Sentences with phrase «up to the house vote»

In the hours leading up to the House vote, Cuomo stepped up his rhetoric.

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The House is scheduled to vote on the TCJA on Tuesday and the Senate will take up the bill immediately after, meaning President Donald Trump could sign the measure into law as early as Wednesday.

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes to pass the measure.

Democrats aren't going to supply any votes unless it's a clean debt ceiling increase so it's up to House leadership to find something that can pass.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

The bank — which has become a political football for conservatives, who accuse it of «crony capitalism» favoring big businesses — is expected to come up for another vote in the House before the end of October.

That's an assessment they disagree with, but Frank said GOP House members now will be hard - pressed to reject the wishes of their community bankers, who have called on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., to bring the Senate bill up for a vote.

But the House voted 71 - 36 to reject taking up the measure on the floor.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

Sorry to recycle, but with the Comey hearings sucking up all the air, folks may have missed that today the House today passed that fahrblunget bit of chazari known as the Choice Act, which largely repeals Dodd - Frank financial reform (it requires D votes in the Senate, so a much heavier lift over there, thankfully).

The latest version of the House GOP bill, which Republican leaders are trying to figure out whether they have the votes to pass this week, wouldn't live up to that promise and would weaken those protections.

In the name of transparency, let us hope so («House panel votes to release Democratic memo on Russia probe, setting up showdown with Trump,» Feb. 5).

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.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

The only surprise yesterday was the GOP strangehold over the House being held — so we'll have to step up the vote at the next election to free the House from the poison too.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

Wenger will buy up all the Frosties in a 3 mile radius of your house forcing you to have regular corn flakes if you vote for anyone else but Wilshere.

The approval is entirely based on a vote which could end a prolonged saga of more than three and a half years during which the 42 - year - old has struggled to find a site where he could build up the new stadium whilst also securing land to house the team.

A central component of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity platform is set to get an up - or - down vote on the House floor Thursday, after delays prompted by opposition from lawmakers on both ends of the political spectrum.

To coincide with debate on the waiver, Laurie David and Stephanie Soechtig, co-producers of the new documentary film «Fed Up,» delivered red and blue M&M's to the 29 House members who voted in favor of the waiver in committee last weeTo coincide with debate on the waiver, Laurie David and Stephanie Soechtig, co-producers of the new documentary film «Fed Up,» delivered red and blue M&M's to the 29 House members who voted in favor of the waiver in committee last weeto the 29 House members who voted in favor of the waiver in committee last week.

The White House stepped up its push to revive legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act by placating the most conservative House members, but the effort risked alienating more moderate Republicans whose votes President Trump needs just as much.

The groups; Let My Vote Count, Account for Accountable governance and the Youth wing of the biggest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 elections.

Rep. Elise Stefanik remains a key undecided vote today as House Republicans try to whip up support for a revised bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

House Republican Leader John Boehner announced today that his party will call for a vote on a resolution requiring an actual up - or - down House vote on the Senate health care bill, order to prevent the so - called Slaughter solution.

Boehner directed the House general counsel to defend DOMA against litigation after the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 voted 3 - 2 along party lines to take up defense of the statute.

Mr. Haggerty had promised to use the money to set up an Election Day voting - security operation, but instead used the money to buy a house, prosecutors said.

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

During his weekly news conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio), who has opposed efforts to pass ENDA, was non-committal when asked by the Blade if he'd be open to allowing the Equality Act to come up for a House floor vote.

It's due to come up for a House vote Tuesday.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler announced this afternoon that the House leadership has agreed to have a straight - up vote on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act when members return from their August break — perhaps as early as the week of September 20.

People need to speak up for affordable housing for seniors, because this vote will happen in this month, the month of March.

The Kentucky Republican secured a consent agreement Nov. 5 that sets up a Tuesday morning vote on the Senate agreeing to a House - passed revision of the fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill, clearing one must - do item off the calendar.

Another failure for the Liberal Democrats has been in relation to their pledge to deliver «a fair deal by cleaning up politics», following the 67.9 % vote against the introduction of the alternative vote system in the May 2011 referendum and the absence of the promised elected House of Lords.

However, Speaker Sheldon Silver is adopting a wait - and - see approach this time around, telling me he has no immediate plans to bring the measure up for another vote in his house until he gets a better idea of its chances on the other side of the Capitol.

Peers voted for the second time to introduce a new requirement for voters to sign for their ballot papers last night, setting up another clash with the House of Commons.

That's an about - face for the speaker, who told me in March that he would prefer to «wait and see» what happens in the Senate before putting the bill back up for a vote in his house.

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

Rebel, rebel I disagreed with him [Cameron] about House of Lords reform, I disagreed with him about gay marriage... I voted against gay marriage because a huge number of my constituents were very, very worked up about it and I just saw no need to upset them in that way.

In turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second reading.

«I think that he should be given the authority to have a negotiation and then bring it back to the House and then all of us can vote up and down whether we approve,» Mr. Meeks said.

The House of Representatives struggled to pass a repeal and replacement plan earlier this year, until they came up with some amendments that would pull in enough yes votes, and the Senate is now expected to do the same.

«We're so fed up with a congressman whose acts didn't represent us in the House,» said Bonnie, 47, a lawyer from Glendale who declined to give her last name, but said she hoped her vote for Lancman would help Democrats win back the hHouse,» said Bonnie, 47, a lawyer from Glendale who declined to give her last name, but said she hoped her vote for Lancman would help Democrats win back the househouse.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

His decision to step aside and endorse his former House colleague turned the Democratic Primary into a mere formality — Berman dominated in both fundraising and name recognition, and cleaned up with nearly 96 percent of the vote in her head - to - head against the fledgling campaign of first - time candidate Arthur Morrison.