Sentences with phrase «voting majority»

There currently are not enough votes to achieve the required 32 - vote majority for passage of many of the measures.

The mayor controls an automatic voting majority on the three - person board, because her finance commissioner is also a member.

The contest is particularly significant because if Jones wins, Republicans will maintain just a one - vote majority in Congress» upper chamber.

This would require voting majority of a given MBS issue.

The bill passed the Missouri House April 15 by an 85 - 63 vote — just barely above the 82 - vote majority needed in the chamber.

He would be forced to resign from the state Senate, leaving the Democrats with a single - vote majority over Republicans.

It is alleged that Hillary Clinton won a popular vote majority.

The case of Glasgow is telling in this respect: while being one of the few local areas in Scotland voting majority for Scottish independence (BBC News 2014), the city joined the English Core Cities group at the same time.

The Senate's 32 - vote majority currently teeters by a vote onto the Republican side.

The Democratic accord, which would dissolve the I.D.C., left the Republicans with a perilous one - vote majority hinging on one last recalcitrant Democrat.

Democrats hold narrow leads in the two undecided races, which would give them a one - vote majority after Mr. Felder's defection.

Stith, the third member of the board's current voting majority, added that he and his colleagues consider the commissioner's visit to be beneficial because, in his view, the district needs more funds from Albany.

That means if Klein can increase his ranks from five to six, it will become impossible for Democrats to form a 32 - vote majority without winning each of the competitive races and counting on all three of the wild cards.

Yes, the Principals have control, but it's a simple voting majority: They own 300 mio B shares out of a total 514 mio A & B shares (all pari - passu for voting purposes).

The prime issues remain China's coal thirst and the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, which must give consent by a 67 - vote majority before the United States can ratify a treaty.

Encouraging strong support to reach the three - quarter voting majority needed to create a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary;

But what are we to make of it when great constitutional issues like voting rights and the right of corporations to pour unlimited money into political campaigns are too often decided by one vote majorities aligning with whichever political party held an advantage in determining the court's make - up at the time?

Congress seems to think that the person who invented Facebook, who happens to be the CEO of the company, and who holds a comfortable voting majority is the right person to testify on the Cambridge Analytica mess.

Republicans only need a 51 - vote majority in order to slap them back on Iran, but enough GOP lawmakers have said they're uncertain about what to do with Iran that sanctions may be difficult or impossible to pass.

[10] The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Christine Payne with a one - vote majority over Conservative Lisle Smith.

Sharp differences among Democrats over abortion and immigration, however, have raised questions over whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi currently has the 218 - vote majority needed for passage.

And although Perot's total declined sharply in 1996, it was still sufficient to deny Clinton a popular vote majority and Dole a shot at winning.

That would add three more supporters to the 26 Democrats backing the measure, meaning only four Republican votes would be needed to assure a two - vote majority for passage.

Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works used their one - vote majority to move five nominations forward to the full Senate.

Twice in the past five presidential elections, the voting majority has been unable to choose the country's next president.

She joins an Uber board that includes a voting majority made up of Kalanick, co-founder Garrett Camp, and the company's first employee, Ryan Graves, according to a person familiar with the company.

Also, the millennials must be betting sick and tired of the abuse, and they will have a voting majority soon as the wealthy boomers die off.

«Many of the proposals that have been put on the table during the Trump administration have been so far out there that they have not been able to build a 218 - vote majority in the House of Representatives in order to get anything passed, so the act is still the law of the land,» Butterfield said.

Obama may have wanted to go to war with Syria but specifically asked congress for their take and listened when the voting majority was against it... do you see the distinction?

Now the «resolution of disapproval» will head to the Senate, where it requires a 51 - vote majority, and then to president Donald Trump's desk.

Presbyterian general assemblies are not universal councils of the church, and setting agendas and shaping deliberations in concert with other churches and their councils would help to avoid the conceit that authority in the church belongs to a voting majority of seven hundred commissioners.

I had hoped, at best, for a 100 - vote majority.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

He was elected as the MP for Islington North in 1983 and has been in the same seat ever since, claiming a thundering 21,000 - vote majority in the recent election.

MPs finally voted the academies bill through the Commons last night, with the coalition government retaining a 92 - vote majority.

Ealing Central and Acton has gone from a 274 vote majority to nearly 14,000 - a 25 % majority in what has overnight become a rock solid Labour safe seat.

A conviction would also force him from office, endangering the Senate Democrats» two - vote majority.

An additional district, depending on how it's drawn, could help the GOP strengthen its current slim one vote majority in the Senate.

Senate Republicans, who hold a bare one - vote majority, are split between suburbanites from affluent Westchester and Long Island and upstaters, whose constituents often have incomes well below the state average.

When it comes to the Senate, it's virtually impossible for Republicans to get the 60 vote majority needed to overcome a filibuster.

If they do pass the legislation, New York State would gain a voting majority on the MTA board.

Again, they are running on the basis of opposition to a major government policy, and will need to demolish a 20,000 vote majority - this time, that of former Conservative MP and Brexiteer Zac Goldsmith.

Woodcock, the centrist MP for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria, is defending a tiny 795 vote majority over the Conservatives from the 2015 election.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

Local chairman Joe Wheatley said that Labour had shown itself as the «most effective» opposition to Davies, who racked up a 9,624 - vote majority over his Labour runner - up in 2015.

The chamber's GOP conference currently has a bare, 32 - vote majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and several Republican members have said in recent weeks they don't think a special session is prudent.

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

It remains a Conservative - SNP marginal, with only a 2.9 % or 862 vote majority.

Democrats took control of the Senate last year with strong backing from the WFP, but hold only a one - vote majority.