Sentences with phrase «lower house voted»

Rwanda's lower house voted unanimously to approve cutting presidential terms from the current seven to five years, and maintain a two - term limit.

Maranhao had broken with his center - right Progressive Party and voted against Rousseff's impeachment in last month's lower house vote.

Assembly Speaker Silver said he's still going to have the lower house vote to expel him, and the move is backed up by two of Lopez's victims, Victoria Burhans and Chloe Rivera.

Not exact matches

Both the lower and upper houses will then vote on the nominations.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

The legislation, which has passed a vote in Pakistan's lower house of parliament, is supposed to target terrorism, but critics said the language is broad.

Election rules give the center - left a solid majority in the lower house, despite its slim advantage in terms of votes, but without the Senate it will not be able to pass legislation.

Its score of 25.5 percent in the lower house was just ahead of the 25.4 percent for Bersani's Democratic Party, which ran in a coalition with the leftist SEL party and it won almost 8.7 million votes overall, more than any other single party.

President Vladimir Putin signed off on the bill after the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, overwhelmingly approved it by a vote of 380 to 3.

The presidential vote of confidence for Powell reflects the White House and Treasury's desire for low interest rates to fund the public debt and support high asset prices, as well as the probability that the Senate will quickly confirm the nominee.

According to Julie Menin, chairwoman of community board 1 in lower Manhattan, the community center, called Cordoba House, was approved by the local community in a vote of 29 to 1 in May 2010.

On June 23, the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, voted 300 to 8to pass legislation that would supplant much of the country «sfreedom - of - conscience law.

Gavin Barwell's mental health discrimination bill was waved through parliament's lower House without a vote this morning, after ministers, the opposition and even those who usually filibuster private member's bills gave it their blessing.

This wrinkle also occurs to me: to the extent that state Senate districts and state House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond house districts will push the upper house districts beyond house districts beyond 51 %.

The historical defeat of Dilma Rousseff on 17 April, when more than two - thirds of Brazil's lower House of Congress voted to oust the country's first female president, is not the end of the debate about whether she committed a crime that would constitutionally justify her impeachment.

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

They say the provision would lower local taxes, but the legislation is teetering on the verge of collapse ahead of a Thursday night vote in the House of Representatives.

Alcántara said that if voted into Albany, she would push for more housing developments featuring 100 percent affordable units to help low - income residents.

They also all have only one representative in the US house of representatives (meaning they have a very low population), but 2 senate votes and 3 votes in the electoral college.

What I think is that the current Saugerties Town Board along with the Town Supervisor, Greg Helsmoortel are NOT considering the best interest of the people of Saugerties when they raise their hand to vote in favor of projects like the PILOT (Payment In Leui Of Taxes) program that brings low income section 8 housing to a town that can not afford any more tax increases.

Similarly, Schumer's vote to deny low - income housing assistance funds to ACORN could help him with upstate moderates and conservatives during his reelection contest.

The email, from Staten Island GOP Vice Chair Bill D'Ambrosio, said Democratic challenger Domenic M. Recchia Jr. would rely on «votes from Brooklyn housing projects» and if he won, that he would «pay back these votes, and surely build low - income housing in our neighborhoods.»

VOTE OUT: GREG HELSMOORTEL, LEEANNE THORNTON BRUCE LEIGHTON, all voted YES to the low income housing, and LIED to the people stating that there will be no section 8 when clearly it will be.

This week, Melissa Mark - Viverito will be selected as the next Council Speaker by vote of her peers, and will continue her work fighting for affordable housing and low - income families, as she has done her entire career.

In general elections, voting takes place in all parliamentary constituencies of the United Kingdom to elect members of parliament (MPs) to seats in the House of Commons, the dominant (historically termed the lower) house of ParliaHouse of Commons, the dominant (historically termed the lower) house of Parliahouse of Parliament.

Staten Islanders should have no doubt that this Brooklyn political hack will sell them out to pay back these votes, and surely build low - income housing in our neighborhoods with his cronies at City Hall.

