Sentences with phrase «by supermajorities»

-- Sen. Kathleen Marchione (R - Saratoga)-- excludes certain capital costs if approved by supermajorities via referendum

Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

Title IV: Budget Process - Subtitle A: Budget Enforcement -(Sec. 401) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this resolution to be exceeded, except by a supermajority waiver.

On Monday, they proposed creation of an independent inspector general, appointed by a supermajority of legislators and given full subpoena power.

In an unusual address at the legislature's meeting in Mineola, Singas, a Democrat, said an inspector general appointed by a supermajority of lawmakers — and not reporting solely to the county executive — is needed to catch wrongdoing in the contracting system before crimes can occur.

If the town chooses to pierce the cap, the budget must be approved by a supermajority of the Town Board.

Minority Democrats argue for a position outside the executive's supervision, subject to approval by a supermajority of the legislature and protected by contract from firing.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

A year prior to the launch of Obamacare, passed by the Supermajority of Democrats, Mr. Abdelazim clearly included this in his condemnation of his belief in corporate control of Government,

(Ending a filibuster requires a cloture vote by a supermajority of 60 senators.)

Yet even the three congressmen who headed a panel on «Politics and Other Realities» avoided mention of the Senate, focusing on micro-issues like gas stamps and impossibilities like «bringing America together» instead of ways legislation could feasibly get passed by a supermajority in the upper chamber of Congress.

Caps on the amounts of additional capital contributions are prudent to avoid a joint venture party being responsible for unlimited mandatory capital contributions in the future; alternatively, the drafter can provide that additional capital contributions may be approved by a supermajority or unanimous vote of the board of managers / directors or the joint venture parties

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Nonetheless all the directors were reelected by wide margins at the company's annual meeting last year, reflecting how Redstone controls a supermajority of the company's Class A voting shares through his holding company, National Amusements.

But that wasn't the only bill that high - cost lenders had pushed: One to allow auto - title loans, also vetoed by the governor, passed with a supermajority in the legislature.

You also need to determine the voting rights of the partners — normally a simple majority vote of the partners decides what happens and what doesn't, but you can agree that important decisions be made by a «supermajority» vote of two - thirds or more of the partnership percentages..

In the recent parliamentary elections, rightfully fed - up Venezuelans responded by ousting members of Hugo Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), giving the opposition party, the more - centrist Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a supermajority that could challenge President Nicolás Maduro.

Those converging concerns made it possible to assemble the broad coalition of bishops that eventually passed the Declaration on Religious Freedom by a very large supermajority during Vatican II's fourth session.

Electoral results bear out the opposition's resurgence despite the obstacles and obstructions created by the governing administration: It won the majority of the popular vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections, narrowed the gap to Chavismo in the 2012 and 2013nd finally won a supermajority in the parliament in 2015.

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.

The New York City cap approved by the Senate on Tuesday would allow for a supermajority on the city Council to override the measure in the event of an emergency, a provision de Blasio also questioned.

Philip Steck (D - Albany)-- replaces supermajority requirement on school budget votes with a vote by board members.

The tax cap, enacted in 2011, forces school districts and local governments to keep tax increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (with other factors built in for adjustments)-- unless approved by a 60 percent «supermajority.»

-RRB- would drop the supermajority requirement for school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult than passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when school taxes grew by more than 7 percent per year.

The head of the office would be appointed by a 13 - member legislative supermajority and would not answer directly to the county executive.

A separate bill introduced by Assemblywoman Jaffee (A227) would drop the supermajority requirement for school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult than passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when school taxes grew by more than 7 percent per year.

Partly fueled by national politics — in particular negative sentiments toward President Donald Trump — voters helped secure a Democratic Board of Legislators supermajority, increasing the lead from nine seats to 12, and propelling former state Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat, to the county executive's seat.

However, he is undaunted by moving from a Democratic supermajority in the state senate to a probable minority in the House, promising to «confront and refute the Tea Party at every conceivable turn.»

But the cap can be overridden by a 60 percent «supermajority» vote.

Originally legislators voted by a margin of 12 - 5 to pass the budget — enough votes for a supermajority, which would trigger an override.

Districts whose proposed spending plans override their individual caps can gain voter approval only by mustering a supermajority of 60 percent or better in the May budget vote.

«Tom's Onondaga County GOP recently won a supermajority on the County Legislature even though Onondaga is inhabited by more Democrats than Republicans,» Paladino writes.

A vote of cloture, which requires a supermajority, puts a stop to this delaying tactic by restricting, among other things, how long Senators can speak both individually and collectively.

Battersea, where Martin Linton is struggling with a supermajority of just 163, could be ousted by the Tories» Jane Ellison.

The changes being proposed would make it easier to override the cap by requiring a simple majority of voters rather than a two - thirds supermajority.

A 2011 law requires that schools in New York must get a supermajority of voters to approve a budget that hikes property taxes by more than 2 %.

The Act only permits an early dissolution if Parliament votes for one by a two - thirds supermajority, or if a vote of no confidence is passed by a majority and no new government is subsequently formed within 14 days.

Democrats put forth legislation to change the constitution but were denied the necessary supermajority by Republicans, who in October pushed through a law that effectively killed the citizen referendum.

Delia DeRiggi - Whitton (D - Glen Cove) said the inspector general should be picked by a 13 - member supermajority of the Legislature.

These commonly require a legislative supermajority: in consequence any significant alteration in the existing constitutional arrangements is normally preceded by an often protracted period of scrutiny and consensus building.

A wage hike is not exepcted to be a problem in the state Assembly, which is controlled by a Democratic supermajority.

Boykin will head a new Democratic supermajority that formed as a result of the November 2017 elections that helped to widen a Democratic majority by three seats to 12 out of the Legislature's 17 seats overall.

Nassau PBA president James Carver said Safe Nassau «served its purpose» by preventing Republicans from getting a supermajority in the county legislature, and hasn't been necessary since.

Despite approval from two Republicans lawmakers, David Gelfarb, of Rye Brook, and Jim Maisano, of New Rochelle, the bill failed to capture a supermajority vote, which would have prevented the legislation from being vetoed by County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican.

Removing the power of the monarch, on advice of the prime minister, to dissolve parliament before its five - year maximum length, [13] the act permits early dissolution if the House of Commons votes by a two - thirds supermajority, as occurred in the 2017 general election.

Supermajority votes are established to prevent dominance by one political party or majority parties in both the commission and the legislature for approval of district lines.

The general partner interest can be redeemed by the MLP if the MLP unitholders choose to remove the general partner, typically with a supermajority vote by limited partner unitholders.

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

Add that to the hard reality of the 60 - vote «supermajority» required for guaranteed passage of a bill in the Senate — a reality stressed for years by David Roberts of Grist — and you can see why such a bill was doomed.

by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California's Democratic supermajority State Capitol.

Past efforts to introduce tort reform legislation were vetoed by Missouri's previous governor, Jay Nixon; however, the state's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has made tort reform a top priority and one likely to be supported by the GOP, which holds supermajorities in both houses of the Missouri legislature.