Sentences with phrase «with votes in both chambers»

Final language should be available soon after Thanksgiving, with votes in both chambers by mid-December.

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They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

He recently voted with 51 senators on a bill to gut the Affordable Care Act, the first such bill to pass in the upper chamber.

The SFA, in an unprecedented unilateral decision by its «urgency committee», has dismissed the arbitrators chosen by the Serbian Players Union and appointed officials with links to the biggest clubs, Red Star and Partizan Belgrade, as the chamber's chairman and vice-chairman, who typically will have the casting vote in disputes.

Assemblyman Bob Costelli, R - Goldens Bridge, voted with Silver more than 95 percent of the time, making his voting record the most similar to the speaker's than any other Republican in chamber.

Should Todd Kaminsky's 780 - vote lead hold in the chamber, he would be the 32nd lawmaker in the chamber with a «D» next to his name.

That is, if voters become more engaged with the second chamber and therefore turn out to vote for it in higher numbers, then it seems likely that the chamber will become more assertive in the face of the Commons.

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

One source with direct knowledge of the talks groused that Flanagan could not deliver the votes in the GOP - controlled Senate for the session, due the closely - divided nature of his chamber.

Morris is the lone Democrat running against Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives the GOP its needed 32nd vote in the chamber to maintain its narrow majority.

«We want to point out that in any discussion with our partners we have to start from a fundamental constitutional principle, the same in the US and Romania, according to which the debates, decisions and votes in the Parliament take place in the name of the sovereignty of the people and can not be the object of any form of pressure,» reads the quoted communiqué issued by the heads of the two Chambers.

The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

The race is expected to be a pivotal contest with potential control of the chamber up for grabs given the narrow divide in the Senate and a unity deal reached between the mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference pending the outcome of the vote.

The IDC has been a key bloc of votes in the chamber and formed a coalition government with the GOP for two years that gave Klein the title of Senate co-president.

At noon, state Sen. Brian Kavanagh will join with good government groups and legislators to call on Cuomo to fund early voting in this year's executive budget proposal, outside th4e Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Democratic lawmakers, along with the League of Women Voters, rallied outside the Senate chambers Tuesday for bills that would allow same - day voting and early voting by mail in New York state.

A month after the coup began, Paterson appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, and with a tie - breaking vote in place over the 62 - member chamber, Espada relented.

He said the measure didn't have anything to do with religion given the exemptions (which were crafted by Republican lawmakers in order to allow a vote on the bill in the chamber) and said it was really just another name for civil unions.

Hayes also questioned why Cuomo has thus far declined to intervene in the post-election jockeying for votes, in which Senator - elect Simcha Felder recently defected from the Democrats to join with the GOP, putting them just one vote shy of the 32 necessary to control the chamber.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

One chamber (Nebraska) is officially nonpartisan and in one chamber (Alaska), several Republicans vote with a caucus other than the Republican caucus.

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun - control bills going nowhere in the GOP - controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

It has also flirted with majority Republicans in the chamber, giving them the sheen of bipartisanship on some issues, and a comforting cushion of votes.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

The IDC has countered that their coalition agreement helps get bills to the floor that otherwise wouldn't make it — bearing in mind that, with Felder, the Republicans currently have the 32 votes needed to control the chamber.

Klein has countered that the votes aren't there in the chamber for either bills to pass, even with the IDC's support.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a private meeting with his Democratic members said he plans to allow the measure to come to the chamber floor for a vote for the first time, sources told the NY Daily News.

Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the Republican conference in the chamber, gives them the needed 32nd vote to attain a working majority in the state Senate.

Their support, combined with 29 of the 30 Democratic votes in the chamber, enabled Gov. Andrew Cuomo to claim victory in his quest to see New York became the largest state in the nation to let same - sex couples legally wed..

In the interim, Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general electioIn the interim, Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general electioin the last general election.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

It's the latest iteration of a push by Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who provides the chamber's ruling Republicans with a crucial 32nd vote, to prevent investigations into yeshivas serving Orthodox Jews, mostly in Brooklyn.

They give 29 Republicans the edge needed to garner more than the 32 votes necessary to control the chamber, despite 32 enrolled Democrats in Senate seats, with another reliably Democratic seat temporarily vacant.

Democratic lawmakers, along with the League of Women voters, rallied outside the Senate chambers for bills that would allow same day voting, and early voting by mail in New York State.

Votes to override the ruling of the chair failed three times, with the chamber's Republicans and their allies in the Independent Democratic Conference effectively voting to rule the amendments out of order.

The crucial Republican amendment passed with 78 votes in the House and 21 in the Senate — well short of the override margin in both chambers.

Felder is now the lone Democrat voting with Republicans and keeping them in charge of the chamber.

If that next session of the legislature agrees with the amendment by a simple majority vote of both chambers, «it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit each proposed amendment or amendments to the people for approval in such manner and at such times as the legislature shall prescribe.»

During her 19 months in the House of Representatives, Kathy Hochul was an outlier among the state's Democratic delegation, routinely breaking with her more liberal colleagues to vote with the chamber's Republican majority.

The Coalition Agreement said that pending reform of the Lords «appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber that is reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election».

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

Select Committee reports, at least the most important of them, should get a full day's debate in the chamber on their main recommendations, together with a vote at the end.

«It is as if federal officers were installed in state legislative chambers and were armed with the authority to stop legislators from voting on any offending proposals,» Alito wrote.

The Republicans in the chamber are also aided by an eight - member group of breakaway Democrats — the Independent Democratic Conference — who work with the G.O.P. and give them an extra buffer against some legislation they dislike, a list that this year includes early voting, gun control and any new taxes.

The Democrats have a narrow majority (32 - 31) in the chamber, but a breakaway independent Democratic caucus has been siding with Republicans on critical votes.

The Democrats, as you'll recall, didn't cast any votes for Tier VI — with the exception of the four - member IDC, which voted no in a bloc — because they walked out of the chamber to protest the redistricting bill.

That one vote belongs to Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who has nonetheless caucused with Republicans in Albany's upper chamber, and is now that party's decisive 32nd vote in the 63 - seat Senate.

It has passed in that chamber five times with solid, bipartisan support but has never come to a floor vote in the State Assembly because of the objections of several senior Democratic women who believe it is excessively violent.

Republicans moved for a surprising leadership vote and although it was disputed by Democrats soon Skelos was standing in the chamber shaking hands with Espada - the two split Smith's positions as Majority Leader Espada and Senate President Skelos.