Sentences with phrase «vote point of»

Finally, provisions in a reconciliation bill that increase the deficit beyond the period covered by the budget resolution are subject to a 60 - vote point of order under the «Byrd rule» unless the costs are offset by savings from other provisions in the bill.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

An exclusion from the Senate PAYGO rule and statutory PAYGO would be subject to a 60 - vote point of order.

I'm just saying the comptroller is irrelevant from a voting point of view.»

Not exact matches

At the March 20 - 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 % to 1.75 %, as had been widely expected.

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

For instance, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Clinton's total percentage of the final vote fell within 2 points of what had been predicted for her in the polling average.

Curry, the NBA's leading All - Star vote - getter in 2015, has been an advocate of private coaching, publicly pointing to it as a key to his success as a pro player.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

In the run - up to the Brexit vote, the easy parallel to make from an American point of view is that the Leave camp shared many similarities with the Trump campaign.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

The simple point is that if you control 51 percent of your company and / or the voting rights, you can avoid a lot of headache and you can still be very generous with early people who join your mission.

Dec 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

Dec 1 - U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

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Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. says in a report that investors should vote for Dallas Howe and Herbert Pinder, nominated by Cation Capital Inc., instead of Crescent Point nominees Rene Amirault and Mike Jackson at the company's annual meeting May 4.

Even though results showed his Democratic opponent Doug Jones defeated him by 1.5 percentage points, Moore said he was awaiting certification of the final votes, declining to rule out the possibility he would request a recount.

He was able to keep the discussion largely on the topics he likes to focus on, and he made a number of points that will resonate with progressives, not a small voting group in New York.

But on Tuesday night, Speaker Boehner pointed to continued Republican control of the House of Representatives and said, «With this vote, the American people have also made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates.»

While no reliable source is suggesting at this point that hacking actually altered the results of the election or that even a single vote was directly mainpulated, an investigation is still warranted.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

Congress can hold that vote at any point within 60 days of the repeal appearing in the Federal Register.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

Upon learning this, the number of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire that were unwilling to vote for him jumped approximately 30 points, from 26 percent to 53 percent.

Sixty votes are needed to overcome a point of order.

More to the point, politicians seek to win votes by placating labor on the eve of elections.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

Results of the Italian election point to a hung parliament, with no party or coalition winning enough votes to form a government.

Last year, while shareholders were generally supportive of the 180 issuers in Canada who held say - on - pay votes, rejecting just two proposals — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX: CP) and Crescent Point Energy Corp. (TSX: CPG)-- the numbers are shifting.

We believe the Brexit vote will continue to be top of mind this week, as polls point to a marginal lead for those on the «leave» side.

Insiders point to issuers who have been quoted in the press making comments along the lines of, «The proxy advisory firm is my number one shareholder because they control 50 per cent of my vote.»

In reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positive.

The Federal Reserve has just ended its latest FOMC meeting, and the first such gathering under the stewardship of Jerome Powell, and voted to raise the federal funds rate target by 25 basis points.

Some of the proposal points are expected to be voted on by the board on Tuesday:

The Internet of Value will enable the exchange of any asset that is of value to someone, including stocks, votes, frequent flyer points, securities, intellectual property, music, scientific discoveries, and more.

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As a starting point, Glass Lewis is strongly in favour of the «one - share - one - vote» principle.

The Bank of England confused markets as they voted 7 - 2 to sustain the current interest rate policy, even though consensus assumed a 25 basis point increase.

The newspapers chirped out propaganda on demand before the election and now are pointing out that we have to live with the sorry business of voting NDP until the next provincial election.

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

Even though the outcome of the first vote eliminated candidates from the traditional parties, the results pointed to an eventual victory for independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron.

This means that any net tax cut over the ten - year period not explicitly called for by the budget resolution would be subject to a budget point of order that would require 60 votes to override.

With 53.8 percent of the vote, he easily bested his nearest opponent, the Member of Parliament for Timmins - James Bay, Charlie Angus, by nearly 34 percentage points.

ISS used to consider a handful of points about an equity plan, and if the company failed on any one of them, it recommended a «no» vote.

Despite the potentially hawkish inference from September's split vote among Fed policymakers, Fed Chair Janet Yellen pointed out at the meeting the economy showed little sign of overheating, adding to perceptions dovish members of the rate - setting committee retained their sway.