Sentences with phrase «hold votes on amendments»

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

Holding a vote on the amendments, nevertheless, is key for the newly elected Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Suffolk County lawmaker who defeated upstate Sen. John DeFrancisco in a leadership vote last month.

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House Republicans planned to hold a vote on April 12 to add a balanced - budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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.

«While the Convention Question won't be on the front of the ballot where it should be, voters will at least be urged to turn the ballot over to vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention and on two Amendments proposed by the Legislature.

The bill, which Congress has passed for 52 straight years, has been held up over a bitter disagreement on how many amendments would receive votes.

The Legislature then reviews the budget and holds discussions before we vote on any amendments to create the final budget.

But an amendment would need to be passed by both this year's and next year's Legislatures and wouldn't appear on the ballot for voter approval until the same day in 2017 that the convention vote will be held.

Congress also uses modifications of straight Robert's Rules voting like the filibuster, holds, Senatorial privilege for judicial appointments, supermajority voting on treaties, «fast track voting» without amendments and similar variants.

A Liberal Democrat amendment to hold a referendum earlier and on a different voting system - the single transferable vote - was defeated by 476 votes to 69.

Franken, for example, has decided to hold off on a vote for an amendment aiming to reduce bullying of LGBT youth that was controversial among Republicans, especially given the recent fights over Indiana's religious freedom law.

The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin.