Sentences with phrase «floor vote on the measure»

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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.

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.

He spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

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

The Kentucky Republican spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was scheduled to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

But the House voted 71 - 36 to reject taking up the measure on the floor.

Also at 1:30 p.m., the Assembly Democrats hold a press conference on the New York Health Act universal health care bill before a floor debate and vote on the measure, speaker's conference room, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

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,...

Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports that the Parker - Diaz Sr. blow - up occurred when the Bronx senator joined Sen. Carl Kruger in voting «no» on Sen. Velmanette Montgomery's juvenile offenders bill, which caused the measure to be pulled from the floor before it was officially declared dead.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

The Batavia Republican also proposed a measure on the Assembly floor Monday that would require a two - thirds vote of the house for Messages of Necessity to be accepted when issued by the governor.

He called on the Republican leadership of the chamber to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote.

32 of these members would need to be present and supportive of a vote of no confidence if it had a chance of passage, and members of the I.D.C. have been vague as to whether they would support such a measure if it came to the floor, saying only that «the burden is all on» Republicans.

The Senate, controlled by a Republican - dominated coalition, passed nine of its planks but refused to hold a floor vote on the abortion measure.

Senators are starting to head to their conference room on the third floor of the state Capitol because they want to discuss some key bills expected to come up for a vote today — including Sen. John Bonacic's constitutional amendment redistricting measure — but they're pledging to walk out if Kruger shows up.

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.

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.

Savino has said she believes there are 39 «yes» votes for the measure if the act makes it to the floor for a vote, and GOP Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who opposes the idea of letting people smoke marijuana, has suggested a vote might be possible before the session's scheduled end on June 19.

In a further development on Thursday, the measure was moved from the Senate Finance panel — where Chairman John DeFrancisco of Syracuse said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bill — to the Senate Rules Committee, improving the bill's chances of hitting the floor sometime before the end of the legislative session.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said that while a unified Democratic conference may be short at least two votes to pass abortion rights legislation, it would at least be able to bring the measure to the floor, which would put pressure on pro-choice Republicans to help pass it.

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.

Now, Klein and the IDC are in «consultation» with the Senate Republicans on bills, but have no say over which measures come to the floor for a vote.

Multiple GOP leadership aides told CNN there is no House floor vote scheduled yet on the measure.

The bill seems poised to pass the Senate, if a vote on the measure is brought to the floor by the chamber's governing coalition, which includes Republicans and a faction of Independent Democrats.

Supporters of the SOCE measure, who also pressed for a vote, voiced strong confidence they would have won on the Senate floor, with sponsor Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, pointing to public support for the measure from Republicans.

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

All four measures failed to reach enough votes on the Senate floor to pass.

The sit - in, led by veteran civil rights campaigner and Georgia congressman John Lewis, was staged to demand a vote on gun control measures, after a 15 - hour filibuster in the Senate on 16 June led to a floor vote on four measures, including one which aimed to prevent those on a terrorist no - fly list from purchasing firearms.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

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.

The House back - pay measure could be up for a floor vote as early as Saturday... On the Senate side, Sen. Ben Cardin (D - Md.)

Following the Senate's passage of the measure, Esty and Gibson called on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to take up the bill so that it can receive a vote on the House floor.

The Sierra Club criticized the bill after the vote, announcing that it can not support the measure in its current form and pledging to try to win changes on the floor.

«Best of Show voting has become a benchmark measure of what the public deems the most exciting, impressive and innovative on the show floor.»

At this time, there is no word yet on when either measure may reach the floor for a vote.