Sentences with phrase «to come to a vote»

All they have to do is block it in one committee or prevent it from coming to a vote on the floor of one house, and they will have effectively stopped it.

These are the options that people will be able to vote on when then come to vote for a baby name for this poll.

In other words, party, not geography, seemed to be the best indicator of whether two representatives would cooperate when a bill came to a vote.

This is a big contrast compared to last year, when a similar bill faced vocal opposition in committee and never came to a vote.

When the time came to vote on the marriage bill in 2009, I made a decision that I knew in my heart was the right thing to do.

The commission's meeting yesterday offered no solid clues as to how the other commissioners may respond, assuming the recommendations do come to a vote.

The postal ballot was triggered when the executive council came to a vote with a majority decision not to endorse his candidacy.

The problem is that when MPs come to vote, most won't have bothered to read and understand what is proposed.

When marriage came to a vote in the New York State Senate, Senator Diane Savinio fought for us,» says a description on the Facebook invitation for the July 11 event, at the home of David Ratcliffe.

The last major effort in 2008 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg faltered in Albany before coming to a vote.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

From the Volta Region, King Norbert reported that some military officers stationed at Nkonya - Alavanyo who came to vote at Ho left disappointed because they couldn't trace their names in the register although Ho Central was their Home constituency.

S1707 now heads to the state's General Assembly for approval, where similar legislation passed by the Senate last December failed came to a vote by the end of the last legislative session.

The Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister is opposed to nuclear power but is bound by the coalition agreement to abstain when the issue comes to a vote in the Commons.

Neither bill came to a vote last year and they have been reintroduced in the new legislative session.

The person you are impersonating coming to vote earlier and you being arrested for attempted voting fraud

According to the former Sports minister, there were buses full of people, who came to vote and investigations attest to all this.

The SAFE Act came to a vote in the Republican - controlled Senate and passed with the help of a number of prominent Republican votes.

There are a number of things that have simply not come to a vote because the Republicans have been in charge of the Senate.»

A policy regulating how to spend the city's share of Seneca Niagara Casino slot machine profits may come to a vote as soon as April 11, said City Council Chairman Andrew P. Touma.

What's more, as the current election season shows, there's a sharp political divide (even within the two major parties) that makes the idea difficult to ever come to a vote.

It is better for you to talk to the people, for you to be reconnected to the people and let the people come to vote.

The person you are impersonating coming to vote after you voted, and having your vote invalidated.

However, when the plan came to a vote, the Tea Party's Freedom Caucus would vote against the bill and it would fail.

The catch: Panasonic's white - knight role is contingent on investors approving Tesla's proposed $ 2.2 billion acquisition of SolarCity, which comes to a vote on Nov. 17.

GOP leaders are not eager to let the bill eat up Senate floor time unless it can pass and are saying it is unlikely that the measure will come to a vote anytime soon without a clearer path to passage.

Can be mitigated by voting as someone you know hasn't voted yet (or coming to vote very early, as per Al Capone's famous admonition).

Republicans control which bills come to the floor to a vote, and while some IDC members are sponsors on GENDA and DREAM, those issues are unlikely to come to a vote due to their arrangement with Republicans.

The bill was expected to come to a vote Tuesday, after presstime.

The bill nearly came to a vote on the floor last year, but was ultimately shelved.

Is there an chance when the electors come to vote in December, some of them change their idea?

«I'm freaking out,» said Jake Goodman, a founding member of Queer Rising, which has been advocating for the legislation, as hope faded that the measure would come to vote Monday.

It died in the State Assembly without coming to a vote.

In office, Quinn leads 50 other council members and largely controls what proposals come to a vote.

Nothing came to a vote because Skelos» fellow Republicans refused to officially «recognize» the motion that was sitting on the desk.

DOE moved to address such potential conflicts when the report finally came to a vote during the 10 October FESAC teleconference.

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

When matters come to a vote, Alice, Bob, and Charlie are in exactly the same situation: to win the vote they each have to convince one of the other two to agree with them and it doesn't matter which one.

Becky came to Vote Solar after working as Vice President for Policy and Energy Markets at SolarCity.

One decided to opt out and four other boards decided they wanted to opt out as well,» says Damian Stathonikos, BCREA's director of communications, as he describes the background to how six boards came to vote.

When the time came to vote for two of the three contenders for the two Town Board slots that will be opening up at the end of this year — his own and Republican Bob Ryan's — Hughes led the pack with 117 votes to Stacy Lipari's 80; Zoning Board of Appeals member Frank Klepeis finished out of the money with 53.

She did not disclose whom she voted for, but said, «I know the candidates, read a lot about them before coming to vote.»

That budget package, of course, never came to a vote in Congress, and the nation's energy diet was put off for another day.

It never even came to a vote.

When the time came to vote on the changes to domestic violence legislation, the thought of looking into her fellow deputies» eyes made Pushkina physically ill.