Sentences with phrase «bring the bill to a vote through»

Senators supportive of Fair Elections were left with no choice but to bring the bill to a vote through a «hostile amendment.»

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.
Mark - Viverito has refused to bring them up for a vote, instead striking a deal with then - Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to make some of the changes through internal NYPD policy.
Washington (CNN)- Democrats and Republicans tried to force versions of a jobs bill through the Senate late Thursday, but both fell short of the 60 votes they would have needed to bring their proposals to the floor.
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