Sentences with phrase «supermajority support»

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Erie County's «Made in America» bill, at least as originally proposed, is dead after an attempt to override a veto failed to get the supermajority support required.

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This will mean a supermajority among politically engaged voters and either apathy or support from partially engaged voters.

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.

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.

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.

While Donald Trump has locked up a supermajority of chair support, Cox can't get Rob Astorino out of single digits.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

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.

Currently, Democrats outnumber Republicans 12 - 5, giving them a supermajority, in addition to the support of Latimer, who unseated Astorino in November last year.

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.

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.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

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.

Because SegWit tweaks consensus rules, changing how nodes validate blocks, it needs a supermajority of miner support to activate quickly and safely.