Sentences with phrase «power supermajority»

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Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

After Mubarak gave up power, the interim military government held parliamentary elections that yielded an Islamist supermajority comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood and the extreme Islamist (Salafist) Alliance.

On Monday, they proposed creation of an independent inspector general, appointed by a supermajority of legislators and given full subpoena power.

Republicans this fall want to keep the mayor's office and also hold onto their supermajority on the council, an advantage that gives Democrats no power to pass or block legislation without GOP cooperation.

Cuomo said local government leaders do have the power to override the cap, if a 60 percent supermajority of the members of a city council, town board, or county legislature agrees to override it.

Removing the power of the monarch, on advice of the prime minister, to dissolve parliament before its five - year maximum length, [13] the act permits early dissolution if the House of Commons votes by a two - thirds supermajority, as occurred in the 2017 general election.

Conversation has so far centered on how the need for a supermajority consensus in network decision - making means that any mining pool with enough hashing power holds effective veto power over any proposal, a fact many believe is responsible for delays in SegWit adoption.

«[A] problem with supermajority hash power signaling is it draws unnecessary attention to miners which can become unnecessarily political.