Sentences with phrase «changes were voted»

Some of those changes were voted on as rules reforms, others were made as pledges.

The next thing that must change is the voting process for the Hall of Fame.

On Friday morning, July 28th, 2017, the Senate's attempt to significantly modify the ACA stalled, with all attempts to change it being voted down.

Legislation calling for similar changes was voted down in Albany earlier this year.

The final decisions on any changes are voted on by the Government Reviewers, not the authors.

Not exact matches

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

The changes to Medicaid were the sticking point for many Republican senators who had concerns about the bill going into the vote.

The NDP needs to regain the union vote as it tacks back to the left and will likely oppose much of the deal unless it is radically changed to protect Canadian jobs, something no one here has signalled.

Even the «skinny» bill that was the Senate's final vote on Friday morning didn't make any major changes to Medicaid.

«They're voting with their own money, their own habits — that is what's going to change how people use energy in the world.»

On the agenda are proposals by new Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi to change requirements for board seats and to overhaul the shareholder voting structure.

People get very vested in the decision, and when things start to get hard about the decision we've made, we come back to that vote — if we want to change the vote, we can change the vote, but this was how we voted.»

«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.

Is it going to change anyone's vote that much?

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

In 2014, Barcelona - born Scytl, an electronic voting tool, secured $ 104 million in investment; in fact, it's changed the global landscape of political engagement in just a few years.

«I was voting remain, and at the very last minute I changed my decision and I went to leave,» she explained.

«The appeal of Donald Trump was significant enough that taking a risk to vote for him for some economic change was reasonable,» he said.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

The government wasn't responsible for most of these changes, of course, but votes on free - trade agreements are an easy target for blame.

The stakes in finding discriminatory intent are higher because it provides a window for opponents to argue that Texas should be forced to resume having changes to voting laws «pre-cleared» by the Justice Department or a federal court.

The list includes three Republican senators who have pledged to vote «no» unless changes are made.

The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

The startup fundraising landscape saw its most significant change in eight decades when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift the ban on general solicitation, a move which allows entrepreneurs to tell potential investors that they are seeking funding for their companies.

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

What makes Return on Change different is its voting process.

The activist fund has since then built up a 9 percent stake and is asking for changes at the board at a shareholders vote on April 24.

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

Senate legislation on climate change is still being drafted, and a vote is not going to occur at least until April.

Parker adds that unlike the fight for the right to vote, which was legislated with the stroke of a pen, today's gaps in equality can't be mandated, and won't change over night.

It was an easy decision to give up votes because this was a company that was changing the world, and they needed our support.»

«I do think that yesterday's votes speak to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalization.

As 31 states allow military and overseas voters to return ballots via email, hackers could intercept these emails and change the votes cast or bring down the email server to which the absentee ballots are sent.

He argued that the new government's perceived approach to Brexit is not only about leaving the EU, but also fundamentally changing the British economy, saying: «Basically its rewarding people who voted for Brexit, its about infrastructure, its about the productivity gap, its about the regional divide, rebalancing the economy — the stuff that was talked about in 2008, but nothing happened.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

Spiker noted that, for now at least, the report's findings are merely suggestions, and that the RNC would have to vote on any specific changes to the primary process.

Bogle sees some positive changes in investment managers voting on behalf of their clients» interests, but it is «moving with glacial speed,» he told me, because fund managers «don't like controversy.»

The bidding party has said they are unwilling to increase their offer, but as the vote draws closer they may face mounting pressure to change their minds.

The employees characterized the process as «the polls never close,» meaning once a decision seemed to be made, it could be changed by more «voting,» or discussion.

Sen. Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which, among other things, proposes to cut the corporate rate to 20 % while changing individual tax brackets and significantly undercutting portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

After years of cleaning up her party's name and trying desperately to distance it from her father's racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, it seems that Le Pen believes she has now found the sweet spot between being mainstream enough to get votes but also being seen as enough of an outsider to bring about change.

«The introduction of this technology will make the voting in the [Active Citizen initiative] even more open: it will be difficult to say that the administration incorrectly interprets the answers, changes the results of the voting when the citizens themselves can verify this information.»

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

If you are a beneficial holder and do not provide specific voting instructions to your broker, under a recent rule change the organization that holds your shares will not be authorized to vote on the election of directors.

If your shares are held in street name, you may change your vote by submitting new voting instructions to your brokerage firm, bank, or other similar entity.

Because of a change in New York Stock Exchange rules, unlike previous annual meetings, your broker will NOT be able to vote your shares with respect to the election of directors if you have not given your broker specific instructions to do so.

If your shares are held in the 401 (k) Plan or Stock Purchase Plan, you may change your vote as indicated above, except that any changes to your voting instructions must be provided by the applicable deadline shown below.