Sentences with phrase «floor vote any day»

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The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes.

Kent went on about the 2010 UN episode: «On the day of the actual vote, on the floor of the General Assembly, as we were all going up and down through the desks and aisles, urging people to stick to their commitment to vote for us, the Cuban ambassador was equally on the floor lobbying for the Canadian vote.»

But at the end of the day, the source said, Avella impressed the NYLCV board with his record and «political courage» on the organization's issues — especially his push for the Child Safe Product Act, even though it never got to the Senate floor for a vote.

Sheldon Silver toyed with us for an entire session, ultimately refusing, on the very last day, to allow Jenna's Law onto the floor for a vote we knew had strong bipartisan backing.

On her second day in Congress, newly elected Rep. Kathleen Rice (D - Garden City) thought she knew her way around the Capitol building enough to get to the floor by herself for a vote.

When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply vote the executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the plan to the floor in the first place.

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.

In the months leading up to Election Day, Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson was reluctant to commit to bringing the marriage bill back to the floor for a vote, despite the fact that now Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said seeing the measure passed and signed into law would be a «priority» for his first year in office.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a floor vote.

Griffo said proper vetting takes time, and pointed to the process of judicial appointees — who often go through multiple committees in one day before reaching the floor for the final vote — as particularly problematic.

When I say every single day, I mean it: as was the case in my first two years, I did not miss a single floor vote in the 2015 legislative session.

It has now been 66 days since Hurricane Sandy hit and 27 days since President Obama put forth a responsible aid proposal that passed with a bi-partisan vote in the Senate while the House has failed to even bring it to the floor.

We must move past the days when members of the Assembly could say they support a bill which never comes to the floor for a vote.

Mike Boland, the operative who left the party to run Teachout's campaign, and Bertha Lewis, who nominated Teachout from the floor of the W.F.P. convention, have both gone on record urging Teachout voters to hold their noses and vote W.F.P. as a way of keeping liberal pressure on Cuomo, reminding them of the party's successful pushes on items like paid sick days and the minimum wage.

At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

The current impasse on the women's agenda is the result of a last - minute change in strategy by the governor and the coalition just days before the end of session, when it became apparent that Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos wasn't going to allow the abortion plank onto the floor — and that there weren't 32 declared votes in the chamber to support that section.

Three days before the Orlando shooting, Butler complained on his Assembly website page that Democrats in the Assembly would not allow Tenney's bill to come to a vote on the Assembly floor.

In the few days that we have left of the legislative session, I will work diligently to get this important bill on the floor of the Assembly for vote.»

«Very rarely we've had a day where we've had more than 10 bills under consideration at all, and we're roughly halfway through the session calendar,» said Senate Democratic floor leader Mike Gianaris on Wednesday, about an hour after his attempts to get a vote on his conference's budget proposal came to naught.

Thursday's vote included the drama of another delayed but approving vote by Flake, a last - minute no vote by Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth — who wheeled onto the floor with her 10 - day - old baby in tow — and the possibility of a tie - breaker by Pence, who was back in town.

The background checks bill passed the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday but still must be scheduled for a floor vote in the waning days of the session.

As part of this debate, we can anticipate in the days ahead a floor vote to eliminate all funding for the NEA.

The 30 - day Special Legislative Session began last week at lightning speed with bill filings, committee hearings, and floor votes.

-- Woodrow Wilson The room on the first floor of the Barbour County Courthouse in the little town of Eufaula, Alabama, was normally the County Clerk's Office, but after it had closed for the day on August 2, 1957, it was being used by the county's Board of Registrars, the body that registered citizens so they could vote in elections — not that the Board was going to register any of the three persons who were applying that day, for the skin of these applicants was black.

The Great Depression happened because after the 1929 stock market crash, which was brought about by a combination of radical margin requirement tightening in the days preceding it, an increase in interest rates that further dried up the cash that was being used to buy stocks, reaction to the floor vote reporting on the Smoot - Hawley tariff bill (which made it clear it would pass), and a concerted selling / manipulation effort by Wall Street's biggest players, the economy was in shock.

The top - three vote getters in a variety of pet categories were announced during a ceremony that was held on the exhibition floor at the end of the second day of the show.

• Received more official customer compliments in one year than any other associate • Twice voted «Sales Associate of the Month» • Strong sales floor marketing skills • Reliable employee who never misses a scheduled work day • Willing to cover shifts for other sales associates • Able to work with all levels of management