Sentences with phrase «nearly came to a vote»

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For instance, various regulatory delays in Alaska forced the state to wait nearly two years for its first legal recreational cannabis sales, which came last month, after voting to legalize in Nov. 2014.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

Greenberg says Republicans, who are outnumbered in the state nearly two - to - one, have some advantages in non-presidential election years because fewer Democrats come out to vote.

The Plattsburgh resident was among nearly 200 people who came to the Mountain Lake PBS studio to protest the lawmaker's recent vote in favor of the American Health Care Act.

The vote came after Republicans had spent nearly two years rejecting efforts by minority Democrats to create the position.

Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei came in for a CapTon interview as part of our (now nearly over) Congressional Battleground series and refused to say whether he would vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if the Democrats somehow manage to retain control of the House next Tuesday.

We didn't see this coming until it became clear that (a) the thousands of new «# 3 members» who joined to vote in the Labour leadership election were nearly all Corbynistas, (b) Jeremy was playing to packed houses of adoring crowds everywhere he went to campaign and (c) his rivals were fighting lacklustre campaigns in comparison.

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.

If Westminster's relationship with Holyrood comes increasingly to resembles that between a federal and state parliament in a decentralised federal system, many will feel that McKay does not go nearly far enough and a more hard - edged version of «English votes for English laws» is called for.

Trump's local numbers exceeded expectations on a night when nearly half of the county's registered Republican voters came out to vote.

In the third annual cycle of PBNYC, residents across 10 NYC Council Districts came together to discuss ideas for improving their communities, and nearly 17,000 people voted on how to spend over $ 14 million.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

The vote came nearly a week after a well - coordinated suicide - bombing and shooting attacks in Paris by Islamic State terrorists killed 129 people, and amid reports that one of the suspects posed as a Syrian refugee to enter France.

Others included Marti Speranza, who came in second in the crowded Democratic primary for the «open» District 4 seat and Alison Tan got nearly 42 percent of the vote trying to unseat Council Member Peter Koo.

Mr. Paterson, in what appears to be an effort to shake up a nearly month - long stalemate over the state budget, also called for the Legislature to make an up or down vote on his budget proposal on Wednesday and failing that, come to work every weekday until an agreement can be reached.

The new 46th senate district is nearly deadlocked with Republican Assemblyman George Amedore trailing Democratic School Board member Cecilia Tkaczyk by 139 votes with 7500 absentee and affidavit ballots due to be counted in the coming weeks.

Sex education has come a long way from 1975 when nearly half of state legislatures voted to restrict or abolish it compared to today when most adolescents in the U.S. receive some form of sex education between sixth and 12th grade.

But that vote came nearly two years after the FDA had rejected the drug for a second time because clinical data did not measure up to the agency's guidelines.

«We had committed to come and then the whole bloody balloon went up with Trump,» said first - time exhibitor Sean Kelly, the New York dealer whose presence nearly every Mexican gallery cited as a major vote of confidence for the fair's momentum.

«In our poll asking if you were interested in the NuAns Neo coming to the United States, India, or EU, close to 75 % of the nearly 2000 respondents voted that they were.»

Nobody is in any doubt about Cummings's brilliance: he's advertised it widely, and written thousands of words about his strategy on his blog — about how he spent 98 % of his budget online; how Vote Leave's ads received nearly a billion impressions; and how, in the end, it came down to just 600,000 people, or just over 1 % of registered votes.