Sentences with phrase «floor vote of»

He was then installed in a formal floor vote of the 63 - member Senate by a bare, 32 - vote majority.

The lawmakers who missed the most floor votes of the session include members under indictment.

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This is because very little is ever formally voted on so if they have the same amount of floor time they might as well be board members.

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.

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.»

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican leaders say they want to bring the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) to the Senate floor for a vote by the end of the week.

Following McCaskill's tweet, Markey said in a statement Monday, «We've reached the magic number of 30 to secure a vote on the Senate floor, and that number will only continue to climb.

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.

They asked shop - floor employees first to vote on which part of the multistep machine should get the investment, and then to choose between two competing suppliers for what they had collectively decided on, a robotic slitter - scorer.

Now Duckworth, 50, has submitted a resolution that would allow senators to bring children under the age of 1 onto the Senate floor during votes.

However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed changes.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

After postponing the vote once on Thursday, the bill was ultimately yanked from the House of Representatives floor on Friday after it became clear it wouldn't pass.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

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

If the Floor Proposal is presented at the meeting, the proxy holders will have discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a - 4 (c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Floor Proposal and intend to exercise such discretion to vote AGAINST such proposal.

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.

Newly floor - crossed Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson received 62 % of the vote as a PC candidate in 2008, but past elections show a more diverse electoral history in the region.

The lack of conservative vote split that the New Democrats, Liberals and Alberta Party had hoped to capitalize on may have vanished the moment Ms. Smith crossed the floor.

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.»

Minutes before the floor vote, Congressman Maxine Waters, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee spoke.

The law hastens the process for bringing legislation to the floor and removes the hurdle of a 60 - vote threshold in the Senate.

The moment Hillary Clinton stood on the floor of the congress and said that she had reviewed the reports that Bush was given and she supported the war in Iraq and other Dems voted with her it stopped being a republican war.

It is one of the most photographed structures in the world and has been consistently voted the world's most luxurious hotel, with features including in suite check - in and check - out, reception desks on every floor, round - the - clock private butlers and use of the hotel's Rolls - Royce fleet and private beach.

However, the state legislature stumbled to even get a vote on the floor of the state's assembly.

Well inside this figure you can go progging for lobsters at Silver Seas, a place that puts on floor shows complete with donkeys, chickens, goats and an impresario named Lord Composer who votes under the cognomen of Roy Muddle.

as an exercise in «hey we're listening to our shareholders and their concerns», and in a lot of cases, those shareholders can bring things to the floor for a vote, or at least feel like they're being heard and on some level paid some respect.

The committee voted for the design of the skate park and for the materials to be used for the floor.

When the House version of the proposed legislation, with the support of the state's 350,000 member youth soccer association, passed unanimously last week, Zackery and his father, Victor, were on the statehouse floor to witness the vote and hear Rodne tell them, though Zakery might never play football again, that the statute would be his legacy forever.

A central component of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity platform is set to get an up - or - down vote on the House floor Thursday, after delays prompted by opposition from lawmakers on both ends of the political spectrum.

And if enough people call and write the Calendars Committee and the bills are set for the House floor, then we must maintain that energy and contact the representatives and get them voted out of the House.

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.

Even if supporters can muster the needed votes, Heastie indicated that bringing the bill to the floor would require a majority of the Democratic conference's support.

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

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

After listening to Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson explain why bills like the Farm Workers Bill of Rights should be allowed to come to the floor for a debate and eventual vote even if it's clear they don't have sufficient support to pass — «This is about democracy!»

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.

Before session wraps for the year, it's time for the rest of the legislature to tell the public where they stand on term limits by bringing this bill to the floor for an up or down vote.

Here's Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos telling reporters at the Log Cabin Republicans fundraiser in Manhattan last night that he would «recommend» to his conference that the same - sex marriage bill return to the floor for a vote next year if the GOP manages to regain control of the chamber.

«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.

The measure has no Assembly sponsor, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said there are no plans to move it out of committee for a floor vote.

Former Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell, who is reportedly mulling a primary challenge to IDC Leader Jeff Klein this fall, issued a statement this morning blaming Klein for the refusal of his power - sharing partner, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, to allow a bill establishing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's tax - the - rich - for - pre-K plan to the floor for a vote.

At this point, it looks highly unlikely that there will be a «no confidence» vote forced on Cox from the convention floor, with Lazio supporters reasoning that to do so would step on the message of their candidate and only serve to feed the whole «GOP - in - chaos» storyline.

The letter paints a potential plan that would allow the leaders — Sen. Jeff Klein of the IDC and Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins of the mainline conference — to choose each others» deputies and have approval over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

Speaking on the floor of the House just prior to the vote, King said he plans to vote against censure.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

«I'm hopeful that as they integrate and incorporate new reforms, they'll allow legislation like this to the floor for a vote,» said Sen. Joe Griffo, a Republican who is the main backer of the bill in his chamber.

At 9:30 a.m., the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission votes on the designation of the Coney Island boardwalk as a scenic landmark, Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1 Centre St., ninth floor, Manhattan.

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

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Tuesday he remains personally supportive of mixed - martial arts, but said whether it comes to the floor for a vote will be up to the Democratic majority in the chamber.