Sentences with phrase «enough votes in the house»

Boehner, Catholic by faith and Republican by party, was able to garner enough votes in the House for the passage of HR 1, the House budget proposal that has drawn the ire of many religious leaders.

The speaker insisted there are still enough votes in his house to pass the gay marriage bill despite the fact that his conference has dwindled to 99 members — one vote short of a veto - proof majority.

Cuomo says the bottom line is that there are not currently enough votes in both houses of the legislature to approve a broader public campaign finance that would apply to all statewide races, including the governor's.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) recently told the Daily News he believes there are enough votes in both houses for the first override of Cuomo's tenure should he veto the bill.

But I can tell you that, if it goes to the Senate, and they take it out, I know that we will have enough votes in the House to pass it.»

Not exact matches

«We have enough votes to show them never to do this again,» Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi told members of her party, behind closed doors, according to a source in the room.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

House Republicans managed to break the sit - in long enough to vote on the override, which passed on a party - line vote of 239 - 180, but fell short of the two - thirds vote needed to override the president's veto.

And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

Unsure whether the congressional spending package referred to by many in Washington, D.C., as the «cromnibus» had enough votes to pass, House GOP leaders delayed a final vote Thursday afternoon, but, after 9 p.m., they managed to pass the bill 219 - 206.

A majority of New York voters opposed the passage of the American Health Care Act, the Republican - backed measure that failed to gain enough votes for passage last week in the House of Representatives, according to a Siena College poll released on Monday.

In both houses those are enough votes for an override.

«Within our conference, there wasn't enough support to include it in our one - house resolution or bring the vote to the floor,» Heastie told WNBF this morning.

The House appeared on track to pass a stopgap continuing resolution bill Thursday night, but Senate Democrats said they had enough votes to block the legislation in the upper chamber, raising the possibility that the current budget will expire without a replacement.

All I know is that in Europe, even in the post-Soviet countries, you can create an idea, then collect enough signatures from people (who have the right to vote), then submit the idea as proposition (they call it a petition) to the house (may that be called parliament, house, senate, congress etc), and then they will organize an election for it, and the people will vote and decide.

The unrealistic part of it is the person who only got enough votes to win one state (and only 34 % of the vote in that state) being the person chosen by the house.

If 3 - 4 states become in doubt and unresolvable, enough that the winner no longer has 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives gets to pick, and it's likely they will choose their own party's candidate.

The House of Representatives struggled to pass a repeal and replacement plan earlier this year, until they came up with some amendments that would pull in enough yes votes, and the Senate is now expected to do the same.

Democrats shot down the measure in a rare display of unity after complaining the measure didn't go far enough, while 48 House Republicans voted no after pointing to insufficient spending cuts.

He is encouraged that a member of the Assembly majority is backing the bill in that house, but he remained unsure if that would be enough to bring a vote to the Assembly floor.

The governor's office marshaled its resources in a bid to push back against the provision and the AHCA ultimately failed to gain enough votes for passage in the Republican - led House of Representatives.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

Nor enough votes in Congress (two - thirds of each house).

The instant - runoff voting for the House upsets the apple cart if and only if one of the major parties fails to be broad - based enough to siphon off third party policies in a given electorate (i.e. a majority party swaps places with a minority party).

In the House of Representatives, this seems to generally be because the Speaker (who sets the agenda) either changes his or her mind about whether / when the vote will happen, or because party leaders realize there wouldn't be enough votes to pass it.

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

The burgeoning third party gained ballot access in Wyoming for the first time in 2012, and its U.S. House candidate, Daniel Clyde Cummings, earned enough votes in November's general election for the group to remain a registered third party in the state through 2014.

White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns that in a low - turnout special election, which is set for May 22, former Rep. Ed Case and state Senate president Colleen Hanabusa could split the Democratic vote enough to allow Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) to win.

ALBANY — Liberal activists in the Hudson Valley cheered when a House vote on the American Health Care Act was canceled last week because it didn't have enough support.

A disapproval resolution sailed through the House even after it became clear there President Barack Obama had enough votes to uphold his veto, and the Democrats blocked a mirror opposition bill in the Senate.

Chautauqua County's representative in Congress says he's on board with the GOP proposed American Health Care Act and thinks it will have enough votes to pass the House.

And even with Republicans in control of the House and Senate, he likely would not have enough votes.

Furthermore, he won't be able to get enough Republican votes — in either the Senate or the House — if his rewrite maintains a heavy - handed federal role in education.

In short, the D.C. voucher legislation has never been able to garner enough votes in both the House and the Senate to pass on its own in a standalone bilIn short, the D.C. voucher legislation has never been able to garner enough votes in both the House and the Senate to pass on its own in a standalone bilin both the House and the Senate to pass on its own in a standalone bilin a standalone bill.

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

House Republicans passed a resolution to overturn the CFPB's arbitration rule in July and Senate Republicans are trying to pass a similar measure, but it's unclear if they have enough votes.

It seems that the general public has enough knowledge to vote republican on every open seat they could fill this last election, and will do the same in two more years to clean out the CAGW house of cards.