In last day
of voting on amendments to EU Bill, Lords have just carried an amendment to make it an objective of the Govt to ensure U.K. can stay in Euro Econ Area after Brexit.
One gets the sense that
some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), commented today ahead
of the vote on an amendment to the Queen's Speech on lifting the public sector pay cap.
Not exact matches
After an official 20 hours
of debate, the Republican - controlled Senate was expected to begin a potentially chaotic «
vote - a-rama»
on amendments from Republicans and Democrats before moving to a final
vote late
on Thursday or early
on Friday.
Feinstein offered a similar version
of the
amendment in December, a day after an extremist couple killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, but the Republican - run Senate rejected the proposal
on a near party - line
vote.
They were celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the 19th
Amendment, which granted American women the right to
vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed
on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.
By 335
votes to 244, the House
of Lords backed an
amendment to the government's key Brexit bill to give Parliament decision - making power
on the outcome
of negotiations with the EU — including the power to call off the divorce.
In party - line
votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee
voted down eight Democratic
amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes
on foreign profits
of U.S. corporations.
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In a 4 - 1
vote today by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an
amendment has passed to lift the 80 year ban
on the general solicitation and advertising
of Regulation D («Reg D») offerings which will go into effect in 60 days.
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.
After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much
of last week weighing whether to hold a
vote on the measure that included the new
amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.
The House
of Representatives will
vote on a balanced budget
amendment to the Constitution
on Thursday.
In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a
vote on inclusion
of this
Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members
of the Republican Party and Democrats.
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This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without
amendment while leaving the House
of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply
vote up or down
on the finished result.
None
of the
amendments they
voted on passed.
Peers in the House
of Lords are expected to
vote later
on an
amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment
of Christians and other minorities as genocide.
If the Lords
amendment passes it would force MPs in the House
of Commons to debate and
vote on it, putting further pressure
on the UK government.
CNN: Senate
votes to kill controversial contraception
amendment The Senate
voted Thursday to kill a controversial proposal pushed by Republicans that would allow employers to opt out
of providing health care coverage that they disagree with
on moral grounds.
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.
If enough
of congress
voted on it (greater than 2 / 3rds majority), we elect a racist president, and the Supreme Court just rubber stamped it without reading, the 13th
amendment COULD be repealed, and slavery could be «allowed» again by federal law.
Nothing will be concrete until August, when the full committee meets to
vote on amendments to the draft, and then that draft is sent to Charlotte for the convention in the first week
of September.
She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs
on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to
vote through a series
of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.
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.
On Tuesday, the Twin Citites Area presbytery, which covers Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, became the 87th presbytery - and the deciding
vote - to approve an
amendment that will remove the constitutional requirement that all ministers, elders and deacons live in «fidelity within the covenant
of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness.»
European Parliament Agriculture Committee MEPs are making their final preparations ahead
of a
vote on proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform
amendments — including the adoption
of supply management measures.
The event has drawn the ire
of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy
of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no»
vote on the hostile
amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.
Today, Members
of Parliament have
voted against a proposed
amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill
on abortion counselling.
Senate Republicans
on procedural grounds
voted down
amendments backed by Democrats in the Senate that included much
of the same provisions supported by their counterparts in the Assembly.
To the surprise
of many observers — and even the advocates themselves — Klein and his three fellow IDCers
voted along with their former Democratic colleagues
on the
amendment.
«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.
Peers
voted by 244 to 240 yesterday evening in favour
of a crossbench
amendment to the legislation, which places an explicit duty
on the health secretary to promote mental and physical health services equally.
«In this case, they will be able to choose between an anti-Trump liberal who has championed sanctuary cities and amnesty,
voted to protect Obamacare, and helped Nancy Pelosi lead the assault
on our Second
Amendment rights — or a proven conservative with a strong record
of delivering results for our community.»
As Lord Harries
of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate
on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops
voted in favour
of (and one against) a wrecking
amendment.
So although there is little formal need to rely
on any sort
of support, and only a narrow number
of votes are needed to elect the minimum number
of people
voting for an
amendment, as a practical matter there really needs to be a strong groundswell for an
amendment.
Angered at the huge spending increases at the center
of the deal, Paul delayed passage for hours with a demand to
vote on an
amendment that would keep in place strict caps
on spending that the deal would raise.
Today, a few corridors down from the Commons fight
on «
Amendment 7» — that «meaningful
vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings
of the Citizens» Assembly.
Dominic Grieve's
amendment to secure a meaningful
vote on the terms
of the Brexit deal is vital, whatever political Brexit stripe you are.
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.
Brooklyn, NY Members
of the Executive Committee
of the Kings County Democratic Party
voted on Tuesday night to make final
amendments to their by - laws to incorporate major changes to the way the party does business.
In 2014, Tedisco sponsored, promoted and helped pass with 77 %
of the
vote statewide Proposition 2, a constitutional
amendment to save millions
of tax dollars by stopping the wasteful printing
of paper copies
of legislation and allow digital copies to suffice
on legislators» desks at the Capitol.
She
voted against the federal spending bill for the Department
of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies, and split with the party
on 22 related
amendments.
They include adoption
of early
voting in New York, same - day voter registration, public financing
of campaigns, and constitutional
amendments to impose term limits
on elected officials.
Cuomo, in the second day
of attacks
on the Collins
amendment, said Republican leaders in Congress are trying to «buy
votes» in exchange for support
on the repeal and replacement
of the Affordable Care Act, and he said if that's the case, then the federal government should «pay for it.»
In 2014, I sponsored, promoted and helped pass with 77 percent
of the
vote statewide Proposition 2, a constitutional
amendment to save millions
of tax dollars by stopping the wasteful printing
of paper copies
of legislation and allow digital copies to suffice
on legislators» desks at the Capitol,» said Tedisco.