Sentences with phrase «not voting on an amendment»

Tampa Republican Sen. Dana Young got slammed by her Democratic re-election opponent in a Saturday email for not voting on an amendment that would ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

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Balancing the Budget: The House voted on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution with no actual plan to balance the budget — perhaps because it won't be easy.

The whole episode culminated in Renault's independent board members condemning the government's «destabilising» influence on the Nissan - Renault alliance, the signing of an agreement between the state and the company that would cap the state's voting rights on most resolutions, and an amendment to the master co-operation agreement with Nissan, in which Renault agreed not to use its shareholding to oppose the Nissan board.

The reconciliation bill also initially delayed but did not repeal the so - called «Cadillac tax» on high - cost insurance plans to avoid revenue loss outside the budget window, but an amendment repealing it was adopted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote and no Byrd rule challenge was raised despite its deficit impact.

These so - called «broker non-votes» will be included in the calculation of the number of votes considered to be present at the meeting for purposes of determining a quorum, but will not be considered in determining the number of votes necessary for approval and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Directors, the advisory vote on executive compensation, the amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the shareholder proposals.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Thibault is a Roman Catholic living in Minneapolis, where the archdiocese has distributed 400,000 DVDs encouraging its members to support the idea that individuals and not judges should vote on an amendment that would define marriage between a man and woman.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

When religious people will vote lock step with a candidate that spits on the first amendment and can not keep his religion out of his politics, then there is just cause to oppose Romney and all who support him.

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.

The lobby team at my last nonpofit (enviro) job drove home this observation repeatedly, putting the procedural victories and losses along the legislative way in perspective — sure, the Senate might strip a critical provision out or add in something nasty while voting on floor amendments, but the matter really wasn't settled until conference.

«What I did was I voted for a couple of amendments which were kind of conscience clauses for the likes of registrars and so on, which didn't get past, but that wouldn't have slowed it down at all,» he says.

That's why this is even on the table right now — to get the first and second votes done with certainty and why a pay raise or constitutional amendment could not be voted on in December 2015.

The Democrats are (not so) secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

The chairman of the legislature, John Mills, urged his colleagues to overturn the veto and allow the public to vote on the amendments in November, adding «I'm not surprised by the County Executive's veto, he's telegraphed it for months through behind the scenes maneuvering.

At the same time, Cuomo did not initially knock Republicans in the state Senate for voting down a series of hostile amendments on Wednesday that would have banned bump stocks and strengthened background checks.

«While the Convention Question won't be on the front of the ballot where it should be, voters will at least be urged to turn the ballot over to vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention and on two Amendments proposed by the Legislature.

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm, at the Brookhaven Town Board meeting, the Board members will have the opportunity to vote to support a resolution that calls for a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution that states «corporations are not people and money is not speech».

«These two auditor positions are not warranted,» he said before the vote on the amendment failed, 25 - 13.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo did not lose any time in publicizing a win on a gambling expansion amendment in Tuesday's voting.

Indeed, the amazing vote on Lord Alli's European Economic Area amendment, last week, demonstrates that it can be mobilised even when the Labour Whips don't throw their backing behind it.

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.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

But an amendment would need to be passed by both this year's and next year's Legislatures and wouldn't appear on the ballot for voter approval until the same day in 2017 that the convention vote will be held.

And of course, they don't have to vote on amendments at all.

The name of a candidate who is the subject of the amendment and who is disqualified by a political party or who has withdrawn as a candidate shall remain on the ballot, not be replaced by the name of another candidate, and the appropriate canvassing board shall not certify any votes for the candidate.

Labour MP Jon Trickett, who will table an amendment calling for more consideration, said: «It is of course unprecedented for a government to offer parliament a vote on such a matter and that is to be welcomed, but the case has simply not been made that we need to replace Trident, and crucially, that a decision must be taken now.

Rep Claudia Tenney touted an amendment to the House plan, pushed by Rep. Chris Collins, that would relieve counties of their current local share of Medicaid, and said she won't vote on the America Health Care Act if that doesn't go through.

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 Senate passed Governor Wilson's rent law amendment, but the Assembly did not come to a vote on it.

However, pollster Steve Greenberg says that when given the specific wording of the amendment on the ballot in November and asked whether they would vote yes or no to approve an amendment to «allow the Legislature to authorize up to seven casinos in New York State for the legislated purposes of promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated,» 55 percent said yes they would approve it, compared to 42 percent who say no they would not.

Grieve said this was sufficient reassurance for him and that he would not press for a vote on his amendments.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Concur — Vote Passed (224 - 201, 7 Not Voting) Brady, R - Texas, motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the tax overhaul that would revise the federal income tax system by: lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent; lowering individual tax rates through 2025; limiting state and local deductions to $ 10,000 through 2025; decreasing the limit on deductible mortgage debt through 2025; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries.

Andy Burnham, the current frontrunner for the Labour leadership, has said he will abstain from today's main vote on the government's welfare plans if a Labour amendment does not pass.

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.

Rep. Faso's Recent Votes Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com MegaVote December 11, 2017 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 -LSB-...]

That the amendment to delay the vote won't be called - and that, according to Paul Waugh, «Speaker Bercow has ruled there will be no vote on 3 amendments to tuition fees.

Governor Andrew Cuomo did not lose any time in publicizing a win on a gambling expansion amendment in Tuesday's voting.

Councilwoman Inez Barron, who represents a different portion of the area affected by the proposed East New York rezoning, voted against both amendments on Thursday and said the changes aren't «deep enough or broad enough.»

Even though the state Board of Elections did not make the new wording of the casino amendment public until three weeks after they voted on it, Snyder still waited another month before filing his claim.

(CNN)-- A key player in negotiations over potential gun control legislation said on Tuesday a planned GOP filibuster of the bill won't occur if Democrats allow Republicans to bring amendments up for a vote.

Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization — Vote Agreed to (84 - 9, 7 Not Voting) Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McCain, R - Ariz., modified substitute amendment that would authorize $ 692 billion in discretionary funding for defense programs in fiscal 2018.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

Chris Leslie, the Labour backbencher whose amendment was picked for a vote, said the government was still not offering a meaningful choice for MPs on its Brexit deal.

By ruling of the presiding officer, or on motion of any Council member supported by at least one - third of the Council members present and voting, any matter on the agenda that has not yet come to vote, with the exceptions of a proposed amendment to the Constitution or a motion to recall an elective member of the Board, may be submitted to the entire Council membership for a mail ballot, or by electronic means, and shall require for its approval a favorable vote of a majority of the Council members, except that a resolution shall require for its adoption a favorable vote of two - thirds of those members.

The need for prohibitory language, which does not mention NSF by name, was never brought up during any of the committee's 48 hearings on the legislation, nor was it proposed when the committee waded through 50 amendments before voting out the bill on 28 April.

By voice vote the legislators passed an amendment to a NSF funding bill for 2015 that says the agency can't spend any money next year on her project, part of a collaboration with former colleagues at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where Ahmed did a postdoc.