Sentences with phrase «voice vote»
It's not enough to let diverse voices vote on the year's best films.
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The intervening days from introduction to voice vote kept us glued to our screens.
The Senate bill (S. 915) was approved by voice vote by the Finance Committee on February 11, 2015.
The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, signed by President Donald Trump in October, was passed by voice vote in the House and Senate, where dramatic statistics on elder fraud and abuse prompted overwhelming support for the legislation.
Under the measure, which passed by voice vote with Republicans audibly voting «no,» the Obama administration's signature education reform initiative would get $ 675 million in fiscal 2011 for another round of grants.
The bill, passed by unanimous voice vote Monday, requires the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to examine security at Cuba's 10 international airports and report to Congress on whether the airports meet new aviation security requirements.
The students learned how the state Senate works upon hearing an unrecorded voice vote of yea or nay actually passed a two - year moratorium on selling AR - 15 assault rifles like the one used in the school shooting.
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State adopted voice votes in its congress held on Saturday.
In voice votes Monday with an unclear number of lawmakers saying nay, members of the Senate Education Committee approved and sent to Senate Finance a rewrite of House Bill 2934.
Azar was confirmed unanimously in a Senate voice vote to his role as Deputy Secretary under the Bush administration in 2005.
He was unanimously placed on the ballot via voice vote, since he has no opposition, freeing him up to focus solely on his Democratic target: State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
The motion was passed during an «unrecorded voice vote in which senators shouted yea or nay.»
The Senate delayed a vote on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's nomination to become secretary of state after a Republican lawmaker objected to a planned voice vote today.
The Shark Conservation Act passed by a House voice vote in March, and companion legislation is currently before the Senate Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee.
Although it was not without opposition, it was approved by an overwhelming voice vote at the general assembly and, perhaps more significant, received the required ratification from the presbyteries by a count of 205 to 35.
While conventioneers took a lunch break (all that unanimous voice voting really takes a lot out of a person), volunteers went through the ballroom distributing «Duffy, Lt. Governor» signs.
At the same meeting the club endorsed by unanimous voice vote Council member Mary Cheh (D - Ward 3), who's running unopposed in the primary.
On the last day before the August recess, the Senate confirmed 65 of President Donald Trump's nominees with a single bipartisan voice vote.
Iriase said that e-voting would replace the regular voice vote being currently applied and forestall future controversies in the House, explaining that the method would promote accountability and transparency.
After the debate, Speaker Yakubu Dogara put the bill into voice vote, to which majority of the lawmakers voted against.
In a unanimous voice vote put by the Chairman of the Congress Committee for the state, Chief Tony Odeh, the delegates affirmed the re-election of the 31 executive committee members.
In Anambra, Mr Emeka Ibe was re-elected Chairman of the party through affirmative voice vote by the delegates in the congress held at Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka.
A head count after an earlier voice vote showed 67 Minority MPs voted to reject the Eurobond whereas 66 Majority MPs voted in support of the motion.
Such bills usually pass by voice vote without debate, but Katko requested a recorded vote.
The House Education and Labor Committee last week approved by voice vote legislation to reauthorize — and reorganize — the Education Department's research branch, after rejecting a Republican effort to give the President authority to appoint the members of a new board that would set research policy.
The only complaint I might have about this contest (just in case you're thinking of attending with hopes of winning) is that the crowd voices their vote.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee issued voice votes to report three bipartisan cybersecurity bills favorably to the House.
County of Santa Fe, NM (pdf) Resolution No. 2006 - 149 September 2006 A Resolution to Endorse the U.S. Conference of Mayors» Climate Protection Agreement Adopting Higher Performance Energy Efficient Building Standards (Commissioner Montoya) The motion to approve Resolution 2006 - 149 passed by unanimous [5 - 0] voice vote.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has adopted voice votes in its local government congress in the state.
Lavine won the endorsement by a unanimous voice vote from about three dozen committee members at the American Legion in Eastwood Wednesday night.
The bill was adopted by voice vote in subcommittee Wednesday, and will go next to the full committee.
The House passed it by voice vote on Sept. 16.
Brendan Carr, a Republican who is general counsel at the FCC and Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, were both confirmed by voice vote, bringing the five - member FCC to full strength and giving Republicans a 3 - 2 majority.
The House Financial Services Committee approved all the bills by a voice vote, with two sailing through without a single amendment.
It passed on Monday by a voice vote in the House of Representatives.
It had been approved by a voice vote, and opponents quickly insisted on reconsidering it, this time with a roll call to formally record how each senator voted.
SIFMA chose to hold a voice vote on the suit, so there was no official tally.
Senators gave it second - round approval on a voice vote
The Intelligence Authorization Act passed overwhelmingly by voice vote in the House and by unanimous vote in the Senate.
In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.
The hearings, stemming from a voice vote last November, will study a little - known loophole that circumvents federal laws banning the commercial sale of human body parts.
The change, proposed by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland immediately after the convention was gaveled into order on Wednesday, required a two - thirds voice vote, but was declared as adopted after three voice votes which brought delegates to their feet, shouting their yeas and nays.
And conflict or no conflict, he should have allowed a hand count, not just a voice vote.
Then they pack the room with their buddies — many of the voters who were yelling to table the resolutions weren't even State Committee Members — and just try to outyell their opposition by a so - called «voice vote.»
Both Gillibrand and Schumer were unanimously placed on the ballot this morning by a voice vote, with no opponents even nominated.
Club members voted to endorse McDuffie, another longtime LGBT rights supporter, for re-election to the Ward 5 Council seat by unanimous voice vote.
She won the election unopposed with a voice vote by delegates at the biennial convention of the NGE holding at the Airport Hotel Ikeja Lagos today, Saturday, April 29, 2017.
Lastly, the three candidates for the State Supreme Court, Peter Mentone, Deborah James and Anil Sing, and Letitia James, candidate for Public Advocate were all endorsed unanimously by voice vote.