Sentences with phrase «bill gets a vote»

He controls, for example, which lawmakers sit on which committees and decides whether a bill gets a vote.

Chancellor Merryl Tisch said Wednesday she backs Cuomo's plan, but disagrees with his contention that it's not vital the bill get voted on this week.

Reforms being discussed include introducing term limits, giving members more say in what bills get a vote, and banning or limiting outside income.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

The Byrd Rule most immediately threatens the Cruz proposal that is designed to give conservatives a win on Obamacare's insurance regulations — a compromise that might be essential for the bill to get 51 votes.

It is unclear if either the Wagner bill or the Foxx / Roe bill will get a full vote on the House floor.

Leaders are continuing to work to get more votes on board and will schedule a vote for this week if they believe they have enough to pass a bill, the aide added.

«We said, «Put this kind of stuff in the bill, and you'll get 70 or 80 votes.»

On February 15, 2018, Congress had an opportunity to vote on several amendments for a chance to get a bill that would include a solution for DREAMERs, through the Senate.

During the fight to get the bill passed, North Carolina lawmakers voted down amendments that would have created pro-choice alternatives such as «Trust Women.

i don't think it will pass but its just about getting it in the headlines... the next bill will be more to the point and far more misunderstood so it make really make it past the vote.

Theis says Jordan has always «been genial, and friendly with the media, but we always found it strange how he would ask for eight spending provisions in a budget bill, get five of them, and then vote against it.»

And if enough people call and write the Calendars Committee and the bills are set for the House floor, then we must maintain that energy and contact the representatives and get them voted out of the House.

Last month, a bill to legalize lay midwives got only three votes in a House committee in Springfield.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

in 1992 Presidential elections, Ross Perot got 19 % of the votes, but zero electoral votes (some argue, effectively handing Presidency to Bill Clinton the latter might likely be partly why in 2016, 3rd party candidates got only 4 % combined).

In a highly unusual move, a bill to ban a cancer - causing ingredient in children's products that cleared the Assembly in a unanimous vote got hung up in the Senate Finance Committee despite bipartisan support.

Conferees are of course still bound by the need to get the final bill passed in both bodies, but working behind the scenes they're more able to make the swaps and changes to shape a bill (however ugly) that'll get enough votes to survive.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

Also, I recall in 2006 that Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello ended up splitting his weighted vote in half to ensure both John Faso and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld would get onto the primary ballot.

«If she gets elected her very first vote would turn our entire state government over to Bill de Blasio and the New York City Democrats, and shift important resources to New York City at the expense of the Finger Lakes Region and the Southern Tier.

The bills that do get votes are ones in which he has fundamental political disagreements.

Saland's support for the bill got him the backing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but DiCarlo's presence in the race split the vote, giving Gipson a victory.

«October 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm, President Bill Clinton will participate in a get out the vote kick off rally for Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D - NY) at the Holiday Inn Ballroom located at 2 - 8 Hawley Street in Binghamton, NY.»

I get less excited by reform of voting systems, Europe and bills of rights.

In an interview on The Capitol Pressroom on Wednesday, the Syracuse Republican vented that his bill that had the aim of reforming the state's procurement process — a measure Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't want to see approved — never got a vote.

She was repeatedly warned she couldn't get her Withdrawal Bill through the Commons — and she's so far won 35 out of 36 votes.

After finally managing to get all 32 members into the chamber, the Senate Democrats just passed the bill that will re-open state parks without a single GOP vote.

Clarification: If the Speaker in the House and the Majority Leader in the Senate control the legislative agenda, how do these coalitions (Trump - Democrats - moderate Republicans) get a bill to the floor for a vote?

No matter how big the question marks over the HS2 project get, the government seems even more determined to push the project through, and announced today the first vote on their «blank cheque» paving bill will take place on June 26th.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

Despite the stagecraft of theoretical debates that don't end in votes, the partisan gridlock, the inertia that seemed to settle over the Capitol dome at times, bills did get passed, especially in the final, frenzied days of the 22 - week session.

It was a question about the unlikely chance of that bill passing the Republican - controlled Senate that got Dolan talking about the need for vigilance after last year's gay marriage vote.

Bill Lipton, who leads the Working Families Party, told me that the WFP has gotten 10,000 registered voters in IDC districts to pledge not to vote for the incumbents.

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Leaving Ryan's office before the vote began, McCarthy had told reporters the farm bill would pass, adding conservatives will get their demand of a vote on their hardline preferred immigration bill — authored by Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte — in June.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

A constitutional milestone will be reached in the House of Commons today as English MPs get the chance to vote exclusively on the Housing Bill.

For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

Senate Republicans aren't «getting anywhere» with their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Rand Paul said today, even as a top White House aide projected the bill was «getting close» to a vote.

They and others called on Mayor Bill de Blasio's Charter Revision Commission to get behind instant runoff voting.

And a cluster of first - term Senate Republicans have been eager to get rid of a procedural vote to begin floor debate on government funding bills.

I think people will say in the next election» why vote for a Liberal Dem when you will get a Tory» If our leaders are pressurised into ditching this bill we may have some chance of a future.

The author of a bill to bring it to New York, state Sen. Michael Gianaris, D - Queens, said those being enrolled would get a notice advising them they can vote in future elections.

Also, the amount of overall opposition to bills dropped while the unanimity of each caucus got even closer to 100 percent agreement with how the leader voted.

The NY1 - Marist Poll shows New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn getting 20 percent of the vote; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, 16 percent; former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, 12 percent; and Comptroller John Liu 10 percent.