Sentences with phrase «pass votes based»

I pass votes based on my belief system.»

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ENDA (the Employee Non-Discrimination Act), which would prohibit all employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity, was passed by the Senate in November but still awaits a vote in the House of Representatives.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

«For the first time tonight, same - sex marriage has been passed by popular vote in Maine and Maryland,» said Robert P. Jones, a Washington - based pollster who specializes in questions about politics and religion.

You must not be paying attention to not only how people will be voting, but / and even more importantly the people (especially the hyper - religious) that are running for and getting voted into office are with zealotry... attempting, and in some cases passing laws that are based on their «religious beliefs.»

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of being anathematized, and in hiding behind a question such as: «Even if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

Last month, a motion requesting that the filter's designer, Gary Schaefer, president of Libertyville - based Hey and Associates Inc., appear at Monday night's meeting passed by a 7 - 1 vote, with Boulet being the lone dissenter.

In contrast to the 1996 Broadcasting Act, which was based on extensive consultation and passed with 90 percent of votes in Parliament, including support from oppositional parties, the Orbán Government passed the 2010 Media Acts without consulting professional organisations or the opposition.

British democracy and the EU is based on Parliament passing the 1972 EC Act, not repealing it since, and Parliaments voting for the Maastricht, Lisbon treaties.

Despite the robocalls that went out on Long Island over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has now made heretofore source - based speculation official: His conference will provide sufficient votes this afternoon to pass the 11th budget extender and avoid a government shutdown.

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.

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com VA Personnel Accountability — Vote Passed (237 - 178, 14 Not Voting) The bill would provide the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) with additional tools to fire or demote VA employees based on performance or misconduct, and would modify the appeals process to provide for the appeals of decisions -LSB-...]

While the bill can't pass based on those votes alone, the flips could make an enormous difference.

It was a close verbal vote, Friday, in Washington County, however because the board's votes are weighted based on population the amendment passed.

The rankings were based on three past votes: the 2013 SAFE Act pushed through the Legislature by Cuomo in the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012; a June 2015 Senate vote passing a bill to repeal portions of the SAFE Act; and a June 2015 Assembly vote passing a bill called «Nicholas's Law» requiring all firearms to be locked up.

GOP Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon voted no, saying he believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo is intent on enacting a different plan, based on a 1980s law that was passed but never put into effect.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Early Thursday morning the New York City Council voted on and passed two bills that will potentially impact how the NYPD operates on a day - to - day basis.

Today, the Illinois State Senate passed a $ 100 million tax credit scholarship program, and charter funding equity on a bipartisan basis of 38 - 13 votes after the House approved the measure yesterday.

Sounds like people who voted for the president, and if you are over 62 it's free (albeit with a lifetime pass that just increased in price), so the boomer base is protected.

Parliament didn't do that — in fact, it specifically allowed several hereditary peers to remain seated on no other basis than to obtain the votes needed to pass the «reform» act.

On judicial review the chambers justice dismissed the application on the basis that he was bound by the Court of Appeal decision in Ostrensky v. Crowsnest Pass, 1996 ABCA 18 in regards to the effect of a tie vote and that the privative clause in the Teaching Profession Act «insulated all decisions from judicial review except on questions of jurisdiction».

But, where does Google get the legal power to devalue sites solely on the basis that somebody somewhere was a) paid to link to the site, and b) did so intending to pass on a vote to the site as link worthy?

Last December, under the leadership of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass The Innovation Act on a strong bipartisan basis, 325 - 91.