Sentences with phrase «vote on the floor»

The second draft has been passed by the committee on a unanimous vote and is awaiting a full vote on the floor.

The potentially life - saving Brittany's Law, which combats domestic violence by creating a registry of violent felony offenders, has inexplicably been held up by the Assembly Majority, and deserves a full vote on the floor of the Assembly.

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.

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

Only two Republicans — Sens. Greg Ball and Kathy Marchione — bothered to explain their respective votes on the floor.

«They don't even get a fair hearing, a fair debate, a fair vote on the floor of the legislature,» Kolb said.

As long as the bill is in Rules, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos can keep it bottled up, because it's the last stop before a full house vote on the floor, and both he and his co-leader, the IDC's Jeff Klein, must agree on what moves and when.

Delegates are the people who will actually vote on the floor of the Democratic and Republican conventions to select their party's nominee.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

There were two negative votes on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Thanks to a crafty, albeit constitutionally permitted, parliamentary manoeuvre, a cut that will affect hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people went through without proper debate or vote on the floor of the Commons.

However, the state legislature stumbled to even get a vote on the floor of the state's assembly.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

Republicans, elated and relieved Amedore won the seat that was essentially drawn for him, invited him to conference and did everything but let him vote on the floor.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

The Assembly last week tweaked its rules to improve the transparency of its operations and make it easier to bring bills to a vote on the floor.

The Senate followed suit Sunday evening, in a 53 - 4 vote on the floor.

«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.»

State Senate Democrats are prepared today to try to force a vote on the floor of the chamber on a bill to help child abuse victims seek justice.

The bill nearly came to a vote on the floor last year, but was ultimately shelved.

Klein also said that Republicans committed to allowing some Democratic priorities to receive a vote on the floor.

With the conclusion of the Legislature's public hearing, the next step is the vote on the floor and I expect 100 percent support.

While those 50 other states of the nation have their representatives to fight for them, Puerto Rico is at their mercy because it doesn't have anyone with a vote on the Floor of Congress.

Labour is holding a debate and a vote on the floor of the House of Commons this afternoon, to challenge the government decision to scrap student maintenance grants.

Andrew Mackay as Deputy Chief Whip during John Major's last year in office helped ensure that we lost not one vote on the floor of the Commons and is a trusted adviser to the Party Leader.

Both factions need to agree in order to put any bill up for a vote on the floor.

The PAC should be empowered in at least the cases of the most egregious misfeasance to table a resolution for debate and voting on the floor of the House of Commons which, if passed, would then be sent to the Lords, and if agreed there too, would command the force of law for being implemented.

«I would love for the governor to be able to call on, and ask for a vote on the floor, and we would welcome that,» she said.

A month ago the Government was defeated in a vote on the floor of the House of Commons on a very important issue — the question of the level of the EU budget.

As regards the DC delegate's vote, back in 1992 when, in contrast to H.W. Bush's loss of the Presidency, the GOP gained 10 house seats, the Democratic majority attempted to cut their gain in half by giving the delegates from Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, D.C., and a couple other places a vote on the floor of the House.

Sadly, the bill never received a vote on the floor of the state house of representatives.

Rep. Hoskins and his colleagues decided not to bring the bill up for a vote on the floor.

All they have to do is block it in one committee or prevent it from coming to a vote on the floor of one house, and they will have effectively stopped it.

It has not yet received a vote on floor of the House.

Once that petition is submitted, any member may bring it to a vote on the floor, with only a simple majority needed to pass, and a limit of 10 hours of debate — making it filibuster - proof.

And questions need to be raised about donations he receives from mining magnates and others and how that affects his vote on the floor as a polly who is supposed to represent farmers and rural communities.