Sentences with phrase «vote in the state house»

For example, Democrats in Michigan won more than 54 percent of the vote in state House elections yet ended up with only 51 of the 110 seats.

[15] The 2014 regular session included a total of 515 votes in the State House and 396 in the State Senate, as well as 1,372 bills introduced total in the legislature and 237 bills passed.

Hughes noted that conservative groups like Young Conservatives of Texas (which endorsed Hughes) and others opposed the amendment for which Simpson voted in the state House.

Texas Voucher Bill Hits Dead End in Austin, as School Choice Again Fails to Get a Vote in State House the74million.org/article/texas -...

That law passed the state senate but never came up for a vote in the state house.

(California's landmark climate bill AB32 passed in 2006 with one Republican vote in the state House and none in the Senate; this year, its even more ambitious successor, SB32, passed the exact same way.)

Not exact matches

State senators voted 37 - 12 in favor, the House 81 - 17.

The state Senate on Wednesday passed the second of two House bills defining residency for voting, HB 1264, in 14 - 10 party line vote.

In Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislatioIn Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislatioin the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislation.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

Peers in the House of Lords are expected to vote later on an amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

In states with higher per capita income, greater housing prices, Ivy League schools, and other fine universities, Obama's greatest win was in Massachusetts (romney's political experience) with about 60 % of the votIn states with higher per capita income, greater housing prices, Ivy League schools, and other fine universities, Obama's greatest win was in Massachusetts (romney's political experience) with about 60 % of the votin Massachusetts (romney's political experience) with about 60 % of the vote.

Rhode Island's Senate has voted 26 to 12 to allow gay couples to get married in the state, in a law that could go into effect as early as August, provided the House falls in suit.

The House of Representatives voted to halt an action that would keep states from defunding Planned Parenthood in their respective states.

Legislation that would enable adoptive families to appeal state provided subsidy amounts by their county Children and Youth Services agency was passed in the House by a unanimous vote on October 17th.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

However, when it comes to ratification of a negotiated treaty and implementing it as legally binding in the United States, that is left to the legislative branch, and specifically the Senate (the House of Representatives does not vote on treaties).

I'm proud to join with Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and the entire Democratic Conference in calling on the State Senate to defend the public interest by bringing my tax disclosure bills to a vote this session, as is happening in 28 other state houses across the nation.&rState Senate to defend the public interest by bringing my tax disclosure bills to a vote this session, as is happening in 28 other state houses across the nation.&rstate houses across the nation.»

This wrinkle also occurs to me: to the extent that state Senate districts and state House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond house districts will push the upper house districts beyond house districts beyond 51 %.

Starting in 2018, Maine will become the first state to use instant - runoff voting for elections for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state legislature.

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.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

US citizens vote on the first Tuesday in November at the general election to elect the various members of the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as state and local government officials.

So I began to unravel how this had happened - how the House stays in Republican hands after 2012 because all of these blue and purple states are sending delegations to Congress that are 12 - 4 Republican or in the case of Pennsylvania, 13 - 5 Republican, even though these are blue states that voted for Barack Obama and that often voted for more Democratic candidates in the aggregate than Republicans.

Businesses, school leaders and progressive activists in New York also spoke out against the House vote and the provision to end the state and local tax deduction, saying they will be harmful to state residents.

After an hour and a half debate in the house before a vote on tolls was tabled, toll supporter State Representative Matt Ritter ceded, «We're going to fall short today.»

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

«Given the small margin by which the original bill passed in the House, if every member of the New York delegation — Democrat and Republican — would say they're not voting for any bill that cuts state and local deductibility, that bill would fail.»

Cannon described Colorado as a state where Democrats had the best chances of flipping the legislature — where President Obama did well in 2008, Democrats held the Senate by five votes, and Republicans held the House by just a one - vote margin.

The House on Thursday voted 211 - 186, on a party line vote, to table the privileged resolution that would have implicated the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with violating «Clause 1 of Rule XXIII of the Code of Official Conduct, which states that «A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, Officer or Employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.»

After months of delays and frustration, the state Senate early Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan state budget that will be voted on by the House later today, where broad support is expected, too.

After the revenue bill was approved by a 98 - 33 vote, the house turned to a state operations budget bill that passed in 13 minutes.

The unrealistic part of it is the person who only got enough votes to win one state (and only 34 % of the vote in that state) being the person chosen by the house.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to be «very, very, very active» in the upcoming House races in New York as he targets GOP lawmakers who have voted for a December tax law he has deemed «an economic missile» amied at the state.

The state Republican Party plans a massive get - out - the - vote effort for its Congressional candidates this fall, a move that Chairman Ed Cox says is being fueled in part by House Speaker John Boehner's team.

The House passed a measure in a 230 - 188 vote that would reverse a last - minute rule from the Obama administration that said conservative states can't block the women's health and abortion provider from receiving family planning dollars under the Title X program.

If 3 - 4 states become in doubt and unresolvable, enough that the winner no longer has 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives gets to pick, and it's likely they will choose their own party's candidate.

As final voting was taking place on Thursday, Cuomo told reporters in Sullivan County he had called the state's GOP House delegation and got the same answer: They were voting for it because their party leaders told them to.

When no candidate candidate achieves the 270 threshold, the 50 state delegations in the House are to choose between the top three electoral vote winners which would include the winner of the single district.

A bill in the Democrat - dominated state Assembly, which will be ripe for voting on Monday, represents a fallback course if a larger deal on the housing issues does not come together.

Labour will support government plans to join airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) when the House of Commons votes to join America's broad coalition of countries fighting the insurgency in Iraq, Good Morning Britain has heard.

Immigration Law Enforcement Compliance — Vote Passed (228 - 195, 10 Not Voting) The House passed a measure that would prohibit federal, state and local governments from restricting any federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with immigration laws or from assisting federal law enforcement entities or officials in their enforcement of such laws.

ALBANY, NY (12/09/2010)(readMedia)-- With the failure of cloture in the U.S. Senate on the James Zadroga Health and Compensation bill, Denis Hughes, President of the 2 1/2 million member New York State AFL - CIO today called upon President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to attach the Zadroga bill to the upcoming vote extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment insurance benefits.

But campaigns for both parties in the state's Senate and other House races will be watching the results, particularly how independents vote.

Pataki, who had been flirting with a White House bid for months, was scheduled to appear this weekend in the key early voting state of Iowa.

They are in the process of going through the state Assembly education committee, and if they pass, will be voted on the respective house floors.

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 GOP - led United States House of Representatives once again voted to repeal President Obama's Affordable Care Act today in Washington.

If so, here it is: One week after making stops in Iowa, the state that votes first in the presidential primary and caucus calendar, he's now heading to New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the race for the White House.