Sentences with phrase «voting rules for»

That's a stretch — but the skirmish nonetheless is putting the fight to set voting rules for the presidential election on center stage, eighteen months before voters go to the polls.

Not exact matches

However, even under the best - case scenario for Democrats, they will not flip enough seats to reach the 60 - vote super-majority necessary to pass legislation under long - standing Senate rules.

Because the deal that secured the votes of the conservative House sect known as the Freedom Caucus, allows states to seek waivers that let them opt out of basic protections for some citizens — rules, for example, that prevent insurers from charging virtually anything they want to «cover» those with preexisting conditions or that demand that insurers provide certain basic health and preventive care services.

As in the 2015 regional election, the next ballot is likely to be framed as a plebiscite vote over independence, with the ruling «Together For Yes» coalition likely to stick together.

Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules prohibiting one company from owning stations that serve more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.

Clinton never had a majority of the electorate voting for him, and Bush's election needed a Supreme Court ruling to certify it.

With Europe voting to end visa - free travel in March — and Trump responding with new rules for inbound tourists earlier this month — this is a narrative that's still unfolding.

In April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide by.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Those rules, voted for in 2015, mandated that internet service providers and mobile carriers can't provide so - called fast lanes to certain content — sometimes their own.

The argument was the first in a term that holds the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

Tencent Music, however, has decided to go for a U.S. listing as Spotify is listed there and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's (HKEX) newly introduced rules do not allow corporate entities to benefit from weighted voting rights for now, according to IFR.

Indeed, Scalia himself noted that the high court came within a vote of declaring videocassette recorders «contraband» when it ruled for Sony Corp. in a case over recordings of television programs 30 years ago.

The FCC voted 3 - 2 in December to overturn the net neutrality rules, which barred broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to content or allowing websites to pay for fast lanes to get their content more quickly to consumers.

The 3 - 2 vote overturned net neutrality rules that barred broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to content or allowing websites to pay for «fast lanes» to get their content more quickly to consumers.

Therefore, existing rules would make it difficult for Duckworth to vote.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

The rules for this new generation of online, equity crowdfunding got a «yes» vote from Chairman Mary Jo White, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar and Commissioner Kara M. Stein.

The lift on the ban originally passed over a year ago as part of the JOBS Act, but the SEC was required to vote on and finalize rules for implementing the measure.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3 - 1 to adopt the next generation rules for equity crowdfunding this morning for entrepreneurs and small - business owners.

Yesterday, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission's vote to lift the ban on general solicitation, an 80 - year - old rule that prevented entrepreneurs from speaking publicly about raising funds for their businesses.

Over four months ago, the F.C.C. voted to repeal rules that ensure equal and open access to the Internet for everyone, but those protections are somehow still in a place.

«The PUCN just changed the rules of the game for all Nevadans that have invested in rooftop solar,» Jessica Scott, a regional director for Vote Solar, said.

However, please consult that organization for any specific rules it may have regarding your ability to change your voting instructions.

The move to change the rules around issuing such stock upset Einhorn, who went public with the dispute and filed a lawsuit to block the vote, scheduled for Apple's annual shareholder meeting Feb. 27.

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

New rules will require CBCA companies — about 40 % of companies listed on the TSX — to hold an election for their entire board of directors annually, vote for each director individually and, most importantly, use uniquely crafted majority - voting rules that only let shareholders vote «no» or «yes» for a director, eliminating the use of «withhold» votes which is standard practice under existing TSX rules.

That rule will determine what provisions Republicans can include in the bill, how much of Obamacare they can repeal, and perhaps whether the most conservative GOP senators will vote for it.

Nov 18, 2015: On September 22 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose new rules for promoting effective liquidity risk management by open - end and exchange - traded funds.

The Byrd Rule most immediately threatens the Cruz proposal that is designed to give conservatives a win on Obamacare's insurance regulations — a compromise that might be essential for the bill to get 51 votes.

Furthermore, the rules governing companies listed on the NYSE and incorporated under Delaware law require us to submit certain matters to a vote of shareholders for approval, such as mergers, large share issuances or similar transactions, and the approval of equity - based compensation plans.

Under the NYSE rules for member organizations: (i) the election of directors; (ii) the non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; (iii) the approval of the Stock Incentive Plan of 2015; and (iv) each of the shareholder proposals described in this proxy statement are not matters on which a broker may vote without your instructions.

The rules around an existing requirement for shareholders to vote on executive pay will also be tightened.

In a show of support for investor protection, the SEC unanimously adopted rules that block felons from pitching specific types of private investment deals and in a 3 - 2 vote adopted a rule that requires firms offering private placements to make additional disclosures to regulators prior to being able to advertise it.

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At a time when politicians are distrusted and Washington resented, a vote for Trump «is a vote of no confidence in the Beltway ruling class,» writes former insurgent GOP candidate Pat Buchanan.

The committee convened to draw up the rules for the race will meet Friday at Toronto's Albany Club to hammer out the date of the vote, the nomination deadline, spending limits, the entrance fee and the appeals process.

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Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

This finding — that Liberal - and NDP - voting business owners are more on - board than not with changes to income sprinkling rules — suggests that this specific change may not be a crisis for the federal government in the way some have characterized these changes overall.

The other three agencies voting for the rule include the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

In voting to overturn the rule in late July, House Republicans said the average payout for consumers in financial class - action lawsuits was $ 32 and attorneys made nearly $ 1 million.

WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to name the Federal Reserve as the primary regulator for the «Volcker Rule,» which bars banks from speculative trading.

Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received up to 10 % of the vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant voting impact of an ISS recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.

Any changes in requirements for insurance companies, which are likely to be an important element of any replacement legislation, could not likely be passed under reconciliation without 60 votes to waive the Byrd rule.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

I vote for a low key servant leadership in a democratic system, structures that help us focus on the right stuff without dictating what should happen, and conserning norms, I prefer values before rules.

A university rule that permits anyone to run for any office does NOT exempt the person from needing to convince the majority of the membership to vote for that person to serve as its leader.