The chairman of the legislature, John Mills, urged his colleagues to overturn the veto and allow the public to
vote on the amendments in November, adding «I'm not surprised by the County Executive's veto, he's telegraphed it for months through behind the scenes maneuvering.
If New York votes yes, we'll then elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 2018 and have the chance to
vote on any amendments in 2019.
Not exact matches
In a two - step plan, Boehner is pressing for a
vote on Wednesday and a second
vote Thursday
on a balanced - budget
amendment to the Constitution.
«If you're too dangerous to fly
on a plane, you're too dangerous to buy a firearm,» said Kirk, who
voted with the Democrats
on a similar
amendment in December.
Feinstein offered a similar version of the
amendment in December, a day after an extremist couple killed 14 people
in San Bernardino, California, but the Republican - run Senate rejected the proposal
on a near party - line
vote.
Paul threatened to make the final NDAA passage more difficult, opposing «all procedural motions and
amendments unless and until my
amendment is made
in order and we
vote on these wars.»
In party - line votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee voted down eight Democratic amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporation
In party - line
votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee
voted down eight Democratic
amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit
in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporation
in future years and maintained taxes
on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.
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).
If you
vote by proxy card or
voting instruction card and sign the card without giving specific instructions, your shares will be
voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board (FOR all of HP's nominees to the Board, FOR ratification of the appointment of HP's independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the approval of the compensation of HP's named executive officers, FOR the approval of an annual advisory
vote on executive compensation, FOR the Hewlett - Packard Company 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and FOR the approval of an
amendment to the Hewlett - Packard Company 2005 Pay - for - Results Plan to extend the term of the plan).
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.
As I discuss
in my recent paper, First
Amendment and Corporate Governance, shareholder
voting on corporate speech could amplify activist business skeptics while muting the diversified shareholders who would prefer that business views be heard.
In a 4 - 1 vote today by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an amendment has passed to lift the 80 year ban on the general solicitation and advertising of Regulation D («Reg D») offerings which will go into effect in 60 day
In a 4 - 1
vote today by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an
amendment has passed to lift the 80 year ban
on the general solicitation and advertising of Regulation D («Reg D») offerings which will go into effect
in 60 day
in 60 days.
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.
The whole episode culminated
in Renault's independent board members condemning the government's «destabilising» influence
on the Nissan - Renault alliance, the signing of an agreement between the state and the company that would cap the state's
voting rights
on most resolutions, and an
amendment to the master co-operation agreement with Nissan,
in which Renault agreed not to use its shareholding to oppose the Nissan board.
Embedded
in an omnibus transparency and economic modernisation bill (known colloquially as «Sapin 2»), this
amendment institutes two separate binding
votes on remuneration; a forward looking
vote on policy, and a backward looking
vote on variable and exceptional pay amounts.
In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrat
In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a
vote on inclusion of this
Amendment, signifying the gap
in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrat
in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.
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.
Peers
in the House of Lords are expected to
vote later
on an
amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide.
If the Lords
amendment passes it would force MPs
in the House of Commons to debate and
vote on it, putting further pressure
on the UK government.
The anti-abortion
amendment being
voted on this week
in the state could restrict
in vitro procedures, and the Carpenters are worried that if they wait too long to add to their family, they may end up breaking the law.
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.
Thibault is a Roman Catholic living
in Minneapolis, where the archdiocese has distributed 400,000 DVDs encouraging its members to support the idea that individuals and not judges should
vote on an
amendment that would define marriage between a man and woman.
Nothing will be concrete until August, when the full committee meets to
vote on amendments to the draft, and then that draft is sent to Charlotte for the convention
in the first week of September.
She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs
on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united
in June to
vote through a series of
amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.
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.
On Tuesday, the Twin Citites Area presbytery, which covers Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, became the 87th presbytery - and the deciding
vote - to approve an
amendment that will remove the constitutional requirement that all ministers, elders and deacons live
in «fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity
in singleness.»
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.
The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans
in their collective «no»
vote on the hostile
amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.
Senate Republicans
on procedural grounds
voted down
amendments backed by Democrats
in the Senate that included much of the same provisions supported by their counterparts
in the Assembly.
Peers
voted by 244 to 240 yesterday evening
in favour of a crossbench
amendment to the legislation, which places an explicit duty
on the health secretary to promote mental and physical health services equally.
That's why this is even
on the table right now — to get the first and second
votes done with certainty and why a pay raise or constitutional
amendment could not be
voted on in December 2015.
«
In this case, they will be able to choose between an anti-Trump liberal who has championed sanctuary cities and amnesty,
voted to protect Obamacare, and helped Nancy Pelosi lead the assault
on our Second
Amendment rights — or a proven conservative with a strong record of delivering results for our community.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Oklahoma, if the legislature wants a proposed
amendment to go
on a special election ballot, it has to approve the
amendment by a 2 / 3rds
vote.
They would meet
in 2019 and then
in November 2019, New Yorkers would
vote on whether to ratify the proposed
amendments or reject them.
Asked this week whether he's made a decision
on how he'll
vote should an
amendment come before him, Webb replied, «I think we need to respect the process that Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen put
in place.»
They include adoption of early
voting in New York, same - day voter registration, public financing of campaigns, and constitutional
amendments to impose term limits
on elected officials.
In Nebraska, the legislature can call a special statewide election to
vote on a proposed
amendment, but an 80 %
vote is required to place any such measures
on a special election ballot.
Cuomo,
in the second day of attacks
on the Collins
amendment, said Republican leaders
in Congress are trying to «buy
votes»
in exchange for support
on the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, and he said if that's the case, then the federal government should «pay for it.»
Fourteen Conservative MPs
voted against David Cameron's proposals
on press regulation earlier this evening - or, rather, against the
amendments to the Crime and Courts Bill which set out proposals for exemplary damages
in relation to newspapers and websites that refuse to be regulated by the new regulator.
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.
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).
Next month voters will decide whether they want to change the way redistricting is done
in New York state by
voting on a ballet
amendment that would change the state's constitution.
Democrats
in the state Senate, fed up with gun - control bills going nowhere
in the GOP - controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into
voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile
amendments.
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.
Individual members of parliament can push
amendments and
in some limited cases a small party (or a small group within one party) can threaten to
vote against their block
on an issue that's very important to them but there is none of the «getting the
votes» one - by - one that seems to be going
on in the US.