Sentences with phrase «vote on the legislation»

But a mechanism called the message of necessity allows the governor to force immediate votes on legislation.

Wills has been abstaining from voting on legislation for the time being since he was not part of earlier public hearing sessions associated with bills.

We saw President Trump lobby for the AHCA, even as Republicans worked to amend the bill to make it more palatable for their caucus prior to a scheduled vote on the legislation.

The church claims in its submission to the GEO, «[T] he introduction of civil partnerships... was supported by the majority of our bishops who voted on the legislation in 2004 when it was before the House of Lords.»

But the two chambers could agree on changes and move to a final vote on the legislation as early as Thursday.

The European Parliament is made up of 751 MEPs who voted on legislation, elect the President and approve the budgets.

Skelos was accused of some acts that qualified — such as votes on legislation sought by Physicians Reciprocal and Glenwood — and others that might not have, such as meeting with lobbyists and arranging for access to state agencies.

Republicans are getting ready for U.S. Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.

The rejected proposals included imposing term limits on legislative leadership positions, televising committee meetings, making it easier for members to force votes on legislation, and allowing every member to bring legislation to the floor.

Former Rep. Dan Maffei, a Democrat who represented the Syracuse area for two terms, is among those agreeing with Rep. Chris Collins» claim that it's not unusual for members to vote on legislation without having read the entire bill.

The Senators - elect are not voting on legislation and can not until they are sworn.

She raised the ire last month of anti-police brutality activists by nixing a council vote on legislation requiring police to identify themselves via business cards in stops and notify those they search on their right to refuse.

The study looked at floor votes on all legislation that would raise or lower federal spending, a total of 37 votes on 17...

The Polish Parliament this month began voting on legislation creating a new national agency charged with distributing competitive grants for frontier research.

TRENTON, NJ — Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.

The government presented its much anticipated plans to solve the West Lothian Question, or more simply, why Scottish MPs have long been able to vote on legislation only affecting England (or England and Wales) while English MPs are unable to vote on measures devolved to Scotland.

They couldn't bother to vote on legislation on child abuse at EU, but they're now trying to score political points from it.

[481][482] Cameron also called for an answer to the West Lothian question, by removing the right of Scottish MPs to vote on legislation relating only to England.

In exchange, Skelos allegedly voted on legislation that favored one of the firms and used his power to help the other score a $ 12 million government contract.

It was the second House vote on the legislation because the Senate added energy efficiency amendments and other changes last month.

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, herself a key architect of the budget plan, announced her opposition Wednesday morning and mounted a remarkable daylong speech on the House floor, trying to force GOP leaders in the House to promise a later vote on legislation to protect the younger immigrants.

A growing number of Republicans in Congress have expressed support for banning bump stocks, but not all are eager to cast votes on legislation that could hurt their standing with gun rights groups.

The first way in which the size of the House of Lords should now be reduced is by ending byelections such as this one in which hereditary peers vote to keep 92 of their number voting on our legislation.

Nick Clegg confirmed rumours that the government has dropped a bill which would have introduced elected peers to the House of Lords and dramatically reduced its size, something he said he was forced to do after Tory backbenchers and the Labour party refused to back a crucial vote on the legislation last month.

Prosecutors played them as part of an effort to show what was going on behind the scenes as the senator voted on legislation and took other actions that the government has said would benefit his son, a situation most of his fellow legislators were not aware of.

The Senate has never voted on the legislation.

The Council was set to vote on legislation tomorrow to ban the horses from city streets but not end the industry entirely — instead reducing the number of horses at work and relocating their stables and their operations to Central Park.

Charter Schools: Each chamber took three separate votes on legislation to expand charter schools in Mississippi.

The state Senate has not yet voted on the legislation.

The forum comes at the end of a week that so far has seen the TEA call for a moratorium on the use of the PARCC tests for Common Core at the same time legislative committees put off key votes on legislation dealing with Common Core implementation.

Chairman Goodlatte has suggested he will move quickly to hold a hearing and committee vote on this legislation.

Montreal is days away from voting on legislation that would ban any dog resembling a pit bull — and kill thousands more.

Freedom Caucus members feel they've been burned in the past by leadership agreeing to schedule votes on legislation — such as a conservative immigration bill by House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte — and then not following through.

The group includes Rep. Elise Stefanik of Essex County, whose spokesman said last week that the congresswoman would vote no on the legislation in its current form.

The cloture vote needed 60 votes to cut off debate, and clears the way for a final vote on the legislation.

Washington (CNN)- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, signaled for the first time Tuesday that he is «open» to the Senate voting on legislation that would require the approval of the controversial Keystone pipeline.

Maffei says it's not unusual for members to vote on legislation without having read the entire bill.

Liu, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, ex-City Councilman Sal Albanese, and Republican Tom Allon all slammed Quinn for failing to allow a council vote on legislation that would guarantee paid sick leave for many New Yorkers.

The governor said that he hopes to begin voting on the legislation, which he described as «good news for the people of New York,» on Tuesday.

Comptroller is a bookkeeper, not someone who votes on legislation.

Dean Skelos was accused of some acts that qualified — such as votes on legislation sought by Physicians Reciprocal and Glenwood — and others that might not have, such as meeting with lobbyists and arranging for access to state agencies.

Congress can overturn laws passed by the D.C. City Council, and the District's two members of Congress can not vote on legislation.

Murphy is seeking a vote on legislation from Feinstein that would let the government bar sales of guns and explosives to people it suspects of being terrorists.

But three pieces of the bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, were deemed to violate the so - called Byrd rule and must be removed before the Senate can vote on the legislation.

With the help of FiscalNote's analytics, the lobbyists were able to predict which committees the bills would wind up in, and which representatives might vote on the legislation.

Pressing the issue further, Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest - ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Ryan noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who are now shielded from deportation by the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

«On this note, I am directing our house leader and environment critic to work with the government to schedule debate and a vote on this legislation during the remaining days of this abbreviated session.

The 26 most senior C of E Bishops are automatically granted membership in the House of Lords — the upper chamber of Parliament — where they have the right to speak and vote on all legislation.

As the electorate becomes increasingly polarized, we need to do something to allow at least some moderate swing voters in to vote on legislation.