Sentences with phrase «end debate on a bill»

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 surveillance of American citizens.

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....

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At the end of the committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.

There's more Brexit action in the Lords, with peers poised to inflict more defeats on the government in the final day of Report Stage debate on the EU Withdrawal Bill - and that may not be the end.

At the end of proceedings on the European Union Bill yesterday, there was an opportunity for the Commons to debate and vote on the amendment from Wellingborough MP Peter Bone, which he wrote about here on ConHome last month.

The bill isn't in the pipeline that could get it a floor debate before the scheduled end of the session on June 16.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

With the legislative session scheduled to end on March 18, lawmakers last week were debating a new fiscal 1990 budget, after Gov. Garry Carruthers vetoed an appropriations bill.

The vote on the bill came at the end of about five hours of emotional debate Monday, which followed eight hours of debate on the issue during a rare Saturday session of the Senate.

In an open letter and a series of full - page ads in major newspapers, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Wednesday urged Congress to enact an Internet Bill of Rights and to bring the Net neutrality debate to an end.