Sentences with phrase «to miss the vote»

Anyone who missed voting for the first set of nominees can find them here.

Out of all roll call votes, 90 individual legislators did not miss any votes.

UPDATE: The Times also notes, correctly, that it's not really clear how much voters actually care about the issue of missed votes - and it is hard to imagine the non-voting alone will majorly affect the outcome of the primary.

Heastie, who served as chairman of the chamber's Labor Committee, has been criticized for missing votes in the past, which he attributed to teaching and family responsibilities.

The state budget was passed a week after the April 1 deadline this year, and Latimer missed the votes on legislation approving school funding, tax revenues and the capital budget.

Currently, two seats are vacant in the Senate, and two Republican senators missed the vote.

An article in the New York Post alleges that Latimer missed the vote to take a trip overseas with a woman who was not his wife

Ms Abbott's Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency voted overwhelmingly to stay in the European Union, but her office denied missing the vote for political expediency.

Its ok Reformed, my wife spoke to a large enough number of republicans over the last couple of days that mentioned they will vote for Obama rather than any of the fools currently running in the gop to know that he wont miss your vote.

Missed voting by two days.

Five Conservative ministers missed the vote: Alan Duncan and David Gauke, who were given permission to stay on holiday; Justine Greening and Mark Simmonds, who were engaged in a meeting and missed the division bell; and Kenneth Clarke, who was absent for family reasons.

The accusations of frequent missed votes and a DWI arrest in June 2013 are blemishes on Assemblyman Rodriguez's record in Albany.

The committee said missing the vote, which include a sales tax extender for counties, was reckless, despite the bill's passage.

In March 2014, Washington Votes, the state's premier legislative information website, released its annual Missed Votes Report, which provides detailed missed roll call votes on bills for every state legislator during the 2014 legislative session.

Cautionary note: counting absentions is a tricky business, since the absence of an MP from the division lists can mean that he's abroad, or has been slipped, or has simply missed the vote.

One senator, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, announced present, and Republican Sen. David Vitter missed the vote.

Mr. Perez's allies said they had enough votes to win on the first ballot, but a single committee member somehow missed the vote.

Heastie missed votes on 173 bills — or 15 % of the legislation the Assembly passed in 2014, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

MCCL spokesman William Poehler said in an interview that some pro-life House members had missed the vote Thursday and could make a difference when Kahn's bill comes back to the floor.

Instead of running in the newly redrawn district, Pataki decided to challenge seven - term incumbent Republican State Senator Mary B. Goodhue in the Republican primary by criticizing her for taking her grandchildren to Disney World and missing a vote in Albany.

If a Senator missed a vote (deliberately or not), and all other Senators are present and voting, it would deny the VP the opportunity to break a tie.

It's not helpful to Rice that Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in California, also had a roughly twenty - year gap of missed votes, which Dems on the West Coast are pounding her over on a weekly basis (this actually strikes me as one of the ways the story will be kept alive, and I will be surprised if someone doesn't do an attack on the DA yoking her to Whitman).

On Tuesday, Silver said his work in Albany won't be impacted, adding that he hasn't missed a vote or community event since being charged, Rincon reported.

That was never more apparent than about a week ago when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher seniority.

For his part, Latimer does not deny missing the vote, stating: «I got proper clearance.

I know that you never miss a vote and I hope that you continue that great voting record by voting today.»

Senators Thad Cochran and John McCain have been ill in recent weeks and have missed votes.

A missed connection equals a missed vote — or a missed donation.

Nolan demurred, too, when asked if lawmakers should reconsider their support for Heastie given reports about his high rate of reimbursement for per diem expenses, missed votes, heavy reliance on itemized campaign finance expenditures (which drew the attention of the now - defunct Moreland Commission), as well as member items being directed to campaign donors.

Former Erie County Democratic Chairman Len Lenhian believes the way the legislature does business lends itself to missed votes.

You can also read posts about the problem of missing votes in the re-count, and how the result came down to just one vote if the missing votes as counted originally were included in the count.

Missed votes can also play into existing narratives.

Mark Reckless In July 2010, Mark got so drunk before a crucial vote on the Budget that he fell to the floor of a Commons bar, was bundled into a taxi and missed the vote.

Obviously, if it's attributable to a human, they will be tried and punished according to their intent and culpability, but that won't get back the missing votes.

Heastie did not respond to a request for an interview, but spokesman Eric Soufer defended his voting record, arguing that the bulk of the missed votes came during a few days in June that Heastie was absent to attend to family and work matters.

In Western Australia when a similar thing happened (in this case it was missing votes), the High Court ruled that the election was invalid and had to be redone.

Two were in the Palace of Westminster and still managed to miss the vote.

One MP who was present at the shadow cabinet meeting told PoliticsHome that chief whip Nick Brown had confirmed that Abbott had not asked for permission to go home and miss the vote.

In October, Ms. Henry's campaign issued a mailer that ripped Mr. LaValle for poor attendance in the Senate, stating he had missed votes on 119 bills that year.

Latimer also faced questions over a suspended car registration due to unpaid parking tickets and missed votes on the state budget because he was traveling in the United Kingdom.

I do nt think it's former labour voters that make up the missing votes, as most gave died, but the ones who stopped voting labour went to ukip, and they're not going to fine back, if labour swing to the left.

Rangel, 81, is currently suffering from back problems that forced him to miss votes in Congress.

Department of Education Deputy Chancellor Kathleen Grimm, another Bloomberg representative on the TRS Board, missed the vote, but said she also opposed divestment.

Heastie voted against same - sex marriage in 2007, missed the vote in 2009, but in 2011 supported the bill that was eventually signed into law.

The four Democrats were among the 25 members with the highest percentage of missed votes, according to an attendance analysis by State Watch that was shared with the Daily News by John Doyle, who is up against Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj for a Bronx Council seat.

Unfortunately I missed the vote.

Only one Senator missed the vote - John McCain was in Washington, but didn't show up for the vote.

Missing their vote is no loss.