Sentences with phrase «floor of the senate»

In fact, they'd vote against the «motion to proceed» that would even bring the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) to the floor of the Senate for consideration.

Rep. Louis Gohmert, R - Texas leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, after lending encouragement to Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas, with his overnight fight on the floor of the Senate against the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as «Obamacare».

Second, there are legal recourses... I will oppose this effort wherever possible, in the Commerce Committee, on the floor of the Senate, and help in the courts if necessary.»

So you, when you pray, go onto the floor of the Senate, or stand before the National Prayer Breakfast, and say your prayers there.

Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved.

Betrayal means knives on the floor of the Senate.

You always hear jokes about different aspects of breast - feeding, and some were afraid to bring it to the floor of the Senate because they feared there would be embarrassing questions and that it would become a joke,» said Frazier, who got involved after a group of nursing mothers came to his office and shared their experiences about breast - feeding in public.

After much speculation and back - room wheeling and dealing, the gay marriage bill, which has passed the Assembly three times, finally came to the floor of the Senate in December 2009, where it failed, 38 - 24.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki stated this in his welcome address read on the floor of the Senate yesterday as the lawmakers resumed plenary from the end - of - the - year break.

The second video is of Sen. Chuck Fuschillo reading aloud a letter from Rice on the floor of the Senate during the drug law reform debate last year.

The video offers a window into just how tense things have become on the floor of the Senate as the latest battle for control of the chamber heats up.

«His support for the DREAM Act is there and this is a time he can demonstrate it's really a priority this year and get to the floor of the Senate this year,» Moya said.

On the morning of April 1st, Senate Republicans were still on the floor of the Senate after an all night voting session.

There are absolutely no exceptions to immunity from prosecution for things said on the floor of the Senate.

The first one showed Senator Misau on the floor of the Senate, criticizing the president for appointing «an incompetent person» as the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.

However, a source at the Office of the President of the Senate, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the letter was meant to be announced to lawmakers on the floor of the Senate during plenary, said Saraki had yet to receive the letter in person.

It passed 139 to 7 in the Assembly in 2017, but it has not been brought to the floor of the Senate for a full vote.

This has given the Republicans in the Senate control over the budget, over committee appointments, and over what legislation comes to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

Duane gave an impassioned 3 a.m. speech on the floor of the Senate in favor of the measure last summer.

It was a noisy and acrimonious scene on the floor of the Senate as Senator Thomas W. Libous, a Republican from Binghamton and the party's deputy leader, shouted for a roll - call vote, while Democrats attempted to stall the vote by asking to adjourn the session.

A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displace Democrats as the party in control.

Following the letter written by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday and read on the floor of the Senate during it s plenary session over the reconsideration of the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Ibrahim Magu, as the substantive Chairman, the Senate has responded to the letter.

«Last week, legislation to approve the Dream Act was defeated on the floor of the Senate, but both co-leaders of the chamber believed it deserved a vote.

Sanders, a Brooklyn native who represents Vermont, denounced the violence on the floor of the senate.

Members of the Senate and their staff on the floor of the Senate during a break in the session on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

Raising a Point of Order on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the lawmaker disclosed that about $ 5.5 bn was borrowed from euro bond, wondering how the loan has been of benefit to the Nigerian youth.

It could go to the floor of the Senate for a vote as early as next week.

In what attracted laugher in the floor of the senate, Melaye jokingly said the policy would further affect people who can not afford new vehicles such as «Senator Ali Ndume and Chris Ubah ``.

Speaking on the face - off between Melaye and the police, on the floor of the senate, Shittu said Nigerians did not vote in APC government to be mistreated.

One of his last transactions on the account took place on the 4th December, 2015, the same day he addressed his colleagues at the floor of the Senate, on a proposed retrogressive, repressive, anti-free speech and anti-democracy bill on social media and public petition censorship.

Speaking on the floor of the senate he cited section 68 (1)(g) as the basis of dumping the Labour Party for the APC.

Skelos, speaking to reporters off the floor of the Senate chamber, said Cuomo's endorsement by the labor - backed Working Families Party suggested there were two different Cuomos he's dealing with.

Wilton happens to be located in the district represented by Sen. Kathy Marchione, who was one of just two Republican senators to speak out in opposition to the SAFE Act on the floor of the Senate last week.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos is not yet on board, and without his approval, the bill can not be brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

Melaye himself on the floor of the senate today, threatened to sue the IG.

Gianaris on the floor of the Senate said the subway situation resembled a «post apocalyptic world» and he was «sickened» it wasn't addressed during the last two days in Albany.

Senator Suleiman Nazif, who is the chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, had presented the report on the floor of the senate.

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

He was the first to nominate Flanagan on the floor of the Senate to lead the chamber, and stressed the need for the GOP conference to go forward united.

Nwaoboshi who again led the debate on the floor of the Senate on Thursday was of the view that the procedural codes that were being used by the bureau's tribunal were not provided for in the nation's Constitution.

Adamu was not present on the floor of the senate.

«If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.»

Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, a Republican who has mostly supported Trump's agenda, if not his manners, rose on the floor of the Senate to deliver a blistering rebuke of the media critic in chief — and a passionate, unapologetic defense of a free press.

She's a great member and I think she was set off by someone who I think was playing politics on the floor of the Senate, who was name calling instead of debating ideas and she responded in kind.»

In the meantime we will be working with legislative leaders — Democrats and Republicans — and continuing to do what we've been doing all along, and that is working with our community and our allies across New York, including those from communities of faith and organized labor, to earn the votes we need to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor of the Senate for passage.»

«I can't think of another situation that I didn't go out onto the floor of the Senate without the information I needed to be able to make a vote,» he said.

On Monday, Sen. Diane Savino filed the first move in a parliamentary maneuver that could bring her bill to legalize medical marijuana to the floor of the Senate, without the approval of the chamber's leadership.

State Sen. Gayle Slossberg, a Democrat, announces her support of a proposed Republican budget on the floor of the Senate.

The deputy majority leader controls what happens on the floor of the Senate.