Sentences with phrase «first supermajority»
• We won the first supermajority - ever in the Erie County Legislature, 12 - 3 Democrats - Republicans.
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The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court raises the prospect that for the first time in history there will be a supermajority of justices on the same court affiliated to one degree or another with the Catholic Church.
The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.