Sentences with phrase «even come to a vote»

Where they will die before they even come to a vote, if we don't give them some of that fantastic energy that we find when faced with something offensive like Rep. Riddle's remarks or a nursing in public incident.

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

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.

Not exact matches

What's more, as the current election season shows, there's a sharp political divide (even within the two major parties) that makes the idea difficult to ever come to a vote.

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

The same «damned if you don't but possibly way more damned if you do» situation is manifesting itself in a wildly different way when it comes to Russia's hacking and cyber espionage on US political institutions, voter rolls and even the cyber probing of American voting machines.

Even though he abstained from voting and came out and said it was excessive, it's still an interesting thing to do.

New presidents may appoint new justices, but that project also is long and uncertain: even after 12 years with President Reagan and the first President Bush, both committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the key votes to reaffirm Roe in 1992 came from the Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter.

While this story is not really shocking coming from Texas... here is what I find a bit surprising: The TAPPS Board voted UNANIMOUSLY 9 - 0 to leave the schedule as it is... REALLY??? Not even 1 member saw that this may be construed as unfair??

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

This is due to the fact that the more generic term, Christian, has come to be used within religious and even political ways to refer to a voting bloc.»

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

The SECOND push came to shove, the «purist» pro-life Christian right told America to vote for the same guy who initially SUPPORTED the right to choose, gun control, and even wrote the blueprint for HEALTH REFORM.

They both belive when they die they well have, meet there 7 wives in heven u think that's not a cult?if america votes in a CULT member to run our country the gates of hell well open and we better be ready america.so america there is 2 of them I for one am not well to go back 150 yrs.6 on one off mentality.I grew up around those people and they r sick like the musliums they wear grab also but they hide there's under there clothes.what more r they hiding plenty.ask them how many times they r babtized not in there they take someone elses name everytime they get diped that is why there cult is so big ask one and they well lie or come up with even a bigger lie.they need to be fully investagated ppl.don't let the deep pockets and smile fool u.

Chelsea is champion but the will buy De Griezman from Atletico de Madrid they have the best defence in the league, the best Midfield in the league with De Griezman, hazard and Costa they will be came invecibles that what Mourinho want to take from Wenger and do not forget that Wenger will never beat Mourinho, we just need 3 world class players just like Henry said, But Wenger have no ambitions to win the league, next year will be the same excuses why we fail again, Mourinho sold Mata even so he was voted the best Chelsea player the previous two years, and Wenger want to keep ineffective players like Walcott, Wiltshere, Diaby, Flamini, Ryo.Sanogo.Welbeck, sad but that is our fate with Wenger only problem for us the risk of loosing player like Alexis will be great if we do not win next year, we must to buy like Henry said, like Carzola is saying, we lost so many good players because they want to win and they are winning with others clubs.why we do not give ouself a chance of winning the EPL?

After listening to Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson explain why bills like the Farm Workers Bill of Rights should be allowed to come to the floor for a debate and eventual vote even if it's clear they don't have sufficient support to pass — «This is about democracy!»

Even though I decided not to vote, I found myself hating the Yes campaign because it came over as an awful pile of whiny «progressive» bullshit.

Even in Ancient Greek democracy, in the play Agamemnon the goddess Athena comes down to Earth and casts a coloured pebble to vote for a candidate in a tie.

The current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, has said that bills will not come to the floor for a vote unless a majority of Democrats agree, even if numerically, counting Republican support, there are enough votes for it to pass.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

It has even been argued that along with the decline in royal power should come the right to vote: if our new King lacks special constitutional powers, why shouldn't he at least enjoy the ordinary constitutional power the rest of us exercise?

When it comes time to voting, they don't even have 5 minutes of time to make it to the voting booth.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

He stated, «A situation whereby, a man we voted for, now comes out openly and with audacity, to state that he needs to consult «his boss», who isn't even from Kwara South, is nothing but a violation of our human and democratic rights.»

However, most young people in Britain have no interest in the huge volume of column inches which are about to come their way and they probably won't even vote.

Most of his money comes from outside this district, or from people who can't even vote for him... so, whose interests does he intend to serve?

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

... even Nigerians are ready to vote for PMB comes 2019.

Even if you were wavering over whether Ed Miliband's decision yesterday to reject the government's motion on Syria (before it was published) was a political stunt, it's a little more difficult to see why the Labour leader plans to continue to oppose the rewritten motion when it comes to a vote in the Commons this evening.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver predicts that Republican Senators will change their minds and might even come back to the Capitol before the November elections to vote on the measure.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

«I think that people came who wanted to say that, even though they didn't vote for him this time, they still loved him.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

«We welcome allies of all political stripes, even if the last time it came up for a vote, the Senate Republicans were unable to muster a single vote in favor of allowing loving, committed same - sex couples to legally marry in our own state.»

Senate Republicans insist this evening they will vote for a bill that will extend rent control for the next eight years, though the votes may be hard to come by.

The DA wondered aloud whether the senator «even knows» the measure is stuck in committee and said she wished he had showed up so she could have had the opportunity to ask him to join her in pushing for it to come to the floor for a vote.

Even though he voted «no» and continues to believe marriage should be defined as a union between one man and one woman, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos deserves credit for allowing the bill to come up for a vote last week, Mayor Bloomberg said.

But, Long supports the idea of letting the bill come to the floor for another vote, even though he would vastly prefer to see the whole controversial issue relegated to the back burner where he is convinced it belongs.

As someone who comes from a country where universal health care is taken as granted (perhaps even taken too much for granted) I find it very difficult to understand why so many people would vote this way.

The duo said the Democrats should let the bill come to the floor even if the Republicans won't relent, noting 225 members voted for the legislation on July 29th and that 218 votes constitute a simple majority.

Is his next threat going to be withholding row C from any Republican who votes to let it even come to the floor?

ALBANY — A bill that would reduce the New York City speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph hit a sudden roadblock Wednesday when Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos said he wasn't sure it would even come up for a vote.

Even with the votes, Mr. Cuomo still had to ensure that the Senate Republican leader, Dean G. Skelos of Long Island, would not try to prevent the bill from coming to the floor.

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

This is unscientific, but Democrats have to have at least 2,000 votes coming out of the City Hall before the polls even open.

Heastie said that if the Senate approved the bill, the Assembly would follow — though it had yet to come up for a vote Thursday evening.

When it came to the vote, there were an unholy alliance between ultra-Lefts like Ted Knight who are, in practice, actively hostile to Labour (even if they are still members of it) and those who believe that Labour Party activity must take absolute priority.

«I could not tell you today how my vote will come down,» said Sayward, R - Willsboro, who was en route to Manhattan to speak Tuesday evening at a gathering of Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of Republicans that support gay rights.