Sentences with phrase «voting on these measures when»

One highly - placed Democrat said it's possible budget bills could start being printed as early as Saturday, which would allow legislators to start debating and voting on these measures when they return to the Capitol next Monday.

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When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

Park District Executive Director Barbara Heller said Friday that some board members were still considering placing an advisory referendum measure on the April 17 ballot and may reconsider the issue at a future meeting when all board members are present for a vote.

The Log Cabin Republicans were very involved in the lobbying effort last December to try to convince some GOP senators to vote «yes» on marriage — an effort that ultimately failed when the entire 30 - member conference, joined by eight Democrats, voted «no» on the measure, killing the bill in the process.

The most common form of filibuster occurs when a senator attempts to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure.

Even when signatures are collected to put a measure on the ballot, they are audited in some way, and that is less critical of an issue than signing someone up to vote.

This applies all the more when a policy's vote - winning ability seems largely to rely on lying about its being a progressive measure to help the poorest.

Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports that the Parker - Diaz Sr. blow - up occurred when the Bronx senator joined Sen. Carl Kruger in voting «no» on Sen. Velmanette Montgomery's juvenile offenders bill, which caused the measure to be pulled from the floor before it was officially declared dead.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

The Batavia Republican also proposed a measure on the Assembly floor Monday that would require a two - thirds vote of the house for Messages of Necessity to be accepted when issued by the governor.

The measure had been on the verge of being passed Wednesday, but was defeated late that night when many Democrats voted «no» in an effort to ramp up pressure to pass tougher rent regulations, which Republicans oppose.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called off a pre-recess vote on the Senate's measure, when it appeared it would fail.

At least seven had events like Crowley's during the period when the measure was being debated and voted on.

The measure, formally known as the ``.50 - Caliber Threat Reduction Act,» will be voted on when the committee meets tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Republicans, meanwhile, hammered Kaminsky for votes on measures that included enhancing the rights of undocumented workers when it came to voting, serving on juries and receiving welfare benefits.

I held this view three weeks ago when the Legislature was initially going to vote on the measure.

When they vote on the budget Oct. 13, legislators are also expected to vote on a separate measure that requires the county executive's staff to report three times a year on the new venue's finances, McMahon said.

[31] The third attempt to repeal the measure met again with failure when the Senate Education Committee voted 3 - 2 to defer the bill on May 1, 2013.

«When we did our voting rights report, «Mississippi on the Hudson,» we found that one of the most effective measures to removing barriers to voter turnout in New York is early voting.

Supporters of Dream Act legislation say they were «set up», when a hastily arranged vote on the bill in the Senate chamber late Monday led to the measure's failure by just one vote.

The most common form of filibuster occurs when a senator attempts to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a bill by extending the debate on the measure, but other dilatory tactics exist.

Sen. Craig Johnson (D - Port Washington), now running for his second full term, last week challenged the Democratic - controlled Assembly to «do the right thing» and vote on the property - tax cap the Senate passed last week, and made a point of noting he had voted for the same measure when it was proposed by Republicans two years ago.

The measure to be voted on Monday says the city and land bank will work out a sharing arrangement in October 2013, when it knows just how much money the foreclosure notices scared up.

And while he said that, for now, he would keep his position «locked inside my inarticulate skull,» Alesi emphasized that because Senate votes are taken alphabetically, he'll be the first Republican to weigh in on the measure when the next vote is taken.

A bill that would allow limited use of medical marijuana cleared an important hurdle on Tuesday when the Senate Health Committee narrowly voted to move the measure forward.

Ghana's Electoral Commission has issued an eight - point measures it will put in place on December 7 to «guarantee the credibility of the ballots» when millions of Ghanaians vote to elect a president and 275 members of parliament.

The Senate passed the measure in April by a 63 - to - 34 margin — just four votes shy of the two thirds majority needed to nix a veto — on a day when two supporters of the bill were absent.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

«Before the ink has even dried on Cook County's nationally praised law aimed at protecting both consumers and animal welfare by preventing the sale of dogs and cats raised in inhumane conditions, the pet industry and its allies have crafted an amendment that is designed to completely undo the good that was done when the Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the animal rights legislation last month,» stated Commissioner John Fritchey, sponsor of the Cook County measure.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

Voters who make their decision only when voting tend to default to «no» on ballot measures.

At this time, there is no word yet on when either measure may reach the floor for a vote.

The ongoing economic crisis in Greece jumped ferociously back into the world's headlines this summer, when Greek residents voted to reject European austerity demands and European leaders agreed on a third bailout deal for Greece in exchange for strict reform measures.