Amazon shareholders voted down the proposals, as was widely expected.
|
|
That is a proposal that McCain has voted down before.
|
|
The Senate voted down the Green New Deal on Tuesday.
|
|
But the committee voted down an amendment offered by Rep.
|
|
That measure was voted down by the Democratic majority. Rep.
|
|
The House committee also voted down an amendment from Rep.
|
|
It was voted down by the Democrats on the committee.
|
|
On this occasion, tech prevailed; the proposal was voted down.
|
|
Parliament voted down the deal in March by 25 votes.
|
|
Republicans voted down each request in a party line vote.
|
|
May's deal has already been voted down twice in parliament.
|
|
It has been voted down two further times since then.
|
|
Fortunately, the BCRA was voted down by Congress earlier this year.
|
|
However, the amendment was voted down in a party line vote.
|
|
Interestingly, a similar initiative was voted down in Oregon on Tuesday.
|
|
The board voted down all and ended up sticking with Dixie.
|
|
On Thursday, British lawmakers voted down May's approach to Brexit talks.
|
|
The bill has already been voted down once in the Senate.
|
|
Hawaii legislators considered but voted down a similar measure last month.
|
|
The Senate voted down four measures aimed at curbing gun sales.
|
|
So too has the rate at which nominations are voted down.
|
|
Tuesday was just debate and Democratic amendments that were voted down.
|
|
"Unfortunately, our Republican colleagues have voted down this effort," she said.
|
|
Ultimately, his nomination was voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
|
|
He could also be voted down if he is relatively popular.
|
|
Congress shouldn't have voted down an effort to expand background checks.
|
|
The congress has never voted down a proposal from party leaders.
|
|
May's plan is voted down on Tuesday, five things could happen.
|
|
Her plan has been voted down three times in Parliament. Mrs.
|
|
If the bill was voted down, government would've effectively shut down.
|
|
The House Judiciary Committee voted down a proposed amendment by Rep.
|
|
The House Judiciary Committee voted down an amendment introduced by Rep.
|
|
The amendment is likely to be voted down along party lines.
|
|
Lawmakers voted down two measures offered by immigration hard-liners Reps.
|
|
Each of the stockholder proposals were ultimately voted down, as Facebook recommended.
|
|
Assuming the deal is voted down, the margin of defeat is important.
|
|
The accord was voted down by a margin of just 0.4 percent.
|
|
It was voted down first in January and again in mid-March.
|
|
The state's Education and Health Committee voted down the bill 8-7.
|
|
The latest version was voted down in the Senate in December 2010.
|
|
This will not be the case if the proposals are voted down.
|
|
Mr. Rajoy's proposed government was voted down by lawmakers, 180 to 170.
|
|
The House voted down passage of the 2018 farm bill last week.
|
|
John McCain (R-AZ); both notably voted down the Obamacare repeal bills.
|
|
After months of failed negotiations, senators voted down four immigration proposals Thursday.
|
|
They voted down a plan that gave them almost everything they wanted.
|
|
On Thursday, Republicans voted down a request to subpoena testimony from her.
|
|
Most have been voted down, but about a third have become law.
|
|
But three days later, its legislators voted down the abortion bill. Why?
|
|
Republicans voted down amendments offered by Democrats, including one introduced by Rep.
|
|
After more than three hours of discussion, the contract was voted down.
|
|
But the amendment didn't make the final version, which Turner voted down.
|
|
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was just voted down by Parliament.
|
|
Five years ago, workers at the plant voted down the union 727–626.
|
|
And on Thursday Poland's parliament voted down the controversial bill, 352 to 58.
|
|
Indeed, the congress has never voted down a proposal from Communist Party chiefs.
|
|
Voted down 7-6 (one of the DNC delegates voted with each side).
|
|
Britain's Jeremy Hunt warned of "real risks" if the agreement is voted down.
|
|
Britain's parliament voted down May's deal by a record 230 votes in January.
|
|
But Thornberry's plan to cut the Test Resource Management Center was voted down.
|
|
But Thornberry's plan to cut the Test Resource Management Center was voted down.
|
|
This included: Four bills, all voted down, over the course of three days.
|
|
After months of failed negotiations, senators have already voted down four immigration proposals.
|
|
The committee voted down the proposal last month in a 17-8 vote.
|
|
And Disney shareholders voted down a nonbinding endorsement of Bob Iger's pay package.
|
|
Why were possible exemptions for incest and rape ultimately voted down and why?
|
|
The House voted down the budget proposal, 254 to 179, in October 1990.
|
|
On Friday afternoon, Parliament voted down the deal for a remarkable third time.
|
|
Nominations have failed — that is, been withdrawn or voted down — for various reasons.
|
|
They also voted down a proposal requesting the company seat conservative board members.
|
|
Later Wednesday, the Senate voted down two more proposals related to health care.
|
|
A deal negotiated by former Prime Minister Theresa May was repeatedly voted down.
|
|
Lee, a fiscal conservative, voted down each of the previous temporary spending bills.
|
|
Workers approved a strike after a previous contract was voted down in June.
|
|
In March, all but five Republicans voted down a Democratic amendment from Sen.
|
|
But the board voted down Mr. Pally's motion to push back the decision.
|
|
John McCain (R-AZ) who famously voted down Republicans' efforts to repeal Obamacare.
|
|
Incredibly, lawmakers decided not to do the dumb thing and voted down the bill.
|
|
The agenda was voted down after just 27 minutes of the Congress in Goa.
|
|
Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted down a motion Friday from Sen.
|
|
In the end, though, rock beat snow and state residents voted down the measure.
|
|
Thom Tillis said Wednesday, before his colleagues voted down another bill to repeal Obamacare.
|
|
So if the incentive gets voted down and that makes Amazon scared, good riddance.
|
|
Scott Garrett, will likely be voted down by the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow morning.
|
|
May's Brexit deal has first to be voted down in parliament on Dec. 11.
|
|
Now ultimately we know that recently the Senate voted down to roll back Obamacare.
|
|
The legislation was ultimately voted down on April 17, 2013, by a Republican Congress.
|
|
MORE (R-Ariz.) after he voted down a Trump-backed bill to kill ObamaCare.
|
|
He's already voted down the Bush tax cuts because they disproportionately benefited the wealthy.
|
|
In 2005 the French voted down the draft EU constitution, shocking their political leaders.
|
|
However, this morning, Tennessee workers voted down the contract, according to The Detroit News.
|
|
On Wednesday, they voted down the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act — a straight repeal bill.
|
|
What would have had to happen for Ms. DeVos's confirmation to be voted down?
|
|
A senator sympathetic to Clinton filed such a motion, but it was voted down.
|
|
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday voted down a resolution calling for Sens.
|
|
The board voted down all and ended up sticking with Dixie -- for now, anyway.
|
|
Because the majority of MPs are pro-Remain, it would likely get voted down.
|
|
The second was on changing the voting system in 2011, and it was voted down.
|
|
Campaigners occupied the streets for 79 days, and in 2015 lawmakers voted down China's plan.
|
|
If polls are anything to go by, Proposition 10 is likely to be voted down.
|
|
On May 3.173, 2014, the City of Miami Commissioners voted down Beckham's PortMiami stadium proposal.
|
|
If the government's deal is voted down, Labour will try to force a general election.
|
|
And a Sanders-backed plank opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal was voted down.
|
|
The panel that approves historical markers voted down Tilden's nomination in March, 4 to 1.
|
|
The City Council voted down the measure, and the beverage association later made the donation.
|
|
The DNC last week voted down a measure for a standalone debate on climate change.
|
|
The panel voted down or withdrew amendments on more substantial reforms, largely along party lines.
|
|
In the past, similar measures have been voted down by Mr. Zuckerberg and his allies.
|
|
He attempted to remove puberty blockers from the bill, but his amendment was voted down.
|
|
That option, which he acknowledged would be the most disruptive, was voted down on Tuesday.
|
|
Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY), which was voted down 48-45.
|
|
But on Wednesday his spending plans were voted down by Catalan separatists, whose support he needed.
|
|
British lawmakers voted down Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce settlement for the third time on Friday.
|
|
The Senate on Wednesday voted down the abuse of power article against Trump, with only Sen.
|
|
Democrats efforts to have their own memo released were voted down by the committee, Schiff said.
|
|
On Monday, the House voted down a Republican measure to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep.
|
|
The measure was voted down by the council, which cited new concerns over federal data-sharing.
|
|
In a normal referendum, where everyone gets one vote, the park would likely be voted down.
|
|
With all three options voted down, the legislative effort to repeal Obamacare looks over for now.
|
|
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned in December, after Italy voted down a key constitutional referendum.
|
|
Alphabet's shareholder meeting last week resulted in a predictable outcome: All stockholder proposals were voted down.
|
|
This year, their groups of nominees were largely voted down in favor of non-slated works.
|
|
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday voted down a motion from ranking member Rep.
|
|
One of the dissenters who voted down the bill while it was in committee was Rep.
|
|
Yet voters in his state last year voted down a carbon tax for a second time.
|
|
Walmart shareholders have voted down every employee proposal in company history, according to United for Respect.
|
|
Meadows attempted to delay the hearing over the late testimony, but his motion was voted down.
|
|
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), would have reformed U.S. surveillance powers, but was voted down 198-222.
|
|
Missouri legislators voted down a measure this spring to let DACA students pay in-state tuition.
|
|
A single-payer referendum in Colorado was voted down last year, 79 percent to 21 percent.
|
|
The move comes after he noted that the New York Legislature voted down such a measure.
|
|
That bill was angrily voted down by opposition lawmakers and led to demonstrations around the country.
|
|
It was voted down, but could re-emerge in the future if enough members demand it.
|
|
Republicans voted down eight subpoena attempts for documents and witnesses at the start of the trial.
|
|
Apple executives can breathe a sigh of relief today after two shareholder proposals were voted down.
|
|
DNC officials in August voted down a resolution calling for a standalone debate on climate change.
|
|
It voted down the articles on perjury in the Paula Jones case and abuse of power.
|
|
Bork was voted down by a Democrat-controlled Senate because his conservative record was so extensive.
|
|
The Democratic National Committee voted down holding an official climate change debate among 2020 presidential contenders.
|
|
BARTIROMO: Well the Senate voted down any idea that the Russians would be able to question you.
|
|
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state lawmakers voted down a bill on Friday that would have forced Boeing (BA.
|
|
Voters in Ohio last year voted down a measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana use there.
|
|
Pat Toomey R-Pennsylvania was voted down as families of the victims watched in the Senate Gallery.
|
|
The following year MPs voted down a bill to allow doctor-assisted dying for the terminally ill.
|
|
If the deal is voted down, the pound would lose 2 percent of its value, Nomura said.
|
|
In June, shareholders voted down a proposal to remove Musk as chairman and three other board members.
|
|
But the plan was voted down by the French parliament; thereafter countries focused on gradual economic integration.
|
|
Two hours after Trump spoke, the Senate voted down one version of it — with nine Republican defections.
|
|
Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) to the panel's oversight plan, was voted down on a party-line vote.
|
|
Last month, the House voted down the farm bill in an embarrassing defeat for Speaker Paul Ryan.
|
|
The Wyoming state Senate last month voted down a bill that would have repealed the death penalty.
|
|
The Wyoming state Senate on Thursday voted down a bill that would have repealed the death penalty.
|
|
Even though the party controlled the White House, Senate and House, the public option was voted down.
|
|
Parliament voted down an unpopular exit deal that Prime Minister Theresa May had negotiated with European leaders.
|
|
It is far worse than the "repeal and replace" bills that Congress has so far voted down.
|
|
The bill was voted down Wednesday — only to be brought back for another unsuccessful vote on Thursday.
|
|
But the amendment was voted down 209-214, with 24 Republicans joining with Democrats to defeat it.
|
|
Sparx's proposals were voted down at the company's annual shareholders meeting last year for a second time.
|
|
Under Australian law, a board spill can be triggered if two consecutive remuneration reports are voted down.
|
|
But three bills that sought to address the matter were voted down in the Senate on Thursday.
|
|
Bork, the only other nominee with polling as bad as Kavanaugh's, was voted down by the Senate.
|
|
President Trump's priorities weren't voted down in the House or the Senate; they were just never considered.
|
|
The UK attempted to bring in a similar model but it was voted down at the eleventh hour.
|
|
Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced similar legislation, also voted down, to do the same for federal IDEA funding.
|
|
For instance, last year legislators in North Carolina voted down a PPP toll-road project agreed in 2014.
|
|
The Senate voted down an amendment in December that would block suspected terrorists from buying guns and explosives.
|
|
Earlier Wednesday, the Senate voted down the House-passed version of the bill by a 55-37 margin.
|
|
In Latvia, several attempts to accommodate the Russian Orthodox minority by recognising January 7th have been voted down.
|
|
So the fact that all of the climate-related measures were voted down are not all that surprising.
|
|
That was in 1986, and he was voted down at least in part due to allegations of racism.
|
|
It was not a popular measure and was voted down, but Ballentine says it spoke to Haley's style.
|
|
Since Republicans have a majority in both chambers of Congress, however, the objection would likely be voted down.
|
|
In the House, though, the Appropriations Committee this week voted down a Democratic amendment to do the same.
|
|
By Tuesday night, the Senate had voted down a Republican plan to repeal and replace much of Obamacare.
|
|
The PD and its allies voted down a 5-Star motion which called for Visco to be replaced.
|
|
In 1989, the first President Bush did the same to force through extensions that Congress had voted down.
|
|
The House version of the Farm Bill, which was voted down on May 18, was a major disappointment.
|
|
The amendment was voted down 2628-28503 during the panel's markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
|
|
The amendment was voted down 30-2023 during the panel's markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
|
|
Thornberry offered an amendment to increase the topline to $750 billion, but was voted down, 27-30. Rep.
|
|
The Senate voted down that measure, but not before it delayed action on the spending bill for weeks.
|
|
Legislators in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New Hampshire and New Jersey have all voted down or killed legalization measures.
|
|
"The issue has come up in every Maryland legislative session, and it's voted down every time," he says.
|
|
The Senate voted down a measure on Wednesday that would allocate $250 million worth of election security funding.
|
|
On Tuesday, Parliament for the second time voted down the Brexit deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May.
|
|
This is the third day in a row that the Senate has voted down a health care bill.
|
|
Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, proposed adding $500 million, however, that was voted down, along party lines.
|
|
He supports replacing the caulking, but has been voted down by board members who live in Santa Monica.
|
|
The measure was ultimately voted down, temporarily saving the stadium, until a new setback emerged the following year.
