Sentences with phrase «down vote on the measure»

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This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

Prior to the November election, Cary Park District officials promised residents that if they voted down referendum measures seeking to fund a proposed swim center and ballfields on 80 acres near Cary - Grove High School, they'd drop a condemnation suit for the land.

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

Senate Democrats once again addressed this issue head - on with proposals to protect our communities from gun violence, and again the Senate Republicans voted these measures down.»

Not receiving up or down votes on key measures has been a perennial concern for lawmakers in the minority of either chamber.

On Monday, the state Senate voted down the measure, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to be eligible for college financial aid.

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.

The measure voted down by a largely party line vote on April 11th would have been the first step toward forcing a vote on the property tax cap in the Assembly.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

Almost a week after 17 students and teachers were gunned down at a Florida high school, the state legislature voted 71 - 36 Tuesday against a measure to consider a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

City councillors in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto, recently voted down a measure calling on the province to implement a foreign buyers» tax.