Sentences with phrase «house vote on the floor»

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This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando this year, Democrats in Congress held a sit - in on the floor of the House of Representatives simply to demand a vote on gun control legislation.

The House debated the legislation Friday but abruptly pulled the bill from the floor once it was clear the bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act, was short on votes, according to the Associated Press.

But the House voted 71 - 36 to reject taking up the measure on the floor.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

After postponing the vote once on Thursday, the bill was ultimately yanked from the House of Representatives floor on Friday after it became clear it wouldn't pass.

It is unclear if either the Wagner bill or the Foxx / Roe bill will get a full vote on the House floor.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

HR 3299, titled the Protecting Consumers» Access to Credit Act, passed the House on a 245 - 171 floor vote.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

When the House version of the proposed legislation, with the support of the state's 350,000 member youth soccer association, passed unanimously last week, Zackery and his father, Victor, were on the statehouse floor to witness the vote and hear Rodne tell them, though Zakery might never play football again, that the statute would be his legacy forever.

House Bill 158, which was voted onto Alabama's House floor by a health committee yesterday, would allow adoption agencies within the state to refuse services based on «deeply - held religious beliefs,» including theologically - motivated opposition to LGBTQ parents.

A central component of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity platform is set to get an up - or - down vote on the House floor Thursday, after delays prompted by opposition from lawmakers on both ends of the political spectrum.

«If it was put on the floor of the House or the Senate it would get a majority vote in either one.»

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

Speaking on the floor of the House just prior to the vote, King said he plans to vote against censure.

In that case, several Republican congressmembers camped out on the House floor during the August recess to protest the lack of a vote on expanded oil - and - gas drilling, and supporters vigorously chronicled their activities through short messages to the Twitter - using audience.

One week after surgery, Reed said he was back voting on the House floor.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

A number of LGBT advocates are frustrated that ENDA didn't even see a House committee vote — let alone a vote on the House or Senate floor — during the 111th Congress when Democrats had control of both chambers of Congress.

Well, now he has heard from at least one of them: Congressman Bob Turner voted a reluctant «yes» on the floor of the House today.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

Under House rules, the Speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation.

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

Anthony Weiner, memorably ripped apart his GOP colleagues on the House floor when they voted against the Zadroga bill after attaching controverisal amendments to it that the Democrats opposed.

«I think right now the votes are not there to pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the budget deal.

The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.) for his repeated violations of the chamber's rules, marking the first time in nearly 30 years that a Member has been censured on the floor.

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted Nov. 18 to recommend censure, a lecture on the House floor that is the chamber's most stringent form of punishment short of expulsion.

The Batavia Republican also proposed a measure on the Assembly floor Monday that would require a two - thirds vote of the house for Messages of Necessity to be accepted when issued by the governor.

Today's strategy session on gay marriage hosted at the Capitol by Gov. Andrew Cuomo focused mainly on what to do about the Senate, where the bill came to the floor for a full - house vote just once back in December 2009 and died, 38 - 24.

Peers also expressed their anger on the floor of the House of Lords on Monday that the legislation had been effectively axed without a vote by MPs.

He says the «majority» of Republicans in the house are against the aid, and he needs to convince the leadership to bring the bill to the floor, so supporters can vote on it.

GOP leaders allowed the votes in a compromise after Amash and a group of libertarian Republicans threatened to join with Democrats to defeat the rule to the Defense bill on the House floor.

It now appears the vote will be in the House Floor on October 29, 2015 without a Caucus vote.

They are in the process of going through the state Assembly education committee, and if they pass, will be voted on the respective house floors.

That bill was abruptly pulled from the House floor in March, before Stefanik took any public position on how she intended to vote.

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, herself a key architect of the budget plan, announced her opposition Wednesday morning and mounted a remarkable daylong speech on the House floor, trying to force GOP leaders in the House to promise a later vote on legislation to protect the younger immigrants.

Debates on the floor of the House of Commons do not generally win a mass audience, even at moments of high drama — the knife - edge vote that settles great affairs of state.

The North Carolina ballot access reform bill, HB 32, which has already passed the House, is set for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next week, which means it will then receive a vote on the Senate floor if it passes Committee.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic procedural move to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.

After more than 24 hours of sitting on the House floor, Democratic lawmakers ended their sit - in without managing to force a vote on gun control measures.

House Democrats demanded but didn't get a vote on gun control legislation despite an hours - long sit - in on the House floor.

In the U.S. House, a small knot of moderate Republicans — from swing districts, from areas with high Hispanic populations, or retiring — are attempting to go around Speaker Paul Ryan and bring a compromise on immigration to the floor for a vote.

Six months later, on the House floor, every member of the Progressive Caucus wilted under pressure and voted for a healthcare bill with no public option at all.

Led by Georgia Rep. John Lewis, veteran civikl rights advocate, Dozens of House Democrats staged a «sit - in» on the House floor today in protest of GOP leadership's refusal to allow a vote on a gun control measure following the Orlando massacre.

«After collecting thousands of dollars in checks, Mr. Crowley returned to the floor of the House just in time to vote against a series of amendments that would have imposed tougher restrictions on Wall Street.»

The NYLCV has two ads out for O'Brien — a negative spot that slams Funke; and a positive spot that focuses on O'Brien's support for the Child Safe Products Act, which made it out of the Senate Environmental Committee and had enough sponsors to pass, but never got to the floor for a full house vote.

House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon — as early as tomorrow — to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor.

Both bills received votes on the House floor in 1998.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)