Sentences with phrase «breaking vote in the chamber»

Not exact matches

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

Acting in his capacity as president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence twice cast tie - breaking votes to gain passage in the upper chamber.

A month after the coup began, Paterson appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, and with a tie - breaking vote in place over the 62 - member chamber, Espada relented.

So, for example, councillors will be free to campaign on local issues and then speak and vote on them in the council chamber without fear of breaking the pre-determination rules.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was fairly terse in his response just now when asked for a reaction to the Senate GOP's move to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in the event of a deadlocked leadership vote in the chamber.

Although the majority leader claims he moved to strip LG Bob Duffy of his tie - breaking leadership vote in the chamber because he believes that only senators should have the right to weigh in on who leads the chamber, most believe the real motivation is because he knew 31 - 31 was a distinct possibility in the not - so - distant future.

During her 19 months in the House of Representatives, Kathy Hochul was an outlier among the state's Democratic delegation, routinely breaking with her more liberal colleagues to vote with the chamber's Republican majority.

Tuesday marked the first joint, bipartisan budget talks - since the recent votes in both chambers - in an attempt to break the budget logjam.

So if there's a party line vote in that chamber, Democratic Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman would have to break the tie, in order to approve the deal.