Sentences with phrase «proposals come to a vote»

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Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

The Wells Fargo vote will be the first proposal on proxy access to come before shareholders this year, according to Ted Allen, governance counsel at proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and it will be worth watching how it plays out.

Boehner then came out with a proposal, dubbed «Plan B,» to raise that threshold to all earners that make $ 1 million or less, which the House will vote on today.

He told his parliament that creditors had no plans to draft a new proposal after the «No» vote and Greece had to come up with a new proposal ahead of Tuesday's summit.

Corporate managers are highly skeptical of shareholder proposals, and often seek to prevent them from coming to a vote.

Of the nine proposals that came to a vote last year at companies including Apple, LinkedIn and Skechers U.S.A., the only one to pass was at FleetCor Technologies.

Sen. Cathy Young in a radio interview on Wednesday said she is hopeful a vote will be held on her proposal to reform sexual harassment laws in the state at some point in the coming legislation session.

The proposal made Monday morning comes as the majority conferences in the Senate and Assembly are set to unveil their one - house budget measures and vote on them this week.

As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.

N.Y. — As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.

Tony Blair's honeymoon came to an abrupt public end with the vote of 47 Labour MPs and the abstention of many others against the government's proposals to abolish single parent benefits.

After hearing from Garnar and Reynolds, 12 News reached out to the 14 members of the legislature that, along with the chairman, have to power to approve or reject this proposal if and when it comes to a vote.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

The Council voted 31 - 17, with three abstentions, in an unusually close split on a proposal that came together in recent weeks with the backing of Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, whose staff, along with the mayor's, called members to push them to vote in favor, according to several Council sources.

Mr Wright said the the government had been accused of coming up with a «rather clever way of sinking the whole subject» after they had set up a «non-amendable» vote which would allow the proposals to be sunk by an objection from just one MP.

The initial proposal had come close to the 26 - vote majority needed to pass the council but never won the support of Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito or Mayor de Blasio.

Given the Senate GOP's line - in - the - sand statements on taxes and fees, the Democrats are going to have to do a party - line vote on these proposals, should they indeed come to pass.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA County Budget & Finance Committee Approves 2013 Budget, Legislature to vote on it tonight New City — The County Legislature's Budget & Finance Committee met on December 2 to approve the final version of the proposed 2013 budget, offering a look at what is to come should the legislature approve the proposal -LSB-...]

Lorigo said the proposal to extend the sales tax came to the Legislature later than usual and that the administration offered no evidence that the matter had to be voted on immediately and could not wait to be sent to committee.

Bogdanor's short and readable critique of proposals such as the alternative vote and fixed - term parliaments is to the high standard one has come to expect from him.

Mr. Paterson, in what appears to be an effort to shake up a nearly month - long stalemate over the state budget, also called for the Legislature to make an up or down vote on his budget proposal on Wednesday and failing that, come to work every weekday until an agreement can be reached.

The proposal's sponsors, Councilmen Brad Lander (D - 39th) and Jumaane Williams (D - 45th), urged her to reconsider her position but said they would see that the measure got a vote regardless — an uncommon pledge in a council where Quinn generally controls what comes to the floor.

«Very rarely we've had a day where we've had more than 10 bills under consideration at all, and we're roughly halfway through the session calendar,» said Senate Democratic floor leader Mike Gianaris on Wednesday, about an hour after his attempts to get a vote on his conference's budget proposal came to naught.

The vote to send the measure, S 1150, to the Senate floor came after unsuccessful attempts to remove the Pell Grant provision and to replace the current system of federally subsidized student loans with a direct - loan proposal.

Still and all, now that he's going to be President, one must wonder whether his signature campaign proposal in the K — 12 space, should it come about, will do much to benefit those who actually voted for the Trump - Pence ticket.

In coming weeks, school board members are poised to vote on proposals to create two schools that would operate largely outside the district bureaucracy.

«The proposal to save Aristotle that came before the Board of Education this week was so tangled that the board delayed voting until it can get an opinion from North Carolina's Ethics Commission.

It has come to our attention that MathStar has timely received a proposal from another shareholder to include in the proxy statement for the 2009 Annual Meeting a vote by shareholders to approve a voluntary liquidation of MathStar.

The announcement comes nine days after Commissioner Ben Konop offically announced a proposal to fire Skeldon — and proposal that was voted against by the other two commissioners Pete Gerken and Skeldon's 1st Counsin Tina Skeldon Wozniak.

The European Parliament and Council are due to discuss and vote on amendments to the EU proposal to bring aviation into the ETS over the coming weeks.

Here's The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: «No matter what Obama and his advisers said... there is now no chance that the Administration's climate - change proposal will come up for a vote in the Senate prior to the 2010 election.

There were many voices expressing concern over the proposal and frustration once the FCC voted to enact it and a few members of Congress on both sides of the aisle stated that legislation, which would be more permanent than an FCC ruling, would ultimately be the best way forward when it comes to net neutrality.

Reflecting on why he believes the proposal was voted down, Iverson says the main concern coming back to FIT was the hesitation of Realtors to display negative comments.

In the face of increasing challenges to the industry, OREA members will vote Feb. 28 on proposals that would streamline operations, improve transparency and come up with a plan for the future.

OREA is encouraging members to register to come out to the Sheraton Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto on Feb. 28 during the 2017 annual conference to give their feedback and vote on the proposals.