|
|
All but one of the amendments was voted down along a strict 53–47 party line vote. Sen.
|
|
Though the demonstrations were largely nonviolent, protesters called for Mr. Basuki to be voted down, imprisoned — even killed.
|
|
House Bill 1203, introduced in January by Republicans, was voted down 40-51 by House lawmakers on Monday.
|
|
With all of this in mind, I ask that the amendment offered by Perry to be voted down.
|
|
Remainers, meanwhile, still hope that the whole thing could be called off if Mrs May's deal is voted down.
|
|
Just last week, U.S. senators voted down a resolution to halt American support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign.
|
|
This division is causing many analysts to predict that the deal will be voted down on Tuesday next week.
|
|
Trump praised May's November deal with Brussels, which British lawmakers voted down three times in parliament earlier this year.
|
|
It was first introduced in 2001 and the latest version was voted down in the Senate in December 2010.
|
|
In the U.K., a campaign to accept 3,000 child refugees was voted down by the Conservative party on Monday.
|
|
Voters in Ohio last year voted down a measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana use in the state.
|
|
But most attempts to amend the government's bill were voted down, lacking support from the main opposition Labour party.
|
|
Even a plan to keep fossil fuel companies from taking private land by eminent domain, voted down 7-6.
|
|
Parliament voted down British military action against Assad's government in 2013, in an embarrassment for May's predecessor, David Cameron.
|
|
May's deal was voted down for a third time by lawmakers on Friday, sending sterling plunging to below $1.30.
|
|
For instance, he was instrumental in passing the state's medical marijuana law and voted down an anti-abortion bill.
|
|
The interim constitution does not say what will happen if the draft is voted down, leading to more uncertainty.
|
|
On Saturday, the UN Security Council voted down a Russian-sponsored resolution that would have denounced the military action.
|
|
Shooting victims' families kept watch as the Senate voted down four measures on Monday aimed at curbing gun sales.
|
|
Bookmakers are giving odds that a British withdrawal, or Brexit as it is commonly known, will be voted down.
|
|
Last month, a majority of the European Parliament voted down a nonbinding resolution in support of the negotiation mandates.
|
|
For example, a farm bill including measures helpful to small banks was voted down by the House this month.
|
|
He even famously voted down Trump's health care bill in dramatic fashion, which Trump took as a personal affront.
|
|
On Friday, the Senate voted down a measure that would have admitted new witnesses and evidence into the trial.
|
|
Prior to that, workers voted down a union in 2011 at a Target store in Valley Stream, New York.
|
|
Republicans had voted down some of the bills and effectively blocked the other measures from moving out of committees.
|
|
Halfway through the proceedings, a Democratic senator sympathetic to Clinton introduced a motion to dismiss, which was voted down.
|
|
But his political reform package has languished in commission and the opposition has shelved or voted down other proposals.
|
|
The fact that the Senate is majority Republican is why I've been skeptical that Kavanaugh would be voted down.
|
|
The DNC has voted down a resolution that would have demanded Bernie Sanders and Angus King run as Democrats.
|
|
But Congress has consistently voted down such efforts, as lawmakers fear negative economic effects on communities with military bases.
|
|
But Nadler was ready for most of these motions, and quickly either denied or voted down the GOP's requests.
|
|
Every year since at least 2014, Republican lawmakers in Missouri have voted down proposals to increase the minimum wage.
|
|
But his political reform package has languished in committee discussions and the opposition has shelved or voted down other proposals.
|
|
Another version of this bill was also voted down in late December of 2015 after the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
|
|
The council voted down a resolution in January 2013 that would have condemned Azerbaijan for its policy on political prisoners.
|
|
Their presence didn't sway the Republican controlled-legislature, who voted down a motion to even consider an assault weapon ban.
|
|
For instance, he was instrumental in passing the state's medical marijuana law and has voted down an anti-abortion bill.
|
|
But if enough people oppose the park — say, 90 Raymonds against 10 Marys — then the park will be voted down.
|
|
In 2011 the city council narrowly voted down an amendment to add LGBT status to its housing anti-discrimination statute.
|
|
The center-left's first budget after winning the election in 2014 was voted down by the Alliance and Sweden Democrats.
|
|
Love's bill was voted down in committee last month, though he told me he will continue working on this issue.
|
|
Yet based on fear-mongering arguments, the bill was voted down — with opponents maintaining their supposed health and safety objections.
|
|
Wisconsin's Elections Commission will retain its administrator after Republicans in the state Senate voted down his confirmation a day earlier.
|
|
The panel voted down a Grijalva effort to force more information from the Interior Department on Secretary Zinke's monuments review.
|
|
The House dramatically voted down a similar amendment last week when several Republicans changed their votes on the House floor.
|
|
By a two-to-one margin, Missouri voters voted down a so-called "right-to-work" (RTW) law on Tuesday.
|
|
The Senate recently voted down a resolution that would have pulled U.S. military support from the Saudi coalition in Yemen.
|
|
Abbott and other conservatives proposed amendments to the bill to include further religious protections, all of which were voted down.
|
|
Republicans voted down a Democratic motion to have the F.B.I. brief the committee on risks posed by releasing the memo.
|
|
But every year since at least 2014, Republican lawmakers in Missouri have voted down proposals to increase the minimum wage.
|
|
Democrats and several Republicans handily voted down a House bill that would have extended the shutdown deadline to February 16.
|
|
Before Parliament's suspension MPs again voted down the Brexit plans of Boris Johnson, the prime minister, handing him six defeats.
|
|
The GOP bill is so hideous and bad it will have to be radically changed or just be voted down.
|
|
The two other articles, another perjury count and an abuse of office count, were voted down by the full house.
|
|
The Senate voted down the "skinny" bill, which would have repealed ObamaCare's individual and employer mandates and defunded Planned Parenthood.
|
|
However, even that modest reform was voted down in favor of a substitute bill that merely clarified existing committee jurisdictions.
|
|
Asked what reforms he'd like to see, Cornyn mentioned the "skinny" Obamacare repeal bill the Senate voted down last week.
|
|
They voted down three different bills — a robust repeal-and-replace plan, repeal only, and "skinny" repeal — over three days.
|
|
A similar measure was voted down in Congress's upper chamber late June, winning the support of only four Republican senators.
|
|
The Texas Legislature also voted down a proposal last year that would have lowered standards for these facilities to be licensed.
|
|
Cruz has voted down efforts to price greenhouse gas emissions while O'Rourke has framed fighting climate change as an economic imperative.
|
|
Following that historic defeat, Labour then called a no-confidence in the government which was also voted down, but only just.
|
|
Sandbrook said SB-8003, California's gas tax, survived, and Proposition 6, a plan to cut some infrastructure funding, was voted down.
|
|
One reason the union may have postponed workers returning to work is its fear that the deal could be voted down.
|
|
To make things worse, Republicans in Congress voted down Democratic efforts to get Trump to release 10 years of his returns.
|
|
The lawyers plan to argue that the creditors went beyond legal limits when they voted down the plan, the source said.
|
|
Despite the supposed popular support, though, the people of Switzerland resoundingly voted down a countrywide proposal in a referendum last year.
|
|
The Senate last night voted down a modified version of Republicans' larger repeal-and-replace bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
|
|
The version of the bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, that the Senate voted down tonight included an agreement by Sens.
|
|
Three GOP senators voted down a so-called "skinny repeal" plan, a devastating blow to President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
|
|
If the deal is voted down on Tuesday, it could mean more negotiations, delaying Brexit or ousting May, among other possibilities.
|
|
The last Republican nominee for a Cabinet seat chosen by a Republican president and voted down by the Senate was Sen.
|
|
If the May deal is voted down in the House of Commons, there could be a dramatic financial market sell-off.
|
|
Facebook's board voted down all of the proposals urging the company to be more transparent, increase oversight, and increase shareholder control.
|
|
Every single one was either blocked or voted down — leaving the final bill with little in the way of substantive reforms.
|
|
"If the [House] bill gets voted down, that could accelerate this pullback," said John Serrapere, director of research at Arrow Funds.
|
|
Kaine then asked for a vote to overrule the chairman and was voted down along party lines, 14-85033, he said.
|
|
The Brexit deadline is fast approach on March 29, but Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed plan was voted down by Parliament.
|
|
Kaine then asked for a vote to overrule the chairman and was voted down along party lines, 14-13, he said.
|
|
Amazon shareholders on Wednesday voted down two proposals to limit the deployment of the company's controversial facial recognition software, dubbed Rekognition.
|
|
A committee within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Thursday voted down a proposal for a debate focused on climate change.
|
|
Shareholders, including top executives of Google's parent company, Alphabet, voted down a proposal on Wednesday aimed at increasing the company's diversity.
|
|
Update (March 31, 2017): Senate Republicans voted down an Obama administration rule that protects Title X funding to abortion providers yesterday.
|
|
Why it matters: Musk was speaking after shareholders voted down a dissident move to take away his dual title as chairman.
|
|
Bork was voted down by the full Senate, and the vacancy was eventually filled by the far more centrist Anthony Kennedy.
|
|
Students at the Capitol Wednesday denounced the Legislature for having voted down a proposal on Tuesday to consider banning assault weapons.
|
|
They also voted down a measure to tie executive compensation to environmental sustainability metrics, with 87.9% voting against and 12.1% for.
|
|
Saturday's vote comes after parliament voted three times on deals to withdraw from the E.U., with each one being voted down.
|
|
It was the second healthcare plan rejected after the Senate voted down a separate repeal-and-replace amendment on Tuesday night.
|
|
And the House considered (but voted down) a proposed Article of Impeachment against former President Bill Clinton for abuse of power.
|
|
The House voted down a hard-line immigration bill last week, with 41 Republicans joining Democrats in siding against the measure.
|
|
When House Intelligence Committee Republicans voted on Monday to release their document, they voted down a series of motions by Rep.
|
|
Democrats had hoped to release their rebuttal publicly as well, but a motion to do so was voted down on Monday.
|
|
Among its merits thus far is that it remains the last concrete idea that hasn't been voted down in the Senate.
|
|
UK lawmakers will vote for a fourth time on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, which they've voted down three times before.
|
|
Republicans had voted down some of the bills and effectively blocked the other measures from moving out of committees earlier this year.
|
|
Ultimately, the proposals were voted down by the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong's legislature and Hong Kong's electoral system remains unchanged.
|
|
Amazon stockholders voted down a proposal on Wednesday that asked CEO Jeff Bezos to consider ways to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
|
|
If the deal is voted down by the Parliament, May said, the government would come back with proposals for the next step.
|
|
Typically, last-minute amendments from the minority party are voted down, but 26 Democratic members voted with Republicans to pass the amendment.
|
|
Meanwhile the South Dakota legislature voted down a bill that would see doctors charged with a misdemeanor if they prescribe puberty blockers.
|
|
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been on perpetually thin ice since her Brexit deal was voted down by a record margin.
|
|
In 2015, after protesters had shocked the government by occupying the city's streets for 79 days, sympathetic lawmakers voted down the proposal.
|
|
Parliament voted down the prime minister's deal in an unprecedented rejection of government policy that drastically worsens the political crisis in Westminster.
|
|
The minority coalition saw its first budget voted down and has been overwhelmed by record numbers of asylum seekers arriving last year.
|
|
The backdrop: On Tuesday, Parliament voted down the deal Prime Minister Theresa May reached with the European Union by a huge margin.
|
|
Though the Senate voted down the resolution on Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez says she is now drafting legislation based on the resolution's principles.
|
|
None of this is to say that a no-deal Brexit is inevitable if Mrs May's deal is voted down next week.
|
|
The first option—the product of the majority leader's prolonged negotiations with himself and his colleagues—was voted down resoundingly Tuesday night.
|
|
Tesla — Tesla shareholders voted down a proposal that would have seen the automaker's directors stand for re-election on an annual basis.
|
|
This week, lawmakers voted down Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the EU for a second time - by 391 to 242.
|
|
Arkansas lawmakers voted down a bill Wednesday to honor Native Americans instead of the Confederacy on their state flag, Arkansas Online reports.
|
|
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted down a Democratic push to allow federal spending on an international climate change program. Rep.
|
|
Watch some more video on VICE: announcement gave some Vermont legislators pause, but all attempts to postpone the legislation were voted down.
|
|
In its history, the Senate has only voted down nine presidential Cabinet nominees, according to Josh Huder, a congressional scholar at Georgetown.
|
|
Ultimately, the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed when the Republican-controlled Senate voted down its own version.
|
|
But the proposal and 13 other shareholder measures opposed by the company were voted down on Wednesday, according to its preliminary tally.
|
|
A group of liberal Democrats opposed to the bill, including Brown, offered a slew of amendments that the sponsoring coalition voted down.
|
|
Lawmakers voted down a measure to compress the timetable to debate the new withdrawal deal, in a rebuke to the prime minister.
|
|
House lawmakers on Thursday voted down language that would have closed what critics call the "backdoor search loophole" in current surveillance law.
|
|
Meanwhile the South Dakota legislature voted down a bill that would see doctors charged with a misdemeanor if they prescribe puberty blockers.
|
|
Opinion Columnist During Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee considered five articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon — and voted down two of them.
|
|
The committee voted down amendments to ban assault weapons, bump stocks and high capacity magazines -- priorities for Parkland residents and their supporters.
|
|
Ways and Means returned from its recess and voted down the wind-related Democratic amendment from the morning, along party lines. Rep.
|
|
But Republicans voted down the measure, saying they wanted to deal with it at another time, not in the tax-reform bill.
|
|
But the Obama administration didn't want a repeat of the TARP experience, where Congress voted down the bill and sent markets reeling.
|
|
Justice Scalia, who was confirmed in 1986, the year before Judge Bork was voted down, was the product of a different era.
|
|
In 2015, Trade Promotion Authority, commonly known as Fast Track, was voted down in the House of Representatives by a bipartisan majority.
|
|
Under Treaty Article 50, it could be voted down if at least eight states, representing 35 percent of the EU population, object.
|
|
British lawmakers thrice voted down the agreement that May negotiated with the EU, despite European leaders consistently claiming they would not reopen negotiations.
|
|
So if Parliament voted down a deal, then Britain would exit without any kind of deal at all once two years had elapsed.
|
|
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted down his nomination, but the Alabama Republican went on to serve as attorney general in his home state.
|
|
Amazon shareholders have voted down proposals meant to curb sales of the company's controversial facial recognition tool and to limit its carbon output.
|
|
When the Senate voted down four bills in the aftermath of the horrific mass killing in Orlando, much of the nation was stunned.
