Sentences with phrase «majority of the legislature»

That will just come by the vast majority of the legislature, not him.

It takes a majority of the legislature to elect a chair; Republicans have exactly 12 of 23.

As has been reported earlier, if one party has control of both the Assembly and Senate then a 2/3 60 % majority of the legislature has to vote to approve the commission's plan.

The BOL passed a similar ban on gun shows last year while Republicans made up a majority of the legislature.

Then we have the race for Erie County Legislature and the majority of the legislature will be on the line again.»

The majority of the legislature approved the resolution, with the exceptions being Legislators Joseph Meyers and Michael Grant.

There are no restrictions on their ability of the legislature to amend the plan, which is essentially guaranteed passage, as the majorities of the legislature control LATFOR.

But the governor and the majority of our legislature is currently against increased funding for that agency.

Currently, a citizen's initiative can be amended by a simple majority of the legislature and the governor's approval.

If the diet is off, then the main problem with this year's bills, from the point of view of the Republicans who make up the majority of our legislature, is simply that they come from Democrats.

Not exact matches

It creates false majorities, exacerbates regional divisions and produces legislatures that don't reflect the diversity of our country.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

Politically speaking, Illinois is about as blue as it gets, with dominant Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

Prior to the election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31 of 52 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.

The PC Party secured 25 seats in the provincial legislature, 2 seats shy of a clear majority.

The majority of states (37) have «specific statutes that allow for payday lending,» reports the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Shockingly, he wanted to replace the two - thirds of Congress and three - fourths of the state legislatures requirement for amendment with a simple majority!

If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

In contrast, decisions of legislatures and executive officials can be reversed by majority vote — a much easier process, notwithstanding inertia and entrenched political interests.

Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority - elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

Passed by a large majority (360 out of 602 votes), the German law was proposed by members of Parliament belonging to all the parties currently represented in the German national legislature, the Bundestag.

«Decentralization will address the fact that the majority of bills are debated for less than a minute on the floor of our Assembly — a travesty to our supposedly democratic legislature,» Chen said.

«New Yorkers elected a Democratic majority to represent them in both chambers of the legislature, and Gov. Cuomo has an obligation to stand up and ensure that the will of the voters is respected in the New York Senate,» said the group's executive director, Jessica Post.

The state GOP put a lot of resources into trying to help County Executive Rob Astorino end the Democratic grip on the local legislature by breaking its veto - proof majority.

With United Russia's commanding majority, sharing committee chairs is one straightforward and symbolic way to try to allay fears of a one - party legislature.

Members of Nassau County legislature's Republican majority called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to extend deadlines for homeowners seeking state disaster recovery funds to rebuilding their homes after superstorm Sandy.

It's a majority that will likely be lost if the Democrats lose one of two suburban legislature seats.

Now you need 2/3 of the legislature instead of a simple majority.

With a divided legislature in 2017, some of the most controversial proposals did not get passed despite the majority leaders supporting them including legalizing marijuana and installing tolls on state highways.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

When one political party holds the governor's office and a majority in both houses of the state legislature, the state is governed by a state government trifecta.

DiNapoli says so far, around one fifth of counties have taken preliminary steps to override the cap, as they are permitted to do under the law as long as they can muster a 60 % majority vote from their county legislature or board of supervisors.

Meanwhile, Republicans continue to control the majority of governorships and state legislatures after their 2010 sweep.

Although the team is a diverse mix of Republicans, Democrats, business, religious and community leaders, the county legislature's GOP majority already has compiled a list of 14 transition members who gave a total of more than $ 60,000 to Curran's campaign.

In the past, the majority party in each house, Republicans in the Senate, and Democrats in the Assembly, have drawn the districts to help boost their parties» power in each house of the legislature.

Furthermore, the belief that the direct election of the president would halt the possibility of an oppositional president's slowing down the legislation process only assumes that the president will always belong to the same political affiliation as the majority in legislature.

In the November 2012 election, the Colorado Libertarian Party was the only party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, to place its own member - nominees for the legislature on the ballot in a majority of contests.

It's also an historic election for the Board, which will have a majority of women for the first time ever — nine out of 17 — and will become the only county legislature in New York State in which women currently comprise a majority.

Leaders of the Nassau legislature's Republican majority have indicated strongly that they may strip $ 59 million in fee increases from County Executive Edward Mangano's 2018 budget.

The last time majority lawmakers and the county executive were from different parties was in 2000 and 2001, after Democrats took control of the legislature during Republican County Executive Thomas Gulotta's final two years in office.

Westchester voters have written another chapter in the history of the Women's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's history.

Currently, the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader hold enormous power to abuse the system and stop bills from coming to the floor even if they are mathematically sponsored by a simple majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the Majority Leader hold enormous power to abuse the system and stop bills from coming to the floor even if they are mathematically sponsored by a simple majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the Senate).

The Majority and Minority of the legislature and the Governor may have differences of opinion but we are not enemies and should not be working in the middle of the night out of the view of our constituents and the media,» said Tedisco.

This unbridled power was not given to leaders by voters but by majorities in each house of the legislature.

Ulster's county legislature, which a majority of voters don't seem to much care about (check out dismal voting in almost all 23 legislative districts last month), had an unusually high turnover this year.

The town board has a majority of Democrats, in contrast to the Republican - controlled legislatures in the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay, and in Nassau County.

«According to a 2007 report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, thirty states have put in place statutory or constitutional tax or spending limits,» the Senate Majority's release said.

The Republican majority on the county legislature «joins with County Executive Curran in condemning either the solicitation or acceptance of anything of value by any county official connected with the procurement process or the approval of contracts between private vendors and the County,» said presiding officer Richard Nicolello (R - New Hyde Park).

I'll give the majority and minority leaders of the county legislature credit for at least one thing at their annual state - of - the - county addresses last week.