Sentences with phrase «single vote in the house»

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Its score of 25.5 percent in the lower house was just ahead of the 25.4 percent for Bersani's Democratic Party, which ran in a coalition with the leftist SEL party and it won almost 8.7 million votes overall, more than any other single party.

In her speech, she singled out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: «In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU.

The House of Lords defeated the government by 245 votes to 218 and demanded that Britain stays in the single market.

The occasion for this insult was the latest open letter from the Democratic governor calling on Faso to «stand with his constituents» in opposition to the the federal tax reform law, which narrowly passed the House and Senate in December without a single Democratic vote — and without Faso's vote, either.

First elected to Congress in 1988, the 79 - year - old has been a liberal leader in the House for 26 years, championing single payer health insurance and voting against the Iraq War.

Regardless of the actual voting patterns in this case, any voting system in which individual members are all elected from a single geographical region, as is used in the Australian House of Representatives can easily have the party with most seats (and perhaps an overall majority / plurality) not be the party which received most votes.

When no candidate candidate achieves the 270 threshold, the 50 state delegations in the House are to choose between the top three electoral vote winners which would include the winner of the single district.

The damage you can do to a single ballot, a single ballot box, a single court house and so on require an increasing number of coconspirators without exceptions, with numbers and efforts in proportion to the tampered votes.

If a party has no MPs elected but achieves a popular vote that exceeds a predetermined threshold the party would be represented in the House by reason of the «Automatic election» provision by a single MP with a single vote.

[6] Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on this bill and on the United States National Health Care Act, an alternative that would establish a national, universal single - payer health insurance, were previously expected in September 2009 [7] and again in October 2009, before the actual November 2009 vote took place.

«Partnering with Republicans has resulted in progressive bills not coming up for vote,» said Mr. Chowdhury, whose website lays out his position on issues like affordable housing, safe streets and single - payer health care.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said this demand was «beyond parody», given that Labour peers recently voted against an amendment to the article 50 bill in the House of Lords that would have required the government to keep the UK in the single market.

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?

A sharply divided Kingston Common Council voted five to four in favor of the Alms House project on Flatbush Avenue, but a supermajority of seven votes was necessary to change the zoning from single - family to multiple - residency housing.

The House of Councillors (Sangi - in) has 242 members, elected for a six - year term, 146 members in 47 single - and multi-seat constituencies (prefectures) by single non-transferable vote and 96 by proportional representation (by D'Hondt method) on the national level.

But the absence of Republicans from the dias at today's Capitol Hill event was a reminder that not a single House of Representatives Republican voted for the Recovery Act back in February because of fears that the $ 787 billion stimulus package would break the bank.

Check out our complete Emmy Awards coverage here DRAMA SERIES The Americans Better Call Saul Downton Abbey Game of Thrones Homeland House of Cards Mr. Robot Who will win: Game of Thrones Game of Thrones, which leads everyone with 23 nominations, is not only a stone - cold lock to win its second straight drama series statuette, thanks in part to the new popular vote system, but it's on track to become the winningest program in a single year.

The anti-campaign finance reform bill did not get a single Republican vote in the State Senate or House of Representatives.

The bill — the Every Child Achieves Act — was ushered through the Committee by Chairman Lamar Alexander (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) and was eventually passed by the full Senate in July 2015.65 At the same time, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Chairman John Kline (R - MN) approved House - crafted legislation — the Student Success Act — which was passed by the full House in July 2015 without a single Democrat vote.66

Even when 52 percent of voters want a Democratic House, antiquated winner - take - all voting in single - winner districts leads to Republicans holding 57 percent of seats.

Thanks to a last minute amendment passed by a single vote the budget for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), the DOE's flagship energy innovation program, was essentially restored to FY211 levels, receiving $ 180 million in the House appropriations bill.

He fraudulently claims to be a Nobel laureate; he pretends to sit in the House of Lords (he doesn't, having failed to secure a single vote in 2007); he refrains, at best, from correcting propagandists like Glenn Beck when they call him a «former scientific advisor» to Margaret Thatcher (in fact, he advised her on the transfer of council houses into private ownership).

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It passed without a single vote from Democrats in the House or the Senate, and it's a huge windfall for the richest Americans, including President Donald Trump.

It passed without a single vote from Democrats in the House or the Senate, and it's...

The bill was approved without a single no vote in any committee or in the full House or Senate.

Because of the views of the other candidates in the LD 16 House election, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona is recommending a «single - shot vote» for Matthew Cerra.

We recommend a single - shot * vote for Emily Verdugo in the House race.

Because of the views of the other candidates in the LD 17 House election, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona is recommending a «single - shot vote» for Karyn Lathan.