Sentences with phrase «by immediate votes»

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union says the closed - door negotiations followed by immediate votes were unnecessary for a bill in which most measures aren't effective for 60 days.

The legislature's Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee will be holding a hearing, followed by an immediate vote, on Mr. Clemons and Malloy's other appointees to the State Board of Education this Thursday, February 18, 2016.

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The immediate problem posed by these tweets is that there is absolutely no evidence that large numbers of illegal votes were cast, let alone millions of them.

When Claypool sought an immediate vote as a way to «reform a corrupt system,» Stroger countered by raising vague allegations about when Claypool ran the Chicago Park District in the 1990s.

The Long Island congressman and New York's junior senator fired off a letter to Lawrence F. Probst, chair of the US Olympic Committee, asking that he and the Board of Directors «take immediate steps to guarantee that this embarrassment does not happen again by voting that any future contracts for Olympic uniforms are made in America.»

Pitching for every Remainiac vote is low risk for Tim Farron when the immediate aim is for a Parliamentary group able to fit in a nine seat VW Caravelle to upgrade to a mini bus by winning a few seats.

Probably the most immediate use of text messaging in the U.S. will be for election - day Get - Out - The - Vote efforts, though you can also use them as a two - way tool by soliciting information from supporters through polls and such.

But he stopped short of promising the immediate legislation on a referendum on voting reform offered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown less than an hour earlier.

But after the passing of an immediate budget bounce, which briefly registered in surveys by other pollsters, the Conservative party may start to worry about a vote - free recovery.

Filani said, «We passed a vote of no confidence in the state chairman, Mr. Bayo Dayo, and the state secretary, Alhaji Semiu Sodipo, and further suspended the duo respectively from the party with immediate effect — having formed the quorum of over one - third as prescribed by section 21 (5) of the party's constitution pending the time their cases will be determined by the appropriate organ of the party.»

The rankings were based on three past votes: the 2013 SAFE Act pushed through the Legislature by Cuomo in the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012; a June 2015 Senate vote passing a bill to repeal portions of the SAFE Act; and a June 2015 Assembly vote passing a bill called «Nicholas's Law» requiring all firearms to be locked up.

Assembly Republicans, who with 44 of its 150 seats are often ignored by Democrats, called for an immediate vote in the chamber.

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

As these officials are elected (or appointed by an elected official), you can demand their immediate resignation or you can vote to replace them immediately to ensure that the department of Education in your state is headed by an individual willing to put the interests of your students and your family first.

Within immediate proximity is Frenchman's Cove — voted by Conde Nast as one of the world's top five beaches — and the equally enchanting Blue Lagoon, Geejam Beach sits tall amongst several other stunning beaches.

Friday night 9,000 Toronto Transit Commission's unionized workers voted on a tentative deal with the TTC and, despite the expectation by both the media and Toronto residents that they would either accept the deal or give 48 hours notice of any strike action, they did not accept the deal and went on immediate strike at midnight.

Two motions were passed by a majority vote: one calling for the immediate reinstatement of the former executive director; the other calling for four members of the current executive committee of the Board of Directors to resign, including Larry Estabrooks as president, Hodges Hamm as first vice - president / president - elect, Austin Drisdell as second vice-president and secretary treasurer Maurice Frennette.