Sentences with phrase «votes in the house of»

ENDA (the Employee Non-Discrimination Act), which would prohibit all employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity, was passed by the Senate in November but still awaits a vote in the House of Representatives.

It passed on Monday by a voice vote in the House of Representatives.

The government, she added, is committed to a full parliamentary debate on the deal and a vote in the House of Commons, though she had yet to set a deadline.

We will make free votes in the House of Commons standard practice.

He offers as evidence a litany of recent congressional developments, such as the vote in the House of Representatives to gut the Clinton administration's counterterrorism bill — a move that Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) attributed to a corrosive distrust of government on the part of a broad coalition in Congress.

The votes in the House of Bishops were 36 for and one against, with no abstentions.

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

First is a vote in the House of Lords on Monday 26 October which my Treasury source said the Government expects to lose.

The only reliable way to determine who can command confidence in such a situation is a nomination vote in the House of Commons.

Rep. John Katko says he won't support the new Republican proposal to repeal Obamacare that could head to a vote in the House of Representatives as early as Friday.

I will be making the case for military action in Syria as part of a wider strategy, ahead of a vote in the House of Commons today.

In addition, I have a few smaller projects on voting in the House of Commons and on the abdication of Edward VIII (which are not entirely unrelated!).

They say the provision would lower local taxes, but the legislation is teetering on the verge of collapse ahead of a Thursday night vote in the House of Representatives.

Before he lost Thursday night's vote in the House of Commons, David Cameron lost the battle to persuade voters that British missiles should bomb... (Comments: 80)

Owen Smith, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, has used a parliamentary procedure to demand a full debate and vote in the House of Commons, which — if granted — could be lost by May given the scale of opposition to the policy.

The Labour MP for Nottingham North sets out why he will oppose the West's military action in the vote in the House of Commons.

ALBANY, NY (11/08/2009)(readMedia)-- On the heels of an historic late night vote in the House of Representatives for a good, balanced health care reform bill, the New York State AFL - CIO expressed its appreciation of those in the New York Congressional delegation who voted in support of HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

But Mr Farage said he was surprised at such comments, claiming Mr Clegg had only taken part in 22 % of votes in the House of Commons this parliament.

As an initial, self - contained reform, not dependent on further reform in the future, the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords will be ended by statute.

@JimThio not a referendum, but a constitutional amendment, which requires a 2/3 super-majority vote in both houses of congress and ratification by at least 3/4 of state legislatures.

«While it is disappointing that our amendment did not win a majority of votes in the House of Commons, what it shows is that pro-European backbench MPs of all parties are not going to simply submit to a hard Brexit.

In response to the David Cameron's interview for BBC1's Countryfile programme, in which the Prime Minister says: «I always thought the hunting ban was a pretty bizarre piece of legislation, I think there should be a free vote in the House of Commons... My problem has always been that it was just taking the criminal law into an area of activity where it didn't really belong»; Alice Barnard, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: «The Prime Minister is totally right to question the Hunting Act, especially from a legal basis.

It passed overwhelmingly in the house of bishops and got through in the house of clergy but fell by just six votes in the house of laity.

A simple majority vote in the House of Commons would not, in and of itself, change the law.

However the Fixed - term Parliaments Act looks like a piece of binding legislation, since it requires a two - thirds majority vote in the House of Commons to trigger a general election.

At the federal level, laws can only be passed by majorities in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate followed by either the President's signature, or by a veto followed by a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the House of Representative and a two - thirds majority veto override vote in the U.S. Senate.

For the purposes of votes in the House of Commons each Parliamentary Party shares its parliamentary votes out equally amongst its own MPs (so each MP exercises one share of their party's total vote).

«What shouldn't happen is unelected peers breaking the traditions of decades and throwing out a financial measure in the wake of three votes in the House of Commons which said we need to go ahead with this.»

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.

Mr Cameron dodged questions, arguing it would be conditional on the treaty being ratified and the Conservative's losing a vote in both houses of parliament.

However the Conservatives insisted that the furthest they could go was to consider offering a free vote in the House of Commons on a referendum on AV.

Votes in the House of Commons are not just about passing laws, or not passing laws.

Some of the above arguments still apply, but I'm not convinced that an independent MP can have his biggest impact by speaking or voting in tightly controlled party votes in the House of Commons, even those directly affecting his constituency (one of the many reasons it's such a shame he won the seat — the people of his constituency needed meaningful representation more than many others).

It should be noted that after this year's European elections it will no longer be permissible for an MEP to be a peer sitting and voting in the House of Lords (since MEPs will not be allowed to have a dual mandate as a member of a national legislature).

We still have a situation where Scottish MPs can vote in the House of Commons on English - only issues.

Cuomo says the bottom line is that there are not currently enough votes in both houses of the legislature to approve a broader public campaign finance that would apply to all statewide races, including the governor's.

Both bills cleared the Senate during the regular session of the legislature but failed to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives before adjournment at midnight on June 3.

Angela Eagle: «We will put that Queen's speech to the House of Commons and if that Queen's speech gets through a vote in the House of Commons, we will be able to begin to put it into effect» (Sunday Politics, BBC One, 19 April 2015).

Katko didn't respond to Miner, but his office said the congressman has a long - standing commitment to be in Washington, D.C.. He'll be taking part in a regularly scheduled day of committee meetings and votes in the House of Representatives.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

The big policy news this week is the U.S. spending bill, which last night survived a vote in the House of Representatives unscathed but by just 13 votes.

Last January, days before a vote in the House of Representatives to loosen the rules on stem cell research, the journal Nature Biotechnology posted an article online, written by a group headed by Anthony Atala at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, reporting the discovery of stem cells isolated from amniotic fluid.

A vote in the House of Commons in February 2015 made the technique legal in the UK but the first license has not yet been issued to a clinic.

Reducing the FHA loan limits would set off a big fight in Washington — just look at the votes in each house of Congress.

You're no longer a bum in a chair with a vote in the House of Commons.»

While the MFA awaits its vote in the House of Representatives, Dowley says the bill is inevitable.

Elected hereditary Peers The right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords was ended in 1999 by the House of Lords Act but 92 Members were elected internally to remain until the next stage of the Lords reform process.

For those who attempt to impugn his character and veracity by making silly claims about his hereditary title and what that entitles him to obviously do not realise what a «dog's breakfast» the last labour government of the UK made of the legislation which controls who may sit and vote in the House of Lords.

Remarkably, even though Prime Minister Harper and his government, officially, have opposed Bill C - 279, it was not a whipped vote in the House of Commons and 18 government MPs (including four Ministers at the time) voted in favour of its adoption.

To avoid a vote in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harper could prorogue the House, but that too would require the Governor General's consent.