Sentences with phrase «vote in both houses»

«While it is disappointing that our amendment did not win a majority of votes in the House of Commons, what it shows is that pro-European backbench MPs of all parties are not going to simply submit to a hard Brexit.

Tuesday was the deadline for the submission of any legislation that would have «aged» the required three days (at least a minute of Tuesday, plus Wednesday and Thursday) in order to be ready for voting in both houses on Friday.

A harried Lincoln must wrangle a majority vote in the House before the delegation arrives.

The extension approved by a voice vote in the House on March 14 will ensure that those programs are operated under current law until that date.

However the Fixed - term Parliaments Act looks like a piece of binding legislature, since it requires a two - thirds majority vote in the House of Commons to trigger a general election.

Instead, Chairman Henry Waxman conceded enough that four flipped, moving the bill through committee while delaying a floor vote in the House until after the recess.

For everything else there is impeachment with votes in both houses of congress.

We will make free votes in the House of Commons standard practice.

Boehner, Catholic by faith and Republican by party, was able to garner enough votes in the House for the passage of HR 1, the House budget proposal that has drawn the ire of many religious leaders.

It passed on Monday by a voice vote in the House of Representatives.

House Bill 46, by Rep. Kimberly Dudik, D - Missoula, passed on a preliminary vote 54 - 46 and must clear a final vote in the House before moving to the Senate.

The 31 - 28 vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee came after several days of intense and often contentious negotiations between Democratic House leaders and an influential group of fiscal conservatives in the party.

Both of these programs enjoyed bi-partisan support passing with more than 100 votes each in the House yesterday.

ALBANY, NY (11/08/2009)(readMedia)-- On the heels of an historic late night vote in the House of Representatives for a good, balanced health care reform bill, the New York State AFL - CIO expressed its appreciation of those in the New York Congressional delegation who voted in support of HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

The nearly $ 1.5 trillion tax cut required a second vote in the House after a Senate rule forced Republicans to remove three minor details from the bill on Tuesday.

Following the no confidence vote in the House of Commons that led to the fall of the minority government of Liberal Paul Martin, the Governor - General of Canada (who is the official representative of the Head of State, Her Majesty the Queen) has called for a parliamentary election on January 23rd,....

The ability of a government to function depends on its ability to win votes in the House of Commons.

The history of SESTA / FOSTA — a bad bill that turned into a worse bill and then was rushed through votes in both houses of Congress — is a story about Congress» failure to see that its good intentions can result in bad law.

A final vote in the House bill is expected Wednesday.

Thursday's planned vote in the House was postponed.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's resignation is imminent and Republicans in the chamber are calling on the Democratic majority to hold a full vote in the house to replace him.

Some of the above arguments still apply, but I'm not convinced that an independent MP can have his biggest impact by speaking or voting in tightly controlled party votes in the House of Commons, even those directly affecting his constituency (one of the many reasons it's such a shame he won the seat — the people of his constituency needed meaningful representation more than many others).

In a written statement announcing the successful vote in the House, McHenry said that «Angel investing and investment crowdfunding are both innovative new forms of capital formation which — in the proper regulatory climate — can become vital tools for entrepreneurs and small businesses.»

The «markup» is expected to last till Thursday, setting up a planned floor vote in the House next week.

Some predicted that General Convention would not be able to legally authorize the trial rite because it would require a supermajority vote in the House of Bishops.

Thanks to pro-life groups and backlash over health care reform, the Democratic pro-life vote in the House of Representatives is likely to halve on November 2, making abortion even more of a partisan issue.

First, my lone female vote in a house with four male people means I don't have a say in what we watch — we've made the natural boy progression from non-princess Disney productions to action and shoot - em - up flicks.

GMA also applauds the resounding vote in the House of Representatives in support of Rep. Flake's amendment to end federal spending on corn ethanol infrastructure.»

Perhaps contrary to what many members of the public believe, it is pointed out that all of the powers so far devolved in England belong to and are mandated by the executive branch of the UK government and are not the product of new legislation introduced via votes in the House of Commons.

The only reliable way to determine who can command confidence in such a situation is a nomination vote in the House of Commons.

It all ends up being balanced based on the true vote counts rather than just needing 51 % to get an entire vote in the House.

«There are many issues that simply transcend politics and a unanimous vote in both houses tells you that this is certainly one of them,» Serino said.

The bill may receive a third reading vote in the House on April 17 or April 18.

@JimThio not a referendum, but a constitutional amendment, which requires a 2/3 super-majority vote in both houses of congress and ratification by at least 3/4 of state legislatures.

At the federal level, laws can only be passed by majorities in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate followed by either the President's signature, or by a veto followed by a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the House of Representative and a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the U.S. Senate.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Feb. 8 that she won't vote for the spending deal on the table without assurances of an immigration vote in the House.

In order to protect against one ‐ party dominance in the drawing of lines, if one party controls both houses of the legislature, approval of a plan requires a 2/3 affirmative vote in each house.

Ryan and President Donald Trump suffered a humiliating blow when they failed to whip up sufficient votes in the House to pass AHCA, which would have cut subsidies, proffered tax credits and eliminated Obamacare's requirement that large employers offer affordable healthcare to their employees.

By fair means or foul, he will sway those wavering votes in the House where, in 1865, the persuasions of Democrat and Republican were the reverse of today.

After years of close votes in the House and emotional floor speeches against the bill, there was very little fanfare to be found.

In 2010, the California legislature passed a law, introduced by then - assembly speaker Gloria Romero (and passed by a single vote in the House and Senate), granting parents the right to replace the administration or turn the school into a charter or even simply dissolve the school and relocating the students.

House Bill 2011 and House Bill 3069 each won approval on 8 - 3 votes in the House Rules Committee.

«The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act is a common - sense step in that direction, and we commend today's bipartisan vote in the House,» they said in a joint statement.

Remarkably, even though Prime Minister Harper and his government, officially, have opposed Bill C - 279, it was not a whipped vote in the House of Commons and 18 government MPs (including four Ministers at the time) voted in favour of its adoption.