid to Beto O'Rourke, who drew attention for his support of legalizing marijuana.

Mr Balls was speaking hours before a crucial vote on a Bill that would introduce sex and relationships education for children as young as five and forbid parents from removing their children from sex education classes once they turned 15.

The Wagner / Hatfield Ammendment was voted down, but not before Congress wrote into the bill Section 307 (c), a mandate to the newly created Federal Communications Commission:

It was already becoming clear that actual support for the Bill would be the official (though cravenly unexpressed) Catholic line, even before the Bill was voted through the Commons.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

If that seems a little hysterical, consider The Catholic Herald's account of an interview given by Ed Balls on the Today programme, a few hours before the House of Commons passed, by 268 votes to 177, its Sex Education Bill (against which, Catholics should note, the Tories voted):

(You may recall that just before the Senate vote on the bill, Ms. Obama published a Washington Post editorial to encourage lawmakers to vote yes.)

Next you'll notice the Bills Portal, which lists every bill before Congress (via thomas.gov and gives you the opportunity to vote as if you were voting yes or no on the bill and to indicate on a scale of 1 - to - 4 how important that bill is to you.

Schneiderman won kudos from the group for voting to pass the Hate Crimes bill and SONDA, sponsoring the Dignity for All Students Act, which recently passed the Senate, and delivering a «passionate and emotional speech» on the floor before voting «yes» on same - sex marriage last December.

A longtime push for early voting in New York took a step forward this month, with Republican Sen. Betty Little backing a bill that would allow voters to cast ballots up to two weeks before Election Day.

@SoylentGray: I think what Chirstian is trying say here is that the individual elected members of a party are not beholden to vote party line on any bill before them.

Before session wraps for the year, it's time for the rest of the legislature to tell the public where they stand on term limits by bringing this bill to the floor for an up or down vote.

Any bill printed and introduced before midnight tonight could be voted on by Wednesday Thursday under the Legislature's required aging rule.

Whereas I didn't agree that charter schools take money away from trouble traditional schools BEFORE — I came away from the excellent comments from the Senators voting AGAINST the charter school bill believing this is the case.

New York would be the first major city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council committee.

Collins drew a round of unfavorable headlines last week after he acknowledged he had not read the full bill before the House of Representatives voted to narrowly pass it.

Several noncontroversial budget bills were printed last night, and a few were even passedby the Senate — with very little discussion on the part of majority members and no opportunity for the public to see anything before it was voted on.

In her speech in Glasgow, Sturgeon said publication of a referendum bill was designed to give Scots the opportunity to vote on independence before the UK departs from the EU.