|
|
Lawmakers in Hungary voted down an amendment to the country's constitution that would have blocked compulsory refugee quotas set by the European Union.
|
|
Last week, the House considered an amendment that would have added several privacy protections to the legislation, but the plan was voted down.
|
|
After his constitutional proposal was voted down, by 55% to 45%, he lost his temper, setting off a reckless campaign of land grabs.
|
|
Its shareholders nearly voted down 2014 pay for the top executives at last spring's annual meeting, prompting the move to performance-based awards.
|
|
In July, the US House of Representatives voted down a measure that would have banned coverage of transition-related care for military personnel.
|
|
On Monday, the Senate voted down gun control measures that were introduced in the wake of the massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub.
|
|
On Wednesday, the House voted down an effort by Democrats to create an independent commission to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
|
|
Shell's board has consistently opposed the Follow This resolutions which were voted down with less than 6.34 percent of the vote since 2015.
|
|
Around the same time Trump made his announcement, state legislators voted down a measure to hear a bill banning assault rifles 71-36.
|
|
On Tuesday, the prime minister's Brexit deal suffered a second humiliating defeat as it was voted down by a majority of 149 votes.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday warned lawmakers that Brexit would be in peril if they voted down her Brexit deal.
|
|
The House also voted down an amendment that would have taken out language preventing a new round of base closures — offered by Rep.
|
|
Their proposals were voted down largely because of a 41 percent stake its founder and CEO Masatoshi Kumagai and his personal office hold.
|
|
For instance, last year, Exxon shareholders voted down a motion to appoint an environmental expert to the board of directors by 79 percent.
|
|
The main hope of campaigners for another referendum is that May's deal is voted down but Labour's wish for an election is thwarted.
|
|
To be clear, May is only giving MPs the opportunity to vote on these options, so they can (and may) be voted down.
|
|
In a significant move, lawmakers on Tuesday voted to give Parliament more control of the exit process should her plan be voted down.
|
|
Last May, voters in the increasingly congested city of Nashville voted down a $5.2 billion transit plan that would have included light rail.
|
|
Use of the drug has spurred lawsuits, including one brought by inmates in an Oklahoma prison that the Supreme Court narrowly voted down.
|
|
A day after Netanyahu's cabinet approved draft legislation for camera monitoring, the proposed bill was voted down in committee in parliament on Monday.
|
|
Over the weekend, the U.S. government shut down after a bill that would have kept it funded was voted down in the Senate.
|
|
Matt Caldwell (R) on Wednesday after Republican lawmakers in the state legislature voted down a motion to debate a ban on assault weapons.
|
|
He has positioned himself as a moderate in the House, where he voted down legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
|
|
At last month's annual meeting, the lender's shareholders voted down executive pay for a second year due to investor outrage over the scandal.
|
|
When I previously wrote on Kavanaugh, I noted that a Bork-like popularity might be low enough for Kavanaugh to get voted down.
|
|
While Westpac shareholders voted down the company's executive pay plans for a second year running, ANZ had its executive pay voted up comfortably.
|
|
Cillizza: The Florida state House voted down the chance to move on to a debate about an assault weapons ban on Tuesday night.
|
|
The Dream Act was twice voted down by Republicans under the Obama administration and skewered as another Democratic bill offering amnesty to illegals.
|
|
House Republicans voted down, along party lines, Schiff's attempt to release that counter-memo — which means it's unlikely to be made public. Sen.
|
|
In October, Lopez Obrador pulled the plug on a part-built, $13 billion new airport for the capital after citizens voted down the project.
|
|
But Republicans accused Warren of violating Senate rules against impugning another senator and voted down party line to bar her from participating any further.
|
|
But there's a high possibility that the deal will be voted down — risk consultancy Eurasia Group assigns a 75 percent probability for that outcome.
|
|
For the first time since President Donald Trump took office, Republicans voted down a resolution to repeal a rule passed under President Barack Obama.
|
|
Mr Bolsonaro wants the current president, Michel Temer, to enact a pension reform, which was initially voted down by congress, before he leaves office.
|
|
The country has had no government in place since then, and two candidates to lead new administrations have already been voted down by parliament.
|
|
MPs also voted to have a direct say in what comes next if the prime minister's proposed deal is voted down on December 11th.
|
|
Before this a prime minister whose flagship legislation was voted down—just once, never mind repeatedly—would have been expected to call an election.
|
|
Last week Mrs May herself warned that, if MPs voted down her deal again (which they did), any extension might have to be long.
|
|
Assuming that gets voted down, there will be a second vote on Wednesday where a no-deal Brexit will almost certainly be roundly rejected.
|
|
Ron Wyden (D-OR), a critic of the bill, offered an amendment that might have clarified the bill's purposes, but it was voted down.
|
|
JPMorgan shareholders nearly voted down 2014 pay for the bank's top executives at last spring's annual meeting, prompting the move to performance-based awards.
|
|
The stake sale comes two weeks after the company's annual general meeting where Lee voted down two resolutions to authorize directors to allot shares.
|
|
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a no-confidence motion in Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy brought by the anti-austerity Podemos party.
|
|
Rival Crest Nicholson also saw its directors' pay report voted down earlier this year, as investors grow increasingly discontent with housebuilder's large LTIP plans.
|
|
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal suffered a second humiliating defeat as it was voted down by a majority of 149 votes.
|
|
His party has said they will only support another referendum if the deal is voted down and they fail to force a general election.
|
|
The House on Wednesday voted down a proposed amendment that would have boosted the budget for Interior's Office of Inspector General by $28503 million.
|
|
"The United States Senate on Monday voted down two of the most mindlessly simple and obvious and necessary gun control measures," he says. Why?
|
|
Murkowski was one of three Republican senators who voted down a Republican ObamaCare repeal attempt over the summer, which included repeal of the mandate.
|
|
Paul's comments Tuesday echoed Trump, who has continually mocked McCain for the "thumbs down" hand gesture he made when he voted down the bill.
|
|
Democrats already voted down similar amendments during the House Armed Services Committee's markup of the bill, so don't expect that amendment to go far.
|
|
Days after the attack, House lawmakers voted down language that would have closed what critics call the "backdoor search loophole" in current surveillance law.
|
|
Last month the Senate considered (but voted down) measures that would have prevented gun sales to anyone in the federal Terrorist Screening Database, a.k.a.
|
|
Last week, the House also voted down, 28503-22019, an amendment from O'Rourke to the defense spending bill that would have struck the ban.
|
|
Solberg separately told a news conference later on Friday that she would continue to govern unless she's voted down by a potential new majority.
|
|
Earlier this month, a Louisiana House committee voted down a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to be armed on school grounds.
|
|
Investors at Wisconsin utility MGE Energy voted down the same type of proposal, with more than 90% voting against it, according to a spokesman.
|
|
The bill, which is designed to enable Britain to disentangle its legal ties to the EU, is unlikely to be voted down by Parliament.
|
|
In 1795, George Washington's nominee to serve as chief justice, John Rutledge, became the first to be voted down by the United States Senate.
|
|
"One of them had made a proposal in a meeting, and it got voted down, and their friend voted against it," Ms. Sias said.
|
|
In Chicago, the Party establishment voted down a peace plank and turned back the popular antiwar candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
|
|
But the effort was voted down by the Republicans and condemned by Senator Marisol Alcantara of Manhattan, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.
|
|
One by one, the amendments were all voted down, including by key Republican moderates -- an early sign of the direction the trial was headed.
|
|
In April, a shareholder proposal to split the chairman and chief executive roles was voted down, though by a smaller margin than last year.
|
|
Additionally, the committee voted down amendments creating a firearms registry and requiring that private sales of firearms must be done through a licensed dealer.
|
|
In the middle of the Clinton impeachment proceedings, a Democratic senator sympathetic to Clinton introduced a motion to dismiss, but it was voted down.
|
|
On Tuesday, as survivors from MSDHS looked on, a group of Florida House Republicans voted down a Democratic motion for an assault rifle ban.
|
|
The Senate voted down a bare-bones ObamaCare repeal bill early Friday in a surprise vote that represents a major defeat for GOP leaders.
|
|
Hyundai Motor's unionized workers in South Korea last month overwhelmingly voted down a tentative wage deal which was less generous than last year's package.
|
|
If May's deal is voted down next week, ministers have to say in a parliamentary motion how they plan to proceed within 21 days.
|
|
Peschard and others called for a simple briefing on the issue, she said she was voted down by every representative of the government agencies.
|
|
The company fears spending the next year planning a corporate campus that could get voted down when it comes before the board in 2020.
|
|
This would be a reprise of the Brexit vote in January, where Parliament voted down May's Brexit plan by a historic 230-vote margin.
|
|
Feeley's post came days before the United States Senate voted down four measures that would have enacted tighter restrictions on firearms in the United States.
|
|
Another Obamacare repeal push was always going to be an uphill battle, especially after the dramatic floor votes that saw three repeal proposals voted down.
|
|
It took place one day after May's plan on how Britain should exit the European Union was overwhelmingly voted down in the House of Commons.
|
|
Three years later, Citi shareholders voted down then-CEO Vikram Pandit's $15 million pay package as part of a broad shareholder push against executive pay.
|
|
On Thursday, Congress voted down an effort to reform Section 702, and instead passed a bill that expanded warrantless surveillance of US citizens and foreigners.
|
|
Senior British government ministers have warned rebellious lawmakers that if May's deal is voted down then there is a chance that Brexit could be thwarted.
|
|
He avoided casting a tie-breaking vote on the crucial issue of whether to allow witnesses, which was voted down by a razor-thin majority.
|
|
Further, it's clear that deeper cultural change at Uber is still needed so that campaigns like this are voted down long before they hit Twitter.
|
|
Two of the four Senate bills voted down on Monday carried additional restrictions for individuals named on the terror watch list, or Terrorist Screening Database.
|
|
The Brexit deal that she struck with EU leaders four months ago has twice been voted down by the House of Commons, by enormous margins.
|
|
Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil's lower chamber, was arrested on charges of corruption, sparking worries that a spending cap may be voted down.
|
|
Oasis has struggled to persuade management and other investors on the issue, and its proposal was voted down at Alpine's annual general meeting in June.
|
|
Investors held their breath as Britain's parliament voted down late on Tuesday a plan for an orderly exit from the European Union on March 210.59.
|
|
Trump is speaking in North Carolina only hours after The House of Representatives voted down an effort from a Texas Democrat to impeach the President.
|
|
May's deal was voted down for a third time by lawmakers on Friday, plunging Britain into even more political uncertainty and sending sterling below $1.30.
|
|
Two two voted down ballot Republican in the rest of the races, according to spokesman Freddy Ford, who said Limbaugh should apologize for his comments.
|
|
Apple shareholders voted down a plan that would have required them to speed up the recruitment of racial minorities to senior positions on Friday night.
|
|
The Intelligence panel on Monday voted down several Democratic measures, including an effort to publicly release a countermemo rebutting the claims in the Nunes memo.
|
|
Also at the meeting, investors voted down a slate of shareholder resolutions, including those involving disclosure of political contributions and antibiotic use in meat production.
|
|
The House Budget Committee late Wednesday voted down an amendment that would have funded the White House's proposal for a $3 billion technology modernization initiative.
|
|
Other states, like West Virginia and Idaho, recently voted down laws that would have allowed concealed carry permit holders to possess their firearms on campuses.
|
|
The Associated Press reported that a Human Resources subcommittee voted down the bill that would have created the Vaccination Safety and Right of Refusal Act.
|
|
His remarks come a day after House Republicans voted down a Democratic-led effort to include additional election security funding in a government spending bill.
|
|
Previously, Republican senators failed to get anywhere on the Better Care and Reconciliation Act; it was voted down by nine Republicans and all 48 Democrats.
|
|
If her deal is voted down, lawmakers will get a chance the day after a defeat to vote on whether to leave with no deal.
|
|
Legislation to block gun sales to people on those lists was voted down in the Senate on Monday, along with three other gun control measures.
|
|
After more than 14 hours of debate about altering the articles, each of the five amendments introduced by Republicans were voted down by the committee.
|
|
Tony Evers, a Democrat, for an 21.5-cent increase was voted down by the Republican-led Legislature, which instead raised vehicle title and registration fees.
|
|
"Hey, as has happened every year since 1990, all climate resolutions at Exxon annual mtg resoundingly voted down," Bill McKibben, the co-founder of 350.
|
|
Democrats are against making the Nunes memo public and attempted to release their own rebuttal memo, which was voted down by the House Intelligence Committee.
|
|
With an 11-10 split on the committee, Paul's "no" vote means Pompeo could be voted down in committee if he gets no Democratic votes.
|
|
The state legislature twice voted down bills that would have added Idaho to the program, which currently covers 36 states and the District of Columbia.
|
|
Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination after being chosen by President George W. Bush, while Bork was voted down after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
|
|
Among the 13 names voted down late Tuesday by the school board were several variations of Miwok, John Muir, Big Rock, Terra Linda and Skywalker.
|
|
"By his own admission ... the California Republican does not actually intend to include women in a draft and voted down his own amendment." http://politi.
|
|
They did none of these things—and even reportedly voted down a resolution to "encourage" the Holy See to make public any documents concerning McCarrick.
|
|
As these details emerged in the wake of the shooting, Senate Democrats tried to revive two gun control bills that were voted down earlier this week.
|
|
If the prime minister's deal is voted down on Tuesday evening, the government would only have three parliamentary working days to come up with revised plans.
|
|
A recent campaign to increase female representation in the parliament was voted down after opposition from conservative politicians in the country's Lower House, Al Jazeera reports.
|
|
Labour wants a general election if May's deal is voted down by Parliament, and has floated a vote of no confidence if the deal is rejected.
|
|
An earlier proposal to set a minimum for Wisconsin hires was voted down after Republicans raised concerns that the restrictions violated constitutional protections to interstate commerce.
|
|
Environmentalists are hoping the committee will reconsider some previously voted-down amendments, like a moratorium on fracking and opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
|
|
The Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets has been one of the strongest dissenting voices in getting the GM authored bills voted down in state legislatures.
|
|
In the past few years, Vermont saw its effort to pass single-payer collapse and 270 percent of Coloradans voted down a single-payer ballot initiative.
|
|
So our view is, once the government's withdrawal agreement is voted down in Parliament, we can then build the majority in Parliament for a people's vote.
|
|
Some physicists observed at the time that the money might go farther if it were dedicated to other physics experiments, and the collider was voted down.
|
|
The Legislature ultimately approved the open-carry bill, which went into effect in January, but voted down the amendment curtailing the police's power to ask questions.
