Sentences with phrase «second vote in the house»

The nearly $ 1.5 trillion tax cut required a second vote in the House after a Senate rule forced Republicans to remove three minor details from the bill on Tuesday.

If the Senate passes its bill, the differences with the House would be reconciled in a conference committee and require a second vote in the House.

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The state Senate on Wednesday passed the second of two House bills defining residency for voting, HB 1264, in 14 - 10 party line vote.

Maloney and Maffei, both of whom are freshmen (although in Maffei's case, this is his second time around in the House) representing marginal districts, have been on the defensive about this vote.

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

That year, as President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House, fewer than 54 percent of New York's voters cast ballots — far below the 76 percent who voted in Minnesota, the highest level in the nation.

House of lords reform - draft bill The purpose of the draft legislation is to take forward the vote of the House of Commons in March 2007 in favour of a wholly or substantially elected second Chamber.

«So that's how I found out we voted to leave,» he explains, with the Palace of Westminster overlooking our second floor meeting room in Portcullis House.

The government has suffered a second Brexit defeat in the House of Lords as peers backed, by 366 votes to 268, calls for a «meaningful» parliamentary vote on the final terms of withdrawal.

In turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second readinIn turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second readinin favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second reading.

In the House of Commons, Rob Marris MP's bill was debated in September 2015, and lost its second reading vote — meaning it too will progress no furtheIn the House of Commons, Rob Marris MP's bill was debated in September 2015, and lost its second reading vote — meaning it too will progress no furthein September 2015, and lost its second reading vote — meaning it too will progress no further.

[16] On 5 February 2013 MP Bob Blackman rebelled, voting against the bill in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.

The Speaker can not vote in a division in the House unless the numbers are equal, and then he or she has a casting vote.146 The provision for a casting vote also applies to Members deputising for or acting in the position of Speaker (that is, Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, or another Member as Acting Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent Speaker.148

The House got its act together and voted yesterday — for the second time — to pass the GOP's sweeping overhaul of the US tax system, and President Trump held a celebratory «bill passage event» at the White House later in the day.

Democrats in the Senate persuaded the chamber's parliamentarian that several minor provisions in the House bill violated Senate rules, forcing the House into an embarrassing second vote.

An elected second house would lead to a form of professional political class like the one we have in the Commons; a class susceptible to cronyism, corruption and stupidity in return for a cabinet post or a vote.

When Montana lost its second house seat after the 1990 census, he faced off veteran Republican Congressman Ron Marlenee of the 2nd District and won the new at - large seat in a close vote.

Rice, a Garden City Democrat in her second term, voted instead for Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio)-- who is not related to Speaker Paul Ryan — to continue her protest of the current leadership and the Democrats» failure to determine why they have not won back the House majority.

Katko, R - Camillus, a second - term congressman, was among four Republican House members in New York to vote for the GOP's tax bill.

The House of Lords» decision means MPs will now be forced to vote on the issue for the second time in a week, as the legislation is in ping - pong mode, which sees amendments bounce between both Houses of Parliament.

CNN just announced that Romney's taken Nevada: With 10 % of the results in, Romney had about 48 % of the vote while Rep. Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were in a tight race for second with 21 % and 20 % of the vote, re... Read

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

After a second day of impassioned debate in the House of Commons, a total of 498 MPs voted to give a second reading to the short bill granting the government the power to invoke article 50, while 114 voted against.

Bruce Majors finished second in a 3 - way race for Delegate to the U.S. House for Washington D.C. with 13,462 votes, or 5.8 %, gaining ballot access for the LP in the district for the first time ever.

[6][7] On 5 February 2013 MP Gregory Barker voted in favour in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.

Our next event is THIS WEDNESDAY — a Top Of The Policies on Housing, chaired by Jack Dromey (Shadow Housing Minister), at which a variety of speakers will be pitching housing policies in 90 seconds, followed by 3 mins Q&A per idea, then Housing, chaired by Jack Dromey (Shadow Housing Minister), at which a variety of speakers will be pitching housing policies in 90 seconds, followed by 3 mins Q&A per idea, then Housing Minister), at which a variety of speakers will be pitching housing policies in 90 seconds, followed by 3 mins Q&A per idea, then housing policies in 90 seconds, followed by 3 mins Q&A per idea, then a vote.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

In five of the last 45 US presidential elections, plurality voting has handed the White House to the second most popular candidate, according to William Poundstone, author of Gaming the Vote: Why elections aren't fair.

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More Democrats, including two former teachers, cast votes for the bill the second time around because of a change made in the House allowing an appeals process for teachers who get bad evaluations and are on the verge of losing tenure.

On April 10, hundreds of people on both sides of the charter - school question gathered outside the second - floor committee room where the House Education Committee was set to vote on whether to send the Senate's charter - school bill to the House floor for debate and, ultimately, the first vote to ever take place on charter school legislation in the chamber.

More than 80 Members of Parliament voted in favour of Bill C - 246, the Modernizing Animal Protections Act, at second reading in the House of Commons.

The result has triggered outrage from the 48 % of the population who voted to remain, with calls for a second referendum, suggestions that the House of Commons could ignore the result, and a promise by the leader of the Liberal Democrats that the party would run on a platform to remain within the Union in any future general election.

This paper followed the parliamentary votes in March 2007 on the future composition of a fully reformed second chamber, which had been triggered by an earlier white paper (The House of Lords: Reform Cm 7027).

The House of Lords Bill arguably represents the most significant development in terms of House of Lords reform since March 2007, when both Parliamentary houses voted on their preferred option for the composition of a reformed second chamber.

After forcing its second vote in two days, the bill passed the House with a vote of 224 to 201.