Sentences with phrase «things by majority vote»
However, when it comes to spending and revenue, Congress can pass things by majority vote.
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While there is certainly no such thing today as the «Catholic vote» (unified by issues and / or effective leadership), the majority of Catholics did vote for Obama, and we are informed by Catholic News Service that there is a «historic high» of 163 Catholics in the new Congress.
For one thing, its method of reaching decisions by voting creates the general impression that the majority is right.
Ballon d'Or voting has, in the past, been an odd thing, and there is a theory held by some that the continental journalists who made up the majority of the electorate simply had, at around this time, very little interest in footballers based in England.
This makes it slightly easier to block laws they oppose because the Majority must first secure as many votes as possible in their own caucus before shoring up loose areas by flipping some opposition members with a few things they like.
«Millennials delivered Trudeau his majority, we want real climate action, and we could be one of the largest voting blocs by 2019, three things that Trudeau needs to remember when deciding on this pipeline,» Sophie Birks, a Climate 101 organizer from Montreal, explained.