Sentences with phrase «less voted on»

There are 1000s of bills that are written every year and never even introduced, much less voted on, and if this exists at all it is probably just an idea (and a poor one at that).

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

«That's one less vote on the council.

Not exact matches

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

«I was kind of anxious,» Couch says about the day in March when Congress was set to vote on a less robust bill that would replace the ACA.

If Jobs» biggest accomplishment over the past 10 years could be pinpointed, my vote would go to his convincing AT&T to offer unlimited data on the iPhone for less than $ 100.

In the meantime, the political math has become far more demanding for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with key GOP Senators saying they won't even vote yes on the motion to proceed on the bill, much less the legislation itself.

This week, New York state senators vote on a bill that would make it illegal for any homeowner or renter to sublet for less than a month.

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.

And less than one year after she was removed from MV21, she was voted back on.

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

Boehner then came out with a proposal, dubbed «Plan B,» to raise that threshold to all earners that make $ 1 million or less, which the House will vote on today.

On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

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.

Legal & General Investment Management said on April 17 that it will vote against the reappointment of chairs at large UK - listed companies if less than a quarter of the board are women.

In their article, «SEC Votes to Propose Stricter Broker Standards», the Wall Street Journal reported on April 18, the SEC's rule would likely be far less stringent than DOL's.

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

For now it's just a wish of mine & again to vote for the lesser of the evils on both sides.

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

Clearly my bias is showing, and there's obviously a lot more nuance to both partiest, the main issue though is that parties can be hijacked and have been on both sides which leaves the large majority of moderates voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that the candidate that they vote for will drop the pandering they did to the fringe and go moderate.

Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress Voted NO on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts less

As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.

Back on less insane ground, the Republicans faced a problem with the Stupak Amendment: Support it, and thereby give cover for pro-life Democrats to vote for the final bill?

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

They are less than 1 % of the voting public and about all Obama can count on.

That amounts to less than 1 % of the normal voting public and is about all Obama can really count on.

Err # 12m + voted UKIP on the last election, that's only 4m less than the amount of people that wanted to remain.

Take a «chance» on a player who was voted player of the world cup less than 12 months ago, and get in a younger striker as an apprentice.

Although the Zoning Board will not vote on a recommendation for the project until June or July, board members appeared less than impressed with the proposed parking accommodations, questioning whether the new facility's 113 parking spaces will be adequate.

WOODSTOCK — Less than 15 minutes after voting to hold an April referendum on a $ 3.9 million bond issue for recreation, the Woodstock city council debated a proposal to reorganize the parks and recreation department as an independent park district.

Baby food regulations: 6 - months recommendation and less sugar Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on 19 January 2016 (393 votes in favour, 305 votes against) to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods...

In real - world elections, there are some systems where is is much harder to vote tactically than others - you never have perfect information on everyone else's vote, so the more information that you need to be able to vote tactically, the less likely people are to do so.

Those highest on conscientiousness are 11 % less likely to vote yes than those lowest and those highest on openness are about 15 % more likely to vote yes than those lowest.

Ten per cent of respondents said Labour's tougher line on cuts would make them more likely to vote for the party but 13 % said it would make them less likely.

Then, the winner of Alianza primaries (Pablo Longueira, who had himself less than 30 % votes compared to Bachelet) withdrew on 17 July.

«Spending in excess of # 50Bn on HS2, a high speed rail line that will predominantly serve London and not address the capacity and connectivity issues of the current rail network, makes even less sense than it did before the vote to leave the European Union.»

and if New Labour believed in proportional mandate then they would not have been wrecking the country on a vote of a million less than David Cameron achieved and a smaller proportion.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

But many people will be deciding how to cast their vote on the basis of what sort of a country we are - and if you look through all the chaos that the polls throw up, this ultimately means whether the country will be more or less fair in the EU.

And a vote that was originally scheduled for February 10, will now be held Tuesday — less than two weeks after Silver was arrested on corruption charges.

No president has ever won with less than 40 percent of the vote (Lincoln received the lowest percentage at 39.8, but was not on the ballot in ten states).

But MPs will vote on the proposals on 15 July, less than two weeks after they were published, and this timetable leaves the government open to the charge that it is seeking to move with undue haste, and without allowing sufficient time for proper scrutiny.

23 % Is probably about the percentage of people who voted in the last US presidential election relative to those who were not legally prohibited persons (Less than 60 % of registered voters actually voted and there are a bunch on non-registered persons).

But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

Indeed, a protest against an EU in serious need of democratic reform would be less dramatic than a vote based on the nativist feelings core to the FN's ideological message.