|
|
The proposal, which was voted down, called for Alphabet's executive compensation to be tied to gender, racial and ethnic diversity metrics in employee recruiting and retention.
|
|
But the effort later foundered in the Senate and was ultimately upended in July when the chamber narrowly voted down a slimmed-down ObamaCare repeal bill.
|
|
The Senate previously voted down three immigration bills after the White House came out hard against a compromise proposal spearheaded by a coalition of moderate lawmakers.
|
|
The House Budget Committee late Wednesday voted down an amendment that would have funded the White House's proposal for a $3 billion technology modernization initiative. Rep.
|
|
Updated, November 9, 2016: Florida residents voted down an amendment that would have put the state's access to solar power into the hands of energy companies.
|
|
Republicans and Democrats voted down Rubio and Lee's amendment that proposed expanding the child tax credit in exchange for a slightly less dramatic corporate tax cut.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell sharply on Tuesday after British lawmakers voted down a proposal in parliament that could have prevented a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
The AR-28500 style rifle is commonly included in assault weapon bans proposed at the state level, including recent legislation voted down in the Florida House.
|
|
Update April 23, 22: The Senate voted down two different disaster aid bills Monday as Republicans and Democrats hit a stalemate over relief for Puerto Rico.
|
|
Here's the latest: Britain's Parliament voted down all four alternative options to Prime Minister Theresa May's thrice-rejected withdrawal plan, leaving the process in further disarray.
|
|
But despite widespread support for the idea, Republican lawmakers voted down a bill in 2013 that would have raised the minimum wage from $6.25 to $22016.
|
|
The DNC voted down the idea of hosting a climate debate, but CNN organized the forum in the wake of outcry from environmental groups and voters.
|
|
Alaska 'bathroom bill' Residents in Anchorage, Alaska, voted down a measure -- similar to so-called "bathroom bills" -- which would have restricted bathroom access for transgender people.
|
|
President Trump bragged of "total acquittal" in a speech at the White House on Thursday, after the Senate voted down both articles of impeachment against him.
|
|
The European Constitution, for example, was voted down by France and the Netherlands in 2005; so, two years later, we repackaged it as the Lisbon Treaty.
|
|
Since Scots voted down independence, 22016 percent to 21 percent, the Scottish National Party has grown enormously with many Scots getting politicized by the bitter campaign.
|
|
Trump and McCain's contentious relationship worsened after the self-described "maverick" voted down a bill that would have repealed large swaths of Obama's Affordable Care Act.
|
|
The House has already voted down a provision in its defense spending bill that would have taken out language preventing a new round of base closures.
|
|
While all those motions were voted down -- as will all such future motions offered by Republicans on Wednesday -- they had the desired slow-down effect nonetheless.
|
|
KL) on Monday voted down a plan to enter into recurrent related party transactions (RPT) worth about 3.5 billion ringgit ($837.92 million) with YTL Cement Berhad.
|
|
But despite widespread support for the idea, Republican lawmakers voted down a bill in 2013 that would have raised the minimum wage from $6.25 to $8.25.
|
|
But the last two times the vote was held, important changes to the model building code were voted down, in some cases by relatively few votes.
|
|
Nor is it clear what would happen in the event that the deal were voted down: more negotiating, a second referendum or crashing out without a deal?
|
|
Shareholder resolutions rarely pass — in fact 10 others on issues including action on climate change, food waste and hate speech were also voted down by Amazon shareholders.
|
|
With Republicans enjoying a 52-48 advantage in the Senate, a nominee would need to be rejected by at least three Republican senators to be voted down.
|
|
Amazon shareholders just voted down a proposal backed by more than 7,500 Amazon employees asking Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company.
|
|
The amendment was voted down, but the law passed with an exclusion for businesses with fewer than 25 workers (it was lowered to 15 in the 1970s).
|
|
What's happening: Before March 29, May will have one or two more attempts to revive her withdrawal agreement, which has twice been voted down by large majorities.
|
|
Republicans, who lost the House to the Democrats in last year's elections, attempted to shut down the hearing with a motion to adjourn but were voted down.
|
|
The EU has repeatedly refused to make any change to the withdrawal agreement it negotiated last year with May, which Britain's parliament has voted down three times.
|
|
Much of this was included in a draft 2019 budget that parliament voted down after pro-independence Catalan lawmakers withdrew their support for Sanchez, triggering April's election.
|
|
Conservatives have voiced objections to the bill for failing to rein in spending, but Massie's suggestion was voted down with 47 yeas and a resounding 384 nays.
|
|
With FIFA President Gianni Infantino watching on, delegates to an Asian Football Confederation extraordinary congress, which had been called to conduct the election, voted down the agenda.
|
|
The opposition Labour Party said that if May's Brexit deal was voted down in parliament, it would push for a national election and also possibly another referendum.
|
|
On Wednesday, May told Conservative lawmakers that she would resign as leader if parliament approved her Brexit deal, which instead was voted down by parliament on Friday.
|
|
Earlier, shareholder proposals urging Alphabet to generate annual reports on a series of corporate issues, including equal gender pay, philanthropic giving and political lobbying, were voted down.
|
|
Prior to the vote, Democrats argued for amendments eventually voted down on immigration, gun control and limiting nuclear spending, but ultimately backed the bill over readiness concerns.
|
|
The House dramatically voted down a similar amendment last week, when GOP leaders persuaded enough Republicans to switch sides so that it failed by a single vote.
|
|
While any such proposal is likely to be voted down, it may expose a rift in the nine-member board on the future direction of monetary policy.
|
|
After missing the cut for the next Republican presidential debate mainstage, the Senate voted down his bill to audit the Federal Reserve, an iconic priority of his.
|
|
The opposition Labour Party said that if May's Brexit deal was voted down in parliament, it would push for a national election and possibly also another referendum.
|
|
They failed, as 62 percent of Exxon shareholders and 59 percent of Chevron's went with the company's recommendation, and voted down resolutions to release climate impact reports.
|
|
This was voted down 188-283 last week, but then the opposition Labour Party agreed to back the plan after some tweaks were made to the proposal.
|
|
May's de-facto deputy said it was a delusion to think the government would be able to negotiate a new divorce deal if parliament voted down hers.
|
|
Two other justices, Beth Walker and Margaret Workman, spent more than $100,000 each, but this was considerably less than the others and their charges were voted down.
|
|
And one of the Foreign Relations Committee's Republicans has already announced his opposition, meaning Pompeo could be voted down in committee if he gets no Democratic votes.
|
|
Amendments to the articles: After several hours of debate about altering the articles, each of the five amendments introduced by Republicans was voted down by the committee.
|
|
The Senate's Republican leader, Herman Baertschiger Jr., said in a statement that Democrats had refused to work with Republicans and had voted down all their proposed amendments.
|
|
But they then voted down Mr. Johnson's effort to fast-track the legislation, which would force them to scrutinize the 435-page plan in just three days.
|
|
Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff told CNN that Bolton's counsel had refused to give a sworn affidavit in the Senate trial after senators voted down additional testimony.
|
|
The proposal was voted down at the Amazon shareholder meeting in May but won significant support with around 30 percent of shareholder votes in favor, excluding abstentions.
|
|
Westpac, ANZ and NAB all had their executive pay voted down in 2018 amid the daily drumbeat of negative headlines arising from the powerful Royal Commission inquiry.
|
|
The Guggenheim is also recovering from the rejection of its plans to build a museum in Helsinki, Finland, which was voted down in November by city lawmakers.
|
|
The June proposal from BATS BZX Exchange to list and trade the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust's commodity-based shares was voted down 3003-1 by the commission Thursday.
|
|
May's withdrawal agreement is voted down on Tuesday — compared to 20003 percent who would choose a second referendum and 16 percent who didn't know what to do.
|
|
In other words, the EU doesn't really want to give the UK more time to argue about a Brexit deal they might have already voted down twice.
|
|
At the conference, they voted down a plan to allow non-members to vote for their leader and even balked at letting non-MPs stand for the job.
|
|
The latest: Speaking through a hoarse voice after the result, May said she "profoundly" regrets that "the best and in fact the only deal available" was voted down.
|
|
The RNC rules panel voted down a proposal from RNC Oregon Committeeman Solomon Yue that would have pushed off any anti-Trump measures from taking effect until 2020.
|
|
Last year, the legislature voted down a similar "health impact fee" measure by Bloom that would have added a tax on sugary drinks, including certain canned soda drinks.
|
|
Any bidder would need to get the Malacalzas on board to succeed or it would risk being voted down at a shareholder meeting called to approve the deal.
|
|
Cryan, who waived his bonus, will present a fresh pay plan for executives tied closer to performance in May after shareholders voted down the one proposed last year.
|
|
Motions to recommit are procedural moves in the House that are typically offered by the minority party to make a statement but then voted down by the majority.
|
|
One project, called the Grain Belt Express and intended to run from Kansas to Illinois, is on hold after being voted down by the Missouri Public Service Commission.
|
|
Though the Senate ultimately voted down both measures, Murphy moved many with his emotional Senate-floor speech about the Sandy Hook shooting in his home state of Connecticut.
|
|
If May's plan is voted down next week and no other plan is put forward, Britain is leaving the EU without a deal, on the starkest of terms.
|
|
McCain voted down the last ObamaCare bill even though Ducey supported it, and Murkowski on Tuesday signaled she's going to make up her own mind on the bill.
|
|
The Democratic National Committee last week voted down a proposal for a climate-focused debate despite calls from advocates and some Democratic presidential candidates for such an event.
|
|
French President Emanuel Macron pulled out to deal with a political crisis at home, and May called off her trip after British lawmakers voted down her Brexit plan.
|
|
During the EU parliamentary debate on Thursday, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said May's deal would be voted down in the British parliament as "the worst deal in history".
|
|
The Senate Judiciary Committee would have carried out its constitutional duty to consider a nominee, but Democrats probably would have voted down anyone they thought was too conservative.
|
|
If it gets voted down, they'll spearhead it with the other members of the New York City socialist feminist working group, without the support of the national organization.
|
|
"The four or five NGOs participating would spend years wordsmithing technical language, carefully crafting these texts, and they would just get voted down with no explanation," Westervelt said.
|
|
Multiple proposals that would have put a check on the 35-year-old executive's influence at Facebook were voted down at the company's annual stockholder meeting on Thursday.
|
|
Only about 33 police officers retired after the contract was voted down; the total number of retirees that year was about the same as the previous two years.
|
|
Californians also voted down a measure that would have allowed local authorities to expand rent control and a proposition that would have capped fees at kidney dialysis centers.
|
|
The committee voted down a Democratic amendment to get rid of those riders, with Republican members saying the measures are necessary to stop Obama administration policies they oppose.
|
|
Republicans asked for a number of amendments, in an attempt to both delay the articles' approval and muster a fight against Democrats, though they were all voted down.
|
|
Lawmakers again voted down Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit departure agreement, so today they will vote on whether to simply leave the EU without any deal at all.
|
|
The approval of the amendment struck a note of unity after a string of other superdelegate-related amendments were voted down, including a complete abolition of the process.
|
|
Maas said further talks would almost certainly be needed after Britain's parliament voted down the exit deal worked out between London and the bloc over the past two years.
|
|
This marks the third attempt by the lawmaker to pass a soda tax, including a "health impact fee" measure on canned soda drinks that legislators voted down last year.
|
|
The Senate has begun to debate repealing and replacing Obamacare, but Tuesday night voted down the broad repeal (the one that would've left some 22 million Americans without insurance).
|
|
But the new documents were not enough to sway the most euroskeptic wing of her party and the DUP, and the deal was voted down again on March 12.
|
|
FUNDAMENTALS * CHUQUICAMATA: Unions at Chile's Chuquicamata mine have asked Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, to resubmit the offer their workers voted down last weekend, a union leader said.
|
|
After much plotting, Unruh will make her rule clarification proposal to the committee on Thursday and Friday – but she admits to NPR that it will likely be voted down.
|
|
There is expected to be an overnight session of votes on Thursday as Democrats and Republicans offer amendments to the bill, most of which will likely be voted down.
|
|
But Republicans voted down a $14.2 billion measure passed by the Democratic-held House, which would have put an additional $700 million toward rebuilding Puerto Rico and some states.
|
|
The coalition's first budget was voted down with the a new election only avoided after the main, center-right opposition Alliance agreed not to block the government's finance bills.
|
|
Yet even if it passes it will probably be voted down in the House where the Republican leadership has shown little enthusiasm for any type of gun-control measures.
|
|
A local elections board in rural Georgia has voted down a plan to close seven polling locations after public criticism that shuttering voting centers would disproportionately impact black voters.
|
|
SENATE FINALLY CLEARS IRAN HURDLE: The Senate on Wednesday voted down a controversial Iran measure that has for weeks held up work on an energy and water funding package.
|
|
Steve Cohen of Tennessee were resoundingly voted down at the time, the House now appears to be barreling towards an inevitable impeachment inquiry beginning as early as this week.
|
|
But Alphabet heads voted down the proposals, prompting pushback from employees concerned with the company's ability to hire and retain talent, which could eventually damage Alphabet's ability to innovate.
|
|
The House will vote on the "compromise" immigration bill tomorrow instead of this afternoon, after it voted down the more conservative bill by House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte.
|
|
Some Sanders supporters and other progressives are upset because the platform committee, under pressure from the Obama administration, voted down a platform plank opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
|
|
N.C.A.A. Proposal to Curtail Graduate Transfers Is Voted Down The measure, which would have applied only to football and men's and women's basketball, could have severely restricted graduate transfers.
|
|
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was voted down by Parliament on Tuesday, and now she's set to face another test — a no-confidence vote in her government.
|
|
On Wednesday, Republicans in the Senate voted down an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have allotted $250 million to states to improve election security before the midterms.
|
|
He was referring to market shocks after the U.S. House of Representatives voted down an emergency financial bailout bill in late September 25 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
|
|
He was referring to market shocks after the U.S. House of Representatives voted down an emergency financial bailout bill in late September 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
|
|
However, that bill was voted down in the state House because it didn't get the 2000% approval needed to pass, according to Oklahoma Department of Education Superintendent Joy Hofmeister.
|
|
They also voted down 11 Democratic amendments that would have subpoenaed witnesses and documents from the Trump administration, though that question will come up again later in the trial.
|
|
On Wednesday, the Senate, including seven Republicans, voted down a bill that would have repealed some of the most important provisions of the A.C.A., or Obamacare, without a replacement.
|
|
In 1933, the Black-Connery Bill—which, among other things, would have cemented a five-day, 30-hour workweek—passed the Senate but was voted down in the House.
