Sentences with phrase «roll call vote»

Who sets the schedule in Congressional roll call votes?

A committee vote shall be by roll call vote if the members are voting on the disposition of bills, constitutional amendments, concurrent resolutions and joint resolutions by committees.

In March 2014, Washington Votes, the state's premier legislative information website, released its annual Missed Votes Report, which provides detailed missed roll call votes on bills for every state legislator during the 2014 legislative session.

By looking at hundreds of roll call votes and comparing them mathematically, the DW - NOMINATE process is able to figure out where each member sits politically compared to other members.

When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

Of 237 roll call votes in which four or more Republican House members voted against the majority of Republican members, Stefanik joined in splitting with the party 63 times, according to a Post-Star analysis of her 2016 voting record.

Although the number of environmental roll call votes was low compared to past sessions, a number of Mass Audubon priority bills passed.

The Brooklyn Republican would not tell me what pressing «business» he had to conduct when he took the well - timed phone call that brought him out of the chamber at the exact moment the slow roll call vote was underway.

I couldn't find any other roll call votes with similar totals on January 11, so I assumed this was the right one despite the numerical discrepancy and the fact that the bill's description does not mention FISA.

House members running for a different office, most of whom are seeking promotions to the Senate, have missed about 10 percent more roll call votes this month through Sept. 22 than their colleagues seeking re-election, according to a Roll Call analysis.

Josh Robin spoke with Governor Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the Democratic National Convention after Cuomo spoke on behalf of New York at the DNC roll call vote.

But the last time they held roll call votes that week, before Thursday, was during the second session of the 91st Congress, in 1970, amid a large spending fight and a filibuster over financing for a supersonic transport plane.

After he arrived in Washington, Katko defied Republican leadership on roll call votes several times: He was one of only three Republicans to oppose a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act, and he objected amendment of a bill introduced by a fellow Republican.

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After two recesses, the committee finished grinding through all the amendments, including a dozen roll call votes, a parliamentary maneuver by Democrats to put all members on record.

Despite testimony submitted in opposition by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), the Surfside Town Council spent roughly two minutes — just enough time for a unanimous roll call vote — considering the ordinance.

During roll call voting, chairman Randy Preston (Wilmington), vice chairman Sean Gillilland (Willsboro), Roby Politi (North Elba), Ed Gardner (Essex), Joe - Pete Wilson (Keene), Michael Marnell (Schroon) and Ronald Moore (North Elba) were listed as excused.

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal - conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

The Senate also voted on four environmental roll call votes (out of a total 453).

With an allied majority in Congress during recent legislative sessions, the NEA has, not surprisingly, won more congressional roll call votes than they lost.

After a heated debate and slow roll call voted, the bill was yanked from the floor yesterday just before it was about to fail.

By looking at how each legislator voted on every roll call vote compared to the member's peers, DW - NOMINATE is able to show how liberal or conservative a Congressman or Senator is.

Every past nominee to get a roll call vote since at least the Carter administration received 85 or more yes votes in the Senate, with the exception of Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who got 56.

First, the Convention floor erupted in chaos when «Never Trump» supporters attempted (unsuccessfully) to force a roll call vote which would allow pledged delegates to abandon Trump as the nominee.

In 2011 - 2012, the House voted on four environmental roll call votes (out of a total 375).

The Legislative Report Card is a compilation of the roll call votes by state legislators on environmental bills or budget items.

We publish only how each legislator voted on environmental issues when he or she was asked to stand up and be counted during formal debate by reviewing all roll call votes on record at the Senate and House Clerks» offices.

Roll call votes are the single available objective measure to evaluate legislators on their performance.

The Legislative Report Card is a compilation of the roll call votes taken by state legislators on environmental bills or funding measures.

Her votes stand in contrast to her home state's senior senator and the chamber's Democratic leader, Charles E. Schumer, who has supported 20 of the Trump picks who have received a roll call vote.

Maybe that's because everyone burned themselves out during the two roll call votes.

However, Auerbach said the roll call vote was on a procedural issue, not the leadership, and no one calculated the impact of the weighted vote of the 118 disputed committee members.

State Committeewoman & RSC Secretary Cynthia Stead even declared after taking the roll call vote (with 17 members absent) that the crowd assembled before her had reflected the «best attendance» that she had seen «in two years.»

The roll call vote during which Mitt Romney will be officially nominated is scheduled to be held Monday, in part to due concerns about the weather and possible disruption by dedicated Ron Paul supporters.

What motivates politicians is pain: bad press, primary challenges (the worst indignity for career politicians), being forced into a roll call vote (going on the record: note this is NOT the same as voting to end debate on a bill — they all love doing that: it gives them cover from uniformed voters), angry constituents, fund raising disruptions, the list goes on.

Roll call vote is happening now.

Of 237 roll call votes in which four or more Republican House members voted against the majority of Republican members, Rep. Elise Stefanik joined in splitting with the party 63 times, according to a Post-Star analysis of her 2016 voting record.

Sen @JohnDeFrancisco says conference vote was a roll call vote.

A brief skirmish over a roll call vote for the rules — potentially freeing up the bound delegates — was crushed, driving yet another stake into the heart of the «Never Trump» movement.

According to a DNC official, Sanders will turn over his delegates to Clinton tomorrow during a roll call vote.

That could be difficult, though, since the roll call vote is the first major order of business this afternoon.

The roll call votes have several categories, and one of them is passage - suspension.

Today, Team Trump again sought to scuttle the effort by rejecting calls for a roll call vote, declaring the anti-Trump faction the loser in a voice vote, even though its supporters had secured signatures from more than enough states — 11, all told — to force the matter.

In an unusual rebuke, even fellow Republicans denied him a «sufficient second» that would have allowed him a roll call vote.

Sampson spoke just once during a roll call vote in favor of the Dream Act to provide tuition aid to undocumented students.

Out of all roll call votes, 90 individual legislators did not miss any votes.

Any one legislator may request a roll call on any vote and all roll call votes are listed in the minutes.

In a roll call vote Thursday night by a unanimous State Committee, the Georgia Green Party called for a travel and tourism boycott of Georgia if Governor Deal should fail to veto HB - 87.