Sentences with phrase «raise points of order»

His statement describing those events should be followed by the beginning of the debate on the Queen's Speech, but various MPs are expected to raise points of order on the affair, at the very minimum.

When a senator raises a point of order, the presiding officer of the Senate immediately rules on the validity of the point of order, but this ruling may be appealed and reversed by the whole Senate.

Therefore, I raise a point of order that the vote on cloture, under the precedent set on November 21, 2013, is a majority vote for all nominations.

Similarly, it is possible to raise a point of order and state that the standard procedure of the Senate is actually different from what the current rules and precedents suggest.

«I raised a point of order.

It was the Chairman, Committee on Ethics / Privileges, Mr. Nicholas Ossai, who raised a point of order to observe that by the procedure of the House, the request was belated because Buhari had already spent the money.

Raising a Point of Order on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the lawmaker disclosed that about $ 5.5 bn was borrowed from euro bond, wondering how the loan has been of benefit to the Nigerian youth.

12:38 - That's the end of the session, and George Galloway raises a point of order... he wonders whether John Thurso, the Lib Dem MP and former peer, is a «noble» member of the Commons, or not.

But before the resolution, it was the Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Mr. Kingsley Chinda, who raised a point of order to draw the attention of members to the alleged «constitutional breach» by Buhari.

Former Labour minister Chris Bryant raised a point of order demanding the Speaker write to police himself, on the basis that MPs» security had been affected by hacks into their mobile phones.

The threat was issued, after senate Deputy Majority Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah, raised a point of order, saying none of the agencies had submitted their budget reports.

The MP for Perth and North Perthshire raised a point of order requesting the Labour and SNP parties change seats so the Scots could «become the Official Opposition».

MP after MP rose to raise a point of order questioning his future.

Conservative MPs reacted angrily to Mr Justice Mostyn's ruling in the Commons last night, repeatedly raising points of order immediately after the bedroom tax vote.

Ndume who was removed as Senate Leader in January, raised a point of order last week notifying the Senate of media reports alleging that the Senate was on vengeance against the Customs Comptroller - General, Hamid Ali over a seized SUV car allegedly belonging to Saraki.

Labour chief whip Nick Brown had raised a point of order complaining about the Government tabling statements on an Opposition Day, thereby reducing the amount of time available for debate.

Ohuabunwa had raised a point of order after President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, separately read a letter from President Buhari informing the legislature of his medical vacation in the United Kingdom.

He also raised a point of order in the House of Commons to call for a debate on whether MPs should still be allowed to mark their own homework.

At the outset this morning a delegate raised a point of order complaining that Conference Arrangements Committee had refused to allow debate on re-nationalisation of the railways despite 43 organisations having submitted such resolutions.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale wrote to the presiding officer urging her to change her mind, and fellow Labour representative James Kelly tried to raise a point of order on the matter before being ejected from the chamber for refusing to sit down.

Majority leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan raised the point of order on the «recovery, return or release» of the abducted Dapchi girls.

Monckton raised a Point of Order demanding withdrawal of the remark.

Not exact matches

Spending and revenue targets set in the annual budget resolution are enforced by points of order, which any member of Congress may raise against legislation that is inconsistent with those targets.

We discussed the whys and whens of my loss of faith in the first place (I was raised a devout Catholic, at one point considered holy orders as my life's work).

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

As a consequence, and I have already raised this point, a physical show of unacceptable is required in order to get Wenger out.

The judge cited points of order raised in the Commons chamber yesterday afternoon by shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman.

Labour MP Toby Perkins later told the justice secretary he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record.

The decision to write the CJN arose from a point of order which was raised by the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who called the attention of the chamber to newspaper reports indicating the decision of the Abuja to stop the process of amendments.

17:35 - Clarifying Bryant's point about the Lords reform bill being in limbo, which was originally raised in a point of order by Peter Bone, Speaker John Bercow says under parliamentary rules it won't be in limbo - not technically, anyway.

On the issue of stay of execution of the subpoena order raised by Raji, Tahir stated that «we have actually responded on point of law on the issue of stay of execution of the subpoena order», stressing his opposition to the application.

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that following a point of order raised by the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), I undertook to place in the Library of the House, by the end of April, full details — they are held in our Government offices — of the projects being funded.»

The move was based on a point of order raised by Ndume, who also called on the upper chamber of the National Assembly to investigate the certificate scandal involving Senator Dino Melaye.

Flanagan pointed specifically to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's unique attempt to help Democrats raise money in 2014, which has been the subject of a criminal referral and a legislative response, as something that would need to be addressed in order to «achieve real campaign finance reform and target corruption.»

This was sequel to a point of order raised by Hon. Gbenga Oyekola (Atiba State Constituency) who drew the attention of the house to the impending danger on the inauguration of two rejected nominees and substitution of the screened nominee for Lagelu West LCDA.

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Upon announcing his decision, the opposition lawmakers raised several points of order.

Saraki's position which was made known on Wednesday followed a Point of Order raised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator, representing Abia South Senatorial District, Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe, who craved the Senate to address the issue of the missing budget, which dominated the traditional and social media space since yesterday.

Mr. Cuomo's operation pointed to his track record for the black community, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and issuing an executive order naming the state attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related civilian deaths.

Simon Burns MP spotted the inconsistency and raised the issue in a point of order with the Deputy Speaker, Sir Alan Haselhurst:

Following a point of order raised by Senator Yusuf Yusuf on the need for an investigation into the recent comment by former Minister of Defence, Theophilus...

The plea was based on a point of order raised by the Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, on the «recovery, return or release» of the abducted Dapchi girls.

The move was based on a point of order raised by a former Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, who called the attention of the lawmakers to media reports on the matter.

The Senate's decision followed a point of order raised by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (PDP - Imo) during plenary, who afterwards, sought the leave of the Senate to move -LSB-...]

These senators raised so many points of order as if it was the main business of the senate.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

What we propose in the International Campaign aims to create an international movement of thought, discussion, reflection, and action led by civil society, in order to provide contents, raise awareness, define priorities and lines of action, good practices, and find solutions to those points.

The same people who raised procedure as a point of contention in court would do everything possible to preserve the procedure in the law in order to maintain that the program is void.

However, the two raised some interesting points in the interview about how they have taken that format and adapted it to today's market with things like low order requirements (as little as fifty, compared to hundreds of copies through older vanity presses), the ability to return unsold titles for a refund, and more.

There are no across - the - board agreements on the order of: «Let's raise the prime rate by a point.»