|
|
The panel voted on Monday to make the Nunes memo public, but voted down a slate of motions by ranking member Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
|
|
Earlier this year, the Senate narrowly voted down a bill that would've permitted drug importation from Canada: a bill that somehow managed the incredible feat of getting both Sen.
|
|
Using a model that looks at all nominations since Bork, I calculated that Kavanaugh would probably need to be at least as unpopular as Bork to be voted down.
|
|
The House on Thursday voted down a defense policy bill provision that would have taken out language preventing a new round of base closures, going against White House wishes.
|
|
The government says that if May's deal is voted down there is a risk Britain will exit the EU with no agreement at all, with serious potential economic consequences.
|
|
Ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia grew strained under Mr. Sharif after Pakistan's Parliament voted down a resolution to send troops to help Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.
|
|
And their efforts worked: On the 19th, an overwhelming number of Korean-Americans showed up to the polls and voted down the ballot initiative by a 98 percent margin.
|
|
He's trying to block the build, potentially by getting it voted down on the Public Authorities Control Board, where he says the state could halt funding for the subsidies.
|
|
But with the unpopular deal looking certain to be voted down by Parliament, May suddenly withdrew the bill Monday and said she would instead go back to Europe for concessions.
|
|
Before that, former president James Buchanan's nominee, Jeremiah Black, had his nomination voted down on a 25–26 vote less than two months before the start of the Civil War.
|
|
Britain has agreed a deal to leave the EU, but political analysts expect the deal to be voted down by the British parliament when put to a vote next week.
|
|
In a first vote after the ousting of Lofven, the Centre Party and the Liberals voted down their own bloc's candidate, citing its need for support from the Sweden Democrats.
|
|
Concerns about those two articles led to the intial proposal being voted down by the European parliament in July, but a version with new safeguards was approved the following September.
|
|
There would also be the possibility of a parliamentary vote on the issue and the question over what the next step would be if Brexit was voted down by MPs.
|
|
Mr Casado says it will also push initiatives in parliament even at the risk of having them voted down, starting with a measure to lengthen prison sentences for some crimes.
|
|
It should be noted that the only presidential cabinet nominee to actually be voted down and not just someone who dropped out of the running was then-Senator John Tower.
|
|
European Council President Donald Tusk said a delay to Brexit would only be possible if British lawmakers back Prime Minister Theresa May's deal, which has already been voted down twice.
|
|
The House voted down a proposal on Friday that would cut funding for the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog created to bolster investigations of wrongdoing among lawmakers. Rep.
|
|
An hour later, House Republicans voted down the energy and water projects spending bill in spectacular fashion after Democrats successfully attached a provision ensuring certain protections for the LGBT community.
|
|
The crown prince also faces headwinds from Congress on the Yemeni war, although the vote today to restrict U.S. aid to the Saudi-led coalition was voted down in Congress.
|
|
Lawmakers approved the broad outlines of Mr. Johnson's plan — his first victory in Parliament after a string of defeats — but then voted down an effort to fast-track the legislation.
|
|
The amendment voted down by the committee would have taken out the entirety of Article Two, which is the charge that President Trump obstructed Congress through ignoring multiple congressional subpoenas.
|
|
If the motions for witnesses and new evidence get voted down, it's also possible the trial could conclude with a Trump acquittal as soon as the end of the week.
|
|
They persistently claim that the election had to be called because Parliament had blocked Mr. Johnson's Brexit deal and voted down his program for government, both of which are false.
|
|
The idea was broached of even seeing that article of impeachment voted down, but there was little support for going that route, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
|
|
" Asked on Thursday whether the "special place in hell" was open for British MPs who voted down the Brexit deal, Tusk replied, "According to our pope, hell is still empty.
|
|
Last year, a group of employees submitted a shareholder proposal tasking Jeff Bezos with creating a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company (shareholders voted down the proposal in May).
|
|
That was the largest margin by which the Senate had ever rejected a Supreme Court nomination, and it was the last time the Senate voted down a Supreme Court nominee.
|
|
Fifty-six percent oppose allowing teachers and school officials to carry guns on school grounds, but amendments in line with those views were voted down in the Republican-controlled chamber.
|
|
If the prime minister's deal is voted down on Tuesday — as many analysts expect will happen — the government would only have three parliamentary working days to come up with revised plans.
|
|
Prime Minister Theresa May's plan on how Britain should exit the European Union was overwhelmingly voted down in the House of Commons, which is the U.K.'s lower house of parliament.
|
|
Outlawing the practice was voted down by Minnesota's Senate in May; a Utah bill collapsed in March after lawmakers tried to substitute it with a version that left trans youth unprotected.
|
|
A regional parliament in Myanmar last year approved a proposal to define the coalition as terrorists, but it was later voted down by Suu Kyi's ruling party at the national level.
|
|
One of the tellers briefly stood slightly to the left of the speaker while waiting for the result - indicating the amendment had been voted down - before eventually switching to the right.
|
|
Pai has also voted down efforts to improve terrible U.S. broadband maps, and has routinely been accused of weakening the very definition of "competition" in a bid to obscure industry issues.
|
|
Kelly said the mechanics deserve a new contract and pointed out that the deal the mechanics voted down last year would have made those workers the highest paid in the industry.
|
|
But enough MPs bristled at the idea of ramming this legislation through Parliament in three days, so they voted down what's called a "program motion," which set out Johnson's aggressive timetable.
|
|
After Abe Fortas resigned from the court in May 1969, the Senate voted down two nominees put forward by Nixon before confirming Harry Blackmun, who became a justice in June 1970.
|
|
European Council President Donald Tusk said it would be possible to grant Britain a short postponement if parliament next week backs May's divorce agreement, which it has already voted down twice.
|
|
Two shareholder proposals that would have required Berkshire to report on its efforts to reduce methane emissions, and divest stakes in companies involved in fossil fuels, were also voted down overwhelmingly.
|
|
On Wednesday, Republicans voted down Democratic amendments to prevent tax cuts for wealthy Americans and protect funding for the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor.
|
|
Support for May plummeted in her Cabinet after she unveiled her latest Brexit plan, which looked a lot like the other Brexit proposals that UK lawmakers had voted down three times.
|
|
In 2016, 312 Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) voted down a motion to ensure rented homes were "fit for human inhabitation"—unsurprising, given that 126 of those MPs are themselves, landlords.
|
|
Any bidder would need to get the Malacalzas on board to succeed or would risk being voted down at a shareholder meeting called to approve the capital raising and any deal.
|
|
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted down a proposal that would have required the Pentagon to report on the cost of Trump administration officials using military aircraft for travel.
|
|
"I am disappointed that a bill that seeks to improve services to our citizens and simplify the process would be voted down on partisan lines for no logical reason," state Rep.
|
|
Investors got a chance to vote on this 2018 mega grant pay package in 2017 — and voted it down, just like that had voted down other pay packages in previous years.
|
|
The House on Wednesday voted down two budget alternatives offered by two key Democratic factions as Republicans move forward with their proposal this week to establish a vehicle for tax reform.
|
|
Firstly, John Bercow, the House of Commons speaker, is widely expected (including by Downing Street) to rule it out because the motion was essentially already debated and voted down on Saturday.
|
|
Britain is due to leave the bloc in four weeks' time but lawmakers could back an extension in a parliamentary vote if Prime Minister Theresa May's exit agreement is voted down.
|
|
Members of Congress voted down an amendment to the Democrats' voting rights bill last Thursday that sought to lower the federal voting age to 16, an effort led by freshman Rep.
|
|
"House Democratic leadership got poked in the eye by the very moderate Republicans they're trying to defeat," said Vela as the House voted down a conservative immigration bill proposed by Rep.
|
|
The three main unions at Chuquicamata, which make up 80 percent of the workforce at the mine, voted down Codelco's offer on Saturday, and said it failed to meet key demands.
|
|
They EU has told Britain it awaits its proposals but that the already negotiated - and voted down in the House of Commons - legal withdrawal agreement was the best Britain could get.
|
|
San Francisco (CNN)Democratic National Committee members on Saturday voted down a resolution that would have resulted in single-issue debates among candidates -- including on the issue of the climate crisis.
|
|
Under the Republican proposal that was voted down twice in recent days, hardly anything would go toward reducing the impact of the coronavirus, whether medical or economic, on the front end.
|
|
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have voted down a final attempt to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, likely signaling the end of the trial in the coming days.
|
|
Early this morning, lawmakers narrowly voted down a plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, with three Republicans — Susan Collins, John McCain and Lisa Murkowski — opposing the "skinny" repeal.
|
|
The Senate last week voted down three separate proposals to enshrine DACA's protections into law after Trump vowed to veto any bill other than the one proposed by the White House.
|
|
But broader issues, including tax policy and a vote for a plebiscite on gay marriage, have either moved slowly or been voted down, leading to the government's poor polling among voters.
|
|
The state legislature earlier this week voted down a package of gun control measures backed by groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, even as students from Parkland watched in the gallery.
|
|
Back in March, the US Senate voted down a resolution to end US support for the war in Yemen, while President Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Salman at the White House.
|
|
But the possibility has repeatedly been raised by pro-EU politicians in Westminster that Brexit could be reversed, if May's withdrawal plan is voted down and if a second referendum is arranged.
|
|
It was voted down in January by the British parliament over opposition to the so-called backstop, an insurance policy to avoid customs checks for goods on the Ireland-Northern Ireland border.
|
|
And while Obama insisted Renzi remain in office even if his proposed constitutional reforms are voted down in December, neither leader expressed much certainty about Europe in the months and years ahead.
|
|
Willette, who did not sign the petition, said some delegates were told that if the rules were voted down, the rules would go back to the 2012 rules, which was not accurate.
|
|
The British pound rose by the most in nearly 2 years on Wednesday after lawmakers voted down the latest Brexit proposal — an amendment to leave the EU with no agreement in place.
|
|
The idea of jumping ahead by putting the Brexit withdrawal bill directly to MPs is too risky, because if it were voted down it could not be reintroduced in the current session.
|
|
One Obamacare repeal plan was voted down on Tuesday evening and a second plan, to just repeal Obamacare and it replace it later failed on Wednesday afternoon, with seven GOP no votes.
|
|
In practice, the red card is a red herring: it is hard to imagine circumstances in which 15 countries could be rallied against a plan that had not already been voted down.
|
|
The bill was reportedly voted down 8-85033 in the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee, falling short of the 10 votes needed to pass out of the 20-member panel.
|
|
The news comes the same day that the House voted down an amendment in the 'minibus' appropriations bill that would have increased funding for the Interior Department's IG office by $2.5 million.
|
|
A DNC committee voted down the proposal last week in a 17-8 vote, after months of pushback from activists calling for the party to host a debate centered on climate change.
|
|
The news comes the same day that the House voted down an amendment in the 'minibus' appropriations bill that would have increased funding for the Interior Department's IG office by $2.5 million.
|
|
Janaillac had offered a 7% wage increase to employees over the next four years as a last-ditch effort to remain in his position, but it was voted down, forcing his departure.
|
|
Unless voted down by the SPD's rank and file, such a move would spell the end to Germany's oldest political party – a similar path to oblivion currently experienced by the French Socialists.
|
|
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted down a request to subpoena testimony from the State Department interpreter who accompanied Mr. Trump into his private meeting with Mr. Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
|
|
They also voted down a motion to release a classified 10-page memo written by Representative Adam Schiff, the committee's ranking Democrat, and Democratic staffers about the Republican memo's errors and distortions.
|
|
SEATTLE — Amazon said on Wednesday that its shareholders had voted down proposals that would have pushed the company to reconsider its societal impact in two key areas: facial recognition and climate change.
|
|
But Republicans now have a window to stand up before they are voted down — to say to history that they may have failed so far, but they came around in the end.
|
|
But in practice the Benn act is clear: if the deal is voted down in Parliament, Mr Johnson must ask the EU to agree to extend the Brexit deadline to January 31st.
|
|
As the commission voted down any action on open primaries, Our Revolution President Nina Turner, a member of the URC, declared that this decision could come back to haunt the Democratic Party.
|
|
In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
|
|
In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
|
|
Lawmakers also voted down an amendment blocking the EPA from closing regional offices, a worry raised by lawmakers in the Midwest earlier this year but one the EPA has said is unfounded.
|
|
Lawmakers also voted down an amendment blocking the EPA from closing regional offices, a worry raised by lawmakers in the Midwest earlier this year but one the EPA has said is unfounded.
|
|
Activists had breathed a sigh of relief in December 2017, when Indonesia's Constitutional Court narrowly voted down a call for the criminalization of LGBT relations brought by a group of conservative Muslims.
|
|
The House voted down on Thursday Democratic amendments to undo some of the policy riders, but it also defeated Republican measures to further cut the EPA's budget and undo other environmental rules.
|
|
A bill in Virginia was voted down after lawmakers received a letter from the National Grocers Association, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Plant Based Foods Association that defended increasingly popular products.
|
|
A proposed rule aimed at restricting the movement of graduate transfer athletes by levying penalties on the colleges that accepted them was voted down on Friday by the N.C.A.A. Division I Council.
|
|
Related: Polar Bears Are Now Eating Dolphins in the Arctic Washington also tried, and failed, to change the bears' classification in 2010 and 2013, with the effort being voted down both times.
|
|
Moving up the vote would also help Republicans in the event Kavanaugh's nomination gets voted down, by giving them more time to nominate and confirm a replacement before the midterm elections in November.
|
|
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand filed an amendment specifically to protect women's health coverage, which was eventually voted down, but in a speech on the Senate Floor she railed against the partisan attacks on women.
|
|
Background: May's deal looked set to be voted down last month, but she postponed the vote, hoping that fears of a potentially catastrophic "no deal" Brexit would rally support for her unpopular plan.
|
|
After a contentious debate, the House of Representatives has voted to extend a controversial government surveillance program that powers American spying operations, as it voted down a proposal to include new privacy measures.
|
|
And now that it has refused to do so, Cris Dush, a Republican legislator, is calling for the five judges who voted down the Pennsylvania gerrymander to be impeached for "misbehaviour in office".
|
|
The farm bill, which was voted down 213-198, had been hanging in the balance as the conservative House Freedom Caucus threatened to withhold support without an agreement on an immigration bill vote.
|
|
JPMorgan Chase also said all of its directors were elected, and that a shareholder proposal that the bank report annually on its global gender pay gap was voted down, according to preliminary tallies.
|
|
It was not immediately clear what legal avenues are open to Franco's descendants in the face of a decree that needs to be approved by parliament, but is unlikely to be voted down.
