Sentences with phrase «bring the bills to a vote at»

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Slow Food USA asks that if your own Rep is on the committee (you can check this list), to please call today or Monday «to urge them to bring H.R. 5504 up for committee vote quickly and to fully fund the bill with at least an additional $ 1 billion per year.»

The Sensible Opportunity for Legislative Equality bill would allow each member to bring a bill that's been discharged from committee to the floor for a vote at least once during a two - year legislative session.

In March ’17 we launched our Money Talks campaign, aimed at the NYS budget, to educate the public about the issues at stake in the budget negotiations and bringing attention to the progressive bills passed in the NYS Assembly that were either defeated or never brought to a vote in the State Senate.

But he says if Felder gives the Democratic Party the majority, at least then the bills could be brought to the Senate floor for an up or down vote.

Squadron's efforts to at least bring the bill to the floor for an up - or - down vote were blocked by the Senate Republicans.

Still, some council members maintained a bill to temporarily cap Uber's growth at 1 percent had enough votes to pass, and Mr. de Blasio said he hoped a bill, set to pass today, to commission a traffic study would bring «clarity» to the issue — and bolster his anti-Uber criticisms.

Sampson got an earful from LGBT activists over the weekend at a meeting of the Stonewall Democratic Club pissed at his support for Diaz and at his refusal to pledge to bring the marriage equality bill up for a vote.

The passage of the stricter gun control bill has angered many and Skelos was criticized publicly at the rally in Albany last Thursday, that drew over five thousand people, for bringing the bill to the floor for a vote.

Frustrated at the lack of action by the Republican majority, Senate Democrats sought to attach a bill making it easier for adults who were sexually abused as children to bring lawsuits to another bill in hopes of forcing a vote on the issue.

The voting took place during debates on SB 7026, a bill brought forward by the state legislators in response to the deadly February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which rocked Florida and claimed the lives of 17.