Sentences with phrase «conference vote»

The Liberal Democrat conference voted for the proposals in 2006, but the idea has lain dormant since then.

Most of the House Democratic conference voted in favor of the Community Protection Act.

Said IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove, «All members of the Independent Democratic Conference voted against the anti-sanctuary city bill, and the fact that four mainline Democrats voted for this anti-immigrant legislation at a time when Donald Trump spewed hatred means that we must question what's behind their spin.

We ask that the planned conference vote on leadership be delayed for two weeks until December 4, 2014 so that members may be surveyed on their specific priorities and plans for the upcoming session.

Flanagan narrowly defeated DeFrancisco in 2015 during the internal conference vote for Republican leader to succeed the scandal - scarred Dean Skelos.

Giove pointed to an IDC release from April 9 — not shared at that time with the newspaper — that stated, «The LGBT memorial is an IDC priority which was included in our one - house that the entire minority Democratic conference voted against.

In London, Blair's attempt to stop Livingstone being selected as Labour candidate for mayor suffered a setback when the regional party conference voted almost unanimously for a motion saying that all candidates nominated by 10 CLPs should be automatically shortlisted for an OMOV ballot to select the candidate.

The recent Liberal Democrat conference voted overwhelmingly to support a Social Liberal Forum policy motion that called for the Coalition government to «Ensure that any cuts to welfare benefits are progressive in nature: reducing benefits enjoyed by the most affluent before cutting benefits for the poorest and most vulnerable.»

«Given that fewer than 1 in 10 respondents found that the reception baseline assessment was an «accurate and fair way to assess children» it is not surprising that ATL members at our Annual Conference voted overwhelmingly for the reception baseline assessment to be scrapped.

On Friday April 7th The SEC, ACC, PAC12, BIG12, Sunbelt and MWC conferences voted not to allow FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) coaches to work camps at sites away from their campuses.

The NCAA's power conferences voted Friday to let men's hockey players sign with agents and not lose their college eligibility.

The merging General Conference voted to begin negotiations with the Free Methodists (these are still in progress).

Not surprisingly, all four members of the Independent Democratic Conference voted with their recognized leader, Sen. Jeff Klein, more than 99 percent of the time.

Hence, Corbyn will need to show that he enjoys a wider mandate within the party, perhaps holding conference votes or even membership plebiscites to demonstrate that the grassroots are with him.

The Alabama Democratic Conference voted Saturday to back Maddox in the June 5 Democratic primary.

Recall that last year the entire 30 - member GOP conference voted «no», joining with eight Democrats, which led to the measure's demise.

Last year, according to the published conference voting figures, South Shields had 392 members.

Sen @JohnDeFrancisco says conference vote was a roll call vote.

The final count of the closed - door conference vote in which Flanagan bested DeFrancisco to succeed Skelos as majority leader was note released, but several senators said it was close.

Then, last Monday his fellow Long Islander John Flanagan succeeded him after a close conference vote.

Labour conference voted for a similar motion to nationalise the railways in 2004 and that never made its way into the party's 2005 election manifesto.

He is also an anti-nuclear campaigner, although his public backing for Sir Menzies Campbell's «wait and see» policy on replacing Trident helped the party leader win a crucial conference vote in 2007.

Tony Mauro reports in The National Law Journal that the U.S. Judicial Conference voted yesterday to increase fourfold the number of free documents that members of the public will be able to retrieve from the federal courts» PACER system.

The Uniform Law Conference voted at its meeting in Winnipeg last week to remove the exception for land transfers from the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act.

Ahern described the Sinn Fein conference vote as a «landmark decision», and added that his counterpart, Blair, was convinced from his talks with Paisley that the DUP was ready to take part in a power - sharing executive.

State - run media sources report that 71 members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference voted in favor of a bill called «A Proposal to Accelerate the Introduction and Cultivation of Blockchain Industry.»

The NCAA's Power 5 conferences voted on Friday to ban off - campus practices during spring and summer breaks.

Flanagan defeated DeFrancisco in the internal conference vote in 2015 to succeed Skelos as majority leader.

When, last October, the party conference voted to reject a leadership - backed motion allowing for the expansion of Gatwick airport if it's recommended by the Davies commission, Clegg pointedly remarked, «it will need to be discussed again because, how can I put it, I've seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.»

In 2015, after the IDC lost any say over the legislative agenda, Governor Cuomo pushed through a minimum wage hike to $ 15.00 / hr that needed mainline Democratic Conference votes to pass

The conferences voted in May and June.

The RCPCH AGM alongside the conference voted to prohibit formula companies being exhibitors.

Should the conference vote to retain Trident, idealistic Ban the Bombers who gave the Corbyn bandwagon an enthusiastic push would be instantly disillusioned and the veteran unilateralist leader himself would be strapped into a nuclear policy he's publicly opposed for virtually all of his life.

And even if the government doesn't do everything the conference votes for — for example, on closed judicial proceedings — the party leadership and ministers ignore conference at their peril.

Could your conference vote for it?

Would your conference vote for it?»

Due to mergers, Unite, Unison and GMB represent three - quarters of the union section of the conference vote, making it very difficult for them to be defeated.

To recap, the disastrous selection process for Labour's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk West, where allegations of malpractice triggered the resignation of Tom Watson MP as its election campaign coordinator — and which even now is subject to wildly differing versions of events — has kicked off a wholesale reform programme of everything from party funding to MP candidate selection and conference voting.

Klein moved the bill to the floor earlier this year, and he and the four senators of his conference voted for it.

Tom Blenkinsop, another Labour MP, expressed concern about the prospect of Mr Corbyn changing the policy rules without going through a conference vote.

Having dodged another conference vote on NHS reforms, there may finally be light at the end of the tunnel for Andrew Lansley and co..

One Labour loyalist has told Maguire that should the conference vote to abandon Trident then the defence secretary and the Northern Ireland secretary could resign immediately.

But should the conference vote to retain Trident, then Corbyn risks alienating many of those who swept him to power earlier this month.

Following a rebellion by party activists against the Coalition's flagship education policy, the conference voted to boycott the new schools because they increased «social divisiveness and inequity».

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the shadow health secretary went on: «That motion has got my complete and full support and I hope the conference votes for that motion because we should have absolute zero tolerance when it comes to the quite disgusting and pitiful anti-Semitism that sadly we're sometimes seeing on social media these days, and indeed, as I believe if you look at the newspapers, I wasn't there... was at an event in Brighton last night.»

Ms. Stewart - Cousins also pointed out that State Senate Democratic conference votes have proven crucial to passing some of Mr. Cuomo's initiatives, including gun control and same - sex marriage.

The point is that the real deadline for all this is when Labour's conference votes on the NEC's proposed constitutional rule changes, later on Tuesday.

Late Tuesday night, after two days of deliberation, the Democratic conference in the Assembly decided to allowed majority leader Joe Morelle of Rochester to serve as interim speaker until the conference votes for a permanent speaker on Feb. 10.

Late Tuesday night, after two days of closed - door meetings, the Democratic conference settled on allowing majority leader Joe Morelle of Rochester to serve as interim speaker until the conference votes for a permanent speaker on Feb. 10