|
|
According to Virginia Mercury, despite being backed by the "Virginia Cattlemen's Association, the Farm Bureau, and pretty much every other farm-group in the state," the legislation was unanimously voted down in committee.
|
|
Rival airlines show little interest in buying it, and creditors refuse to lend more money after workers last Monday voted down a rescue plan that would have cut 1,700 jobs and trimmed salaries.
|
|
Since British lawmakers voted down the withdrawal agreement last month, parliament has instructed May to replace its most contentious element — an insurance policy covering the possible future arrangements for the border in Ireland.
|
|
Uncertainty increased for British businesses this week when a vote in parliament on Britain's Brexit divorce deal was postponed after Prime Minister Theresa May said the deal was likely to be voted down.
|
|
The House Armed Services Committee voted down a defense bill amendment early Thursday that would have allowed the Secretary of the Interior to protect the greater sage-grouse as an endangered species. Rep.
|
|
At the end of the Intelligence Committee's first public hearing on Wednesday, the committee's Democratic majority voted down a proposal by Republicans that the panel subpoena the whistleblower to give closed-door testimony.
|
|
The Senate recently voted down a package of "emergency" arms sales to the Saudis and the UAE that included thousands of Raytheon Paveway munitions, the weapon of choice in that Yemeni air campaign.
|
|
Similarly, Arizona voted down the Renewable Energy Standards Initiative (I-127) and voters in Colorado supported fossil fuel industry on Proposition 112 (Minimum Distance Requirements for New Oil, Gas, and Fracking Projects Initiative).
|
|
Since the initial Brexit referendum passed two and a half years ago, Parliament has voted down all of May's deals, a plan to exit the EU without a deal, and a second referendum.
|
|
She announced to her Conservative Party that if they voted for the Brexit deal she negotiated with the European Union — and which Parliament had, humiliatingly, voted down twice already — she would finally resign.
|
|
On Tuesday night, the Senate voted down a procedural measure seen as a proxy to gauge support for an Obamacare repeal-and-replacement plan that stalled out in the Senate in recent weeks.
|
|
Since her Brexit deal was voted down by 432-202, May has made no real effort to listen to the concerns of the 304 members of the opposition who voted against the deal.
|
|
Colorado voted down a bid to limit where new oil and gas wells could be drilled and Alaskans defeated a measure that would have more strictly regulated development that would impact salmon habitat.
|
|
A three-year contract was voted down by union members earlier this month, and operations have continued under a 24-hour rolling contract that has been in place since the previous contract expired.
|
|
Two years ago, activists organized a powerful grass-roots movement that helped persuade the lower house of Congress to vote in favor of legalizing abortion, but the Senate narrowly voted down the bill.
|
|
Czech inflation accelerated in December though most analysts expected the bank would continue to hold steady on rates despite ongoing debate over a hike, which was voted down at the last three meetings.
|
|
But the Senate voted down the objection, creating a precedent that chief justices do have tiebreaking power in impeachment trials, just as vice presidents have tiebreaking power in votes on legislation and nominations.
|
|
Republicans on the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted down several Democratic amendments that would have delayed the implementation of a cap and approved one, from Rep.
|
|
STOCKHOLM, June 7 (Reuters) - Sweden's parliament on Thursday voted down a bill to cap profits for companies working in the tax-funded welfare sector with opposition parties uniting against the minority centre-left government.
|
|
Then, Clinton's delegates voted down Sanders' proposals on trade -- leading to boos, with some of his supporters in the portion of the ballroom that was open to the public shouting "shame" and walking out.
|
|
Sterling was last trading at $1.2862 on the dollar, having quickly recovered from its brief losses to $1.2670 late on Tuesday right after May's plan was voted down by a bigger-than-expected margin.
|
|
"The prime minister's deal will cause major, lasting damage to jobs, living standards and public services such as the National Health Service and should be voted down," said Scotland's constitutional relations minister Michael Russell.
|
|
But it was not clear if the changes would be enough to secure parliamentary support when lawmakers vote around 20.3 GMT, having voted down May's original deal by a record 20.2 votes in January.
|
|
In January, the HKAOA members overhwelmingly voted down a contract proposal which offered at least a 1 percent pay rise and some housing guarantees even though it had been recommended by the union's leadership.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted down a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub last week.
|
|
Committee Republicans also voted down a measure from Schiff that would have delayed the publication of the Nunes memo until the Department of Justice had briefed House members on the implications of exposing it.
|
|
Kirkland's stock climbed as much as 9 percent, partly boosted as well by the possibility that its planned takeover of Newmarket Gold Inc, which had put its stock under pressure, will be voted down.
|
|
The issue is officially settled—membership voted down boycott at a legendarily acrimonious G.M. in 2012—although, much as with the deadlock in the Middle East, skirmish follows skirmish, with no resolution in sight.
|
|
The Senate on Thursday voted down two proposals that would have reopened the government, including one proposed by the White House that contained Trump's request for wall funding, as well as other immigration measures.
|
|
The bullion miner also received a boost as shareholders at its annual meeting resoundingly backed the company's executive compensation plan, in a major reversal from a year ago when it was overwhelmingly voted down.
|
|
Parliament voted down British military action against President Bashar al-Assad's government in 2013, in an embarrassment for May's predecessor, David Cameron, that then deterred the U.S. administration of Barack Obama from similar action.
|
|
The bank also said that all of its directors were elected, and that a shareholder proposal that the bank report annually on its global gender pay gap was voted down, according to preliminary tallies.
|
|
Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, bought a lot of the land in the district and hoped to turn it into Seattle's version of Central Park, but the public voted down the plans.
|
|
Membership approval of such a deal has traditionally been a sure thing; however, Fiat Chrysler workers four years ago voted down an initial leadership-approved contract and sent negotiators back to the bargaining table.
|
|
London (CNN Business)The British pound trimmed some of the losses it suffered during volatile trading on Tuesday after UK lawmakers voted down the latest version of Prime Minister Theresa May's deal on Brexit.
|
|
Shareholders in Lotte Holdings, which controls a sprawling corporate empire, voted down a motion proposed by Shin Dong-joo to remove his younger brother from the board at the annual shareholder gathering in Tokyo.
|
|
The fight over defense spending came to a head recently in the Senate, when the chamber voted down amendments to a defense policy bill that would have added to both defense and nondefense spending.
|
|
But the backstop or insurance mechanism negotiated to exclude such checks has been resisted by some British lawmakers, who have on three occasions voted down the divorce deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May.
|
|
The rebel lawmakers, led by former attorney general Dominic Grieve, want to change that rule to say that parliament could propose and vote on alternative outcomes in the event the original deal is voted down.
|
|
And the groups have also backed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a 20-week abortion ban that passed the House, but was voted down in the Senate by a slim margin last week.
|
|
Separately on Wednesday, the Republican-majority House Homeland Security Committee voted down a Democratic resolution that would have forced the Department of Homeland Security to provide more information about the security threat posed by ZTE.
|
|
The euro was near $1.072 on Monday, following a drop to a 20-month low of $1.0503 against the dollar overnight after Italians voted down a referendum that would have changed how their parliament works.
|
|
Having famously voted down a rapid-transit system that would have been 75 percent funded by the federal government in the early 2753s—it eventually became Atlanta's MARTA—Seattle's public transit is a major weakness.
|
|
NAIROBI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Kenya's parliament has voted down a proposal by the finance ministry to increase commercial banks' core capital from 1 billion to 5 billion shillings ($49.38 million), a newspaper reported on Thursday.
|
|
"I don't want this bill to be voted down and I hope the stakeholders who want this bill to be passed will be interested in amendments to craft a bill that will pass," Cruz said.
|
|
The Senate has voted down a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act without replacing it — the leading alternative to the Senate repeal-and-replace bill, a version of which got shot down last night.
|
|
Despite bumper results in recent years, the company's shareholders voted down the directors' pay report in March after some investors said pretax profit targets in its long-term share incentive plan were not demanding enough.
|
|
The stutter step comes a week after the House voted down a proposal to demand the government obtain a warrant for certain searches of U.S. citizens' data in massive surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden.
|
|
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted down two Democratic proposals to fund the Green Climate Fund, an effort to pump public and private funding from rich countries to developing nations for climate change infrastructure.
|
|
Dianne Feinstein and Harris that would have required law enforcement to obtain a warrant proving probable cause from the FISA court to access the content of an American's communication was voted down, Feinstein's office said.
|
|
Bob Corker, a senator at the time, said a union would make the company less competitive and indicated that executives would add a production line at the plant only if workers voted down a union.
|
|
The proposal was ultimately voted down, but Pat Miguel Tomaino, the director of socially responsible investing at Zevin, said the firm planned to work with Google employees to resubmit it for the 2019 shareholder meeting.
|
|
The United Kingdom's House of Commons on Tuesday narrowly voted down a measure that would have effectively phased equipment made by Chinese telecom group Huawei out of British 5G networks by the end of 2022.
|
|
"I felt that Merrick Garland deserved a hearing, a debate, a floor vote, and if Republicans felt he should be voted down, they could do so," Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, told me.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal remains the best option for leaving the European Union despite it having been voted down three times by lawmakers, Treasury minister Liz Truss said on Monday.
|
|
Carney, who angered many Brexit campaigners by warning of the hit to economic growth from the decision to leave the EU, was also keen to illustrate the risks if the deal were voted down in parliament.
|
|
Britain's parliament voted down May's initial deal by a record 230 votes in January, and sterling is likely to be sensitive to any signs the prime minister can convince enough lawmakers to switch sides on Tuesday.
|
|
The pound was a shade higher at $1.3127, given some reprieve after slipping earlier in the week when British lawmakers voted down a proposal in parliament that could have prevented a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
For instance, in 1987, a Democrat-controlled Senate voted down President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork by 280-251 even though Bork had strong formal credentials for the job and a reputation for brilliant legal scholarship.
|
|
In Corbett, since the $11.9 million bond proposal was voted down, officials in the 1,100 student school district 20 miles east of Portland are now considering a costlier private loan that does not need voter approval.
|
|
She will set out a timetable for her departure in early June after the latest attempt to get her Brexit deal approved by parliament, but could face a confidence vote if the deal is voted down.
|
|
Meanwhile, in Canada, a majority of the House of Commons recently voted to condemn the movement, while the legislature in Ontario briefly considered — but ultimately voted down — a movement to defund universities that support the initiative.
|
|
In February, the City of Alameda voted down a $500,000 contract with Vigilant, and San Pablo voted against a $2.9 million vendor switch to Vigilant the following month, although the San Pablo measure was subsequently approved.
|
|
The spokesman told reporters if May's deal to leave the EU was voted down, then the government would bring votes on a no deal Brexit and on a possible delay to the country's departure as promised.
|
|
Carney, who angered many Brexit campaigners by warning of the hit to economic growth from the decision to leave the EU, was also keen to illustrate the risks if the deal were voted down in parliament.
|
|
Experts say if the Brexit deal gets voted down in December, there's a chance May might be able to try again, especially if the financial markets or businesses freak out at the prospect no-deal scenario.
|
|
What that would mean in practical terms is that any debate on a bill could be ended by a simple majority vote and then the legislation could be passed -- or voted down -- with a simple majority.
|
|
In a confusing vote, the European Parliament passed by a narrow majority a series of amendments against beginning talks, but then voted down its own resolution on the topic, meaning in effect it took no view.
|
|
British lawmakers voted down on Tuesday Prime Minister Theresa May's EU proposed agreement on terms for leaving the EU. Parliament must now decide whether to back a no-deal Brexit or seek a last-minute delay.
|
|
The climate resolutions were voted down on Wednesday, but a "proxy access" resolution that called for the company to give large shareholders a bigger say over corporate governance passed with nearly 62 percent of the votes.
|
|
The pound was a shade higher at $1.3123, given some reprieve after slipping earlier in the week when British lawmakers voted down a proposal in parliament that could have prevented a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
Trump added in subsequent tweets that an "important part" of the deal "will be revealed in the not too distant future" and warned that tariffs would be reinstated if it is voted down by Mexico's legislature.
|
|
Despite that, support for independence itself has remained at the 45 percent level it was when it was voted down in 2014 and the SNP still holds 35 of Scotland's 59 seats in the Westminster parliament.
|
|
And while a proposal by Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, to deny sales to anyone on the government's no-fly list did not pass last week, it was not voted down either, offering supporters hope.
|
|
The bank sought to introduce a deferred share plan for senior executives earlier this year but it was voted down by the government, which retains a 71 percent shareholding following a 2017 initial public offering (IPO).
|
|
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's parliament voted down on Friday a citizens' petition demanding the repeal of a law that will allow same-sex marriages, securing the future of the law that will come into force next month.
|
|
However, the House Republicans who despise those bills are the same ones who have voted down individual appropriations measures or helped load them up with policy riders that contributed to their failure on the House floor.
|
|
A main punching bag has also been the peace deal with the FARC, which was narrowly voted down in a referendum in 2016, but forced through Congress by Mr. Santos after minor changes to the text.
|
|
In 2017, the City Council voted down the police union contract because of concerns over accountability, not for the usual reasons like salary or benefits — reportedly the first time a City Council has ever done this.
|
|
The first real attempt to impeach a President came in 1843, when a Virginia congressman accused John Tyler of "corruption, malconduct, high crimes and misdemeanors," but the House voted down a motion to investigate, 127–19813.
|
|
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state lawmakers voted down a bill on Friday that would have forced Boeing to keep a minimum number of jobs in the state in exchange for receiving billions of dollars in tax breaks.
|
|
But last fall, Douglas County residents voted down a ballot measure that would have added about $6 a month to the tax bill on a median-priced home and saved the libraries from a funding crisis.
|
|
Scott acknowledged that Delaware, where Intuit is incorporated, has not ruled definitively on the issue but said he is committed to resolving any ambiguity under Delaware law regardless of whether the Intuit proposal is voted down.
|
|
After the House committee voted down party lines to release the document, the memo was couriered to the White House on Monday evening and an interagency review process began on the contents of the controversial memo.
|
|
Lawmakers voted down a motion to consider the ban during a session that opened with a prayer for the 17 people killed by a former student last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
|
|
He pleased immigration hard-liners this month by casting the Senate's lone vote against opening a debate on three competing bills that would give "Dreamers" a path to legal status, all of which were voted down.
|
|
National Briefing | South A bill to regulate fracking, an oil and gas extraction technique that is relatively new to Florida and vigorously opposed across the state, was voted down on Thursday by a pivotal State Senate committee.
|
|
Britain is due to leave the bloc in under four weeks' time but lawmakers could back an extension in a parliamentary vote if Prime Minister Theresa May's exit agreement is voted down, potentially prolonging uncertainty for businesses.
