Sentences with phrase «floor debate in»

On April 1, following several hours of intense floor debate in the Texas House on a string of budget amendments seeking to reallocate funds designated to provide basic women's health care services, the dust was settling.

«The establishment of the Corporation will mark a new, sincere, nonpartisan dedication to the provision of equal access to justice for all our citizens,» Sen. Kennedy said during floor debate in December 1973.

During floor debate in the legislature, however, Republican State Sen. Beau McCoy, a candidate for governor, amended the bill to direct scientists to focus only on so - called «cyclical» climate change — a term that has no legitimate scientific meaning.

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.

The HHC had moved House Bill 639 further than any previous proposal to set up tax credits for scholarship donations; no prior proposal had made it to a floor debate in either the House or Senate.

ALBANY — A bill that would allow more patients with cancer, HIV and other serious maladies to sue for medical malpractice has been overwhelmingly approved by the state Assembly, but it stands a dwindling chance of even getting a floor debate in the Senate.

A bill that would allow more patients with cancer, HIV and other serious maladies to sue for medical malpractice has been overwhelmingly approved by the state Assembly, but it stands a dwindling chance of even getting a floor debate in the Senate.

Tensions between opposing groups of Democrats in the Senate reached a flash point this week over whose faction would be allowed to present their budget priorities for a floor debate in an exchange that included some racially charged name - calling.

Although floor debates in the main Commons chamber — and the rowdy weekly showcase of Prime Minister's Question Time — are the dominant images of the UK Parliament, like any legislature the House of Commons also does a lot of detailed work holding the government to account.

Not exact matches

But in the maelstrom of last - minute action before the House heads home Friday, the bill has not been scheduled for what was expected to be a contentious debate on the floor.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

I've read several conservatives who argue that Paul Ryan will «will wipe the floor with Vice President Joe Biden in their one debate in October.»

The two day show also feature plenty of show floor «theatre» in the form of The BIG Print Debate and the Lions» Lair.

There will be plenty of show floor «theatre» in the form of The Lions» Lair and show favourite, The BIG Print Debate, which returns with the topic: What happens when personalisation becomes the norm?

The show, at the Business Design Centre on 30 September and 1 October 2014, has grown significantly on last year, with 170 exhibitors and plenty of show floor «theatre» in the form of the BIG Packaging Debate, one - to - one advice and the Lions» Lair.

Debate whether or not just to throw out Kira's entire outfit, because it was completely covered in poop, put her naked on a towel on the floor, while I got to get a bag to put het outfit in, come back to see that she has peed through the towel and onto our new carpet.

As she sat sleeping in her car seat in the middle of the living room floor, my husband and I debated and finally argued over what to do with her.

Cheerleading is a leading cause of catastrophic injury in female athletes at the high school and college level, Dr. Samantha Rosman, a Boston - area pediatrician, told AMA delegates during floor debate before the vote.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

Tonight on the Senate floor, during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) attempted to read a letter from Coretta Scott King that had been persuasive in his previous hearing as part of an unsuccessful nomination to a federal judgeship.

What they expect from me as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is that every bill, every motion and every debate on the floor of the house must be looked at within the prism of what is in the best interest of the Urhobo and Delta Central people.

Wikipedia says that the filibuster in the United States Senate is a Senate rule that allows a senator to talk as long as he does not give up the floor, unless a special vote is taken to stop debate.

He disclosed that this has had a toll on the quality of debates on the floor of the house because most of them are not well trained to have been elected to the house because they lack the quality as required to make meaningful impacts in terms of contributions.

As long as 3 dishonest men in a room can dictate what does and does not reach the floor for debate then lets drop the pretext that we have a representative government and eliminate everyone except the 3 dishonest men in a room and maybe the NYS voters will do their job and fire them at the ballot box.

It is understood that his approach to and understanding of issues, superior contribution to debates on the floor of Parliament and ability to proffer alternative policies in the year made him stand out among his peers.

When the federal marriage amendment was being debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his party's leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.

