Sentences with phrase «vote on the amendment failed»

«These two auditor positions are not warranted,» he said before the vote on the amendment failed, 25 - 13.

The ensuing procedural vote on the amendment failed, with Democrat Ruben Diaz Sr. joining the entirety of the Republican conference to vote it down.

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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.

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.

IDC Sen. Jeff Klein attempted to put the abortion provision on a separate piece of legislation as an amendment, but the effort failed on a procedural vote.

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?

In New York City, which cast 35 % of votes statewide in» 09, 81 % of voters failed to vote on the amendment.

Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman has announced that the party's policy will be to vote in favour of its own amendment to the government's measures, before abstaining on the main vote should the amendment fail.

Scores of Conservative MPs expected to support the amendment, which would initially limit the allowance to couples with a child aged under the age of five, when it is voted on early next month, although it is likely to fail because of opposition from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

In accord with his stance on discretionary spending, Mulvaney has tended to favor efforts to cut or constrain dollars for science agencies, such as his 2012 vote in support of a failed amendment to cut $ 1.3 billion — nearly a fifth of the budget — from the National Science Foundation.

An amendment that would have limited state aid to studies on stem cells derived without destroying embryos failed on a 65 - 69 vote.

By a 29 - to - 52 vote, the senators failed to table the measure, which was offered on Oct. 20 as an amendment to the fiscal 1984 Justice Department appropriation bill by Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina.

Refusing to recognize a parents inalienable right to protect their children from a testing scheme designed to fail the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children, Blumenthal and Murphy both voted NO on Senate Amendment 2162 to Senate Amendment 2089 to S. 1177 (Every Child Achieves Act of 2015).

Although the memo fails to cite the sources used to back up their definitive statement, it appears the CEA's legal team is relying on the foundational 2006 case of Garcetti v. Ceballos in which the United States Supreme Court voted by a 5 to 4 margin to limit the First Amendment rights of all public employees.

The bill was not heard in committee but it was offered as a floor amendment to the House agriculture policy bill (HF1717) but failed on an 80 - 53 vote.

Although the EU Parliament voted to strengthen European Commission plans to bring air travel into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)[2], they failed to back tougher amendments that could have led to the scheme having a significant impact on aviation's rising emissions.

A point reinforced by the voting in the Commons on various amendments including the suggestion of Mark Stephens that Parliament must amend the Bill so that it includes a provision that the terms of the withdrawal / continuing relationship must have the approval of Parliament failing which withdrawal can not happen.

An amendment to make the percentage 1 % instead of 1.5 % — to garner more support — failed in a tie, 5 to 5, vote on Feb. 17, 2014.