Sentences with phrase «favor of early voting»

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says he's not in favor of early voting, saying it could be problematic in certain cases.

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In early October, Stonecrest's City Council voted 4 - 2 in favor of the name change.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

Things couldn't have worked out much better in Lincoln, but it's still wild to wonder what a stronger vote of confidence or a cleaner bill of health in Newcombe's favor might have meant to Crouch's place in Huskers history — and how his hypothetical transfer might have changed the college football landscape in the early 2000s.

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives approved the legislation that will modernize food safety laws, voting 215 to 144 in favor of giving the FDA more oversight over food production.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D - Howard Beach) on Monday announced that he has joined fellow elected officials who represent other so - called racetrack communities in sending a letter to Cuomo, calling on him to get behind the new NYRA restructuring plan — which the NYRA Board voted in favor of earlier this month.

After months of delays and frustration, the state Senate early Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan state budget that will be voted on by the House later today, where broad support is expected, too.

In a crucial difference with the version of the legislation that failed to win sufficient Republican support earlier this year, the current incarnation allows states to individually decide which pre-existing conditions insurers must cover and removes caps on how much the afflicted can be charged, and includes an age tax that allows insurance companies to charge higher premiums to individuals between the ages of 50 and 64 — allowing it to win votes from the previously recalcitrant Tea Party - aligned Freedom Caucus and pass by a margin of 217 in favor to 213 against.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today praised members of the state Senate who early this morning voted 59 to 1 in favor of a bill that would reform the governance structure of the Queens Library and require the Library to adopt best practice reforms aimed at increasing the transparency of the Library's operations.

Earlier this month, the Oneida County Legislature voted in favor of a law which would allow the sale of sparklers.

Rodriguez numbered among the council members who voted in favor of MIH, but he was ultimately swayed by community opposition to the Inwood proposal, which would have rezoned a lot at the corner of Broadway and Sherman Avenue that Acadia had purchased in early 2009 for $ 19 million.

Gov. David Paterson's former campaign manager Richard Fife OpEds in favor of moving up primary day and allowing early voting to boost voter participation.

Nationally, attention has been riveted on New York state since early in the week when Cuomo announced he had won more votes in favor of the bill.

The congressman had planned on voting in favor of an earlier version of the bill back in March after touting a provision that would shift Medicaid costs from counties to the state, which he said would save money.

Congressional Republicans voted in early March to repeal crucial regulations under the Every Student Succeeds Act in favor of leaving education policy largely in the hands of state governments.

Gibson, member of the House Agriculture Committee, voted in favor of the bipartisan Farm Bill signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

Earlier this month, the United Teachers Union of Los Angeles voted in favor of an evaluation system that will rely on raw state test scores and district assessments.