Sentences with phrase «supermajorities in»

Past efforts to introduce tort reform legislation were vetoed by Missouri's previous governor, Jay Nixon; however, the state's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has made tort reform a top priority and one likely to be supported by the GOP, which holds supermajorities in both houses of the Missouri legislature.

Obama and his party took advantage of Democratic supermajorities in both houses of Congress to just barely pass his unpopular health care plan.

But unlike most legislation, which requires a supermajority in the Senate to even be considered, the resolutions only need a majority vote in both houses to pass.

But that wasn't the only bill that high - cost lenders had pushed: One to allow auto - title loans, also vetoed by the governor, passed with a supermajority in the legislature.

You may want to blame republicans for holding up recovery but the Democrats had a supermajority in congress and a democrat president.

The magnitude of the Republican defeat in 1964 handed Johnson the Democratic supermajority in Congress that allowed him to pass what amounted to a second New Deal.

Electoral results bear out the opposition's resurgence despite the obstacles and obstructions created by the governing administration: It won the majority of the popular vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections, narrowed the gap to Chavismo in the 2012 and 2013nd finally won a supermajority in the parliament in 2015.

Another question (or pair of questions) is whether there even is a 55 % majority in the Commons to support this rule, and whether it's at all morally credible to create a supermajority requirement without having a supermajority in favour.

Republicans currently have a supermajority in the County Legislature.

He built strong ties within the Democratic caucus after helping them win control of the Senate in 2006 and build a 60 - vote supermajority in 2008 as a strategist and prolific fundraiser.

However, he is undaunted by moving from a Democratic supermajority in the state senate to a probable minority in the House, promising to «confront and refute the Tea Party at every conceivable turn.»

Democrats also gained a 55 - 25 majority in the California State Assembly in 2016, giving Democrats a two - thirds supermajority in both chambers.

Republicans may have a supermajority in the legislature, but they can't seem to win statewide offices.

Unlike the Democrats near the beginning of Obama's term, the GOP does not have a filibuster - proof supermajority in the Senate - or anything close to one.

The GOP victory was widely considered a referendum on the senate's Democratic supermajority in Congress.

The election likely will decide whether Democrats have a two - thirds supermajority in the state Legislature.

California Democrats may claim a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature, but an Orange County Republican lawmaker topped the list of gift recipients in 2012.

The decision would have favored Democrats in California, where they hold a near supermajority in the legislature.

We've got to protect our supermajority in the county legislature and make sure we do that.

The state party prevented a Democratic supermajority in both houses of the state Legislature as it made inroads with solidly Democratic regions of the state.

You mean the party that controls every state - wide office and a supermajority in the body Shelley presides over?

Nassau PBA president James Carver said Safe Nassau «served its purpose» by preventing Republicans from getting a supermajority in the county legislature, and hasn't been necessary since.

«We could, with a supermajority in the state legislature, see a reject of the Common Core standards.»

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

(Calif.) With the state's fiscal outlook as good as it has been perhaps in a decade, and now with Democrats holding a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, some within the education community might have thought a conversation over the adequacy of school funding would finally happen.

«I think the fact we have a supermajority in the House and Senate speaks highly to that.»

In every instance except in Wisconsin and Oregon, where the white populations are a supermajority in both district and K12 schools, students of color make up a significantly smaller portion of the student body than white students.

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

Yet even the three congressmen who headed a panel on «Politics and Other Realities» avoided mention of the Senate, focusing on micro-issues like gas stamps and impossibilities like «bringing America together» instead of ways legislation could feasibly get passed by a supermajority in the upper chamber of Congress.

Not exact matches

Selling With a supermajority of iOS apps being offered for free — more than 90 percent, Blau says — companies have turned en masse to a business model in which customers pay for extra features.

House leadership has vowed to create its own immigration bill, in effect rejecting any Senate bill even if it passes with a supermajority.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

In addition, supermajority voting provisions proposed require the approval of two - thirds of the board and outstanding stock to appoint an individual who was previously an officer of the company as CEO.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

In the recent parliamentary elections, rightfully fed - up Venezuelans responded by ousting members of Hugo Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), giving the opposition party, the more - centrist Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a supermajority that could challenge President Nicolás Maduro.

Eight years ago, as a once - in - a-generation Democratic Senate supermajority debated health care reform, Sen. Max Baucus, D - Mont., kept their focus narrow.

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court raises the prospect that for the first time in history there will be a supermajority of justices on the same court affiliated to one degree or another with the Catholic Church.

Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

I suppose the answer to the question is that D Cameron was confident enough of an «In» result when he went for the referendum not to bother with a supermajority.

However, trade agreements are not traditionally ratified as «treaties» in the U.S. (perhaps due to the high supermajority needed); they are done as «congressional - executive agreements», which go through Congress as regular legislation, subject to all the normal lawmaking processes, including amendments.

Title IV: Budget Process - Subtitle A: Budget Enforcement -(Sec. 401) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this resolution to be exceeded, except by a supermajority waiver.

While Democrats including District Attorney Madeline Singas have called for a supermajority of legislators to appoint the person with that role, Mangano aides say the mayor or governor directly selects them in the city and state.

Significant legislation is debated in conference before it reaches the floor, and if it seems unlikely that the Democratic supermajority can pass a bill by itself, it's often simply not brought to the floor.

The New York City cap approved by the Senate on Tuesday would allow for a supermajority on the city Council to override the measure in the event of an emergency, a provision de Blasio also questioned.

The tax cap, enacted in 2011, forces school districts and local governments to keep tax increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (with other factors built in for adjustments)-- unless approved by a 60 percent «supermajority.»

Republicans are claiming victory in Astorino's quest to break the Democratic supermajority on his county legislature.

«It would take many, many years to do that because we can't exceed the tax cap - or we can but you have to go out for the supermajority vote - so we're kind of in a quandary.»

Partly fueled by national politics — in particular negative sentiments toward President Donald Trump — voters helped secure a Democratic Board of Legislators supermajority, increasing the lead from nine seats to 12, and propelling former state Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat, to the county executive's seat.

But in order to override Astorino's veto, lawmakers will need a supermajority vote, which seems unlikely at the moment.

In the state Senate, the GOP prevented Democrats from regaining a two - thirds supermajority.