Sentences with phrase «over a voting agenda»

In 1976 Richard McKelvey went much further, in a complex series of mathematical proofs, establishing that given control over a voting agenda it was possible to bring about almost any outcome the agenda setter desired.

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The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

That there will only be a single question is a good example of something well known to those that study social choice theory: the power that someone with control over the agenda has over the outcome of voting.

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

One rebel said: «The government is risking a parliamentary riot over the way they are handling the agenda — trying to squeeze off the vote on the deportation of foreign criminals.»

After a failure to reach an agreement over an immigration bill, 30 Republicans joined all the chamber's Democrats to vote down the law 198 - 213 in what Politico called «a huge setback to the farm lobby and House Speaker Paul Ryan's welfare reform agenda.»

In 2015, after the IDC lost any say over the legislative agenda, Governor Cuomo pushed through a minimum wage hike to $ 15.00 / hr that needed mainline Democratic Conference votes to pass

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

She recently used a parliamentary procedure to force the measure onto the Senate Health Committee agenda, and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos has said he expects there will be a full Senate vote on some version of the med - mar bill before the session is over next month.

The division, which brought to a head weeks of mounting tension over the Conservatives» Europe policy, saw the government defeat John Baron's amendment regretting the absence of an EU referendum bill from the coalition's legislative agenda by 277 votes to 130.

Even with current polls putting Hillary Clinton some 20 points ahead, and even though she pulled more than twice as many votes in New York's Democratic primary than Trump drew in the GOP one, he insisted he would ultimately win New Yorkers over with his agenda and his accent.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor who lives in Syracuse, said the concept is nothing more than a «bait and switch» plan to entice people enraged over the Common Core to vote for what he called the Republicans agenda of underfunding and privatizing education.

Toomey's emergence as a candidate likely means that Democrats won't be able to depend on Specter to vote with them much in the future — a major development for Obama's agenda over the next two years.

Lawmakers will be given greater oversight in important presidential appointments, more control over emergency powers and the right to set half of their voting agenda.