Sentences with phrase «hours before the vote»

They are allowed to vote on issues relating to their interests but must declare any conflicts no less than 24 hours before the vote.

Speaker Pelosi, who promised the «most open honest transparent Congress ever,» has failed miserably at keeping her pledge to post all legislation online at least 72 - hours before a vote.

[67] She abstained from voting on the second reading of the Brexit Bill, after becoming ill hours before the vote, [68] and later voted in favour at the third and final reading.

Hours before the vote Senate President Joe Negron kicked off the 2018 legislative session by urging lawmakers to address the opioid crisis and to make sure addicts have access to the resources they need to beat their drug habits.

Lawmakers didn't receive the 702 - page budget until 11:48 p.m., Stec said — just four hours before the vote, and before legislators had a chance to read it.

She answered questions from her Senate colleagues for over an hour before the vote was called.

Finally, on June 30, 2017 at the end of a series of Special Sessions and minutes before our State Government was going to shut down, the legislature passed the Levy Swipe School Funding plan — a 120 page plan that was released just hours before the vote and which few in the legislature even read.

The order to preserve the records was issued by the Montgomery County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon — less than 24 hours before voting was set to begin — and the stay that will effectively nullify that order was issued late Monday night.

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So yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the caucuses were due to start, I wrote to ask for reports of their experience, and how and why they voted.

The official vote tally was announced before a packed room of 300 in a Tampa, Florida, office park, after an often - contentious two hour meeting that was no frills this year with no food or drink was provided for shareholders.

After an official 20 hours of debate, the Republican - controlled Senate was expected to begin a potentially chaotic «vote - a-rama» on amendments from Republicans and Democrats before moving to a final vote late on Thursday or early on Friday.

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.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Just hours before Scots vote on Thursday, a poll by Survation showed support for staying in the United Kingdom is at 53 percent.

The information on upcoming voting will be available to holders of OOO tokens at least 48 hours before the start of voting (published on the website, sent by email or otherwise transmitted).

July 25 (Reuters)- The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: ** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on...

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Mr Balls was speaking hours before a crucial vote on a Bill that would introduce sex and relationships education for children as young as five and forbid parents from removing their children from sex education classes once they turned 15.

If that seems a little hysterical, consider The Catholic Herald's account of an interview given by Ed Balls on the Today programme, a few hours before the House of Commons passed, by 268 votes to 177, its Sex Education Bill (against which, Catholics should note, the Tories voted):

Your local radio broadcaster, who sees 162 games a year and studies the media notes for an hour before the game so he'll know what he's talking about — he can't vote.

Just hours before the Brexit vote was cast, UK remaining in the EU became an even bigger favorite at Bookmaker.

Board members said that before they vote on the issue, they want the Park District to provide more detailed projections on how many people will likely use the facility, how they will arrive there and at what hours of the day.

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With less than half an hour left before the vote, MPs knew no - one inside the chamber was being convinced of anything - despite the almost unprecedented passion and rhetorical strength of the speeches being made.

But researchers also found that 12 per cent of people could change their minds in the few hours left before they cast their vote.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

As for giving out VID literature the best is to do it for an hour before or after you vote at your pollng place.

After an hour and a half debate in the house before a vote on tolls was tabled, toll supporter State Representative Matt Ritter ceded, «We're going to fall short today.»

I book a photographer for half an hour before I know there's a three - line whip vote, so that they're all there.

Cuomo's proposal will allocate $ 7 million to the Fiscal Year 2019 Executive Budget, an incentive for counties in New York to offer early voting 12 days before Election Day, giving voters eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends to cast their ballots.

Hours before polls closed, Espaillat — who lost to Rangel in the 2012 primary by less than 1,000 votes last cycle — declared Rangel a «liability» for House Democrats.

Just hours before the meeting began, the board decided to table a vote on a gender policy aimed at making district school's more accommodating to transgender students.

Camara's endorsement comes just hours before district leaders will gather to vote on a successor to Lopez, who announced late last month he would not seek another term as chairman, thanks to the burgeoning sexual harassment scandal that has now enmeshed not only the once - powerful assemblyman, but three top state leaders, too: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

33 states offer some form of expanded voting hours or early voting, with some giving voters a chance to choose their candidates one month before the first Tuesday in November.

However, with only hours to go before an expected vote at least 35 Republicans still planned to vote against, despite last minute concessions from Mr Trump and his allies.

It came the day before Cuomo was re-elected and hours before the Onondaga County legislature voted to borrow tens of millions of dollars to build an amphitheater proposed by Cuomo and County Executive Joanie Mahoney.

ALBANY — A tense standoff, a three - hour delay and backroom wrangling marked an internal Republican struggle before GOP senators decided to vote in a bloc to support a steep minimum wage hike in exchange for a budget that increased school spending and cut income tax rates for many.

Party bosses are signaling they have settled on the Albany insider — just hours before party activists convene in Lower Manhattan to vote.

Hidden carefully by Sen David Koehler in SB 1123, a bill to assist the blind - like an arsenic pill hidden in a crême brulé - beneath text allowing for raises for County Clerks, the Conservatives waited until 5 pm today, in the 11th hour of this bill before its Wednesday committee vote, to slide in amendments that seek to do everything possible to tear apart the lives of LGBT people in Illinois.

Those discussions are expected to continue through Wednesday, meaning it could be the wee hours of Thursday morning before any bills are printed, and late Thursday or even Friday before members vote on the so - called «big ugly» final deal.

Such an estimate would not be reliable, as the requirement for voters to vote at their designated polling station was removed in the last hours before the referendum began.

The news conference will come just three hours before the Onondaga County Legislature is scheduled to vote on borrowing nearly $ 50 million to build a controversial amphitheater on the western shore of the lake.

«It was not a singular vote that Palm Sunday because that is when the meeting was held organized 30 hours, 30 hours, 24 hours, before it, and it was organized and set for Palm Sunday and you can have a discussion whether that's the right thing to do or not.»

With hours to go before polling opens, a ComRes poll for ITV News suggests nearly one in five voters haven't decided which way they'll vote.

In the tense final hours before the close vote, Katko said he was not among those House members who White House officials and GOP leaders were trying to lobby to change their positions.

Shortly before 11 p.m., and after 9 hours of testimony on Mangano's proposed 2017 budget, Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) called for an emergency vote on the NCC projects and the capital borrowing.

The board voted, 6 - 2, in favor of giving Paladino 24 hours to resign before appealing to state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia.