Sentences with phrase «vote on the amendment from»

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.

They voted no on an amendment from Scott Brown that would have devastated... the city's business and tax base.

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After an official 20 hours of debate, the Republican - controlled Senate was expected to begin a potentially chaotic «vote - a-rama» on amendments from Republicans and Democrats before moving to a final vote late on Thursday or early on Friday.

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.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a vote on the measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

Today, a few corridors down from the Commons fight on «Amendment 7» — that «meaningful vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings of the Citizens» Assembly.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, on June 16, cast a deciding vote against an amendment that sought to stop the military from enlisting undocumented youth.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

The TPP is a major part of President Barack Obama's trade agenda, and he has sought «fast - track» authority from Congress that would grant him unilateral power to negotiate the deal and would leave the legislative branch only able to vote yes or no on the treaty, with no possibility of introducing amendments.

The Times» Oliver Wright has posted on Twitter a copy of a letter from Lord Heseltine to Theresa May following his dismissal as a government adviser for voting against the Tory whip on an amendment to the article 50 bill in the Lords.

Cuomo was largely silent on the amendment in the months leading up to the 2013 vote although he did say it could create problems, such as allowing judges who had retired from other positions to double dip or collect pensions while still on the court.

The Senate approved a fiscal 2017 defense policy bill after skipping votes on several major amendments, including a proposal by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to transfer from commanders to military prosecutors decisions on whether to prosecute military sexual assault cases.

King criticized Weiner and his fellow Democrats for requiring a two - thirds majority to pass the bill, protecting marginals from having to take a potentially dangerous vote on a GOP amendment that would prevent any first responders who were illegal immigrants from collecting the health benefits.

Assembly Republicans called on Tuesday for a vote on a constitutional amendment that would strip pension benefits from state officials convicted of corruption and called an alternative measure working its way through the chamber a «watered - down» measure.

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With Sens. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsDem rep to launch discharge petition to force net neutrality vote in House Hillicon Valley: Senate votes to save net neutrality Senate panel breaks with House, says Russia favored Trump in 2016 Latest from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Lawmakers push back on helping Chinese tech giant Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — ObamaCare premium wars are back MORE (R - Maine) and Jack ReedJohn (Jack) Francis ReedOvernight Defense: Trump aide's comment mocking McCain sparks outrage Haspel gets another «no» vote Pompeo floats North Korea aid for denuclearization Politicians, media explode over White House aide's comments Senate Dems urge Trump to remain in Iran deal ahead of announcement MORE (D - R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul's amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Concur — Vote Passed (224 - 201, 7 Not Voting) Brady, R - Texas, motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the tax overhaul that would revise the federal income tax system by: lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent; lowering individual tax rates through 2025; limiting state and local deductions to $ 10,000 through 2025; decreasing the limit on deductible mortgage debt through 2025; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries.

To the Editor, This November, voters across our state will have the opportunity to vote on an amendment to the State Constitution that would take pensions away from elected officials convicted of corruption.

Andy Burnham, the current frontrunner for the Labour leadership, has said he will abstain from today's main vote on the government's welfare plans if a Labour amendment does not pass.

Here below from Hansard is the list of MPs who voted for the Dorries / Field abortion amendment yesterday on counselling.

The governor and lawmakers declared another major victory on first passage of a resolution calling for a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment that will allow for the stripping of pensions from elected officials convicted of corruption, including more senior ones who are currently exempt from a similar statute put on the books in 2011.

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.

In July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idea.

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.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

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.

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

A demand from Democrats for recorded votes on most of the 28 amendments before the committee prevented Smith from completing work on a bill that has provoked strong opposition from academic leaders, professional societies, and university - industry coalitions that advocate for science.

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.

From Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» as adapted by Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie «Lincoln» focuses on one principal activity, which was the president's role in convincing a sharply divided House of Representatives to vote for the Amendment already passed by the Senate because Lincoln's party had the numbers there.

Centering on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the waning days of the Civil War, the movie is dialogue - heavy, focusing on legislative process and party politics as Lincoln and his aides try to win the necessary votes from both fellow Republicans and Democrats across the aisle.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.

Of particular importance on the legislative agenda this year, is Senate Constitutional Amendment 3 (SCA 3) introduced by Senator Mark Leno, which would lower the vote threshold for local school district parcel tax measures from 2/3 to 55 percent.

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.

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).

Facing a close vote in the energy task force, a state legislator from Texas introduced an amendment on the floor that expanded the resolution's scope to any energy subsidies.

While a DARPA for energy R&D might be a good model, spending on deployment and infrastructure should be overseen by a diverse group of experts, perhaps modeled after the military base closings commission, whose recommendations could only receive an up or down vote from Congress (no amendments, no earmarks).

Vote Hemp Encourages Support for Proposed Amendment by Senator Wyden on Industrial Hemp in the Farm Bill Amendment would Exclude Industrial Hemp from the Definition of Marihuana

Read more in this broad - ranging collection of essays that also includes a bibliography, an analysis of his voting record on key topics and his answers to First Amendment questions from his confirmation hearings.

It is noteworthy that Lord Pannick went on to vote to scrap the CMP provisions from the Bill, despite the overwhelming support for his own amendments.

So there are a lot of provisions related to voting on a federal level, e.g. the electoral college is described in article II (interestingly, clause 2 says: «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors -LSB-...]») and the 17th amendment prescribes the direct election of senators in each state -LRB-» -LSB-...] two Senators from each State, elected by the people -LSB-...]»).

In addition, the House will vote on Rep. Mike Pence's (R - IN) amendment to the FY11 CR to exclude Planned Parenthood from all critical federal funding streams, including Medicaid, HIV screening and infertility prevention grants, maternal and child health grants, and funding to provide women with breast and cervical cancer screenings.

Doing so would require approval from the state Legislature to allow a statewide, public vote on a proposed constitutional amendment.

In 1975, the Journal published its first supplement on Aboriginal health to cope with the dramatic increase in submitted manuscripts — more than 13 % (95/709) of Indigenous health articles published from 1970 to 1999 appeared in supplements.7 In this time frame, an overwhelming affirmative vote in the referendum of 1967 resulted in amendments to the Australian Constitution to give the Commonwealth Government the mandate to implement policies for the benefit of Indigenous people.