Sentences with phrase «unanimous consent»

The measure is expected to be approved by unanimous consent, according to a source familiar with the plan, which means there will be no debate and no official vote.

The original rules required unanimous consent to stop someone from speaking.

If a member of the national assembly wishes to wear a religious symbol, there must be unanimous consent from the assembly.

When spoken only in the company of fellow believers, it is perfectly reasonable to expect unanimous consent.

At the beginning of the semester, I received unanimous consent to collect data for an action research study from students enrolled in the geometry course.

Unfortunately, any change to the process would require unanimous consent.

It can be done at a shareholder meeting, by unanimous consent of shareholders, or even by majority shareholder consent «without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote,» Bouchard wrote.

The motion passed with unanimous consent.

There were minor additions made to the measure, but it passed by unanimous consent in early August.

@Viktor article 5 states that each state must have the same number of votes in the senate; whether that implies that the Senate can not be abolished without unanimous consent of the states seems at best a matter for argument.

In those cases, a senator asks unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call.

H.R. 3700, sponsored by Reps. Luetkemeyer (R - MO) and Cleaver (R - MO) and through companion legislation, Senators Menendez (D - NJ) and Scott (R - SC), passed the Senate under unanimous consent is on the way to the President for his signature.

But the Senate approved the bill through unanimous consent in August.

A bill (S. 4053) to enlarge and broaden two long - running federal research programs that help high - tech startups was rushed through the Senate by unanimous consent on the morning of the final day of the 111th Congress.

The U.S. Senate voted to approve the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering dean by unanimous consent late last night before adjourning until 15 November.

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* NY Times: «The Obama administration is prepared to force Chrysler into bankruptcy by the end of the week unless it gets unanimous consent from a group of banks and hedge funds to retire the automaker's debt.»

The Senate passed an amended version by unanimous consent Thursday.

«I am elated,» said principal James Lee after the school board approved Sylmar High as an affiliated charter school by unanimous consent at the May board meeting.

A markup by the Senate Finance Committee would normally be the next step, but with only nine working days before the program expires, our guess is the authors will seek unanimous consent for passage.

Its «composition» figures among the «matters» amendable only on unanimous consent of Parliament and the provinces.

Sen. Coburn got the Democratic leadership in the senate to cut out tens of billions of dollars of pork and waste, and passed the bill with unanimous consent.

To tolerate Byzantine failure, Stellar Consensus Protocol is designed not to require unanimous consent from the full set of nodes for the system to reach agreement.

If the new declaratory provisions have an effect and they change the rules about who can be appointed to the Supreme Court as a judge from Quebec, there is a serious argument they can not be adopted without unanimous consent from all the provinces.

After hearing additional criticism from the full committee's ranking member, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D — TX), Lummis set the stage for debate on the bill by asking for unanimous consent to waive a required reading of the full text.

Issa: I'd like ask unanimous consent that the statement by Professor Jonathan Zittrain be placed in the record in which essentially he offers to make available PACER for free.

The measure was adopted under unanimous consent.

The treaty process works through unanimous consent, which is wonderfully utopian but at best glacial in decision - making.

The House by unanimous consent late Wednesday agreed to the version they meant to approve Monday; the Senate is expected to quickly follow suit.

It is worth noting that for Catalonia to be allowed to become a member state they must have unanimous consent from all EU member states.

The House of Representatives also sent a bill to the Senate on this subject, but again, due to the inability to process legislation in any mode other than unanimous consent in the Senate, we were not able to pass the legislation into law.

A corporation which has elected (by unanimous consent of its shareholders) under Subchapter S of the IRS code not to pay any corporate tax on its income.

It may well require the unanimous consent of the provinces, an unlikely prospect.

«It shall be unlawful for any person or organization to file papers for or approve a change of the religious faith of any person, living or deceased, without permission of the individual, if alive, or a Federal Judge, or the unanimous consent of all descendants, if deceased.»

The LDS Church should not accept such papers and reject all such filings, except with the unanimous consent of all descendants.

In the Senate, consideration of legislation often requires unanimous consent.

Wednesday, Republicans deployed a workaround — Republicans on the committee used a «unanimous consent» clause to suspend all of its rules for the meeting, then voted to confirm the nominations for Steven Mnuchin, up for Treasury secretary, and Tom Price, nominated for Health and Human Services secretary.

Tracking allows the majority leader — with unanimous consent or the agreement of the minority leader — to have more than one bill pending on the floor as unfinished business.

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

And had a Democrat been there to oppose the «unanimous consent» then there would have been a quorum sot the «unanimous consent» vote would not have been required.

Citing health, work and childcare hardships, three jurors have asked to be excused as the jury struggles to reach «unanimous consent» in the bribery case involving a former top Cuomo aide and two Syracuse businessmen.