Sentences with phrase «floor vote in the house»

It faces strong opposition in the Republican Congress, however, and a floor vote in the House is not certain to occur.

The bill passed the Oklahoma Senate and we just received word that a floor vote in the House is pending — and could come as early as tomorow morning.

This means that the bills are expected to go to a full floor vote in the House and Senate by early 2014, and that a markup session on a final bill will take place in the spring — the only question is which version will prevail.

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This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando this year, Democrats in Congress held a sit - in on the floor of the House of Representatives simply to demand a vote on gun control legislation.

The unveiling of the Senate plan, combined with a House committee vote to send a version of its bill to the House floor, is a step forward in the party's race to rewrite the U.S. tax code before year's end.

«If it was put on the floor of the House or the Senate it would get a majority vote in either one.»

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

In that case, several Republican congressmembers camped out on the House floor during the August recess to protest the lack of a vote on expanded oil - and - gas drilling, and supporters vigorously chronicled their activities through short messages to the Twitter - using audience.

Clarification: If the Speaker in the House and the Majority Leader in the Senate control the legislative agenda, how do these coalitions (Trump - Democrats - moderate Republicans) get a bill to the floor for a vote?

«Within our conference, there wasn't enough support to include it in our one - house resolution or bring the vote to the floor,» Heastie told WNBF this morning.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

Rep. Greg Meeks (D - Queens) said he saw the four huddling in the back of the House floor, waiting to cast their negative votes until the resolution's passage was secured.

The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.) for his repeated violations of the chamber's rules, marking the first time in nearly 30 years that a Member has been censured on the floor.

Today's strategy session on gay marriage hosted at the Capitol by Gov. Andrew Cuomo focused mainly on what to do about the Senate, where the bill came to the floor for a full - house vote just once back in December 2009 and died, 38 - 24.

«So that's how I found out we voted to leave,» he explains, with the Palace of Westminster overlooking our second floor meeting room in Portcullis House.

He says the «majority» of Republicans in the house are against the aid, and he needs to convince the leadership to bring the bill to the floor, so supporters can vote on it.

GOP leaders allowed the votes in a compromise after Amash and a group of libertarian Republicans threatened to join with Democrats to defeat the rule to the Defense bill on the House floor.

It now appears the vote will be in the House Floor on October 29, 2015 without a Caucus vote.

They are in the process of going through the state Assembly education committee, and if they pass, will be voted on the respective house floors.

That bill was abruptly pulled from the House floor in March, before Stefanik took any public position on how she intended to vote.

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, herself a key architect of the budget plan, announced her opposition Wednesday morning and mounted a remarkable daylong speech on the House floor, trying to force GOP leaders in the House to promise a later vote on legislation to protect the younger immigrants.

The North Carolina ballot access reform bill, HB 32, which has already passed the House, is set for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next week, which means it will then receive a vote on the Senate floor if it passes Committee.

He is encouraged that a member of the Assembly majority is backing the bill in that house, but he remained unsure if that would be enough to bring a vote to the Assembly floor.

It passed the House and is awaiting a floor vote in the Senate.

After more than 24 hours of sitting on the House floor, Democratic lawmakers ended their sit - in without managing to force a vote on gun control measures.

House Democrats demanded but didn't get a vote on gun control legislation despite an hours - long sit - in on the House floor.

In the U.S. House, a small knot of moderate Republicans — from swing districts, from areas with high Hispanic populations, or retiring — are attempting to go around Speaker Paul Ryan and bring a compromise on immigration to the floor for a vote.

Led by Georgia Rep. John Lewis, veteran civikl rights advocate, Dozens of House Democrats staged a «sit - in» on the House floor today in protest of GOP leadership's refusal to allow a vote on a gun control measure following the Orlando massacre.

«After collecting thousands of dollars in checks, Mr. Crowley returned to the floor of the House just in time to vote against a series of amendments that would have imposed tougher restrictions on Wall Street.»

A Senate committee voted along party lines to send the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general to the full Senate floor, after a contentious hearing in which Democrats questioned the Alabama Republican's ability to show independence from the White House.

Both bills received votes on the House floor in 1998.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

The confrontation was avoided when the White House withdrew two of the nominations in exchange for the other five being brought to the floor for a vote, where they were confirmed.

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Most MPs vote with the party line almost all the time, in Committee as much as on the House floor.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner scheduled the January 15 vote, a vote that House members, namely in New York and New Jersey, states hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, thought would come to the floor before the new session, and expressed disgust when it did not.

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.

Here is some video of floor speeches from NY Reps today, including Republican Rep. Pete King who called the House leaderships decision to pull the vote a «knife in the back.»

House Republican leaderships decision to not vote on the Senate's bill providing $ 60 billion in aid to areas impacted by Super Storm Sandy has led to a barrage of floor speeches from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Dozens of Democratic House and Senate lawmakers have been occupying the House floor since late Wednesday morning, calling on Ryan and other GOP leaders hold a vote on legislation to prevent terrorists from purchasing guns in the wake of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

Maffei introduced 13 bills in the 113th Congress, but none advanced to a vote on the House floor.

One option that was floated was something known as «deem and pass» in which the House would approve the bill without an actual floor vote.

On the House side, Minority Leader Themis Klarides said Democrats blocked them from bringing the Republican budget to the floor for a vote in the Assembly's Appropriations Committee.

The PAC should be empowered in at least the cases of the most egregious misfeasance to table a resolution for debate and voting on the floor of the House of Commons which, if passed, would then be sent to the Lords, and if agreed there too, would command the force of law for being implemented.

In July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad ideIn July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idein attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idein which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idea.

A month ago the Government was defeated in a vote on the floor of the House of Commons on a very important issue — the question of the level of the EU budget.