Sentences with phrase «via votes in the house»

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But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Limitation — Vote Passed (218 - 210, 6 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would limit to $ 250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs first.

«Miami Democrats do the Nancy Pelosi squirm as House minority leader visits South Florida» via David Smiley of the Miami Herald — The top Democrat in the U.S. House had just spent an hour gushing about Debbie Mucarsel - Powell «s «courage,» highlighting her congressional campaign to knock off one of the most vulnerable Republicans in America and bashing Rep. Carlos Curbelo over his voting record on health care.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.