Sentences with phrase «floor vote in the state»

It has passed in that chamber five times with solid, bipartisan support but has never come to a floor vote in the State Assembly because of the objections of several senior Democratic women who believe it is excessively violent.

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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

Other unlikely Florida No. 1 votes come from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, Miami blog The 7th Floor, and from SEC blog Team Speed Kills, jointly run by a Florida fan and a South Carolina fan; in a week when their teams each got first - place love, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats and Notre Dame blog One Foot Down threw their lot in with Florida, too.

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.

With a new leader in the State Assembly there's new optimism a few proposed laws that have been blocked will finally make it to the floor for a vote this legislative session.

At noon, state Sen. Brian Kavanagh will join with good government groups and legislators to call on Cuomo to fund early voting in this year's executive budget proposal, outside th4e Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Advocates pushing for passage of the Child Victims Act have begun running a digital ad campaign that largely targets those living in the district of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has kept the legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

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.

This bill has been stalled in our NY State Senate's Health Committee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has approved it.

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.

A key component of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the state Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

A key component of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the State Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

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.

ALBANY - It was a heated scene on the State Senate floor Wednesday as Senate Democrats walked out of the chamber after being refused to vote for new leadership in the wake of the Dean Skelos corruption allegations.

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

«This is the same George Amedore who voted against pay equity every time it was brought to the floor during his three terms in the State Assembly.

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.

Longtime gay activist Ethan Geto recalled that when the Assembly passed the marriage bill in 2007, «David, in what may have been an unprecedented act for a lieutenant governor, or any executive official, worked the floor of the State Assembly on the night that the vote on gay marriage was about to occur, encouraging and cajoling assemblymembers to support the bill and, importantly, making the crucial point that gay rights are fundamental civil rights.»

Senator Carl Kruger explained his vote in favor of same - sex marriage on the floor of the New York State Senate on Friday.

You should also know that in the near future, Senator Dean Skelos will be allowing the Minimum Wage Bill and the so - called Reproductive Health Bill to come to the Senate Floor, knowing that the Democrats will be voting for both, and in the process, bringing legalized late - term abortion to New York State.

Assembly members discuss and vote on the state budget on the floor of the chamber on Monday, March 31, 2014 in Albany.

Senate GOP leader Bob Huff and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg are accused of «choreographing in advance» Monday's floor vote to suspend two Democratic state Senators involved in criminal cases.

«Our supporters and friends in the New York State Assembly, in 2016, managed to get this legislation out of committee and on to the floor for a vote.

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.

Despite resounding approval in the Democrat - controlled Assembly last Wednesday by a vote of 112 to 24, the bill ran out of momentum in the state Senate, never making it to the floor for a vote.

Bronx State Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and Manhattan State Sen. Brad Hoylman talks to «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills about how Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has refused to bring the Crime Victims Act to the Senate floor for a vote, despite it consistently passing in the state AsseState Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and Manhattan State Sen. Brad Hoylman talks to «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills about how Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has refused to bring the Crime Victims Act to the Senate floor for a vote, despite it consistently passing in the state AsseState Sen. Brad Hoylman talks to «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills about how Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has refused to bring the Crime Victims Act to the Senate floor for a vote, despite it consistently passing in the state AssemblIn Focus» Host Cheryl Wills about how Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has refused to bring the Crime Victims Act to the Senate floor for a vote, despite it consistently passing in the state Assemblin the state Assestate Assembly.

Republicans in the State Senate, who Cuomo has generally praised for their coalition government, have refused to bring the abortion bill to a floor vote.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

A state Senate bill that would allow cremated pet remains to be buried in human cemeteries is headed to the Assembly, where it has passed two committees and is ready for a floor vote.

In the months to come, LGBT New Yorkers and our allies will be working in districts across the state to build the support that will allow us to bring these bills to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as possible.&raquIn the months to come, LGBT New Yorkers and our allies will be working in districts across the state to build the support that will allow us to bring these bills to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as possible.&raquin districts across the state to build the support that will allow us to bring these bills to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as possible.»

There are majority party sponsors in each house of the legislature for a bill to add greater oversight to the state's economic development contracts, but the measure failed to come to the floor for a vote.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn't want to bring a bill to legalize gay marriage to a floor debate and vote in the state Senate unless he's certain there are enough votes to pass it.

In the state Senate, the measure was sponsored by Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who spoke on the floor before the vote about her parents, both of whom suffered from lung cancer.

A key component of Governor Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the State Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

At press time, members of the state House were in the midst of discussing the budget package on the floor and were expected to hold the first of two votes Wednesday.

A state Senate bill that would allow cremated pet remains to be buried in human cemeteries is headed to the Assembly, where it has passed two committees and is ready for a floor vote.

Facing a close vote in the energy task force, a state legislator from Texas introduced an amendment on the floor that expanded the resolution's scope to any energy subsidies.