Sentences with phrase «down vote on the amendment»

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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 dowOn 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 dowon the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted dowon 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.»