Sentences with phrase «vote no on the bill if»

Asked about their lack of involvement, the speaker said both were aware of the ongoing conversations, adding that she has not yet «closed the door» on holding a vote on the bills if the police do not follow the new directives.

Alexander has indicated the final bill could be available as early as next week, and said yesterday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R — KY) has agreed to schedule a floor vote on the bill if the committee can produce it.

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It was unclear if a decisive vote on the bill would occur then.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

It is unclear if either the Wagner bill or the Foxx / Roe bill will get a full vote on the House floor.

What's more, a deficit - increasing bill can rely on the reconciliation process — the process that allows a simple majority vote in the Senate — only if it does not raise deficits in years after the 10 - year budget window, which means the tax breaks here would have to be temporary.

Leaders are continuing to work to get more votes on board and will schedule a vote for this week if they believe they have enough to pass a bill, the aide added.

They will vote on the bill on Tuesday, and if it passes, Rhode Island will be the nation's tenth state — and the final state in New England — to allow gay marriage...

If that seems a little hysterical, consider The Catholic Herald's account of an interview given by Ed Balls on the Today programme, a few hours before the House of Commons passed, by 268 votes to 177, its Sex Education Bill (against which, Catholics should note, the Tories voted):

Slow Food USA asks that if your own Rep is on the committee (you can check this list), to please call today or Monday «to urge them to bring H.R. 5504 up for committee vote quickly and to fully fund the bill with at least an additional $ 1 billion per year.»

Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

Next you'll notice the Bills Portal, which lists every bill before Congress (via thomas.gov and gives you the opportunity to vote as if you were voting yes or no on the bill and to indicate on a scale of 1 - to - 4 how important that bill is to you.

This is a disaster, but it would not be on the table if Senator Avella had not voted for it when the Republican led coalition included this plan in their budget bill,» AQE's email, signed by its advocacy director Zakiyah Ansari.

Republicans were uniformly tight lipped leaving the conference Saturday when asked about their plans for the day and if a budget bill would be voted on at some point.

All ministers had to do was to raise in front of them the spectre of being an irresponsible opposition, and that children will die if they do not vote for the bill on this timetable, and they succumbed.»

bills need an explicit vote to be voted on even if no one wants to debate them further.

If Bill chooses to vote on an issue, his vote now has the power of 2 votes (his and yours, assuming no one else give Bill a voting power).

I think if people want a raise they make their argument, like they would with any other bill, and then have an up or down vote on it so you can see how your legislators are going to vote on the increase,» Johns said.

NYC Council members vowed to force a vote on hotly debated police reform bills if Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito refuses to allow a vote this year.

Stewart - Cousins demurred on whether Cuomo was seeking the votes of her mainline conference or if she would not back a budget that included a deal deemed to be too watered down, saying she had not received proposed bill language.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

If the debate on this bill so far is anything to go by, we will see many more flourishes of excitement and protest over EVEL certification and voting in the next few months.

One solution being floated was a minimal immigration bill dealing with DACA and border security — but the problem for the GOP in the House is fairly straightforward — if a bill does nothing on DACA it loses certain votes, and if you add DACA in, that pushes other Republicans away.

Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»

Still, lawmakers Spectrum News spoke to dismissed the concerns stemming from Uber, saying they want to see a bill to vote on, if not an agreement in the budget.

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?

Sen. Jim Seward, the Republican sponsor of the bill, had previously indicated this week he would want to see a vote on his version of the legislation, if anything to show a statement of support for allowing companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in upstate cities.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

If all the signatories oppose the vote on the timetable for the bill, it will lead to the government's first significant defeat.

He said that, if the government did not formally adopt the idea of extending Britain's membership, he was prepared to force a vote on the issue by attempting to add his plan to the EU withdrawal bill, currently working its way through parliament.

wants to vote on the Senate bill next week, though it remains unclear if Republican leaders will have the 50 votes they need to clear the legislation.

«Again, if the evaluation bill — well, it's really the disclosure bill — is not voted on the governor has indicated that a drop dead date is not more than a few months away.»

It simply calls on the Government to agree that we should insert in the Bill that the result of the referendum will not pass if less than 40 % vote in it.

If you'll recall the special election in which Murphy defeated Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in a squeaker, the key issue — thanks to CapCon's Jimmy Vielkind — became how the Republican lawmaker would have voted on the bailout bill.

Following Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» comments yesterday about ongoing talks on a public campaign finance system, state Conservative Party is upping the ante on the issue, warning Republican lawmakers that they could lose a crucial endorsement if they vote «yes» should a bill come to the floor.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

But if the government loses its budget bill or the vote on its legislative programme (the Queen's Speech), then it can't function and would be forced to resign.

It's not yet clear if DeFrancisco's bill in the Senate and its same - as version in the Assembly will be voted on before the end of the legislative session, scheduled to conclude on June 21.

It's not clear if Republicans in the Senate would want to vote on another gun control bill.

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.

The congressman said Mr Trump threatened to run a candidate against him in the midterms if he did not vote «yes» on the first iteration of the bill.

«We'd love it to get done sooner rather than later, so if it can get done in the next few weeks via a vote on the floor on a standalone bill, that would be great.»

Overall, 76 members have either signed on as co-sponsors to the bill or said they would vote for it if it came to the floor.

The email, from Staten Island GOP Vice Chair Bill D'Ambrosio, said Democratic challenger Domenic M. Recchia Jr. would rely on «votes from Brooklyn housing projects» and if he won, that he would «pay back these votes, and surely build low - income housing in our neighborhoods.»

Apparently, it's still unclear what will happen if the bill comes to a vote in the Assembly on Tuesday, although it's highly unlikely that members would reject it.

All three states have Republican congressional representatives, and he says if more of them vote no on the final bill, then the plan would be defeated.

P.S. To those conservatives still in denial about the implications of this switch - it doesn't really matter if Specter (or the Blue Dogs, for that matter) vote with the Democratic majority on actual bills.

The North Carolina ballot access reform bill, HB 32, which has already passed the House, is set for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next week, which means it will then receive a vote on the Senate floor if it passes Committee.