Not exact matches
In party - line
votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee
voted down eight Democratic
amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes
on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.
This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without
amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply
vote up or
down on the finished result.
Senate Republicans
on procedural grounds
voted down amendments backed by Democrats in the Senate that included much of the same provisions supported by their counterparts in the Assembly.
«What I did was I
voted for a couple of
amendments which were kind of conscience clauses for the likes of registrars and so
on, which didn't get past, but that wouldn't have slowed it
down at all,» he says.
Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a
vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile
amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally
vote them
down in an election year.
Today, a few corridors
down from the Commons fight
on «
Amendment 7» — that «meaningful
vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings of the Citizens» Assembly.
Along with the bill containing the new district lines, the Legislature is likely to
vote on a separate bill containing a constitutional
amendment that would reform the process 10 years
down the road.
At the same time, Cuomo did not initially knock Republicans in the state Senate for
voting down a series of hostile
amendments on Wednesday that would have banned bump stocks and strengthened background checks.
The Conservative frontbench abstained, the Liberal Democrats were whipped to
vote down the
amendments and joined Labour in doing so
on both occasions.
Either the deal the government negotiates is
voted down in parliament, or it's passed with an
amendment for a referendum
on the final terms.
On the Scotland Bill, reasonable
amendments backed by the overwhelming majority of Scottish MPs have been
voted down.
Assembly Republicans called
on Tuesday for a
vote on a constitutional
amendment that would strip pension benefits from state officials convicted of corruption and called an alternative measure working its way through the chamber a «watered -
down» measure.
But supporters of the
amendment are worried that the push to sink the constitutional convention — proposal one
on the back of the ballot — will also create a
down - ballot cascade of no
votes.
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted dow
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue
on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted dow
on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile
amendments to other bills that were
voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted dow
on procedural grounds that Republicans
voted down.
Democrats in the remaining 26 - member conference grumble about the IDC's propensity to side with Republicans
on contentious issues such as a constitutional
amendment for independent redistricting and a
vote that some saw as watering
down the powers of the lieutenant governor in order to provide needed
votes (it was even joked about at the LCA Show in May).
The ensuing procedural
vote on the
amendment failed, with Democrat Ruben Diaz Sr. joining the entirety of the Republican conference to
vote it
down.
Labour peers have been told to abstain
on this
amendment, which means the government can be reasonably confident that it will be able to
vote it
down, but, as the Observer reported at the weekend, more than 40 Labour peers are expected to defy the whip and
vote with Alli.
Gary Greenberg, an upstate investor who was sexually abused as a boy in 1966, said he would have preferred the Republicans allow a straight up - or -
down vote on Hoylman's bill rather than force the Dems to go the hostile
amendment route.
But
on Tuesday, March 15, all the committee's Republicans
voted down that
amendment, as well as two others acknowledging the threat of climate change to public well - being.
MSPs have
voted to extend the right to
vote in Scottish elections to 16 and 17 year olds,
on the same day that MPs in Westminster struck
down an
amendment Top 345 16th Birthday Wishes, Messages for 16 Year Olds, Sweet Sixteen Birthday Messages and best wish, Saying photo.
While a DARPA for energy R&D might be a good model, spending
on deployment and infrastructure should be overseen by a diverse group of experts, perhaps modeled after the military base closings commission, whose recommendations could only receive an up or
down vote from Congress (no
amendments, no earmarks).
Fast Track would allow the Administration to push these agreements through Congress
on an expedited schedule, with little debate, no
amendments, and a quick up or
down vote.
Fast Track legislation would sharply limit Congress» role in trade policy by forcing the TPP and TTIP deals through
on a quick up or
down vote, with no
amendments.
The Bill is due to return to the House of Lords next week, when Peers could
vote down the government
amendment on interveners, in a parliamentary game of «ping - pong».
I am
voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people
on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came
down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear
on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth
Amendment.»