Sentences with phrase «hour floor debate»

On June 19, 2007, the New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage after a three - hour floor debate that ranged from apocalyptic to heart - wrenching.

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With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

After years of protests and rallies, a compromised bill and some eleventh - hour tension on the Council floor, the intensely debated Right to Know Act has been approved by the City Council in its very last day of session.

«Obviously, after going through 63 hours of debate on the floor over this bill, I wouldn't say I was looking forward to doing it again,» Fitzgerald said.

But it took less than 30 minutes on the Senate floor for partisan fights to emerge, with Republicans initially threatening two - hour debates on each of more than 100 noncontroversial bills.

On Tuesday, Taylor walked onto the chamber floor at 5:52 p.m., as Keith Wright and Al Graf entered the third hour of racially tinged debate about criminal justice issues and changes that should be made after the fatal arrest of Eric Garner.

Mock Congress: Cell Phone Surveillance Reform Time required: 4 class hours Grade level: 10 and up Class size: 18 or more Pages: 51 Contains: 18 individualized profile sheets, Background information on NSA surveillance, Graphic organizer for assigned roles, Graphic organizer with word - for - word format on how to run committee meetings and floor debate, Sample rubrics for 3 - minute speeches and participation, Socratic seminar questions for students observing speeches / committee hearings, Maps to various educational standards, Sample follow - up quiz on the legislative process, Teacher instructions and preparation period suggestions.

The «schools of hope» proposal (HB 5105) sparked more than three hours of floor debate, mostly by Democrats — the longest of the 2017 session so far.

The one hour guided tour normally takes you from the Main Hall to the Garden Lobby, and towards the floor of the Chamber to check out the location where the MSPs meet to debate.

On April 1, following several hours of intense floor debate in the Texas House on a string of budget amendments seeking to reallocate funds designated to provide basic women's health care services, the dust was settling.