Sentences with phrase «passed by an overwhelming majority»

Congress and the White House responded with the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, passed by overwhelming majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and signed by a president who called it the most important securities legislation since 1934.

The ERA at that moment seemed unstoppable, having been passed by overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress and already approved by thirty of the thirty - eight states needed for ratification.

This is not about the merits about the paid - sick days referendum recently passed by an overwhelming majority of Milwaukee voters.

The proposal came before a Missouri bill banning breed - specific local ordinances passed by an overwhelming majority in the House.

In spite of a $ 2 million campaign by the coal lobby, the bill passed by overwhelming majorities in Colorado's Senate and House in a remarkably short 17 days.

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The second bill that passed the House last night, also by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, is the Supporting America's Innovators Act of 2016 (H.R. 4854).

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

«We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African - American brothers and sisters,» states Resolution 7, passed today by an overwhelming majority of messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

Delegates on May 18 passed five resolutions by unanimous or overwhelming majorities and added a sixth resolution to the next month's Delegate Assembly.

Congress, supported by the overwhelming majority of biomedical researchers, is about to pass a law overturning the ban.

In 2001, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress passed NCLB, a key initiative of the George W. Bush administration at a time when partisanship had been suppressed by the 9/11 tragedy.

This legislation, which passed with overwhelming bi-partisan majorities at the time, was based upon the sound evidence that children who can not read on grade level by fourth grade begin a cycle of falling behind and are much more likely to drop out of high school, and experience a spiraling set of consequences that often lead to unemployment and incarceration.

S. 1177 passed the Senate on Wednesday, December 9 by a vote of 85 yeas to 12 nays and the House on Wednesday December 2 by an overwhelming majority.

All of these modifications are part of the Expanding American Homeownership Act which passed the House last year by an overwhelming majority.

Dow added: «The creation of Brand USA was a bipartisan effort led by Republicans that passed both chambers by overwhelming majorities.

7 December 2010 CANCUN When the Acre state legislature passed a law launching an ambitious new System of Incentives for Environmental Services (Sistema de Incentivo a Serviços Ambientais, or «SISA») by an overwhelming majority of 17 - 2, Eufran Ferreira do Amaral knew he had his work cut out for him.

The House passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910) by an overwhelming bipartisan majority.

The Oregon Senate passed the bill by an overwhelming majority vote of 27 to 2 on June 19.