Sentences with phrase «need supermajority»

But in order to override Astorino's veto, lawmakers will need a supermajority vote, which seems unlikely at the moment.

But if he did, Baird would not have had the votes as her appointment needed a supermajority.

Three budgets needing the supermajority to pass got over the 60 percent mark.

Three budgets needing the supermajority to pass got over the 60 percent mark: In East Aurora, Maryvale and Niagara Falls.

Following expansion by 2 seats to the Arizona and Georgia Supreme Courts in the last 2 years, a member of the Louisiana House is moving to expand by law that state's top court by 2 seats, but needs a supermajority to do it.

Because SegWit tweaks consensus rules, changing how nodes validate blocks, it needs a supermajority of miner support to activate quickly and safely.

Not exact matches

But unlike most legislation, which requires a supermajority in the Senate to even be considered, the resolutions only need a majority vote in both houses to pass.

You also need to determine the voting rights of the partners — normally a simple majority vote of the partners decides what happens and what doesn't, but you can agree that important decisions be made by a «supermajority» vote of two - thirds or more of the partnership percentages..

However, trade agreements are not traditionally ratified as «treaties» in the U.S. (perhaps due to the high supermajority needed); they are done as «congressional - executive agreements», which go through Congress as regular legislation, subject to all the normal lawmaking processes, including amendments.

President Trump said the U.S. needed «a good «shutdown»» this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules that effectively require a supermajority to approve most major pieces of legislation.

Republicans need eight for a supermajority of sixty seats.

In an unusual address at the legislature's meeting in Mineola, Singas, a Democrat, said an inspector general appointed by a supermajority of lawmakers — and not reporting solely to the county executive — is needed to catch wrongdoing in the contracting system before crimes can occur.

Only a small number of districts attempted to get the 60 percent supermajority they need to override the tax cap and increase their spending.

According to this answer, only a simple majority is needed to change the Senate's rules not a supermajority.

And they want the requirement that a supermajority of 60 % is needed to override the cap, be changed to a simple majority.

The ones that failed generally exceeded the state tax increase cap and didn't receive the supermajority approval needed.

And with the need for one more lawmaker to pledge his or her support for bill, that supermajority remains in the hands of the Republican Caucus.

Lincoln is largely concerned with the sordid business of trying to add enough vulnerable Democratic votes to those of the Republicans to amass the supermajority needed to pass the 13th Amendment — if necessary, with threats, offers of positions and other inducements short of direct vote buying.

Second, senators need to stop talking about «60 votes» as though it's in the Constitution that the U.S. Senate — unlike every other legislative body on the planet — has a supermajority requirement.

Conversation has so far centered on how the need for a supermajority consensus in network decision - making means that any mining pool with enough hashing power holds effective veto power over any proposal, a fact many believe is responsible for delays in SegWit adoption.