Sentences with word «supermajority»

A majority of voters said «yes» to the spending plan, but it failed to pass because it didn't reach the required supermajority of support to go over or below the property tax cap.

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

Iowa: Bill to require supermajority of state Supreme Court (5/7) to declare laws unconstitutional advances

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.

-- Sen. Kathleen Marchione (R - Saratoga)-- excludes certain capital costs if approved by supermajorities via referendum

«[A] problem with supermajority hash power signaling is it draws unnecessary attention to miners which can become unnecessarily political.

Rep. John Faso says he is not giving up on his provision to shift Medicaid costs to the state government, telling The Daily News he will seek to attach the measure to a bill that doesn't need supermajority support.

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

[61] He also proposes supermajority approval of any tax increase.

And most important, the bill would require a 60 percent supermajority for voters to override the cap, ensuring that taxes would only be raised for genuine emergencies or the most worthwhile projects.

There are also 14 states with legislative supermajority (usually three - fifths or two - thirds of the legislature) and voter approval requirements for new taxes.

However, with the extra voting rights now attributed to Vincent Bolloré after the failure of a majority - approved shareholder proposal to obtain supermajority support to keep a one - share - one - vote principle at the 2015 annual meeting, the perspective of institutional shareholders not availing of double voting rights may be less relevant in 2016.

Democrats lost their filibuster - proof 60 - seat Senate supermajority with the election of Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown in January.

A cap on EU banker's bonuses to be introduced in January next year — under which bonus payments can not exceed the value of an employee's salary without supermajority shareholder approval — simply did not go far enough for some.

Now, Democrats are surging in Virginia and we can break a Republican supermajority with your help.

Delia DeRiggi - Whitton (D - Glen Cove) said the inspector general should be picked by a 13 - member supermajority of the Legislature.

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.

Now, according to Parker, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat and chairman of the Board of Legislators, will continue to mull an override of Astorino's veto which would require a bipartisan supermajority vote of 12 legislators in order to overturn the decision.

Democrats won a two - thirds majority in the California Legislature last month, and now hold a so - called supermajority in both houses.

Despite the slowing economy and pressures for more opposition voices in Parliament, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) is expected to maintain its legislative supermajority against a weak opposition.

a. Stagger the Board; b. Overweight management on Board; c. Introduce cumulative voting; d. Introduce unequal voting rights; e. Create supermajority voting; f. Establish pre-emptive rights.

by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California's Democratic supermajority State Capitol.

«Deployment shall be controlled by a hash - power supermajority vote (similar to the technique used in BIP34), but the earliest possible activation time is 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC.»

The Assembly is dominated by the Democrats; as of January 1, 2018, they hold a 66 - seat supermajority in the chamber.

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.

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.

After Mubarak gave up power, the interim military government held parliamentary elections that yielded an Islamist supermajority comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood and the extreme Islamist (Salafist) Alliance.

Research on Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party has shown that parliamentary supermajorities help project an «image of invincibility,» demoralizing both the opposition and potential defectors from the ruling party.

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.

During the 2011 - 2016 parliamentary session, the Kremlin often engineered supermajorities with votes from loyal opposition Duma deputies.

Supermajority generally means a party controls two - thirds of all seats.

Philip Steck (D - Albany)-- replaces supermajority requirement on school budget votes with a vote by board members.

Beyond basic partisan control, parties looked to gain or end supermajorities in a number of chambers.

According to the party, which has been polling its members online for weeks now, Sanders won the support of an «overwhelming supermajority» of WFPers — 87.4 percent — compared to 11.5 percent who choose Clinton and 1.1 percent who backed former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.

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.

He's very well respected across the political spectrum but, with a notional supermajority of just 39, can't sleep comfortably at nights as the threat of Annunziata Rees - Mogg (yes relation) looms under him.

With a low turnout, Niagara Falls school district voters approved a $ 140.9 million budget with an easy supermajority approval of 77.5 percent.

Democrats put forth legislation to change the constitution but were denied the necessary supermajority by Republicans, who in October pushed through a law that effectively killed the citizen referendum.

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

• We won the first supermajority - ever in the Erie County Legislature, 12 - 3 Democrats - Republicans.

And with the need for one more lawmaker to pledge his or her support for bill, that supermajority remains in the hands of the Republican Caucus.

Although supermajorities of the size of Labour's are less common for the Conservatives, some sizeable majorities still exist.

A majority (or sometimes supermajority) of teachers could vote to turn their district school into a charter.