Sentences with phrase «passed only the house»

More than 890 bills have passed only the house of the Legislature they originated in this month, and 162 have passed both houses, meaning they have been sent to or are ready to be sent to the governor any time before the next legislative session in January.

The GOP tax plan is not yet the law of the land, having passed only the House of Representatives.

Not exact matches

Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

The House of Representatives passed a measure to rewrite Obamacare, but the Senate is only in the very early stages of considering the issue.

But unlike most legislation, which requires a supermajority in the Senate to even be considered, the resolutions only need a majority vote in both houses to pass.

Though it mentioned the issue only in passing in its request for proposals last fall, Amazon says it will take such costs into account, and has met with affordable - housing groups in several of the finalist cities.

The House then votes on adoption of the special rule, which needs only a simple majority to pass.

Two weeks removed from the worst month in the history of Canadian politics, the House is presently taken with the question of who here is the least disgraceful, even if only to pass the time until the summer break.

The House passed the measure last December, but only after it was attached to a dramatic expansion of the right to carry concealed firearms virtually anywhere in the country — long sought by Republicans and the National Rifle Association.

The news comes only weeks after the House passed an $ 81 billion disaster aid package.

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The House bill, for instance, exempts income from professional partnerships like law firms from the lower rate, and limits other people who actively work at their pass - through companies to having only 30 percent of their income taxed at the new lower rate.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing calls to produce its long - awaited plan to help homeless veterans in Canada, after their plight received only a passing mention in the Liberals» new national housing strategy.

The House's decision to combat the growth of the EPA regulatory regime could assist in protecting U.S. energy production and lowering energy costs, but only if they find an avenue to pass the legislation through the Senate as well.

It probably shouldn't have struck me as odd that a people whose only contact with the America of little brown churches is some faintly remembered trip to a grandmother's farm or an occasional dose of television's «Little House on the Prairie» should mourn the passing of an age and lifestyle now deemed better than this one.

It was only because they wanted to be indemnified for the loss of their houses and worldly goods, which had been left behind in the hands of their enemies in Mecca, and because they wanted to put an end to the persecution and violence which the enemies were inflicting upon their brethren in Mecca that the Muslims tried several times, unsuccessfully, to intercept enemy caravans passing near Medina.

I've tried it, I just can't get passed that «something» that is missing from the Hellman's, which, you can rest assured, is the only mayo allowed in our house.

When we moved into her house after she passed away I discovered the actual handwritten recipe and was pleased to learn that not only did she make these cookies during the holidays, but so did her daughter and grandson.

Now, a lot of the yardage was housed in big plays — Perine's Opportunity Rate was still only 41 percent while Ross» was 38 percent — and the passing game wasn't incredible (Trevor Knight: 7.1 yards per pass attempt).

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

In such books, as you will recall, a gritty northerner puts in a solid day's work of stealing food from his grandmother, torturing his father - in - law, beating up his wife, and throwing any passing children into the infested canal, only to return home to find the neighbour has ransacked his house and drunk his alcohol.

At that time, only a few states had passed such legislation and several others had the legislation in front of their Senate or House.

There are only ten days left for the House of Representatives to pass the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization.

The deposit will be returned to you only if you complete your loan obligation and your house passes a damage / cleanliness inspection.

I decided (especially since he wasn't my only kid, and staying in the house for weeks on end wasn't a possibility) after enough days had passed and I just wasn't seeing ANY measure of real success other than occasional timing - based luck, to admit defeat and put him back in diapers.

By continuing to breastfeed your toddler you are not only passing on immunoglobulins and other immune factors to germs in the environment that you share, your toddler is bringing home germs from their world (daycare, Grand parents house etc.) and your body then makes immune factors to help protect them.

The Parliament Act of 1949 gives the House of Commons the ability to pass legislation even if the House of Lords has rejected it twice, but only after a year has passed since the Commons first introduced the bill.

Quinn rejected the suggestion that the governor is being motivated by politics — a desire to settle this long - running Democratic feud before he formally launches his 2018 re-eleciton bid or moves toward a 2020 White House run — saying she believes his only motivated is the «politics of getting legislation passed, and making things better for New Yorkers.»

A double - lock provides that «legislation could only be passed if there is both a majority of MPs from England and a majority of the House of Commons as a whole in favour».

But short of that, I think the next time we have a Democratic House, Senate and president — remember, we can only pass pro-LGBT legislation when we have a Democratic House, Senate and president.

Republican Rep. Chris Lee was the only member of the New York congressional delegation to vote «no» on the Zadroga bill that passed the House earlier today.

The Bill passed through the House, with only extremely minor rebellion from the Tory benches.

When the bill was announced for consideration at the Committee of the Whole, only 30 members of the House of Representatives considered and passed the PIGB within 23 minutes (2:19 p.m., to 2:42 p.m).

The House passed the bill in 2007, but incorporated only provisions regarding sexual orientation, not gender identity as well.

Skelos noted — correctly — that the budget is far from done because the revenue bill that will fund the spending plan has only passed one house, adding: «I can not, in good conscience, review what has happened in this session yet because, as far as I'm concerned, and I believe the Republican side of the aisle, the session's not over.»

Although the GOP - controlled House is likely to pass the more - stringent work requirement for SNAP, the bill faces a steeper climb in the Senate where Republicans hold only a one - vote majority.

Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

This year, Gov. Cuomo not only again embraced the two - speeches - for - the - price - of - one approach, but also decided not to hold his annual New Year's Day open house at the executive mansion — a tradition he has kept since his first year in office in 2011 — preferring to mark the one - year anniversary of his father's passing in private.

Again, Parliament is not the House of Commons — Parliament has three parts, and when it comes to changing the law of the land, the House of Commons can do one thing and one thing only: pass a bill and hope that — with the consent of the Lords (more or less) and the assent of the Queen — it becomes an Act.

At the federal level, laws can only be passed by majorities in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate followed by either the President's signature, or by a veto followed by a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the House of Representative and a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the U.S. Senate.

Reps. John Katko, R - Camillus, and Claudia Tenney, R - New Hartford, were among only four of the 27 New York House members to vote in favor of the bill, which passed the House 227 - 205.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

Part of that, is that the Governor is widely seen as victorious over a bitterly partisan GOP majority in the House, which for the first time in the state's history, failed to pass a budget in the regular session, even though it enjoyed only a one - vote majority.

Republicans who control the Senate with the help of breakaway Democrats passed legislation that would include the housing agency in a current law that requires mold removal projects to be performed only by licensed professionals.

According to state rep Mike Fortner (R), there were changes made to the map only two hours before it was ultimately passed in the House.

While many of my colleagues agreed, they cared only about passing the law during the April — the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Fair Housing Law.

The House of Lords has passed 15 amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill - but only a few are expected to make it into law after the Commons has its say

Albanese supports a proposed congestion pricing initiative, known as Move New York, to impose tolls on the three East River bridges to help fund the subways; while de Blasio called congestion pricing a «regressive tax» and stressed that his proposal for a millionaire's tax to fund subway repairs was a more viable alternative, even though his proposal has largely been shot down by the GOP - controlled state Senate and de Blasio sees it passing only once Democrats take control of that house of the Legislature in January 2019, which de Blasio said was soon.