The hardline response is to ban non-English MPs
from voting on any measure which relates only to England.
Bernardo said she abstained
from voting on the measure because of her personal and professional involvements with O'Halloran.
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Today's must - read story is
from Fortune «s Tory Newmyer and it looks at labor federation AFL - CIO's decision to lift a freeze
on political contributions that it imposed in March in a move meant to pressure Democrats to
vote against free trade
measures.
That information — augmented by advocacy efforts
from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee
voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent
on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation
measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.
Eight Democrats
from states Trump would go
on to win in 2016
voted against the
measure: Tester, Brown, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters of Michigan, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
The Senate
on Wednesday
voted to get rid of a consumer protection
measure meant to stop car dealers
from charging more for car loans based
on race.
Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat
from Orlando,
voted against the bill because it did not include a ban
on assault weapons or other broad
measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.
After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure
from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a
vote on the
measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.
Even though the
measure received overwhelming support
from legislators (it passed
on am 86 to 44
vote, with 12 abstentions), critics, including pediatricians, say it is misguided and dangerous.
When the
measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved
on a second ballot (after having been
voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly
from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.
But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people
voted online or via text
on the particular
measure they'd like to see deleted
from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»
The IDC has been pushing for
votes on key liberal
measures in the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans, amid pressure
from left - leaning groups to rejoin the Democratic mainline conference in the chamber.
It's unclear whether Senate Republicans have the
votes to back the wage increase or if they will need to rely
on votes from the mainline Democratic conference for the
measure to be approved.
Senate Democrats once again addressed this issue head -
on with proposals to protect our communities
from gun violence, and again the Senate Republicans
voted these
measures down.»
Thus,
on the one hand, Volodin has cancelled the Duma's traditional New Year's party; the summer vacation might be shortened; United Russia has formalized
measures to filter legislative initiatives, partly with a view to limiting the emergence of odd, PR - motivated bills; opportunities for deputies to miss plenary sessions and
vote by proxy have been significantly reduced, with the penalty of pay deductions for absenteeism; and deputies are now required to deal personally with appeals
from citizens.
The Albany County Legislature will
vote on a
measure tonight that would bar elected officials» relatives
from being hired to work for the county.
Scottish MPs and Welsh MPs will be barred
from joining their English colleagues in
votes on measures, which include the right - to - buy for housing association tenants.
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.
Lawmakers next week are expected to
vote on a
measure that would change the state's party primaries this year
from Sept. 11 to Sept. 13, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said this afternoon.
Two appointees
from the governor did not
vote on measure.
Bill sponsors insisted they had the
votes available for a Friday
vote on the
measure, but the effort has been met with stiff resistance
from racino operators, who spent much the day personally lobbying lawmakers in the Senate.
With Cuomo, Skelos allowed
votes on a host of long - sought Democratic
measures ranging
from the legalization of same - sex marriage to a sweeping gun control law in 2013 that was passed in the wake of a school shooting in Connecticut.
A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26 - hour sit - in demanding a
vote on gun control
measures, Speaker Paul Ryan said the House will
vote next week
on legislation to block suspected terrorists
from buying guns
The 30 - second commercial
from Hayworth's campaign is criticizing Maloney for
votes on measures that impacted military pensions and Medicare.
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.
One alarm bell that sounded Thursday was the possible defection of Sen. Marco Rubio
from voting yes
on the tax bill, putting the
measure in peril.
Assembly Republicans called
on Tuesday for a
vote on a constitutional amendment that would strip pension benefits
from state officials convicted of corruption and called an alternative
measure working its way through the chamber a «watered - down»
measure.
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.
Many House Republicans planning to
vote «yes»
on their tax bill Thursday are doing so with the understanding the
measure is far
from perfect and hoping their concerns will be addressed later during House and Senate conference negotiations.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement
from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands
on the cusp of the forthcoming
vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform
measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful
measures to get our nation's economy
on the right track.
But the new concerns
from Labour's peers in the Lords means that the government will be seriously mauled over the
measure in the
vote on Monday and could suffer a three - figure defeat.
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.
The state Senate is said to be
voting Tuesday
on a
measure to block New York City
from instituting a five cents fee
on plastic and paper bags The city
measure is supposed to go into effect in February, after a delay agreed to at the behest of the state Legislature last year.
Last week's byelection in Henley was predictable and surprising in equal
measure: predictable because it showed that David Cameron, riding high in the polls as the government falls
from grace, can win a safe seat
on his home turf; but surprising because the Conservative
vote didn't go up by much compared with the 2005 general election, even though the party is a full 14 % higher in the national polls.
Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate this past week tried pushing a
vote on a package of gun control - related
measures, like banning bump stocks and allowing a judge to order guns be taken away
from a person if they're deemed a harm to themselves or others.
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.
The South,
voting as a bloc
on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections
from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.
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 chamber
on Tuesday
voted 58 -0-margin to approve a
measure that would prevent cities
from requiring a permit before a group could sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance
on public land.
To investigate these questions further, researchers
from the UK, Poland and Portugal
measured the effect of xenophobia — or the belief that immigrants to the UK threaten the country —
on voting behavior.
Renewing a call for «sensible gun safety
measures,» Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton chastised congressional Republicans Thursday for blocking a
vote on a plan that she said would ban those
on the federal government's No Fly List
from buying guns.
The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a
vote on the 69 - page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat
from Santa Barbara who offered a school - finance reform
measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.
One gets the sense that some of the
vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover
from the general public anger over how many
measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.
The Seattle City Council has
voted to repeal Initiative 34, a
measure passed by voters in 1989 that prevented the city government
from spending money
on public schools until the school beard ended mandatory busing.
We included administrative data
from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between
vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores
from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores
on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between
vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative
measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.
Of particular importance
on the legislative agenda this year, is Senate Constitutional Amendment 3 (SCA 3) introduced by Senator Mark Leno, which would lower the
vote threshold for local school district parcel tax
measures from 2/3 to 55 percent.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called
on representatives to return
from August recess next week to
vote on the
measure and send it to President Obama, who supports it.
ForexBrokerInc have implemented this
measure in order to protect their clients and the company itself
from the anticipated market turbulence during the United Kingdom's
vote on EU Membership.
Last week, while Pennsylvania lawmakers were taking
measures to protect pets
from harsh winter weather, Las Vegas city council members
voted to repeal a ban
on retail pet store puppy sales, 99 % of which come
from puppy mills.