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted to lift rents for the city's 1 million stabilized housing residents Monday evening, but to do so with a historically low increase.

«Staten Islanders should have no doubt that this Brooklyn political hack will sell them out to pay back these votes, and surely build low - income housing in our neighborhoods with his cronies at City Hall,» he added.

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

If the demographic patterns to the voting alignments in Batman are repeated at the Victorian state election on November 24, the Greens could win at least four lower house seats.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Request Conference — Vote Passed (222 - 192, 19 Not Voting) Brady, R - Texas, motion that the House disagree with the Senate amendment and request a conference with the Senate on the bill that would revise the federal income tax system by lowering individual and corporate tax rates, repealing various deductions through 2025.

The culmination of the historical state lower house seat malapportionment known as the Playmander eventually saw it legislated after 1989 that the Electoral Commission of South Australia redraw boundaries after each election with the objective of the party that receives over 50 percent of the TPP vote at each forthcoming election forms government.

White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns that in a low - turnout special election, which is set for May 22, former Rep. Ed Case and state Senate president Colleen Hanabusa could split the Democratic vote enough to allow Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) to win.

If Democrats have any hope of gaining control of the New York State Senate this year — gaining an upper hand on progressive priorities like expanding voting rights, campaign finance reform, promoting reproductive justice, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and gun control — then we have to win the April 24 special election in lower Westchester.

While representing an upstate district in the House, Gillibrand achieved the lowest «party unity» score of any New York Democrat, earning a score of 91 out of 100 in 2008 rankings compiled by Congressional Quarterly which track party - line votes.

Mr. Recchia's comment came after the Staten Island Republican Party fired out an e-mail claiming that Mr. Recchia would rely on «Brooklyn housing project votes» to get elected and would «surely build low - income housing in our neighborhoods with his cronies at City Hall.»

Hochul opposes the Ryan budget, but she was one of 13 Democrats to vote for a GOP bill that would pay for extending lower college student loan interest rates for another year by cutting $ 6 billion from a preventive health fund — an idea opposed by the White House.

Nearly a quarter of Australians voted for a lower house candidate from outside the major parties.

A slew of community boards in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn have voted against the rezonings needed to build taller in their neighborhoods so as to accommodate greater private development and more low - cost housing, most arguing that the plan does not guarantee sufficient units or jobs for the poorest New Yorkers, and thus may accelerate gentrification.

Twelve out of 150 lower house seats remain in doubt, with counting of pre-poll, postal and absentee votes to resume on Tuesday.

The current Saugerties Town Board along with the Town Supervisor, Greg Helsmoortel are NOT considering the best interest of the people of Saugerties when they raise their hand to vote in favor of projects like the PILOT (Payment In Leui Of Taxes) program that brings low income section 8 housing to a town that can not afford any more tax increases.

In April of this year the lower house of the Tennessee legislature voted to repeal the statute; in May the Senate agreed and the governor approved the repeal.»

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have again shown their low regard for the Census Bureau, voting to use it as a bank to fund other federal agencies and telling people they don't have to fill out a survey that allows the government to track the country's changing demographics.

After 16 hours of debate last week, Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, voted to standardise Article 218, the nation's abortion law.

For lounge pants, I usually go comfy but lower end since I just wear them around the house and often do cleaning / chores in them... so I'd vote for the L / S tee concept!

In spring 2013, the Abe government initially sought to lift the constitutional ban on collective self - defense (CSD) that is not recognized by Article 9 by first lowering the voting hurdle of Article 96 of the constitution, which requires a two - third majority in both houses of the Diet to initiate a national referendum on constitutional revision.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday on the reauthorization of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which has paid the private - school tuition of low - income students in the District of Columbia since 2004.

The House of Representatives will vote this week on the reauthorization of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which has paid the private - school tuition of low - income students in the District of Columbia since 2004.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

Bill to give teachers at low - income schools a bonus clears Utah House committee without a vote to spare