Sentences with phrase «during floor votes»

Once, during floor votes, he took a cellphone call from inside a grandfather clock.

At least one member of the Republican conference had to join him in coming out in support of the measure during the floor vote.

With the future of embattled Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos still unresolved, Democrats plan to try again to oust him during a floor vote on Monday.

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Now Duckworth, 50, has submitted a resolution that would allow senators to bring children under the age of 1 onto the Senate floor during votes.

The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes.

A pending rules change would allow the Illinois senator to bring her young daughter to the chamber floor during votes.

Cheerleading is a leading cause of catastrophic injury in female athletes at the high school and college level, Dr. Samantha Rosman, a Boston - area pediatrician, told AMA delegates during floor debate before the vote.

The Sensible Opportunity for Legislative Equality bill would allow each member to bring a bill that's been discharged from committee to the floor for a vote at least once during a two - year legislative session.

In that case, several Republican congressmembers camped out on the House floor during the August recess to protest the lack of a vote on expanded oil - and - gas drilling, and supporters vigorously chronicled their activities through short messages to the Twitter - using audience.

A number of LGBT advocates are frustrated that ENDA didn't even see a House committee vote — let alone a vote on the House or Senate floor — during the 111th Congress when Democrats had control of both chambers of Congress.

During his weekly news conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio), who has opposed efforts to pass ENDA, was non-committal when asked by the Blade if he'd be open to allowing the Equality Act to come up for a House floor vote.

Four assemblymembers recorded no words during floor debates this year: Karim Camara (who left to join the Cuomo administration in February), Sam Roberts (who also joined the Cuomo administration, but not until the closing days of session), Barbara Clark (who missed most of this year's votes to deal with a personal tragedy) and Peter Lawrence.

Bloomberg, who made a special trip to the Capitol (a place he is widely known to dislike immensely) to lobby in favor of the measure, had a heated exchange during a closed - door meeting with Sen. Tom Libous, a Binghamton Republican, in advance of the vote that saw the measure abruptly yanked from the floor before it went down in flames.

«This is the same George Amedore who voted against pay equity every time it was brought to the floor during his three terms in the State Assembly.

But Hoylman expressed optimism during a CapTon interview that will air this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. that this legislation still has a shoot at making it to the floor for a vote, and while he has no GOP co-sponsors, he said he has had conversations with Republican senators who might be willing to vote «yes» on the bil.

This sounds a lot like Cuomo's explanation during the last legislative session on why he wasn't able to land a deal on all 10 points of his Women's Equality Agenda — including the abortion rights plank, which the Senate Republicans staunchly refused to allow onto the floor for a vote.

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

Senator Jeff Klein, who leads the five - member, Republican - allied Independent Democratic Conference, won the floor vote during budget negotiations and delivered a solid bloc of support.

Of course, given yesterday's floor fight in which an anti-Trump faction failed in its effort to force a vote on releasing delegates from the candidate to whom they were pledged during the primaries, it's entirely possible that something unexpected is in the cards.

Andrew Mackay as Deputy Chief Whip during John Major's last year in office helped ensure that we lost not one vote on the floor of the Commons and is a trusted adviser to the Party Leader.

After months of negotiations, the bill has a clearer definition of «affirmative consent,» a «yes means yes» standard for sexual consent, as well as stronger protections for both victims and the accused, the members said during a short floor debate before the 116 - 0 vote.

«We write today asking you to move quickly on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by bringing a bill inclusive of protections for all victims of domestic violence, similar to that which has already passed the Senate, to the House floor for a vote during these final weeks of the 112th Congress,» the letter said.

The measure, which was scheduled to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote early this week, would fund education programs during the 1982 - 83 school year at approximately $ 13 billion.

The top - three vote getters in a variety of pet categories were announced during a ceremony that was held on the exhibition floor at the end of the second day of the show.

Although hundreds of amendments were offered during debate of the Farm Bill, many of the amendments were not brought to the floor for a vote, including this one.

Here's Politico: «Dozens of purple - state Republicans have broken ranks with their party leadership to take the pro-green position during floor and committee votes spanning more than 100 bills and amendments.»

Luckily, during his eight years in the Arizona House of Representatives, Dr. Eric Meyer has built a consistent voting record when it comes to promoting education and preventing teen pregnancy, and he is prepared to continue this fight on the Senate floor.

It was a very packed agenda, during which I learned the «ropes» of 1) networking with other council reps who might share our society's interests, 2) understanding how to bring questions to the floor (long lines at the microphones), 3) getting the electronic voting gizmo to work, and 4) appreciating the enormous challenge of parliamentary procedure as varied interests war on the floor.