|
|
He did not comment on the possibility - which he himself has suggested - that another option such as a longer delay might be offered to avoid a painful no-deal exit if May's deal was voted down again.
|
|
In one community near Houston, Texas, residents in June voted down a measure to limit landscaping noise, with some worried the law would push up service prices and make it harder for landscapers to make a living.
|
|
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A small number of workers at Grupo Prodeco's port in Colombia have voted down a proposed strike, the union which held the vote said on Friday, adding that only eight out of 115 workers voted.
|
|
Another possible hurdle is that any bidder would need to win over Carige's top shareholder, the Malacalza family, or would risk being voted down at a shareholder meeting called to approve the capital raising and any deal.
|
|
LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Brexit-supporting lawmakers who voted down British Prime Minister Theresa May's European Union withdrawal deal in January have outlined demands for a revised treaty to ensure their support, the Sunday Times newspaper said.
|
|
"Sometimes qualified majority helps you to get unanimity, because if you know that you can be voted down, your incentive to be part of the conversation, to be part of finding solution, is much stronger," she said.
|
|
The attempt was voted down in the U.N. General Assembly 84 to 77 with 16 abstentions, a month after African states made a similar unsuccessful move in the General Assembly's third committee, which deals with human rights.
|
|
The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday voted down a Democratic resolution that would have forced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide lawmakers with more information about the threat posed by Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE.
|
|
One board member pushed to outfit the doormen in uniforms and install an Upper East Side-style awning around 2000, but the move was resoundingly voted down, said Elsa Vieira, a conceptual artist who fought the proposal.
|
|
Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29 but Prime Minister Theresa May wants more concessions from Brussels to rally her divided Conservative Party behind her exit plan, which parliament voted down last month.
|
|
Lawmakers also voted down, mainly along party lines, an amendment that would have removed all of the bill's policy riders, including one to repeal the Clean Water Rule instituted jointly by the Army Corps and the EPA.
|
|
If consensus isn't built, particularly at a time of divided government in today's hyper-partisan political environment, it's likely that a overly liberal or conservative justice (depending on which party controls the Senate) will be voted down.
|
|
Adding to setbacks for the government on Tuesday, the lower house voted down an effort to fast-track another reform proposed by Temer to modernize labor laws, making work contracts more flexible to improve Brazil's business environment.
|
|
David Brooks To: Democratic Party Leaders From: Imaginary Democratic Consultant Re: Late-Term Abortions Dear Democratic Leaders, Last week I watched as our senators voted down the Republican bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks.
|
|
It was last voted down in 2006 in the Senate, where current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee, then a Republican, were among three GOP lawmakers to vote against it. Then-Sen.
|
|
GOP rejects Dem effort to demand Trump's tax returns: For the eighth time in the last three months, House Republicans on Wednesday voted down an effort by Democrats to make President Trump's tax returns available to Congress.
|
|
It's unclear how likely the chamber is to approve that step; at the start of the trial, Schumer proposed amendments to the trial rules to issue subpoenas for key witnesses, including Bolton, but each was voted down.
|
|
Cuthbert, Gerogia (CNN)In a meeting that lasted less than 60 seconds, a Georgia elections board voted down a plan Friday to close seven of a majority-black county's nine polling places ahead of November's midterm elections.
|
|
Republicans were divided in committee on amendments to gut the inflation caps, while another effort, to bar a potential White House rule tying payments for Medicare drugs to vastly lower international prices, was just barely voted down.
|
|
The news agency added that on Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee voted down a motion led by their Democratic counterparts that would have released more information on why, exactly, federal officials believe ZTE poses a security risk.
|
|
By the start of this week, it'd become clear that the stickiest issue was military funding for transgender medical treatments—an amendment banning paying for those treatments was voted down by a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.
|
|
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects British Prime Minister Theresa May to request a Brexit delay beyond March 29 after the divided UK parliament voted down her divorce agreed with the bloc for the second time on Tuesday.
|
|
Last week, the Senate voted down a bill that would provide $250 million to states to modernize and secure the voting process, because they said it was not clear how states had used the $380 million already allocated.
|
|
Matthew Taylor, adjunct senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, said one of the main reasons the plebiscite was voted down was the low voter turnout, a consequence of the apathy surrounding it.
|
|
STRIKE: Unions at Chile's Chuquicamata mine have asked Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, to resubmit the offer their workers voted down last weekend, a union leader said, amid a nearly two-week strike that has docked output.
|
|
May's Brexit strategy has come under attack from all sides, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the EU will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday that the country would probably go to the polls on July 2, after parliament voted down a key labor reform bill, paving the way for an unusually long election campaign.
|
|
If a deal is voted down by parliament, the United Kingdom will face an uncertain future: leaving abruptly without a deal, the collapse of May's government, an election, or, as some opponents of Brexit hope, a new referendum.
|
|
But lawmakers from his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, last week voted down a provision in the legislation that would have required elected politicians and other public officials to reveal their assets, taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
|
|
The Rules Committee, meeting in Cleveland, voted down a measure that would ban lobbyists from being members of the RNC, the 168-member body that comprises three members from each state and is led by chairman Reince Priebus.
|
|
The Judiciary Committee voted down an amendment from Cornyn, Hatch and Lee that would have gutted the special counsel bill and replaced it with a nonbinding sense of the Senate resolution on allowing Mueller to finish his investigation.
|
|
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish opposition parties voted down a government decree aimed at reforming restrictive labor practices at the country's ports, marking a setback for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he tries to find allies in a fractured parliament.
|
|
The word on Wednesday that the British government had struck an agreement in principle with European counterparts on how to proceed merely moved the conflict into the British Parliament, where the deal could be voted down or altered.
|
|
The 2001 law, which forbid regional and local authorities from declaring certain areas off-limits to miners and put the national government in charge of permit approvals, was voted down after local governments brought the case to court.
|
|
To maneuver this unpopular deal past the American public and through the political mills of Washington, Obama's White House skipped submitting it the Senate for ratification as a treaty — where it would almost certainly have been voted down.
|
|
Plans to build a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki were defeated on Wednesday night, when lawmakers in the Finnish city voted down a proposal to pay for the $138 million museum with a mixture of private and public money.
|
|
In an ongoing worker standoff that has captured national attention, unions representing West Virginia teachers say they will stay on strike after the Republican-led state Senate voted down a pay raise educators had negotiated with GOP Gov.
|
|
But it's important to note that Democrats voted down a short-term spending bill Friday over stalled immigration negotiations, and it's unlikely they'd vote for one without some kind of agreement on the future of the DACA program.
|
|
In what's surely a quirk of happenstance, those states are represented by three senators who have come out against the bill — Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and John McCain — and one who previously voted down a repeal bill, Lisa Murkowski.
|
|
DSW said in a statement it was still convinced that such an investigation was the right tool for clearing up the scandal, even after its motion for a probe was voted down at VW's annual shareholders' meeting on Wednesday.
|
|
Some investors may also be disappointed by the dividend decision of Dubai's Emaar Properties after shareholders on Monday voted down a proposal to increase the payout for 2015 to 20 percent, and approved the board's proposal of 15 percent.
|
|
Just last month, Washington's House Finance committee voted down a bill that would have required Boeing to keep its employment number at 83,295 people in the state in order to keep its $8.7 billion tax break, according to Reuters.
|
|
If a deal is voted down by parliament, the country could be thrust into an uncertain future: leaving abruptly without a deal, the collapse of May's government, an election, or, as some opponents of Brexit hope, a new referendum.
|
|
Recent efforts by House Democrats to press the Judiciary panel to take up "resolutions of inquiry" on issues related to the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election have been voted down on party line votes.
|
|
" Tortorici also reflected on the history of successful women's strikes, noting, "Polish women went on strike last October to protest a proposed abortion ban, the historically far-right Polish government voted down the legislation 352–58, with 18 abstaining.
|
|
Two (a perjury count and an "abuse of office" count) were voted down, but the other two (one perjury count and one obstruction of justice count) were approved, though with overwhelmingly Republican votes and just a handful of Democrats.
|
|
Lindsay Fischer, a former City Ballet dancer who was head of the union committee at the time, said the clause — which had originally been proposed in response to a racist incident at the Houston Ballet — was ultimately voted down.
|
|
He voted down a Charlotte ordinance in 1991 as a city council member, opposed another one in 2004 as the city's mayor, and now, as governor, he just made it illegal for localities to pass these kinds of protections.
|
|
The original plan had been to make a move after the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Malaysia in November - and put the question of Anwar's premiership to parliament in the expectation it would be voted down, sources said.
|
|
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said there were no schedule announcements beyond the nominations for this week and noted that the chamber has already voted down legislation on sanctuary cities during the DACA fight in February.
|
|
When teams were informed last Friday that the vote planned for April had been postponed, this was interpreted in some corners as a silent admission from Silver that he feared the proposals would be voted down at this time.
|
|
In that time, Democrats voted down five amendments from Republicans, one proposed amendment from representative Jim Jordan would have deleted the parts of the articles that would actually remove Trump from office if he's found guilty in the Senate.
|
|
Members of Parliament (MPs) voted down her proposed "withdrawal agreement" for a third time at the end of March, but May's departure may not necessarily mean that her blueprint for pulling the U.K. out of Europe will be completely discarded.
|
|
"If we were going on a People's Vote based on a deal that has gone through parliament in some form, if that got voted down then you'd have status quo, and that would be remain," he told the Evening Standard.
|
|
In significant defeats on Tuesday, her government was found in contempt of parliament and then a group of her own Conservative Party lawmakers won a challenge to hand more power to the House of Commons if her deal is voted down.
|
|
Back in Europe, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit Withdrawal Agreement suffered an early defeat on Wednesday as lawmakers voted for the government to swiftly come up with a plan B in case the deal is voted down next week.
|
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sterling rebounded from the day's lows against the U.S. dollar, rallying more than a cent to above $1.28 after British lawmakers voted down Prime Minister Theresa May's deal to leave the European Union by a crushing margin.
|
|
Early in Trump's presidency, Republicans voted down a motion to release Trump's tax returns to Congress, and Republican-led House committees have tried to spin the special investigation into Trump's presidential campaign's alleged ties with Russian nationals into a witch hunt.
|
|
Over the past two years, Republicans have voted down Democratic requests for subpoenas on topics ranging from family separations at the border to the addition of a citizenship question on the 22016 census to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
|
|
He supported Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns, but grew "deeply concerned about the lack of communities for all people" — he even voted down three of Nixon's nominees to the Supreme Court, and was among the first to call for him resign.
|
|
MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spanish opposition parties voted down a government decree aimed at reforming restrictive labour practices at the country's ports, marking a setback for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he tries to find allies in a fractured parliament.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's deal to leave the European Union will be voted down in parliament, her former Brexit minister said on Friday, adding that alternative stopgap agreements could help provide a bridge in a no-deal scenario.
|
|
JOHANNESBURG, May 30 (Reuters) - Standard Bank shareholders on Thursday voted down a resolution that would have required the South African lender to report climate risk in its activities, although they passed another forcing it to disclose its coal financing policies.
|
|
Adam Schiff told reporters that the committee voted to release the memo on party lines and that several Democratic motions — such as having the FBI director come and brief the House about the memo before its release — were voted down.
|
|
Among those, he warned that (BMPS) – which is looking to raise 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) before year end in order to fill a capital shortfall – will face more of a challenge to do so if the referendum is voted down.
|
|
Several polls over the summer found that a majority of undecided voters, both nationally and in swing states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, said that their choice for a presidential candidate wouldn't make a difference on how they voted down-ticket.
|
|
Even as they voted down one measure after another to combat climate change, news kept coming in from the front lines: In Japan, 700,000 people were told to evacuate their homes after record rainfall led to severe flooding and landslides.
|
|
Johnson, a former London mayor, has said he will ramp up preparations for a no-deal exit to try to force the EU's negotiators to make changes to the agreement that May sealed and which British lawmakers voted down three times.
|
|
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's parliament on Tuesday narrowly voted down a plan by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to reject EU quotas for accepting refugees, a setback for the maverick leader that could weaken him in a long-running fight with Brussels.
|
|
As it happened, we were talking on the morning after the RNC's Rules Committee had overwhelmingly voted down a last-ditch stop-Trump effort to derail the coronation, a "conscience clause" that would have unbound delegates to vote for any candidate.
|
|
Britain's parliament voted down May's deal by a record 230 votes in January, and sterling is likely to be sensitive to any signs the prime minister can chip away at those losses and convince colleagues to back her in the vote.
|
|
Johnson has said he would ramp up preparations for a no deal to try to force the EU's negotiators to make changes to the agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May sealed with Brussels and UK lawmakers voted down three times.
|
|
The town has no Planned Parenthood clinic or designated abortion provider, and in 2015, for reasons both fiscal and ideological, the Republican-controlled state senate voted down a bill that would have provided funding for an effective state-wide contraception program.
|
|
The impeachment resolution that Meadows introduced was not "privileged," which is a procedural motion that can force a House floor vote on the matter, a move that liberal Democrats have already taken against the President, though it was easily voted down.
|
|
"It's politically unsustainable to keep a vacancy unaddressed, which doesn't mean — I mean Richard Nixon, for example, had two Supreme Court Justices in a row voted down — so it took a while for somebody to finally be confirmed," he said.
|
|
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the European Union will be voted down by parliament, thrusting the United Kingdom towards a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
BRUSSELS, March 13 (Reuters) - The European Union expects British Prime Minister Theresa May to request a Brexit delay beyond March 29 after the divided UK parliament voted down her divorce agreed with the bloc for the second time on Tuesday.
|
|
The House voted down Democratic amendments that would have exempted rules protecting student loan borrowers, rules relating to the enforcement of the Clean Air Act, rules that impact the federal government's relationship with tribal communities and another that protects whistleblowers. Rep.
|
|
Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) motioned to subpoena the American interpreter who sat in the room with President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during their one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, but were voted down by committee Republicans, reports ABC News.
|
|
If a deal is voted down by parliament, the United Kingdom will be thrust into an uncertain future: leaving abruptly without a deal, the collapse of May's government, an election, or, as some opponents of Brexit hope, a new referendum.
|
|
Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who both voted down a health care plan this summer that did little more than repeal the mandate, expressed their reservations about mixing health care with taxes after the change was announced.
|
|
The vast majority of Senate Democrats, and 14 Republicans, voted down a White House-backed Senate proposal that would enable the Department of Homeland Security to make more arrests and deportations, limit family-based immigration, and eliminate the diversity visa lottery.
