Sentences with phrase «procedural move»

We learned the hard way how to quickly find the information needed to support our positions or make the right procedural moves.

But city pols are ready to force a vote through a rarely - used procedural move known as a motion to discharge.

«While this is an extraordinary procedural move, the shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action.»

Backers plan to employ a rarely - used procedural move known as a motion to discharge to force the two bills to the floor unless Mark - Viverito relents in the coming months, they said.

This will be done in the form a «hand up» in the state Senate — a non-voting procedural move that will recognize the new members of the conference, said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in an interview Friday.

It appeared unlikely as of Friday that Pomepo's opponents would go so far as to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make procedural moves to discharge Pompeo's nomination from the committee before a floor vote.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic procedural move to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.

In some ways suggesting a cross between the Bourne franchise and Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden (with its belated reunion of torturer and victim), Dying moves swiftly through the obligatory procedural moves en route to what clearly interests Schrader most: the inevitable face - off between these two doomed men, one slowly being poisoned by his own blood, the other by his brain.

So, if a partner asks me to research a particular procedural move, but during the course of my research I realize that another move may make more sense, I will add another paragraph suggesting the alternative.

Rep. Kionne McGhee, D - Miami, used an unusual procedural move Tuesday to try to pull the bill out of committee and allow it to be heard on the House floor, citing the massacre in Parkland.

«While this is an extraordinary procedural move, the shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action.»

Delegates agreed only to «take note» of the Copenhagen Accord, a procedural move that means they merely acknowledged its existence.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

This is not a procedural move, something we do at some designated moment by «comparing the message to our situation.»

The lawmakers tried to use a procedural move Wednesday to force a vote on removing Senate Leader Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre.

Without the votes to block Obamacare repeal, Democrats are turning to procedural moves they believe will underscore their most powerful argument: Republicans are hiding their repeal plan from the public and using Senate procedures to keep it a secret.

The Senate approved nine of the 10 measures, but procedural move to allow a floor vote on the abortion component failed.

Schumer said he wasn't certain whether the amendment would be allowed by the Senate parliamentarian, who must decide whether each provision of the bill impacts the federal budget before Republicans can pass it through reconciliation, a procedural move that requires only 51 votes.

Councilors heard a mix of harsh criticism and strong support as they considered the procedural move.

Democrats used a procedural move to try to bring the measures to the floor for a vote but were overruled by the Senate's GOP majority, who said the party is already working on its own legislative proposals that focus on school security and stronger restrictions on access to firearms by those with mental illness.

«We are also not going to choose between veterans [and] cancer research,» said Senator Harry Reid (D - NV), the Senate majority leader, before using a procedural move this afternoon to essentially kill the House NIH measure.

In a procedural move to cut off further debate, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly agreed to bring the Every Student Succeeds Act back for a final vote today.

Sen. Ty Masterson decried the bill in a statement Saturday, accusing the House of «shell game tactics» and of using a procedural move that will prevent senators from proposing amendments to its work.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.