Sentences with phrase «to a floor vote»

Floor votes on the party's picks for comptroller and attorney general are expected in the afternoon.

When I say every single day, I mean it: as was the case in my first two years, I did not miss a single floor vote in the 2015 legislative session.

Once, during floor votes, he took a cellphone call from inside a grandfather clock.

, who has pledged a first - ever floor vote this year on a climate bill.

Before these important floor votes, your legislators need to hear from you.

Under House rules, the Speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation.

Only one bill failed in a Senate floor vote in 2011 and 2012, according to a legislative analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Baton Rouge, La. — Following today's House floor vote on Senate Bill 432, which passed by a vote of 55 - 16, Democrats for Education Reform Louisiana state director, Eva Kemp, released the following statement:

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

Rules Committee chairman has repeatedly blocked bipartisan medical marijuana legislation from floor vote

, the House's top tax writer and the author of the GOP tax bill released last week, as he moves the legislation toward a planned floor vote next week.

He was then installed in a formal floor vote of the 63 - member Senate by a bare, 32 - vote majority.

The GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare has stalled ever since leaders scrapped a planned floor vote in late March.

Wisconsin Republicans were scheduled to begin the end game Thursday for a bill that would allow developers to fill some state wetlands without permits, scheduling an Assembly floor vote.

Democrats have delayed the final floor vote on Trump's nominee for secretary of state, but Rex Tillerson was set to be confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

It was robbed of a stand - alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $ 1.3 trillion government spending bill.

The budget deal did not include the Dream Act, which would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, and failed in a curiously timed floor vote while budget negotiations were still ongoing.

Twenty - seven of the 29 missed floor votes were «excused,» as were all 30 of the missed committee votes.

His office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on when an ENDA floor vote would take place.

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

Each June, the last scheduled month of the annual legislative sessions, such bills pop up for quick floor votes with little debate or public review.

Regardless, the endorsement gives the caucus tremendous leverage to force McCarthy or any other candidate into adopting procedural changes and policy positions favored by conservatives ahead of the decisive floor vote.

was supposed to attend, but she canceled at the last minute because of nine floor votes happening that night.

Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, a GOP stronghold in the Senate, became the new leader of the Senate with a unanimous floor vote from his Republican conference.

One option that was floated was something known as «deem and pass» in which the House would approve the bill without an actual floor vote.

The lawmakers who missed the most floor votes of the session include members under indictment.

So, Scott folds the anti-reform hand and plays a wild card, publicly proclaiming support for legislation granting in - state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrants, insisting it get a Senate floor vote after easy, early passage in the House.

In a statement this afternoon, President Obama's aides said they «would recommend that he veto the bill,» which is scheduled for a House of Representatives floor vote this week.

After a successful floor vote, Harkin would likely have to hold a conference committee to reconcile the bill with the House — whose ranking education leader Rep. John Kline (R - Minn.)

Farm Bill With Amendment to Allow Industrial Hemp Research Passes House in 216 to 208 Floor Vote Amendment Marks First Hemp Legislation to Pass in Congress in Over Fifty Years

This means that the bills are expected to go to a full floor vote in the House and Senate by early 2014, and that a markup session on a final bill will take place in the spring — the only question is which version will prevail.

The meeting later became a sit - in protest after congressional staffers in Pelosi's office wouldn't agree to the activists» demand of bringing ENDA to a House floor vote before month's end.

Gaining congressional co-sponsors by the week, the ERA received a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing last year and is now moving closer to a House floor vote in 2018.

The study looked at floor votes on all legislation that would raise or lower federal spending, a total of 37 votes on 17...

They quietly killed the legislation, which had already passed the State Senate, by making sure it did not come to an Assembly floor vote.

(CNN)- Goodwin Liu, a California law professor nominated by President Barack Obama for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Thursday for his name to be withdrawn after Senate Republicans had invoked a rarely used filibuster to block a final floor vote.

The «markup» is expected to last till Thursday, setting up a planned floor vote in the House next week.

With this declaration that the two Democratic senators from Massachusetts were behind him, he cruised through his hearings and the subsequent Senate floor vote.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote, which is expected to take place Thursday.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan on Tuesday, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote.

Minutes before the floor vote, Congressman Maxine Waters, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee spoke.

HR 3299, titled the Protecting Consumers» Access to Credit Act, passed the House on a 245 - 171 floor vote.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos has repeatedly said he has no plans to allow a floor vote on the abortion component, but indicated this week a willingness to negotiate the other points.

IDC spokesman Eric Soufer responded to Stewart - Cousin's criticism by noting that three years ago she didn't believe a floor vote should be held on the Reproductive Health Act without it gaining the necessary support.

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

Squadron, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker that his conference will begin circulating a petition among Senate lawmakers in order to force a floor vote on the bills.

Those nominations still require 60 senators before they can move to a floor vote.

Just got a call from a reporter looking for context on the latest pay - attention - to - me trick from House Republicans, announced today by Eric Cantor — they're now going to allow citizens to vote every week via email or text to pick their favorite from a list of five potential budget cuts, on which the Republican House leadership will then attempt to force a floor vote via parliamentary maneuver.