Sentences with phrase «without voting on it»

5) Michigan: The House recesses for three weeks without voting on a controversial measure backed by Gov. Snyder to let the state's Educational Achievement Authority take over the 5 % lowest performing schools in the state.

Houston school board members ended their meeting Tuesday night without voting on a plan to cede control over 10 low - performing schools after a skirmish erupted and police escorted members of the public — nearly all of whom opposed the proposal — out of the room.

The state Senate finished its two - year session Thursday without voting on the bill after Democratic leaders balked at reports that the measure would drive up utility rates.

But senators left for the weekend without voting on it.

Members of Congress headed home to their states and districts this week without voting on whether to extend the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 under the George W. Bush administration.

Lawmakers also adjourned without voting on Governor Cuomo's campaign finance reform and anti-corruption agenda, aimed at answering a wave of scandals to hit the legislature this year.

The meeting failed to result in any major breakthroughs and rank - and - file lawmakers departed the Capitol without voting on any bills.

Meanwhile, chaos reigned upstairs after Senate Democratic leader John Sampson of Brooklyn declared the budget «done» and disbanded the Senate without voting on the $ 1 billion «revenue» bill needed to finish it off.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as state Senate Leader John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

Senate Democratic leader John Sampson of Brooklyn sent his members home last week without voting on a tax bill needed to raise $ 950 million in revenue.

A controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda, which would give the death sentence to some open homosexuals, is in legislative limbo after the legislature recessed for their break without voting on the bill.

Therefore, your broker will need to return a proxy card without voting on these non-routine matters if you do not give voting instructions with respect to these matters.

Your broker, therefore, will need to return a proxy card without voting on these non-routine matters if you do not give voting instructions with respect to these matters.

The Graham - Cassidy bill as it is known in the Senate was yanked without a vote on Tuesday after it failed to garner the needed support among Republican lawmakers.

When the session broke up around midnight last night without a vote on marriage equality, the News» Ken Lovett reported that gay activists actually hissed at senators.

New York City is coming up on the four year anniversary of a moment that will live in infamy for transit riders and sustainable transportation advocates: the demise of congestion pricing, which was put down in the state Assembly without a vote on April 7, 2008.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump once again took aim at the Senate filibuster, a procedural maneuver that can thwart legislation without at least 60 votes to end debate on the subject.

It's increasingly difficult for a company to act without considering its impact on the communities it serves; consumers vote with their wallets.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet again delayed a vote on the Senate's controversial health care bill — this time, because Arizona Sen. John McCain is recovering from surgery (and without him, there aren't enough votes to pass the legislation).

St. Louis and Uber have been in heated negotiations for three months without coming to a solution and a planned vote this week on whether to allow the service to operate in the city has been postponed.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

But Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly at odds with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan on whether or not to use reconciliation and pass another major bill without any Democratic votes.

A broker or other nominee can not vote without instructions on non-routine matters, and therefore broker non-votes may exist in connection with Proposal No. 1 and Proposals No. 3 through No. 8.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

If you vote by proxy card or voting instruction card and sign the card without giving specific instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board (FOR all of HP's nominees to the Board, FOR ratification of the appointment of HP's independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the approval of the compensation of HP's named executive officers, FOR the approval of an annual advisory vote on executive compensation, FOR the Hewlett - Packard Company 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and FOR the approval of an amendment to the Hewlett - Packard Company 2005 Pay - for - Results Plan to extend the term of the plan).

NYSE and its rivals Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets have hoarded those licenses in recent years, in part because each gives them another vote on deciding the fate of important parts of the market's infrastructure, including the lucrative data feeds that traders can't operate without.

Management Incentive Plan, as amended; and (iv) each of the shareholder proposals described in this proxy statement are not matters on which a broker may vote without your instructions.

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.

Requiring that companies give shareholders a vote on such a choice episodically (e.g., every five years) would also be a way to help solve shareholders» inevitable collective action problems without forcing a one - size - fits - all solution on companies generally.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

A broker or other nominee can not vote without instructions on non-routine matters, and therefore broker non-votes may exist in connection with Proposals No. 1 through No. 3, Proposals No. 6 through No. 11, and the Floor Proposal.

As I wrote in my blog post about the first Mayoral candidates forum in September, I generally believe that Mayor Mandel has done a good job over the past six years, but it is not without reservation that I will give him my vote on October 18, 2010.

In addition, in the event the Company does not receive a shareholder proposal by February 23, 2016, the proxy to be solicited by the Board for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will confer discretionary authority on the holders of the proxy to vote the shares if the proposal is presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders without any discussion of the proposal in the proxy materials for that meeting.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

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.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

he and his family are an embarrassment, not to mention the subversive policies he is installing without benefit of being voted on by the legislation.

If enough of congress voted on it (greater than 2 / 3rds majority), we elect a racist president, and the Supreme Court just rubber stamped it without reading, the 13th amendment COULD be repealed, and slavery could be «allowed» again by federal law.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

And 2 men convinced 100 members of the House and Senate to vote for a war without checking on facts?

The weird thing to me is that you can say all this stuff, which you know is a bunch of lies, just in the hope that other people will believe them and vote for the candidate you prefer, and then you will go to church on Sunday without any sense of wrong - doing.

I will vote only for those individuals who base their beliefs on what is good for the greater benefit of mankind without the fear of being stricken down because I don't follow some religious teaching.

I've done them 2x in the last 10 days, once with lots of pecans on the top, the other without, the former got more votes from my men.

In a move unprecedented during the last quarter century of organic industry rulemaking, the USDA ignored the NOSB vote in the Federal Register without an opportunity for the public to comment on their decision before it goes into effect.