Sentences with phrase «floor vote on the budget»

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos pushed ahead with a floor vote on the budget anyway, saying he wouldn't be «held hostage» by Senate Republicans.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was scheduled to vote on a stopgap budget measure.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote, which is expected to take place Thursday.

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.

«I think right now the votes are not there to pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the budget deal.

Mark Reckless In July 2010, Mark got so drunk before a crucial vote on the Budget that he fell to the floor of a Commons bar, was bundled into a taxi and missed the 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.

Budget amendments proposed subsequent to the tabling of the Budget Committee report, or less than forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting, shall be considered separately with each line item voted on individually on the floor of the legislature.

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.

After reviewing the budget bills, Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action of New York and a co-chair of the Working Families Party, encouraged proponents to keep fighting until the bills come to the floor for a vote, which is expected to happen on Monday.

Under that agreement, both Klein and Skelos had to jointly agree on which bills come to the floor for a vote as well be part of the state budget negotiations.

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

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.

Eventually, both measures were brought to the floor Tuesday — presumably in order to get Espada and Duane's votes on the budget.

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.

Maffei, D - Syracuse, joined 46 Democratic and Republican members of the House in signing a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requesting a floor vote on the No Budget, No Pay Act.

«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.

«Well, we're at the brink,» said Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who heads the spending panel that oversees NIH's budget, on the Senate floor after the vote.

In late June 2008, on a close 41 — 30 vote to defeat a budget amendment on the House floor, the bill to create mayoral academies cleared its final meaningful hurdle.

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill at a rare Saturday morning meeting after a bipartisan coalition blocked it from being yanked from the committee and sent to the Senate floor, where a vote will likely come sometime before the session ends Friday.

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.