Sentences with phrase «not vote on legislation»

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Sen. Rand Paul, R - Ky., whom Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell persuaded not to delay the Senate vote on the bill, also urged Trump to «veto this sad excuse for legislation.»

While the path to get Murkowski's vote appears easier than on other pieces of legislation, it is not guaranteed.

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.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet again delayed a vote on the Senate's controversial health care bill — this time, because Arizona Sen. John McCain is recovering from surgery (and without him, there aren't enough votes to pass the legislation).

Senate legislation on climate change is still being drafted, and a vote is not going to occur at least until April.

«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»

he and his family are an embarrassment, not to mention the subversive policies he is installing without benefit of being voted on by the legislation.

If the electorate vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, any draft legislation would only become law if the Dail voted for it, and that is not a foregone conclusion given the Fine Gael coalition is a minority administration and TDs will vote on conscience.

Parliament only votes on the implementing legislation, not on the whole text of the agreement.

meaning, the overall system itself is exploitative and needlessly punitive and just pretty shitty all around, so gaming that dumb system likely doesn't carry the same sort of stigma as, say, embezzling money from your company or taking bribes to vote on a piece of legislation.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

Tyrie has been dismissive of this, saying in a statement after the session: «The Commission's proposals would ultimately enable the UK parliament to impose legislation on England and would not deliver the pledge to secure English votes for English laws.»

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Former Rep. Dan Maffei, a Democrat who represented the Syracuse area for two terms, is among those agreeing with Rep. Chris Collins» claim that it's not unusual for members to vote on legislation without having read the entire bill.

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.

They couldn't bother to vote on legislation on child abuse at EU, but they're now trying to score political points from it.

The abortion plank in the WEA, originally proposed in 2013 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has resulted in a standoff between the two legislative chambers: The Senate GOP refuses to vote on any legislation that includes it, while the Democrat - controlled Assembly won't vote on any stand - alone WEA bills.

As disabled protesters shouted: «Kill the bill, don't kill us,» in a Capitol Hill hearing room, the Senate Budget Committee, with no discussion, quickly approved the legislation on a 12 - 11 party - line vote that left Democrats fuming.

It's also possible that members occasionally vote in favor for bills without supporting them or fully knowing their contents, whether out of a desire to maintain cordial relations with their colleagues or because they don't have time to process the thousands of pieces of legislation that are placed on their desks each year.

A vote on repealing «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» as part of major defense budget legislation could take place next week during the Senate Armed Services Committee markup of the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill.

Mark - Viverito has said taking up the legislation is not yet out of the question and that she will consider holding a vote if the department does not deliver on its end of the deal.

Three others received between 28 and 33 votes — not enough to establish a minority position — on the excessively revolutionary issues of gaps in anti-discrimination legislation, increasing numbers of parent governors at academy schools, changing balloting arrangements for school selections, and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

A number of Democrats spoke to Gov. Andrew Cuomo today to tell him that they don't want to vote on same - sex marriage legislation until there is a deal to permanently extend and strengthen the rent law.

Indeed, when Danny Alexander, Chris Huhne, David Laws and I met Adonis and the rest of the Labour team, they wouldn't even commit to supporting legislation on alternative voting, despite Labour being the only party that had such a proposal in its manifesto.

Cuomo says even if the public vote is delayed, the casino siting legislation would still need to be passed this year, based on a decades old opinion issued by a former State Attorney General, who said that constitutional amendment votes by the legislature need to happen in consecutive years, and can't skip a year in between votes.

After last week's decision by a Manhattan judge calling the city's flu vaccine requirement «invalid and unlawful» — because the Health Department initiative had not been voted on by the state legislature — Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz introduced legislation Monday to add the flu to the list of illnesses children attending state - licensed facilities are required to receive.

It forced a floor vote on the agreement and its implementing legislation in both chambers of Congress; the matters could not «die in committee.»

It may surprise the Home Secretary to know that the whole Labour party, including the current and former Prime Minister, voted against that legislation on the grounds that it did not go far enough in liberalising the situation and still applied the criminal law to far too much information.

HARTFORD — One of the chief architects of the 25 - hour takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives to force a vote on gun control legislation said Friday he didn't agree with efforts by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to raise money off...

Though Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a public stance on the legislation, Dr. Koza, the National Popular Vote co-founder, tells us that he has «indications that he would be supportive.»

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

Democratic State Senate candidate Justin Wagner vowed if elected he would block any legislation authorizing any transfer of municipal land for the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline, a pledge he contended could not be promised by Republican opponent Terrence Murphy based on his voting record in Yorktown.

House Democrats demanded but didn't get a vote on gun control legislation despite an hours - long sit - in on the House floor.

I agree on the factual premise that in order to work together people have to work together, but if the choice presented to Democrats were to yay or nay legislation before them that they disagree with, I don't think many of their constituents would really expect anything different from them than to vote no, no different than any of the 50 + votes Republican representatives took to actually repeal Obamacare.

Senate Republicans still don't know if they have the support to even take up a final vote on proposed health care legislation.

MacKay's personal endorsement of the legislation was cast as a counterweight to state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's pledge to yank the endorsement of any Republican who voted «yes» on the bill, even though MacKay stressed this issue would not be a litmus test for support no matter how a lawmaker voted.

The duo said the Democrats should let the bill come to the floor even if the Republicans won't relent, noting 225 members voted for the legislation on July 29th and that 218 votes constitute a simple majority.

Meanwhile, Faso's legislation wasn't able to get all New York House Republicans on board, and it remains unclear how many may vote for the bill.

Some who have not signed on said they are examining the legislation, including Garodnick — who voted for police reform bills in 2013 — and Costa Constantinides, a freshman from Queens who once was a member of the Progressive Caucus.

Robert was a lead sponsor of Right To Life legislation and supported the North Carolina marriage amendment, [5] although he was not serving in the NC Senate when the North Carolina marriage amendment passed out of committee and was finally voted on by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011.

The incumbent is businessman Richard Hanna from Barneveld, who has positioned himself as a middle of the road Republican, who's bullish on legislation that helps businesses, but won't hesitate to cross the aisle and vote with Democrats.

A growing number of Republicans in Congress have expressed support for banning bump stocks, but not all are eager to cast votes on legislation that could hurt their standing with gun rights groups.

Clegg said that, even though the vote was on an opposition day motion and not on a piece of legislation, the government would have to change its policy.

Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos said «there's a good possibility» the Senate will vote on some sort of legislation dealing with medical marijuana this session - but did not say how expansive the bill might be.

These concerns include a «one - town, one - vote» on the council, the fact that the legislation doesn't address ferries, the overall authority the council would have, and worries it would have a South Fork focus.

I am not proud of my congresswoman, Rep. Elizabeth Esty, or any other member of Connecticut's congressional delegation, for participating in Wednesday's sit - in in the House of Representatives in an attempt to get a vote on gun control legislation.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

A spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email asking how Stefanik would have voted on the legislation.