Sentences with phrase «bills reach the floor»

Narrator: In early August, the final budget bill reached the floor of the House.

They say that Mr. Klein, through his coalition with Republicans, also has tremendous say over which bills reach the floor for a vote.

Savino also noted that Independent Democratic Conference Chair Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) would play a key role in determining whether the bill reaches the floor.

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The Democrats will use this «talk - a-thon» to discuss a potential bill they haven't seen and can't stop without the votes of at least three GOP senators if and when it reaches the floor.

Significant legislation is debated in conference before it reaches the floor, and if it seems unlikely that the Democratic supermajority can pass a bill by itself, it's often simply not brought to the floor.

In a post on National Review Online that has since been removed and replaced, Thomas Peters of NOM congratulated his group and other anti-gay activists for toppling the bill that hasn't even reached the floor for a vote yet:

GOP legislators had for years kept the bill from reaching the Senate floor, but relented in 2011 after a well - heeled lobbying campaign by gay rights advocates and their supporters.

GOP leaders say they are encouraged by a compromise deal reached by two groups whose members made up the core of Republican opposition to a bill that House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly pulled from the House floor in March.

Compelled to confront legislation that pitted principle against pragmatism, the rookie Republican lawmaker endorsed a doomed, combustible measure — the first gay rights bill to reach the floor of either the House or Senate.

Democratic leaders did allow two bills to reach the floor for votes that year: a Krueger measure to stop landlords from collecting rent increases retroactively, and a bill by Manhattan Senator Daniel Squadron requiring owners to document rent increases used to justify vacancy decontrol.

Two years ago, Cahill demanded the county take over ever - increasing Safety Net (welfare) charges to the towns and the city and the cost of administering local election expenses in exchange for his allowing the bill authorizing the 1 percent add - on to reach the Assembly floor for a vote.

As will - they - or - won't - they speculation about the Senate gay marriage vote reaches a fever pitch at the Capitol, a source working closely with the Cuomo - estimablished New Yorkers for Marriage Equality coalition is warning the backlash against GOP lawmakers will be unlike anything seen before if a bill fails to reach the floor and pass.

As the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, which determines when and how bills reach the House floor, she was made chairwoman after Pelosi became the first female House speaker in 2007.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

Under Klein's power - sharing arrangement with Skelos, both leaders have to sign off before a bill can reach the floor for a vote.

A controversial bill to loosen restrictions on purchasing gun silencers won't be reaching the House floor anytime soon following the Vegas massacre.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said the legislation is still being reviewed and gave no indication as to whether or not the bill would reach the Senate floor for a vote before next week's legislative deadline.

Supporters such as Gary Greenberg, however, are confident the bill will reach the Senate floor.

The stakes are big: Determining what bills — such as raising the minimum wage to $ 10.10 hourly and strengthening abortion rights — actually reach the Senate floor in the next two years.

One of the four bills that was shot down by the Senate before it could reach the floor to be voted on was the «no fly, no buy» bill, which would disallow those on federal no - fly lists from purchasing firearms.

A spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declined to say why a bill that on Wednesday did not look like it would reach the floor then passed on Friday.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan took the unusual step of debating his own bills on the floor on Tuesday, saying de Blasio should have reached out sooner.

They pretty much stymied action on what was actually a bipartisan ESEA bill that emerged from the Senate committee two years ago but never reached the floor.

WASHINGTON — Congressional and Administration officials have reached tentative agreement on a package of amendments to President Clinton's education - reform bill that would pave the way for floor consideration in the House.

Texas — Texas» school voucher bill, the «Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program,» died before it even reached the Senate floor, thanks in no small part to the clear lack of support it received from state House members.

One bill that could reach the Senate floor in a lame - duck session is the Bingaman - Brownback renewable electricity standard bill, S. 3813.

«The bill will now move to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will be examined before it can reach the floor.

Academics and activists have suggested similar legislation in the past, but this is the first such bill that has reached the floor of a legislature in Canada.

The bill did not reach the House floor during the previous Congress.