Sentences with phrase «votes each in the house yesterday»

Both of these programs enjoyed bi-partisan support passing with more than 100 votes each in the House yesterday.

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Meanwhile, the Senate begins considering a bill that would, in the words of Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, «improve upon» (read: «completely upend») the package that passed the House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 385 - 35.

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives unanimously voted that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians (and other minorities) in Syria and Iraq.

There was intermittent voting on budget bills today in the Assembly, which followed the lead of the Senate, approving legislation that the upper house took up late yesterday.

Adrian Kavanagh, 19th April 2017 Following an announcement by Theresa May yesterday and a House of Commons vote to confirm this today, a «snap» general election is now scheduled to be held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 8th June 2017.

The Council voted «yes» yesterday on La Central, a massive new housing development in the Melrose section of the Bronx, near the Hub.

House Republicans, with no warning and overriding their top leaders, voted yesterday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.

The House got its act together and voted yesterday — for the second time — to pass the GOP's sweeping overhaul of the US tax system, and President Trump held a celebratory «bill passage event» at the White House later in the day.

The Government's decision to change the rules of the Backbench Business Committee - the substance of which I wrote about yesterday morning - was debated and voted upon in the House yesterday.

George Osborne remains adamant that his proposals for tax credit reform will go ahead, despite his initial plans being defeated by a vote in the House of Lords yesterday.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.

The footpath outside Australia House on The Strand has been a hive of party activity for a week and yesterday, British Labour sent a special envoy in an 11th - hour plea for expat votes.

Yesterday, the science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved, on a party - line vote, a Republican - backed bill that calls for deep cuts in spending on earth science.

The votes are in, and Republicans now control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, but as ScienceInsider reported earlier, there were also a number of science - related items on state ballots yesterday.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday on the reauthorization of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which has paid the private - school tuition of low - income students in the District of Columbia since 2004.

Yesterday 217 Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the protections it offers to millions of Americans.

Big school choice news yesterday in Illinois and Wisconsin: The Illinois House passed a tax credit scholarship program and a charter funding equity bill that is going to be voted on today in the Senate.

Just yesterday in the Indiana legislature, the House Education committee voted along party lines to expand pre-school education opportunities but also forwarded language in the same bill to allow for the largest expansion of vouchers in the USA beginning with pre-school students and their siblings.

HB2190 had a meteoric rise and was building momentum as it passed effortlessly through the full House chamber and then through the Senate Education Committee in the matter of only a few short weeks on its way to a vote by the full Senate yesterday.

by Robert Hyder Yesterday, members of the House voted 234 to 191 in favor of granting bankruptcy judges additional authority to modify mortgages on primary residences.

Yesterday, members of the House voted 234 to 191 in favor of granting bankruptcy judges additional authority to modify mortgages on primary residences.

Senate Bill 1351, a legislative piece aimed at protecting borrowers from abuses in the student loan industry, passed the Illinois House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 63 to 48 according to a bill status update from the Illinois General Assembly.

The votes were overwhelmingly in favor of the bill with a vote less than a week ago of 77 - 22 by the House and yesterday of 41 - 9 by the Senate.  Â

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of banning the use of synthetic micro-plastics in personal care products.

Well, the budget has passed — both the House and the Senate voted in favor yesterday — but some of the green was sacrificed in the political process.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation's leading hemp grassroots advocacy organization, working to revitalize industrial hemp production in the U.S., is excited to report that an amendment to legalize hemp production for research purposes was included in H.R. 2642, better known as the Farm Bill, passed the House by a vote of 216 to 208 yesterday afternVote Hemp, the nation's leading hemp grassroots advocacy organization, working to revitalize industrial hemp production in the U.S., is excited to report that an amendment to legalize hemp production for research purposes was included in H.R. 2642, better known as the Farm Bill, passed the House by a vote of 216 to 208 yesterday afternvote of 216 to 208 yesterday afternoon.

The New Hampshire House yesterday approved on a 184 - 145 vote a bill to require judges give specific jury nullification instructions to jurors in criminal cases