Sentences with phrase «cast votes on bills»

All too often, deals continue to get cut behind closed doors and rank - and - file lawmakers are called upon, sometimes in the dead of night, to cast votes on bills they are given little time to read, much less vet.

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When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.

The bill was approved 56 - 2, with the dissenting votes cast by Democratic Sens. Liz Krueger and Brad Hoylman, who had wanted planks such as a ban on confidential settlements involving taxpayer funds to be stronger and have more protections for survivors.

Felder ended up casting the lone «no» vote on the ELFA (education, labor and family assistance) budget bill, which included the minimum wage hike as well as key some education aid.

Former President Bill Clinton in Albany on Monday called his vote for his wife in the electoral college the proudest he's ever cast.

Nojay, Friend, and David DiPietro each cast votes the same way as the speaker on fewer than two - thirds of the bills that came to the floor.

Heastie voted in the affirmative on 98.6 percent of the 3,944 bills he cast a floor vote on between 2011 and 2014, a vote distribution that is close to the average among Assembly Democrats.

Between 2011 and 2014, 174 current or former assemblymembers cast a vote on at least one thousand bills that Heastie also voted, taking the same position 93.0 percent of the time.

Only three times did a measure receive 50 or more no votes, or 0.28 percent of the 1,059 votes cast on bills.

We need to give the public the opportunity to review, discuss and express its opinions on this massive spending bill before a vote is cast.

On Friday, Vecchio and town board members Tom McCarthy and Lynne Nowick released a letter urging committee members to attend the convention and vote for them instead of allowing town Republican chairman Bill Ellis to cast proxy votes.

Under the bill, residents would be able to vote early, register automatically to vote and register to vote on the same day they cast their ballot.

On May 12, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill that reduced the petition signature requirement for newly - qualifying political parties to 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last general election.

Its analysis of legislators» voting records shows that several Assembly Democrats who once backed the bill have resigned, left office or voted no on a version of the bill at least once — enough to cast doubt on the passage of a same - sex marriage bill this year.

This vote also is of interest because it casts light on the progress of the EU Withdrawal Bill.

The bill was granted a second reading by 3444 votes to three, but several Tory MPs stood to cast doubts on the existence of climate change, raising concerns over the party's commitment to the environment.

MacKay's personal endorsement of the legislation was cast as a counterweight to state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's pledge to yank the endorsement of any Republican who voted «yes» on the bill, even though MacKay stressed this issue would not be a litmus test for support no matter how a lawmaker voted.

Senate majority leader Dean Skelos cast doubt on whether he would bring the bill to the floor for a vote, given his unwillingness to do de Blasio any political favors, but the bill was finally reported from the rules committee and is now awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.

«They planned this hearing as soon as possible to make this lawsuit go away,» Vallone told me after this morning's meeting of the Council's health committee meeting, where he cast the only dissenting vote on the bill.

Nick Clegg said we would be doing so last summer, when the votes of almost half of the Conservative parliamentary party were cast against Lords reform, making progress on the Lords reform bill impossible.

If the Health Bill is enacted, patients and their relatives will be able to cast their votes at the next election on the basis of experience.

The bill passed committee 9 to 8, with Rep. Peterson sitting on the sidelines unable to cast the vote that would have kept the bill from moving forward.

More Democrats, including two former teachers, cast votes for the bill the second time around because of a change made in the House allowing an appeals process for teachers who get bad evaluations and are on the verge of losing tenure.

Vice President Mike Pence, who authored the original legislation to «defund» Planned Parenthood as a congressman, had to cast the tie - breaking vote on the worst bill for women's health in a generation.

The National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title absolutely opposes the Native Title Amendment Bill, calls upon all parliamentarians to cast their vote against this legislation, and invites the Australian Government to open up immediate negotiations with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for coexistence between the Indigenous Peoples and all Australians.