The GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare has stalled ever since leaders scrapped
a planned floor vote in late March.
Not exact matches
The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax
plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a
floor vote, which is expected to take place Thursday.
However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled
plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the
floor for a full chamber
vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed changes.
The unveiling of the Senate
plan, combined with a House committee
vote to send a version of its bill to the House
floor, is a step forward in the party's race to rewrite the U.S. tax code before year's end.
Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos has repeatedly said he has no
plans to allow a
floor vote on the abortion component, but indicated this week a willingness to negotiate the other points.
The measure has no Assembly sponsor, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said there are no
plans to move it out of committee for a
floor vote.
Former Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell, who is reportedly mulling a primary challenge to IDC Leader Jeff Klein this fall, issued a statement this morning blaming Klein for the refusal of his power - sharing partner, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, to allow a bill establishing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's tax - the - rich - for - pre-K
plan to the
floor for a
vote.
The letter paints a potential
plan that would allow the leaders — Sen. Jeff Klein of the IDC and Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins of the mainline conference — to choose each others» deputies and have approval over which bills come to the
floor for a
vote.
Speaking on the
floor of the House just prior to the
vote, King said he
plans to
vote against censure.
If Rump can get a
plan that the house freedom caucus will let him bring to the
floor for a
vote, let's see it first.
Tedisco said the Majority's
plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the
Floor for a
vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.
When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply
vote the executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the
plan to the
floor in the first place.
Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, herself a key architect of the budget
plan, announced her opposition Wednesday morning and mounted a remarkable daylong speech on the House
floor, trying to force GOP leaders in the House to promise a later
vote on legislation to protect the younger immigrants.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to hold a
floor vote by the end of next week, although it is unclear whether enough of his Republican members support a
plan to do so.
At the same time this was happening, former New York City Councilman Ollie Koppell, a potential primary challenger for Klein, called on him in a statement to return to the mainline Democratic conference following Skelos» assertion he wouldn't bring a
vote to the
floor on the de Blasio
plan.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a private meeting with his Democratic members said he
plans to allow the measure to come to the chamber
floor for a
vote for the first time, sources told the NY Daily News.
The government faces yet another knife - edge Commons
vote tomorrow when the
planning bill hits the
floor of the House.
Senate Republicans
plan to meet privately later tonight to discuss whether the bill should come to the
floor for a
vote in what's most definitely going to be a very lengthy conference meeting.
Just how he
plans to get that onto the Senate
floor when his deal with Skelos calls for the two of them to agree on everything before it comes up for a
vote, remains to be seen.
The lone Senate Republican to address the
Planned Parenthood lobbyists, John Bonacic of the Hudson Valley, said he's in favor of the bill, and would
vote for it if it came to the
floor.
Deacon also chastised Katko for sticking with the Republican Party on a number of issues, like
voting to defund
Planned Parenthood and
voting against bringing a bill to the House
floor that would have banned people on the suspected terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said that he
plans next week to allow the measure to come to the chamber
floor for a
vote for the first time, sources said.
With the future of embattled Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos still unresolved, Democrats
plan to try again to oust him during a
floor vote on Monday.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a private meeting with his Democratic members said that he
plans next week to allow the measure to come to the chamber
floor for a
vote for the first time, sources said Tuesday.
A
plan to restructure North Carolina's entire judicial election map was approved in committee earlier this week but appears to have been blocked from a
floor vote.
Despite its success in getting small - business health
plan legislation to the Senate
floor last year, where it just missed coming up for an up or down
vote, NAR faces a different environment for health
plan reform.