Sentences with phrase «voting members calls»

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By looking at hundreds of roll call votes and comparing them mathematically, the DW - NOMINATE process is able to figure out where each member sits politically compared to other members.

By looking at how each legislator voted on every roll call vote compared to the member's peers, DW - NOMINATE is able to show how liberal or conservative a Congressman or Senator is.

It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.

U.K. citizens will vote on June 23 on whether the country should remain a member of the 28 - country EU or quit in a so - called Brexit.

U.S. diplomat Jason Mack called for a vote on China's text on «mutually beneficial cooperation», which was then easily adopted by the 47 - member forum.

But following Elliott's move, eight board members nominated by Vivendi resigned, triggering a vote on a full board renewal at a separate shareholder meeting called for May 4.

Mittleman has agreed that until July 1, 2019 it won't take any actions against Aimia, including soliciting proxies, voting any shares, calling a special meeting, proposing the removal of board members, engaging in short selling or making disparaging comments about the company.

That's an assessment they disagree with, but Frank said GOP House members now will be hard - pressed to reject the wishes of their community bankers, who have called on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., to bring the Senate bill up for a vote.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

The justices, by an 8 - 1 vote, said Wednesday that members of Westboro Baptist Church had a right to promote what they call a broad - based message on public matters such as wars.

He questioned the way the NALC describes the LWF to its members, subsequently calling into question the ratification process by which the church voted to join the LWF.

and the so called christians will be voting for Mitt the member of a cult because they hate BO.

In May of this year, members of the 201 - year - old Ascension Church voted 59 to 44 to break with the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Catholic Church, as the major national organization of breakaway Episcopalians currently calls itself.

He belongs to the tribals: the cultural group below the Dalits, whose members are literally outcasts from India's caste system (and often called «thumb signers» because of how they vote).

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Just before the calendars ticked over from 1999 to 2000, one pastor was voted out of his job by church members who complained that he refused to preach warnings about the coming world disaster called the Millennium Bug (remember that non-event?).

Or, it was, until members voted to leave the denomination — and pay the $ 8.89 million cost for doing so — and join a new, fast - rising denomination called ECO, A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.

How many of those guys do you think would be willing to re-invest in the clubs transfer fund, how many do you think would want to recouparate their money and how many would want to sack the man in charge... I remind you of Usmanov who promised millions in transfer money to Arsenal, but its not his call to make... till the board votes unanimously on the issue or one invididual buys out the other board members for all the controlling shares... we are limited to how much we can spend because its not one persons money its all of theirs.

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.

Ferguson's comments follow a call last week by another Ukip candidate for members of the public to be stripped of the right to vote.

Just last year, our members delivered a vote of no confidence against him and called for his resignation.

At 6:30 p.m., Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, transportation advocates and community members hold rally for call for a vote of support by Community Board 4 on DOT's Traffic safety proposal for Queens Boulevard from 74th Street to Eliot Avenue, Sushi Island, 87 - 18 Queens Blvd., Queens.

He's also calling for a rule change that would allow any member to bring legislation to the floor for a vote.

Then they pack the room with their buddies — many of the voters who were yelling to table the resolutions weren't even State Committee Members — and just try to outyell their opposition by a so - called «voice vote.»

In the call, Obama cites the recent budget agreement in Albany that Kaminsky voted for as a sitting member of the Assembly, which included a 12 - week paid family leave program and an increase in the minimum wage targeted for $ 15 in downstate counties.

The National Police Association called on Cuomo to remove the two Parole Board members who voted in favor of letting cop killer Herman Bell go free and reverse their decision, keeping him behind bars.

And then we'll allow our closeted members to vote no, but call it a «vote of conscience.»

Assembly members on Tuesday were receiving calls discussing a vote for James.

For a general election to be called out of the fixed parliamentary term, a 66 % vote of all members of the House of Commons is required.

The operative for whom Team Lazio is searching would basically take over the convention vote whipping operation — the calling and maintenance of committee members who have pledged their support — and also manage the proxies pledged by those people to make sure nothing goes awry after their delivery to state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who has endorsed Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy over Lazio.

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.

It may decide to recount the votes - in this case it must call all the Station Committee members and observers, gather them again in a single room, and make them recount the ballots, for instance, and produce a new Protocol.

One committee member backing Teachout called out his vote after noting that «I have a conscience.»

Four women Assembly Members are calling on Welsh Labour to change its electoral college system and adopt «One Member, One Vote»...

Of 237 roll call votes in which four or more Republican House members voted against the majority of Republican members, Stefanik joined in splitting with the party 63 times, according to a Post-Star analysis of her 2016 voting record.

Worker Cooperatives are a democracy as in one member one vote while regular capitalist firms are a totalitarian environment who those who have more invested financially in the firm are the people who call the shots.

«Now many more members will have the chance to vote in the leadership election, I am today calling for an extension of the timetable so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice.»

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

Maybe you want to find all party members that have voted in the last three primaries and have your volunteers start calling them to ask them to join your campaign.

In last year's election for chairman, he was among the committee members who called for a delay in the vote because of reports that the FBI had interviewed Zellner as part of its investigation into a 2014 State Senate election.

That's when Council is scheduled to vote on North District Common Council Member Joe Golombek's resolution that calls for a federal investigation of the environmental review process undertaken by the state Department of Transportation for its proposed project at -LSB-...]

Chris Grayling, one of the six cabinet members who favour Brexit, had earlier dismissed a 28 - page Cabinet Office report warning of what Cameron called a «decade of uncertainty» if Britain votes to leave, as «completely ludicrous».

Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association and Medicaid Redesign Team member, called the measures «long overdue» last week before the panel voted on the package.

However, Auerbach said the roll call vote was on a procedural issue, not the leadership, and no one calculated the impact of the weighted vote of the 118 disputed committee members.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Phil Boyle (R,C,I - Suffolk County) and Senator George Amedore (R,C,I - Rotterdam) today joined with family members of two murdered dogs and animal advocates to call on the Assembly to bring «Kirby & Quigley's Law» to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

Since rules stipulated that they couldn't vote on Thursday, those members called for an emergency meeting two weeks later, at which they would have another vote.

Delegates at the 600,000 - member union's New York City confab on Saturday had supported an Iannuzzi - backed measure that declared a vote of no - confidence in state Education Commissioner John King and called on him to resign.

Gioia was the only Council member to vote against the budget, calling the discretionary funding system «broken.»

Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the...