Sentences with phrase «supermajority on»

Since becoming Chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, we have taken a party that was deep in debt and created a strong fundraising infrastructure to support our candidates, won a supermajority on the County Legislature, and delivered every countywide office to Republicans — despite the fact the county has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Despite the election of Latimer over former County Executive Rob Astornio last November, Westchester residents still pay the highest property taxes in the nation, and under Latimer and a Democratic supermajority on the county board, our county taxes will certainly rise in the future.

«There has never been a Democratic supermajority on the town board,» Gordon Herr, the chairman of the Southampton Town Democratic Committee, said yesterday morning.

Republicans this fall want to keep the mayor's office and also hold onto their supermajority on the council, an advantage that gives Democrats no power to pass or block legislation without GOP cooperation.

«Tom's Onondaga County GOP recently won a supermajority on the County Legislature even though Onondaga is inhabited by more Democrats than Republicans,» Paladino writes.

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

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.

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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).

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.

Those converging concerns made it possible to assemble the broad coalition of bishops that eventually passed the Declaration on Religious Freedom by a very large supermajority during Vatican II's fourth session.

The Rams opened as -7.0 road favorites, but the line has moved to -6.5 even though they've gotten the supermajority of the early bets, suggesting that sharp money is on the opposing Titans.

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

On Monday, they proposed creation of an independent inspector general, appointed by a supermajority of legislators and given full subpoena power.

Congress also uses modifications of straight Robert's Rules voting like the filibuster, holds, Senatorial privilege for judicial appointments, supermajority voting on treaties, «fast track voting» without amendments and similar variants.

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

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.

With the election just four weeks away, the McCoy - Irwin battle has become a bellwether on the future of the California Legislature and the GOP desire to break the Democrats» Assembly supermajority.

Incumbent Sharon Belton - Cottman, who ran unopposed in the Ferry District, also had support from the BTF, giving union - backed candidates a supermajority of six votes on the board.

Removing the power of the monarch, on advice of the prime minister, to dissolve parliament before its five - year maximum length, [13] the act permits early dissolution if the House of Commons votes by a two - thirds supermajority, as occurred in the 2017 general election.

The decision removes some pressure on state lawmakers to immediately reauthorize the program with a supermajority vote.

As we've discussed recently in the context of the Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) proxy fight for the board of Avigen Inc (NASDAQ: AVGN)(see our post archive here), achieving a supermajority is nigh on impossible.

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.

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.

I mean seriously, a 99 - page paper that presumes to be a serious postmortem on the climate bill — and no discussion of the 60 vote supermajority requirement.

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.

When a supermajority of the public wants action on climate, it's worth it for the Kochs to buy the allegiance of candidates who will walk the climate denial line, work to protect fossil fuel subsidies, and rubber stamp pet fossil fuel projects like the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Second, senators need to stop talking about «60 votes» as though it's in the Constitution that the U.S. Senate — unlike every other legislative body on the planet — has a supermajority requirement.

Caps on the amounts of additional capital contributions are prudent to avoid a joint venture party being responsible for unlimited mandatory capital contributions in the future; alternatively, the drafter can provide that additional capital contributions may be approved by a supermajority or unanimous vote of the board of managers / directors or the joint venture parties

Conversation has so far centered on how the need for a supermajority consensus in network decision - making means that any mining pool with enough hashing power holds effective veto power over any proposal, a fact many believe is responsible for delays in SegWit adoption.

A supermajority (78 %) of national homebuyers believe data and machine learning will have an important influence on the real estate experience over the next 10 years.