Sentences with phrase «conference bring it to the floor»

Not exact matches

The 2017 event will host more than 600 exhibitors on its innovative expo floor and bring top experts to speak and engage in the industry's leading conference program.

Food Matters Live 2018 will play host to five thought - provoking attractions, bringing to life the learning from the conference and seminars through a series of thought - provoking, interactive demonstrations, tastings and installations located within the exhibition floor.

Even if supporters can muster the needed votes, Heastie indicated that bringing the bill to the floor would require a majority of the Democratic conference's support.

«Within our conference, there wasn't enough support to include it in our one - house resolution or bring the vote to the floor,» Heastie told WNBF this morning.

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.

But it's not just Republicans holding it up — the «democrat» members of the IDC (Independent Democratic Conference), who often align with Republicans in the Senate despite running on Democratic platforms, refuse to bring these to the floor for a vote.

We are telling the Senate Republican Majority that this legislation has the full support of our conference and if they brought it to the floor today it would pass — helping hundreds of school districts across the state.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last year that he would advocate bringing the marriage bill back to the floor if the GOP returned to power in the chamber, but also said he would leave the final decision about whether a vote should be held to his conference.

The Independent Democratic Conference Should Bring Fair Elections to the Floor In a Times Union op - ed Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., corporate counsel at the Brennan Center, and Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center, explained how the Senate is at a historic crossroads, with a unique opportunity to usher in an era of transparency and cleaner elections in -LSB-...]

At the same time this was happening, former New York City Councilman Ollie Koppell, a potential primary challenger for Klein, called on him in a statement to return to the mainline Democratic conference following Skelos» assertion he wouldn't bring a vote to the floor on the de Blasio plan.

In the months leading up to Election Day, Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson was reluctant to commit to bringing the marriage bill back to the floor for a vote, despite the fact that now Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said seeing the measure passed and signed into law would be a «priority» for his first year in office.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said that while a unified Democratic conference may be short at least two votes to pass abortion rights legislation, it would at least be able to bring the measure to the floor, which would put pressure on pro-choice Republicans to help pass it.

And he said his GOP conference will discuss whether to bring the same - sex marriage bill to the floor for a vote.

You should know that those same Senators are the ones now responsible for our own Democratic Conference being used as a tool by Jeff Klein and the Independence Democratic Conference to bring to the Senate Floor and approve a Democratic agenda that gives all the credit and recognition to Senator Klein and the IDC.

Bruno also admitted in the spring of 2009 (while out - of - power and facing trial on corruption charges) that he personally favored same - sex marriage but never brought it the floor of the State Senate because the majority of his conference was against it, stating «This is America, and we have inalienable rights... Life is short, and we should all be afforded the same opportunities and rights to enjoy it.»

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) has not said whether his Democratic conference will bring any bill addressing the child sex abuse issue to the floor for a vote before the end of the legislative session.

Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said he would bring the issue again to his conference, but has not promised a vote this year on the Senate floor.

He's been at loggerheads with the 40 or 50 members of the House Freedom Caucus for years and his bringing a conference bill to the floor was going to be one more round in that fight.

However, despite these two conferences running back to back in the exact same location, publishers bring their authors to New York City and bring their galleys to the floor for just one of the conferences.