Sentences with phrase «debate on the bill»

Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara, a Democrat, during debate on a bill on Thursday.

≥ 280 CHARACTER HOT TAKE: This was the most awesomest thing a Republican had to say in debate on this bill since Kelli Stargel.

Mr. Speaker, I have some concluding comments for this second reading stage of debate on Bill C - 560.

In recent days, the National Post has brought forward two sides of the current debate on Bill C - 560, An Act to amend the Divorce Act (equal parenting), set for second reading in the House of Commons today.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

It also includes a measure prohibiting mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment claims in employment contracts, which state Sen. Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan) questioned during debate on the bill on Friday.

Fiscal 1993 Budget / Budget Rules HR 3732 The House last week began debate on a bill to allow funding transfers from defense to domestic programs.

What motivates politicians is pain: bad press, primary challenges (the worst indignity for career politicians), being forced into a roll call vote (going on the record: note this is NOT the same as voting to end debate on a bill — they all love doing that: it gives them cover from uniformed voters), angry constituents, fund raising disruptions, the list goes on.

Sen. Rand Paul is holding up a vote on the Senate budget deal, demanding more debate on the bill which will add $ 1.5 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

After hearing additional criticism from the full committee's ranking member, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D — TX), Lummis set the stage for debate on the bill by asking for unanimous consent to waive a required reading of the full text.

On the official GOP Web site, to which Boehner referred, the party pledges to formally offer its own plan during upcoming floor debate on the bill introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

A Senate debate on the bill led by conservative Republicans early this month raised fears among public - TV officials about possible reductions in federal aid, or new restrictions on such money, that would undermine public broadcasting's educational mission and make it harder to raise private funds for children's shows and associated education projects.

The letter was released as Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, prepared to appeal for unity over proposals for an 80 % - elected upper chamber as he opened a two - day debate on the bill on Monday afternoon.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» a «moral imperative» and insisted it will occur sometime this year, despite the fact that a vote to start debate on a bill that included that initiative failed this afternoon, 56 - 43.

Yet, following a contentious debate on the bill Thursday morning, House lawmakers voted to approve 60 - 49, with Republicans and Democrats falling on both sides of the issue.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

After a congressional debate on a bill on Puerto Rico's debt crisis was hastily canceled Thursday following months of negotiations due to remaining disagreements, investors were bracing for a so - called debt moratorium that could lead to up to $ 2.4 billion in missed bond payments.

But Labour said it would not support a programme motion, which sets out the timetable for the Commons debate on the bill.

But the government could lose the vote on a «programme motion», which limits debate on the bill in the Commons to 14 days, because Labour will join forces with as many as 100 Tory rebels.

The typical filibuster these days consists of a vote to close debate on a bill, which requires sixty votes.

The aide said Senate leadership is anticipating the Senate won't have unanimous consent to bring the legislation to the floor, so 60 votes will be necessary to end a filibuster and move forward with debate on the bill.

There are very few, if any, other public debates on the Bill at this moment.

failed to earn the votes he needed to stop debate on a bill known to opponents as the Deny...

The House education committee last week closed out a protracted and highly partisan debate on a bill to reauthorize portions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, with all Democrats voting against the final plan.

The 43 Republicans who voted to continue debate on the bill said that recent amendments had made it too costly and too bureaucratic.

Out of their deep concern for the Stoneman Douglas victims, legislators postponed debate on a bill that would allow the state to issue concealed weapons permits before the background check is complete.

Democrats offered a slew of amendments over eight hours of debate on the bill, including a permanent ban on assault weapons and the elimination of the armed - teacher program.

When the issue was on the cusp of victory four years later, Hikind cloaked this nonsense in his Orthodox Jewish beliefs, telling his colleagues during debate on the bill, «Maybe we take the Torah, God forbid, and throw it in the garbage.»

On Tuesday, the Senate undertook a cloture vote to end debate on a bill that would renew a controversial legal loophole that provides U.S. intelligence agencies with a means for the warrantless survei

According to a POLITICO New York review of the 1.37 million words contained in the Assembly's transcripts for 2016, a slim majority of them — 690,469 — were uttered in debates on bills or resolutions dealing with policy matters.

A spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan told Bloomberg that a schedule for floor debate on the bills would be announced this week.

However, the independent from Connecticut who sits with the Democratic caucus reaffirmed he will support starting Senate debate on a bill that includes a public option.

For this reason, more critical MPs asked for the debate on the bill to be held behind closed doors, as well as the vote.

In the debate on the bill, one peer said «many of us do not want women in this House... This is a House of men, a House of Lords.»

If the debate on this bill so far is anything to go by, we will see many more flourishes of excitement and protest over EVEL certification and voting in the next few months.

Things got heated on the New York State Senate floor this week over a debate on bills that majority party Republicans say will improve school safety.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had said that he wanted to begin debate on the bill and pass it this week, using special fast - track procedures.

The PPSs say they are prepared to resign to challenge the government on two fronts — supporting any Commons vote to hold a referendum and voting against a government «programme motion» to ensure that debate on the bill could be limitless.

«This bill, frankly, is like taking an aspirin for a broken arm,» said Sen. Daniel Squadron during his chamber's debate on the bill.

• MPs will resume their debate on the bill in the autumn.

A third, Sen. Jim Webb (Va.), voted to begin debate on the bill but said he opposed raising income on ordinary income.

This proposal in turn was attacked by Conservative backbenchers, both as an infringement of council freedom and a risky precedent for national taxation, both in the Environment Committee and in the debate on a bill which Heseltine introduced and had to withdraw.

Leading the debate on the bill, Ali Ndume, senate leader, implored the committee on appropriations to investigate how the funds in the budget would be spent.

The programme motion is basically the programme for the further consideration of the bill — the time limit for further debates on the bill.