Sentences with phrase «vote moves the bill»

The Senate's vote moves the bill, which rolls back a significant amount of federal power over K - 12 education, to the president's desk.

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He voted in favor of a motion to proceed to debate the healthcare bill, a move for which Democrats criticized him.

And rather than continue to waste their dwindling political capital ramming through a massive cut in health coverage that an equally massive chunk of the country says it doesn't want, they would effectively stage a vote on an unpassable bill, blame everyone (but themselves), and then move on to what they really care about: corporate tax reform.

That method allows Republicans to move the bill through the Senate with only a majority vote — avoiding a potential Democratic filibuster.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

That left McConnell at least two votes short in the closely divided Senate from being able to move forward with his bill.

A bill must receive 60 votes to move past a filibuster.

The Senate Education Committee voted Tuesday to include the requirement in a sweeping education bill that is now moving through the legislature.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

The Washington State Senate today passed a proposed crowdfunding law with a 46 - 2 vote, as House Bill 2023 now moves back to the House for a vote on amendments.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

He offers as evidence a litany of recent congressional developments, such as the vote in the House of Representatives to gut the Clinton administration's counterterrorism bill — a move that Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) attributed to a corrosive distrust of government on the part of a broad coalition in Congress.

(Washington, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today commended the release of the Senate Finance Committee tax reform proposal as an important step forward in Congress towards passing critical reforms to the nation's tax code, and urged the House to move forward with plans to vote on its bill this week.

The release of the Senate bill and a plan for the House to vote this week moves the nation one step closer to creating a tax system that would take a territorial approach, secure internationally competitive tax rates for manufacturers, reduce taxes on consumers, and help spur job creation within the grocery manufacturing industry,» said Pamela G. Bailey, GMA's president and CEO.

In a highly unusual move, a bill to ban a cancer - causing ingredient in children's products that cleared the Assembly in a unanimous vote got hung up in the Senate Finance Committee despite bipartisan support.

In a press release Friday, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Canandaigua, called for his colleagues to vote as soon as possible on a bill that would move the effective date for New York's new ride - hailing regulations up ten days.

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

For example, the mayor said today that he will support Sen. Craig Johnson, a Nassau County Democrat, simply because he decided to buck his fellow downstate Dems and vote «yes» on the charter school bill — a move Bloomberg deemed «courageous.»

«We are the group that is directly responsible for reviewing and voting on legislation and moving bills through the process, so to ignore us as a whole would be grossly irresponsible,» said Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, R - Batavia, in a statement.

Gianaris» bill was moved out of the Government Operations committee by a vote of 7 - 2.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, the Finance Committee voted to move on another reform bill that would add more oversight to the state's economic development project contracting process.

Similarly, another bill would facilitate the voting process by automatically transferring voter's registration when they move within New York State (A. 3411, Kavanagh).

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House is about to vote on a farm bill that will reduce eligibility for food stamps, a move that has caused a partisan split, with most Democratic lawmakers opposing the legislation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, voting Tuesday with his wife in Brooklyn, took the rear door of his polling place and avoided activists who say he's moving too slowly to shut down the violence - plagued Rikers Island jails.

Discouragingly, in April, State Senate Republicans not only refused to hold a committee vote on a version of the bill, they moved it to a separate committee, avoiding further debate and a vote.

He then moved on to the issue of votes of confidence, which the Bill would still make subject to a simple majority, but rather than causing an immediate general election, there would be a fortnight for a new government to be formed which could command the confidence of the Commons, before a new election had to take place:

The Home Office is trying to get powers from the communication data bill passed without the need for a Commons vote, in a move which would be greeted with outrage by the Liberal Democrats.

And lawmakers are moving forward with plans to start voting on the remaining budget bills later today in hopes of coming close to meeting the midnight deadline.

Today's move brings us towards a fairer, more just system of electing our President where one person really does equal one vote,» said Bill Lipton, State Director for the Working Families Party.

Under fire for letting the Education Investment Tax Credit and the DREAM Act fall off the budget table, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Legislature in a Daily News OpEd to move forward with stand - alone votes on both bills.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last October that he thinks the bill should come to the floor for an up - or - down vote, but he has so far shown no sign of moving the measure.

The move was an effort to have lawmakers either vote the measures up or down, considering they can not alter what has been introduced in appropriations bills.

«Hi, this is Pink, asking you to pretty, pretty please vote «yes» on the bill to move the carriage horses to Central Park,» the famously acrobatic vocalist says in the clip, arguing that equestrian carriages to continue to ride on city streets constitutes animal abuse.

Klein moved the bill to the floor earlier this year, and he and the four senators of his conference voted for it.

The bill was moved quickly through the Ways and Means committee, followed by a floor vote.

And I urge the City Council to move this bill to the floor, and we demand a vote, and we demand it now.»

The move by the peers, who guaranteed the bill would run out of time by voting to end the committee stage, prompted the Conservatives to accuse Labour and the Lib Dems of acting as «enemies of democracy».

The Senate also managed to pass the FMAP bill in a 37 - 22 vote, but so far hasn't moved on anything else.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic procedural move to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.

The move comes after a bill that would expand voting rights to parolees failed in the Republican - controlled state Senate, Cuomo said.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein sought to attach the abortion measure to a different bill, but that move failed a procedural vote.

Savino, who has already amended the Compassionate Care Act to limit smoking pot to those over the age of 21, rejected Cuomo's call to ban smoking altogether, and insisted that the Senate would move forward to vote on a bill before the session's end — with or without the governor's approval.

House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon — as early as tomorrow — to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor.

In a further development on Thursday, the measure was moved from the Senate Finance panel — where Chairman John DeFrancisco of Syracuse said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bill — to the Senate Rules Committee, improving the bill's chances of hitting the floor sometime before the end of the legislative session.

That does not bode well at all for moving the same - sex marriage bill out onto the floor — the a health care exchange bill is too liberal to come up for a vote, how will gay marriage ever make it?

Another marathon closed - door Senate GOP conference has passed without a decision on whether to move Gov. Andrew Cuomo's same - sex marriage bill to the floor for a vote.

The U.S. Senate moved closer to approving a sweeping overhaul of the tax code yesterday, voting to begin debate on the tax bill as Republican leaders continue trying to secure the votes for final passage.

Forty of the Council's 51 members have signed onto the bill, but it has languished without receiving a floor vote — adding it to a growing list of bills with strong support among council members that have failed to move forward under Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a close de Blasio ally, despite promises of more democratic Council rules reform.