Sentences with phrase «bill was voted»

This bill was voted out of a joint committee and now sits in front of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Karen Spilka.

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill was voted down and the potential double dissolution trigger remains intact.

Before the bill was voted out of the House Education Committee on Nov. 30, House Republicans shuffled committee members, replacing Rep. Rep. Holly Hughes (R - White River Township) with Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R - Alto).

Malloy and the corporate lobby group's reach was even evident when the bill was voted on by the Education Committee.

Nonetheless, the bill was voted out of committee by a count of 15 - 7.

The meeting, he said, represented the first opportunity that any ethics reform bill was voted on this year.

The bill was voted out of the elections committee and is currently before the Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, which does not meet regularly.

A majority of Senators (i.e., 51 of the 100) is required to obtain a quorum, and only three senators out of 100 were present when the bill was voted upon.

John McDonald III, a co-sponsor of the bill and an assembly representative for the 108th district of New York state, said before the bill was voted on that he expected the legislation to pass.

I recently heard that the governor of Puerto Rico forced a bill to pass regarding charging for grocery bags, via an executive order, after the bill was voted down by both the house and the senate.

Torres suggested that the next Council would be more conservative, making it essential that the bill was voted on in the current session, and that the bill in its final form still represented progress.

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.

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

In 1971, on the eve of Roe, repeal bills were voted down in Montana, New Mexico, Iowa, Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado, Massachusetts, Georgia, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Ohio, and North Dakota.

The amendment, now part of the House Republican - backed health care bill being voted on Thursday, is a «horrific piece of legislation.»

Voting against this bill was a vote to empower terrorists.

The Assembly bill being voted on today makes few alterations to how the mayor oversees public schools.

It is critical that the bill is voted out of the House Education Committee so it can go to the PA House floor for a vote.

«Voting for this bill is a vote against the Great Lakes.

This less audacious of the two bills was voted down unanimously in the House Economic Matters Committee.

We don't know what bills they are voting on, to call and tell them yes or no from us.

******************************************************************************** Contact your M.P. and tell him / her that a vote for the Bill is a vote for kids.

The forecast was made prior to the House bill passing and the Senate bill being voted on; as such, realtor.com cautions that certain cuts — among others, the mortgage interest deduction and the state and local tax (SALT) deduction — could lead to less in the way of prices and sales.

Not exact matches

There are several other planned votes this afternoon on a range of repeal / replace bills, most of which are expected to fail.

GOP Senators are aiming to put a health care bill vote on the books by the 4th of July.

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass a resolution opposing that bill, claiming it would be a detriment to public safety.

McCain was expected to vote for the Better Care Reconciliation Act, even though he had concerns about that bill as well.

The changes to Medicaid were the sticking point for many Republican senators who had concerns about the bill going into the vote.

In contrast to its healthcare - overhaul push that saw many intraparty divisions, the GOP has been relatively cohesive on taxes — not a single Republican voted against the bill in the Senate.

«It's a feel good measure,» said Democrat Sharon Har, one of four lawmakers who voted against the bill.

Even the «skinny» bill that was the Senate's final vote on Friday morning didn't make any major changes to Medicaid.

The House is scheduled to vote on the TCJA on Tuesday and the Senate will take up the bill immediately after, meaning President Donald Trump could sign the measure into law as early as Wednesday.

Ultimately, deep cuts to Medicaid — still preserved in the new bill — could be its undoing among moderates like Nevada's Dean Heller (who now says he's undecided but has previously trashed the GOP's proposals), Ohio's Rob Portman (who expressed some skepticism about the legislation Thursday), and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski (who was able to wrangle a very Alaska - centric measure into the BCRA, though it's not clear if that will be enough to win her vote).

Politico reports that GOP Senate leaders are aiming to vote on an Obamacare replacement bill by the end of June regardless of whether or not it has the 50 votes necessary to pass.

The billionaire said «there must have been a lot of people who believed» the infamous slogan on the Vote Leave campaign bus, which said Britain's weekly # 350 million EU membership bill should be spent on the NHS.

«I could read body language and know that Sen. McCain seemed like he was going to vote no and kill the bill, which is what he did,» Gill tells CNBC.

While Ryan said he felt «very good» about the health bill's prospects in the House, a leading conservative lawmaker, Representative Mark Meadows, told the C - Span Newsmakers program that there were currently 40 Republican «no» votes in the House.

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

U.S. government debt prices were mixed on Friday as investors awaited a vote on the Republican - led health - care bill.

«I was kind of anxious,» Couch says about the day in March when Congress was set to vote on a less robust bill that would replace the ACA.

«Today, after Sen. Marco Rubio said he can't vote for the new tax bill and other Republican senators might be balking too, the market took a hit... how many of you took this moment and treated it as a buying opportunity?

Sen. Rand Paul, R - Ky., whom Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell persuaded not to delay the Senate vote on the bill, also urged Trump to «veto this sad excuse for legislation.»

At least two GOP Senators, Kentucky's Rand Paul and Maine's Susan Collins, are expected to vote against the Graham - Cassidy bill to repeal Obamacare if it comes to the floor.

Since the bill can only lose two Republican votes for it to pass, the margin for error is incredibly thin.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenBill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenbill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

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.

Votes on anti-piracy bills are placed on hold in the wake of dramatic online and in - person protests.

We have no idea when the Senate is going to vote on its health care bill.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet again delayed a vote on the Senate's controversial health care bill — this time, because Arizona Sen. John McCain is recovering from surgery (and without him, there aren't enough votes to pass the legislation).

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.