«The Senate has passed «Kirby and Quigley's Law» five years in a row and now it's time for the Assembly to bring justice to the Krohn family and to the memory of Kirby and Quigley by enabling this bi-partisan legislation to come to the Floor of the Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.»

Significant legislation is debated in conference before it reaches the floor, and if it seems unlikely that the Democratic supermajority can pass a bill by itself, it's often simply not brought to the floor.

Kavanagh is a strong proponent of every bill in the legislative package, which included several laws he introduced and debated on the Assembly floor.

Raising the minimum wage has been a hotly debated issue in the state in the past and Valesky says that's the point, putting this discussion on the Senate floor.

After years of protests and rallies, a compromised bill and some eleventh - hour tension on the Council floor, the intensely debated Right to Know Act has been approved by the City Council in its very last day of session.

He's an outspoken lawmaker known for his skills and pointed jabs in debating bills on the Senate floor.

«The sad fact is that under the Republicans and the IDC, not much gets done in Committee Meetings or early floor votes, there are few hearings and virtually no debate.»

«It's been a good run, I've given it my all, and it's simply time for me to hand off this tradition of service to someone else who, I hope, will be no less willing and able to keep heading back to the Capitol year after year, legislative session after legislative session, and floor debate after floor debate to constantly and steadily roll up their sleeves, get down in the trenches, stand on their principles, shout out their fundamental beliefs, and carry on the fight for upstate's rightful place in this government.»

«It sort of reminded me years ago, the fellows who used to get up on the floor of the Assembly and debate against their pay increase, yet they were the first at the payroll office to make sure the increase was in their check,» Barraga said.

But Assembly Republicans, in floor debate, portrayed the bills as being to the left of policies of former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The Independent Democratic Conference was permitted for the first time to introduce its own budget plan, in addition to the Republicans» proposal, to be debated on the floor.

But I was struck reading Hansard this morning by the way in which the debate which Tim reported at yesterday's meeting of the 1922 Committee also spilled out on to the floor of the Commons.

Few members bothered debating it, though Assemblyman David DiPietro, a Republican from Erie County, did use floor time to compare the 2013 SAFE Act to «Germany in 1944.»

Sen. Eric Adams, who drew widespread criticism for his «show me the money» speech on the Senate floor in 2007 while debating a legislative pay raise, has shelved his call for a salary boost — at least for the time being.

Back - bench MPs seek adjournment debates in order to raise specific issues and particular concerns with Ministers on the floor of the House.

Debate on the floor included criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, over $ 90 million dollars in cuts to providers of services for the developmentally disabled.

During the floor debate, Senator Cathy Young, chairwoman of the chamber's housing committee, defended the legislation saying it «would give eight years of predictability and stability» for tenants in rent regulated apartments.

Four assemblymembers recorded no words during floor debates this year: Karim Camara (who left to join the Cuomo administration in February), Sam Roberts (who also joined the Cuomo administration, but not until the closing days of session), Barbara Clark (who missed most of this year's votes to deal with a personal tragedy) and Peter Lawrence.

The Republican from Syracuse was also one of the members who participated the most in floor debates.

ALBANY — John DeFrancisco might have failed in his attempt to win the title of president pro tempore of the New York State Senate this year, but he did succeed in eliciting more laughs in floor debates than any other legislator in 2015.

Sen. Diane Savino, an independent Democrat from Staten Island, said during debate on the Senate floor in late June that the measure is primarily aimed at veterans.

Earlier today, he told the Daily News that he would be «pushing very very hard for issues like same - sex marriage to not be pre-determined in a smoke - filled room, but to let it air out in full debate on the Senate floor as soon as possible.»

As promised, the Motion was listed on the Order Paper and debated on the floor of plenary and the following resolutions were reached amongst which are; Mandate its Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics and health to investigate the growing menace of cough and other prescriptive drugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addiction.

Currently, Assembly Republicans and Democrats in the Senate's minority can't force a bill to the floor for debate unless the majority party approves.