Sentences with phrase «through votes in both houses»

Angela Eagle: «We will put that Queen's speech to the House of Commons and if that Queen's speech gets through a vote in the House of Commons, we will be able to begin to put it into effect» (Sunday Politics, BBC One, 19 April 2015).

The history of SESTA / FOSTA — a bad bill that turned into a worse bill and then was rushed through votes in both houses of Congress — is a story about Congress» failure to see that its good intentions can result in bad law.

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In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide voteIn a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votein landslide votes.

Although it moved through the Democrat - controlled House in 2010, it stalled in the Senate because of procedural problems and was never voted on.

The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

weighs in on whether the House has the votes to pass the newest version of a health care bill making its way through Congress.

But the more we learn about the negative implications of the Russia sanctions bill, which sailed through the Senate earlier this summer by a vote of 98 - 2, the clearer it becomes that the House will need to play the role of «cooling saucer» to prevent a few loosely written provisions in the bill from scalding the U.S. economy.

The idea of a bipartisan bill passing through Congress right now doesn't seem likely, especially considering that the Honest Ads Act — a bill proposed late last year that would require more transparency around online political ads — hasn't been put to a vote in either the House or Senate in almost six months.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

It was shot down by the House of Lords in October, returned to the Commons last week and was once again voted through by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

«The Ryan plan was put through by the House,» Turner said, who voted for the latest iteration of the GOP budget proposal in March.

The most obvious mechanism, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majority votes.

In that case, several Republican congressmembers camped out on the House floor during the August recess to protest the lack of a vote on expanded oil - and - gas drilling, and supporters vigorously chronicled their activities through short messages to the Twitter - using audience.

The bill is working its way through Congress as the House Ways and Means Committe voted Friday in favor of the measure.

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

Mr Cable insisted that electoral reform would be back in the picture quickly in the shape of the House of Lords, which would need a new voting system once coalition plans are followed through.

They are in the process of going through the state Assembly education committee, and if they pass, will be voted on the respective house floors.

The New York State Assembly has voted to extend New York's rent stabilization and rent control laws in their current form through June 15, 2018, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez announced today.

It passed overwhelmingly in the house of bishops and got through in the house of clergy but fell by just six votes in the house of laity.

Pataki is using the cash he raises through Revere America to travel the country and call for the repeal of «Obamacare» and also run TV ads against select Democratic House candidates in New York and New Hampshire (ahem, 2012) who voted «yes» on the health care reform law.

«It's the equivalent of a guy who's about to get his house foreclosed on putting a new media room in the basement,» said Trotta, who cast the only votes against two resolutions to fund the projects through a bond issue and said he'd been provided with little information beforehand.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

The burgeoning third party gained ballot access in Wyoming for the first time in 2012, and its U.S. House candidate, Daniel Clyde Cummings, earned enough votes in November's general election for the group to remain a registered third party in the state through 2014.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (231 - 188, 13 Not Voting) Frelinghuysen, R - N.J., motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill with a further House amendment that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Jan. 19, 2018.

Freedom Caucus members feel they've been burned in the past by leadership agreeing to schedule votes on legislation — such as a conservative immigration bill by House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte — and then not following through.

The bill will have to pass out of committee in the Senate before they can take a vote on it, then pass through a similar process in the House of Representatives.

The Labour Government returned to this issue in 2001 and whilst the then leader of the House, Robin Cook, confirmed that this was a House of Commons matter, through the mechanism of a motion in Parliament, certain allowances were voted through by the Labour majority.

If elected, he plans to reduce property taxes by $ 1 million in four years and do away with the trash tax completely — which he says he voted against three times in the Common Council — by creating revenue through programs such as housing incentives and a traffic division as well as his plan to «rededicate existing resources.»

Concerns were also raised about the way the government pushed through the measure, using parliamentary procedure to push through a vote without any debate in the full House of Commons.

A disapproval resolution sailed through the House even after it became clear there President Barack Obama had enough votes to uphold his veto, and the Democrats blocked a mirror opposition bill in the Senate.

After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.

First introduced in the house last September by Michigan Republican Dan Benishek (with 45 bi-partisan co-sponsors), H.R. 2834 made it through the House Natural Resources Committee within three months and is poised for a full House vote later this sphouse last September by Michigan Republican Dan Benishek (with 45 bi-partisan co-sponsors), H.R. 2834 made it through the House Natural Resources Committee within three months and is poised for a full House vote later this spHouse Natural Resources Committee within three months and is poised for a full House vote later this spHouse vote later this spring.

Students should be encouraged to examine King through a broader lens, and to research his important ideas in areas like voting rights, housing and economic inequity, nonviolent activism, and social justice.

The bill is expected to pass through the House, as a similar measure passed in 2011 on a 365 — 54 vote.

In a 66 - 43 vote, the House passed the 198 - page bill (HB 7055), which has dozens of policy issues impacting the kindergarten - through - high - school system.

Through the entire legislative process, only one Democratic legislator voted against the bill (In the State House) and neither Malloy nor his administration ever raised any public opposition to the common sense bill.

The bill — the Every Child Achieves Act — was ushered through the Committee by Chairman Lamar Alexander (R - TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) and was eventually passed by the full Senate in July 2015.65 At the same time, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Chairman John Kline (R - MN) approved House - crafted legislation — the Student Success Act — which was passed by the full House in July 2015 without a single Democrat vote.66

HB2190 had a meteoric rise and was building momentum as it passed effortlessly through the full House chamber and then through the Senate Education Committee in the matter of only a few short weeks on its way to a vote by the full Senate yesterday.

The principal mission of the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure, through the rule of law, equal justice for all, particularly in the areas of criminal justice, fair housing and community development, economic justice, educational opportunities, and voting rights.

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (HR 10) with strong bipartisan support in a vote of 360 to 45 during National Charter Schools Week.

Fortunately, the vote squeaked through in the Senate, and apparently, while it needs to pass the House as well, they have till January to do so?

What might be called the «Leave - It - Alone Extension Act of 2010 ″ sailed through Congress with votes 318 to 106 in the House and 69 to 30 in the Senate.

In a time when legislators rarely agree quickly on any legislation SB 360 zoomed through both the Texas House and the Senate with no dissenting votes.

A bill to ban fracking in the state of Maryland sailed through the state House of Delegates on Friday with a 97 — 40 majority vote.

If the economy holds through 2010 and unemployment stays under the 8.5 % projected and growth is just positive in each of the quarters preceding the election and housing looks like it might recover, then the government will look like geniuses to most of the people who might who weren't quite sure whom to vote for in 2004 and 2007.

Rep. Vic Snyder (D - Arkansas), who represents Little Rock and much of Pulaski County, was the only member of his State's delegation to vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act, cap - and - trade legislation that passed through the House of Representatives in late June, and he has been hammered over the airwaves by utilities, agriculture interests, and political opponents ever since.

Despite vehement opposition from the solar industry lobby, the bill sailed through both chambers of Connecticut's legislature, passing the state Senate by a vote of 29 - 3 before passing the House 100 - 45 in the same week.

After all, a proposed bill must make it through committees in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and garner a majority of votes in both chambers — overcoming, perhaps, a filibuster in the Senate.

And that corporations are voting with their feet, judging by the precipitous rise in in - house counsel and growing demands for alternative billing structures (a quick glance through the last 12 months of ABA magazine articles provides a rich data source for this debate)?

Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican majorities in the House and Senate voted to revoke the rule that former President Barack Obama issued as part of a series of efforts to curb gun violence after similar measures failed to pass through Congress.