Sentences with phrase «floor votes happening»

was supposed to attend, but she canceled at the last minute because of nine floor votes happening that night.

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If the Senator leaves the floor, then there will be no quorum and the vote won't happen.

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.

At the same time this was happening, former New York City Councilman Ollie Koppell, a potential primary challenger for Klein, called on him in a statement to return to the mainline Democratic conference following Skelos» assertion he wouldn't bring a vote to the floor on the de Blasio plan.

The Assembly is also expected to vote on the final deal at some point Thursday night, but without the bill on the floor its unclear when that will happen.

Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., who opposes same - sex marriage and who «pledged not to support anyone for majority leader who would not promise him - in writing - never to bring the bill that would legalize same - sex marriages to the floor» was asked by reporters, dodged questions about whether he thought same - sex marriage would come to the floor for a vote this year, saying only that he was «satisfied with whatever happens.»

The Great Depression happened because after the 1929 stock market crash, which was brought about by a combination of radical margin requirement tightening in the days preceding it, an increase in interest rates that further dried up the cash that was being used to buy stocks, reaction to the floor vote reporting on the Smoot - Hawley tariff bill (which made it clear it would pass), and a concerted selling / manipulation effort by Wall Street's biggest players, the economy was in shock.