Sentences with phrase «votes on these issues so»

But Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat who is the Assembly speaker, said his chamber was not ready to vote on the issue so quickly.

I also strongly believe that both houses have an obligation to take votes on these issues so the public will know where their elected senators and assemblymen stand.

Not exact matches

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Why she could vote no: Murkowski previously helped bring down the GOP push to repeal and replace Obamacare, so she has a track record of voting against the party - line on contentious issues.

«So it would be people voting directly on issues.

Employees own the shares through the trust, but closely held companies can control the voting of the trust on almost all issues if they so choose.

Employee stock ownership under ESOPs gives workers confidential voting rights on major corporate issues, so that they have some formal corporate governance rights in closely held corporations, and in stock market companies, employee owners have the same rights as other public shareholders.

Despite talking for a month about an option to bypass leadership's stonewalling on DACA legislation and saying he had the votes to do so, California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham refused to say if he would actually use it at a press conference on the issue Wednesday.

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

He holds the position so hardly on abortion that he said that is the only issue he will vote on.

The decline in political activity proved true for every category, from preaching a sermon on a public policy issue (1 % did so in 2016, down from 37 % in 2014) to distributing voter guides (36 %, down from 45 %) to speaking to the congregation about the importance of voting (62 %, down from 78 %).

I want real representation and I want to vote on the real issues — not this garbage every so often.

Farm Members receive periodical surveys on issues and policies important to organic farmers, so we can be your voice in Washington, D.C. Only farm members are eligible to vote on OFA policy positions and priorities.

The vitriol on both sides is a real issue, but with so many former MLB writers being pushed out of voting in recent years and those still around softening their stances toward Steroid Era players, things will calm down a bit.

The speaker has in the past deemed the so - called «veto - proof majority» (having enough members to guarantee overrides of a gubernatorial veto) a «fiction», noting it's not easy to get every single member of his conference to vote «yes» on controversial issues and see absolutely zero support from the Republicans.

Some Senate Republicans had been voting «yes» on extenders prior to the furlough issue, so it's not a foregone conclusion that they will not provide sufficient votes to help the Democrats on Monday if Diaz Sr. is unable to attend the session.

«New Yorkers are frustrated with the lack of progress on issues like voting reforms, gun violence prevention, women's rights, and so many more that have been held up by the Senate Republicans for far too long.»

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

It also creates issues with Luddite citizenry such as the Amish, who on matters of religion do not use certain technologies, including cell phones and the internet, so an alternate way of re-deligation would need to be established for them (perhaps a service that will hold their votes in a way that can be trusted to vote in their interests).

So far, Council Speaker Christine Quinn has not called for a vote on this issue.

So I don't see how PR offers the whole solution to issues of participation and engagement in politics, though it is important to make more votes count for something on general election day.

The Democrats are (not so) secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

So who or which group decides when Congress votes on what issues and how flexible is this process?

They missed, however, the Monday deadline to pass bills on time on Thursday, so Cuomo will have to issue «messages of necessity» to suspend the constitution's requirement of three days» public review of bills before they can voted upon.

Any members participating in the Board's consideration of a matter involving self - serving or conflicting interest shall state the nature of the conflict in speaking to the issue, recuse from voting on such matters and such recusal shall be so recorded.

City Hall issues legislative memos to Albany on bills and has done so on voting and election reform, according to copies of such memos reviewed by Gotham Gazette.

«What we did last year, with the creation of the Women's Equality Party, the first state in the nation to say that women's issues are so significant that we believe that women — people should have the right to vote for a candidate who is on that line.»

«And we are moving towards an elected system that will, presumably, and hopefully, have to be based on some form of proportional voting, so that issue is going to come back quite quickly.»

So, for example, councillors will be free to campaign on local issues and then speak and vote on them in the council chamber without fear of breaking the pre-determination rules.

The question of English votes for English laws, the so - called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues on tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.

and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - election.

Labour was badly split on the issue at that time so Wilson promised a referendum in order to control the dissenters, but then announced at the last minute that the minor concessions he had won from the European Commission justified a vote to stay in.

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

As a result, it has proposed the procedure for taking decisions be changed so issues which normally require unanimous agreement, such as terrorism, fraud and the trafficking of people, drugs and arms, be decided merely on a majority vote.

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

They're still nationalists, so they'll vote with the SNP on all the issues that matter, but it reveals a crack in the portrait of Salmond as a crafty and successful British politician — the man who could build a majority in a political system specifically designed to prevent them.

The Swiss hold referendums quite often (8 in 2013 so far), and voters have the chance to vote directly on the issues they care about.

He goes on to explain that there would be no need for extra institutions; after all, Scottish MPs are going to be allowed to vote on Scottish issues, and still remain sitting in Westminster to vote on UK issues, so English MPs could do the same for English issues.

«So I don't really have any regard for what Tim Wu has to say about what Kathy Hochul has done for women, when he thinks Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women who literally put their lives on the line, that what they did so I could vote and all these women could vote was a «little issue.»&raquSo I don't really have any regard for what Tim Wu has to say about what Kathy Hochul has done for women, when he thinks Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women who literally put their lives on the line, that what they did so I could vote and all these women could vote was a «little issue.»&raquso I could vote and all these women could vote was a «little issue.»»

YouGov did the fieldwork for two academic election surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questions».

The MP you voted for goes to Parliament to sleep when important issues are on the ground but see him / her singing so so wonders #SOTNGhana

«Those are tough issues to vote on in the most Republican district in the State of New York, so I'm proud of that record and I stand by it.»

In 2011, Cuomo issued a message of necessity so that state lawmakers could vote on a bill reconfiguring the state income tax code less than two hours after its text had been made public.

Cuomo promised not to issue controversial orders to suspend the constitution's requirement for three days» waiting period before the Legislature votes, but did so twice on the two biggest bills passed last week.

Some viewers found the previous PMQs at best sedate, or less politely a but dull so we dusted down the Daily Politics Mood Box - used at the conferences to get delegates voting on an issue of the day.

The Prime Minister insisted: «The question of English votes for English laws, the so - called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately on their issues of tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.

But the Land Use Committee is charged with voting on Land Use issues, not wage issues, so it's not surprising that Council members are framing the issue a little differently after the vote.

Remember that you are their boss, and it's your civic responsibility to let them know how to represent your interests, so feel free to contact them and let them know how they're doing, how you'd like them to vote on the issues and how they can support the causes dear to you.

I hope they will bring it to the floor for an up or down vote because I want to know where the legislature stands on this issue, as well as the county executive, because no one has publicly sent us anything in terms of a proposal of what they want, so I'm telling the county what I want, what I think is the best for the City of Kingston residents.»