Sentences with phrase «vote on the amendment at»

They'll vote on amendments at 9 pm and third reading by 10 pm.

The Legislature will take the next month to identify changes we wish to make to the County Executive's budget and vote on any amendments at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1 Annual Budget Meeting.

And of course, they don't have to vote on amendments at all.

voted no to preserve special privileges to call another vote on the amendment at any time.

But it's hard to measure how many people will actually vote on the amendment at all.

Not exact matches

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

The affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast by holders of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting will be required to approve the amendment of the 2004 Plan, provided that the total votes cast on the proposal represent over 50 % of the outstanding stock entitled to vote on the proposal.

Whereas the current Code merely calls for a statement to be published on the company's website in response to shareholder concerns when a say - on - pay fails to receive majority support, the Senate's amendment would require companies to prepare and present a report at the next general meeting detailing how it took the shareholder vote into consideration.

These so - called «broker non-votes» will be included in the calculation of the number of votes considered to be present at the meeting for purposes of determining a quorum, but will not be considered in determining the number of votes necessary for approval and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Directors, the advisory vote on executive compensation, the amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the shareholder proposals.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The lobby team at my last nonpofit (enviro) job drove home this observation repeatedly, putting the procedural victories and losses along the legislative way in perspective — sure, the Senate might strip a critical provision out or add in something nasty while voting on floor amendments, but the matter really wasn't settled until conference.

«What I did was I voted for a couple of amendments which were kind of conscience clauses for the likes of registrars and so on, which didn't get past, but that wouldn't have slowed it down at all,» he says.

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

Angered at the huge spending increases at the center of the deal, Paul delayed passage for hours with a demand to vote on an amendment that would keep in place strict caps on spending that the deal would raise.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

In 2014, Tedisco sponsored, promoted and helped pass with 77 % of the vote statewide Proposition 2, a constitutional amendment to save millions of tax dollars by stopping the wasteful printing of paper copies of legislation and allow digital copies to suffice on legislators» desks at the Capitol.

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo had agreed last year to an amendment, but the Democratic - led Assembly balked at a vote on the measure, which came with a broader agreement on the state budget.

In 2014, I sponsored, promoted and helped pass with 77 percent of the vote statewide Proposition 2, a constitutional amendment to save millions of tax dollars by stopping the wasteful printing of paper copies of legislation and allow digital copies to suffice on legislators» desks at the Capitol,» said Tedisco.

The proposed amendment to section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

At the same time, Cuomo did not initially knock Republicans in the state Senate for voting down a series of hostile amendments on Wednesday that would have banned bump stocks and strengthened background checks.

«While the Convention Question won't be on the front of the ballot where it should be, voters will at least be urged to turn the ballot over to vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention and on two Amendments proposed by the Legislature.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm, at the Brookhaven Town Board meeting, the Board members will have the opportunity to vote to support a resolution that calls for a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution that states «corporations are not people and money is not speech».

At the end of proceedings on the European Union Bill yesterday, there was an opportunity for the Commons to debate and vote on the amendment from Wellingborough MP Peter Bone, which he wrote about here on ConHome last month.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited a historic home in Fayetteville to unveil a bipartisan bill aimed at promoting education about the women's suffrage movement on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

The results echo those recorded at the ballot nine months ago, when Capital Region voters narrowly voted no on Proposition 1, the constitutional amendment authorizing the state to issue seven new casino licenses in select regions.

At Conference, you can vote on motions and amendments.

He said there were discussions going on about trying to draft an amendment that would attract enough support to pass on securing a more meaningful vote at the end of the negotiating process.

«VLTs at resorts are more likely to be dealt with, if at all, after the constitutional amendment authorizing gaming is voted on by the voters.»

Democrats in the remaining 26 - member conference grumble about the IDC's propensity to side with Republicans on contentious issues such as a constitutional amendment for independent redistricting and a vote that some saw as watering down the powers of the lieutenant governor in order to provide needed votes (it was even joked about at the LCA Show in May).

FILE PHOTO The Greenport Village Board is expected to vote on a zoning code amendment at Monday night's meeting.

A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62 percent of voters statewide support having a convention in 2019, at which elected delegates would propose and vote on constitutional amendments.

Weinstein would need two other votes on the five - member board to pass any amendment, including from at least one of the board's three Democrats.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited a historic home in Fayetteville on Friday to unveil a bipartisan bill aimed at promoting education about the women's suffrage movement on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

Standing at the bar of the House of Lords with other MPs listening to their debate now - willing them on to vote for Lord Ali's amendment to give Britain a chance to negotiate membership of EEA #brexithaos https://t.co/bfLMCl87CG

Labour peers have been told to abstain on this amendment, which means the government can be reasonably confident that it will be able to vote it down, but, as the Observer reported at the weekend, more than 40 Labour peers are expected to defy the whip and vote with Alli.

The LetNYVote coalition is urging Governor Cuomo to commit to including at least $ 6.4 million in funding for early voting in the 30 - day amendments due on February 15th.

The additional funds appeared in the capital projects budget bill in an amendment at 10:37 p.m. on Thursday — just over an hour before the budget deadline, and roughly four overnight hours before it cleared the State Senate by a 59 - 3 vote.

The language: «The proposed amendment to Section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

Commons Speaker John Bercow confirmed he has selected the amendment to the Government's legislative programme, meaning MPs will have a chance to vote on it at the conclusion of the Queen's Speech debate.

By ruling of the presiding officer, or on motion of any Council member supported by at least one - third of the Council members present and voting, any matter on the agenda that has not yet come to vote, with the exceptions of a proposed amendment to the Constitution or a motion to recall an elective member of the Board, may be submitted to the entire Council membership for a mail ballot, or by electronic means, and shall require for its approval a favorable vote of a majority of the Council members, except that a resolution shall require for its adoption a favorable vote of two - thirds of those members.

By voice vote the legislators passed an amendment to a NSF funding bill for 2015 that says the agency can't spend any money next year on her project, part of a collaboration with former colleagues at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where Ahmed did a postdoc.

Senator Jesse Helms, the retiring 81 - year - old Republican conservative from North Carolina, slipped in the amendment to a farm bill at the last minute, and it was approved by a voice vote, which means no one's vote is on the record.

South Salt Lake, Utah — The South Salt Lake City Council will vote on Wednesday for a platt amendment that will lay the foundation for a possible development that would put a Wal - Mart Store at the site of the old Granite High building at 3300 South and 500 East.

At the State Board of Education meeting on Friday, the board will vote for the second and final time on an amendment to boost the Permanent School Fund capacity multiplier from 3 to 3.25 percent.