|
|
If her deal is voted down, May has promised lawmakers will get a chance to vote on whether to leave with no deal the day after and then on March 14 to vote on asking the EU to delay the deadline.
|
|
Republicans also voted down a Schumer amendment that stated that if Trump's defense team introduced any evidence in the trial that Democrats had already subpoenaed, they would have to release all the other information requested in that subpoena as well.
|
|
That cabinet is set to be voted down in parliament - the first of two proposed governments that need to be rejected by lawmakers within 60 days to trigger an election, which would then take place a few months ahead of schedule.
|
|
"Last night, with Parkland students watching from the gallery, state House members voted down a motion to debate an existing bill that would ban assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines," Colbert said in his monologue to boos from his audience.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives committee leading the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump on Wednesday voted down a Republican bid to issue subpoenas for an anonymous whistleblower and the son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
|
|
BERLIN — The day after the British Parliament voted down a deal on Brexit, with political instability dominating international headlines, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany sat down for a 45-minute interview with a journalist from the German newspaper Die Zeit.
|
|
And the same committee voted down her suggestions on Tuesday to acknowledge the murders of LGBT people in the Middle East and in Orlando, where the deadliest shooting in U.S. history occurred at a gay club exactly one month before.
|
|
Unfortunately, for Nasty Boy Norris and Dearborn, New Hampshire's state legislature voted down a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, so they may want to think about taking their business model to one of the many states that has legal weed.
|
|
The vote comes a day after Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was voted down for a second time in parliament, and could open the door to a vote on Thursday on whether or not to delay Britain's EU departure.
|
|
In December, Shashi Tharoor, an opposition member in Parliament, introduced a bill that would have rewritten Section 377 to limit the criminalization of private sexual acts to nonconsensual sex and sex with minors, but it was voted down by a large margin.
|
|
TOKYO, April 7 (Reuters) - The board of Japanese retailer Seven & I Holdings Co Ltd has voted down a proposal to replace the president of its convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
|
|
The British pound fell to its lows of the day Tuesday after an amendment that would have delayed the U.K.'s exit from the European Union in the event both parties did not have a deal in place was voted down by Parliament.
|
|
The British pound was stable after May survived the no-confidence vote and invited other party leaders for talks to try to break the impasse on a Brexit withdrawal deal after the proposal she presented was voted down by lawmakers on Tuesday.
|
|
If the agreement is voted down by U.K. lawmakers, the government could try to extend the deadline of March 29 (when the U.K. is officially due to leave the European Union) or the country crashes out of the EU without a deal.
|
|
Johnson has said he would ramp up preparations for a no deal if he becomes prime minister to try to force the EU's negotiators to make changes to the deal that Prime Minister Theresa May sealed with Brussels and UK lawmakers voted down.
|
|
After the Senate voted down a controversial labor reform bill on Monday, he used a rare constitutional mechanism, only allowed in Australia after the upper house rejects a bill twice, to dissolve both houses of parliament and put them to a vote.
|
|
AfD co-chief Frauke Petry suffered a crushing blow at the start of the congress when delegates voted down her motion calling for efforts to forge alliances with other parties in future rather than seeking to be a long-term opposition force.
|
|
"As soon as there are statistical cases that break the law or faked, it will be voted down, there will be zero tolerance, no appeasement," said Ning, who is also Vice Chairman of the planning body the National Development and Reform Commission.
|
|
Since British lawmakers voted down the withdrawal agreement last month, parliament has instructed May to replace its most contentious element - an insurance policy covering the possible future arrangements for the border between EU-member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.
|
|
Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, is due to leave the globe's biggest trading bloc in under 80 days but a Brexit agreement looks set to be voted down by lawmakers next week, making a no-deal and potential trade barriers more likely.
|
|
Johnson, a former London mayor, has said he will ramp up preparations for a no-deal exit to try to force the EU's negotiators to make changes to the agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May sealed and British lawmakers voted down three times.
|
|
And sometimes the paradox is that sometimes qual-, qualified majority helps you to get unanimity because if you know that you can be voted down, your incentive to be part of the conversation, to be part of finding solution, is much stronger.
|
|
If her deal is voted down, May has promised that lawmakers will get a chance to vote the day after on whether to leave with no deal and then on March 14 to vote on asking the EU to delay the deadline.
|
|
The weekend after the HCFA was voted down, Murkowsi was repeatedly greeted by supporters, some in tears, thanking her for her no vote, while Nevada Senator Dean Heller was rewarded for his "yes" vote by seeing his approval rating plummet to 22 percent.
|
|
THIS newspaper has tracked the twists and turns of assisted-dying legislation as it has passed onto the statute books in California and Canada—as well as failed attempts, such as a private member's bill in Britain that was voted down last year.
|
|
In an April floor debate, McConnell said he became captivated by the Senate's "advice and consent" power nearly a half century ago when as a Senate staffer he saw two of President Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees voted down in 1969 and 1970.
|
|
For example, allowing Zuckerberg to reduce his economic interest in Facebook "dramatically" -- by selling tens of millions of shares -- while allowing him to maintain "absolute control" over corporate decision-making was a bad idea that the board should have voted down, Grant argues.
|
|
Washington (CNN)The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm for the first time since 2500.
|
|
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy came under attack from all sides on Monday, increasing the risk that her plan for leaving the EU will be voted down by parliament and thrust the United Kingdom toward a potentially chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.
|
|
In 2016, Colorado went for Hillary Clinton by five points, but voted down a ballot initiative creating a single payer plan by 2603 percent to 21; the plan would've been paid for by a 10 percent tax on both payroll and other income.
|
|
The first, Robert Bork, was voted down for the good reason of being an extremist loon; the second, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew his own name from consideration for the hilarious reason that he smoked pot sometimes in his 20s and it was scandalous.
|
|
Theresa May's Brexit deal was voted down by the largest margin of any government in history, Remainers and Brexiteers united over the result—and, meanwhile, some chap was hosting a Boiler Room-esque live stream from Parliament square across the street (watch below).
|
|
House lawmakers in 2016 voted down language that would have closed the "loophole," while identical provisions tacked on to an annual funding bill sailed through the House in 2015 and 2014, but were stripped out before the bill reached then-President Obama's desk.
|
|
As for whether his own company might benefit from a coronavirus stimulus package — which Senate Democrats voted down on Sunday night but would give the Treasury Department $500 billion to bail out any company it chooses — Trump wouldn't commit one way or another.
|
|
An often heated session of the Parliament's lower house on Wednesday had to be extended several times, as a small number of members — mainly independent conservatives — talked at length on dozens of amendments, almost all of which were voted down by large majorities.
|
|
In a suitably dramatic endgame for a law that dominated American politics for a decade, the repeal measure was voted down around two o'clock in the morning, with Arizona GOP Senator John McCain's downturned thumb drawing shocked gasps from his Senate colleagues.
|
|
House lawmakers in 2016 voted down language that would have closed the loophole, while identical provisions tacked on to an annual funding bill sailed through the House in 2015 and 85033, but were stripped out before the bill reached then-President Obama's desk.
|
|
What's more, that agency is forever barred from issuing any rule that is "substantially the same" as the as the one voted down, no matter how serious and well founded the case for action might be, and regardless of any new information.
|
|
If Mr. Barr cannot straight out commit to the release of Mr. Mueller's full report to Congress, with some possible redactions of the names of nongovernment individuals for reasons of their safety, then Mr. Barr must be unanimously voted down in committee.
|
|
The Arizona senator said, much as did when he voted down Obamacare repeal in late July, that Republicans should instead work with Democrats on a health care bill and that any legislation should go through the regular order of committee hearings and markups.
|
|
In 2016, Colorado went for Hillary Clinton by five points, but voted down a ballot initiative creating a single payer plan by 2603 percent to 21; the plan would've been paid for by a 10 percent tax on both payroll and other income.
|
|
"The Australian people voted to lessen discrimination, not to extend it and we, the senate, have respected that vote by rejecting amendments which sought to extend discrimination, or derail marriage equality," Labor Senator Penny Wong, who voted down all the amendments, told Parliament.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to get her Brexit deal approved by parliament must clear an early hurdle on Tuesday, when lawmakers try to force the government to hand over more power to parliament if the current deal is voted down.
|
|
The committee responsible for it in the lower house of congress has voted down one idea to punish wrongdoing: writing into law the requirement that people convicted of corruption begin their sentences if they lose their first appeals, which does not always happen now.
|
|
After the previous Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron resigned following the UK's referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016, May took over after a leadership race that she won by default when all of her opponents were voted down or self destructive.
|
|
So far, the Senate has voted down an amendment that would have, in keeping with a 2015 bill that passed the Senate, fully repealed parts of Obamacare, and another amendment that incorporated the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the reform version the Senate revealed last month.
|
|
Drafted articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon included abuse of power and misuse of public office, while one of the proposed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton (voted down by the full House) related to abuse of power for non-criminal conduct.
|
|
Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, is due to leave the European Union in just over 80 days but a negotiated withdrawal agreement looks set to be voted down by UK lawmakers next week, making a "no deal" exit - and disruption to trade - more likely.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Several pro-EU lawmakers mounted a bid on Wednesday to force Britain's government to return to parliament in three days with a plan B for Brexit if Prime Minister Theresa May's deal to leave the European Union is voted down next week.
|
|
BP has seen shareholder opposition to high executive pay since last April, when a majority of investors in BP voted down the oil company's plan to pay Dudley a $19.6 million remuneration package, reflecting outrage over the proposed remuneration after the oil company posted losses.
|
|
All attempts to amend the bill, on severing ties with the EU, have been voted down so far, but a debate next month on precisely when Britain should leave, and whether a time should be set at all, is be to test her authority.
|
|
Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, is due to leave the globe's biggest trading bloc in just over 80 days with May's agreement looking set to be voted down, leading to a possible no deal Brexit and the imposition of tariffs and customs checks.
|
|
The two shareholder proposals – one calling for Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to government agencies until it concludes the technology does not facilitate civil rights violations, and another that would have commissioned an independent study about the software – were widely expected to be voted down.
|
|
OPCW members on Tuesday voted down a Chinese-Russian proposal to block the new team mandated with assigning blame for attacks in Syria, a power that had been with a joint United Nations-OPCW investigation until its extension was vetoed by Russia last year.
|
|
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Unions at Chile's Chuquicamata mine have asked Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, to resubmit the offer their workers voted down last weekend, a union leader said, amid a nearly two-week strike that has docked output from the sprawling copper deposit.
|
|
Having already voted down the Senate's revised health bill and a straight Obamacare repeal, Republicans are now facing a vote on a "skinny repeal," a proposal that would do away with Obamacare's individual and employer mandates and possibly defund Planned Parenthood for one year.
|
|
Having initially been voted down by the Danish right wing, who don't feel it is the city's responsibility to prod around Copenhagen's party scene, the initiative has now been revised and is set to have its fate decided by another vote on February 22.
|
|
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday voted down a bipartisan measure that would have required President Trump to get Congress's permission before striking Iran, after Republicans balked at infringing on the president's war-making powers at a time of escalating tensions with the Islamic republic.
|
|
The legislation was first introduced by the New Democratic Party in 2004 — before even gay marriage became the law of the land — it was ignored and voted down until 2010, when Siksay finally convinced a majority of the House of Commons to support the bill.
|
|
Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska), who voted down ObamaCare repeal, being greeted by a constituent: http://bit.
|
|
Draft articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon included abuse of power and misuse of public office, while one of the proposed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton (voted down by the full House) related to abuse of power for non-criminal conduct.
|
|
On Saturday, Austinites voted down Proposition 1, a ballot measure sponsored by Uber and Lyft, which aimed to do away with the need for fingerprinting drivers to vet their histories, as well as banning them from picking up and dropping off customers in traffic lanes.
|
|
Per the Sun Sentinel, as surviving students from the school watched them from the gallery on Tuesday, the Florida House voted down a motion to let legislation that would "ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines" proceed out of committee to in a 36-71 vote.
|
|
In party-line votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee voted down eight Democratic amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.
|
|
On Wednesday, the APA's council voted down the plan to allow psychologists back to Guantánamo by 105 votes to 57, with 15 abstentions — but only after the military psychologists tried to refer the issue to a special working group, postponing the vote on their own proposal.
|
|
"Although many suspected that the new charter could undermine their previously held democratic rights, the perceived risk of greater political uncertainty and economic instability, if the constitution had been voted down, was far less appealing," said John Marrett, Research Analyst Asia at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted down on Monday a measure that would have compelled cell phone carriers to disclose a phone's location with law enforcement in the event of an emergency, amid a last-minute lobbying effort from privacy advocates opposed to it.
|
|
Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican and author of another of the proposals that was voted down on Monday afternoon, said he was apprehensive about the provision in the Collins proposal because it permitted an appeal only after a gun sale is prohibited.
|
|
Linda Coleman-Madison, one of eight Democrats who opposed the law Tuesday and one of only four women in the chamber, introduced an amendment requiring the state to provide free prenatal and medical care to any woman denied an abortion under the law, which was voted down.
|
|
Although Senate Democrats forced votes this time by filibustering for 15 hours beginning Wednesday, and Donald J. Trump has expressed support for stopping people on terror watch lists from buying guns, Republicans voted down similar proposals in December after a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif.
|
|
Rupert Harrison, who was chief of staff to the former chancellor, George Osborne, wondered on Twitter if the Brexit vote could follow the same pattern as TARP, the 2008 bailout in the United States: "voted down, markets puke, passes second time with small changes," Mr. Harrison wrote.
|
|
Here's the latest: Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Parliament with an alternative blueprint for Britain's withdrawal from the E.U. Infuriating some lawmakers, it looked a lot like her initial plan, which was voted down last week in the most resounding parliamentary defeat in British history.
|
|
On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told Fox News that Obama would make good on his pledge before leaving office, saying that the president will present a plan to Congress for the prison's closure and then consider his options if it is voted down.
|
|
Opponents want to use the debate to force concessions on May's plan for leaving the bloc, but the initial challenges - including on the hour and day Britain should pull out as well as on the future role of the EU court - were voted down or dropped.
|
|
LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - Britain's Labour will vote on a motion on Tuesday that says the party should oppose a "no deal" Brexit and keep the idea of a second referendum on the table if talks with the European Union fail or any deal is voted down in parliament.
|
|
But if, instead, Garland proclaims that he will never quit unless voted down, and Clinton pledges to stand by him indefinitely, then Senate Republicans have less incentive to take the deal, vote for Garland, and avoid the worse (to them) option that may lurk behind Door Number 2.
|
|
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced readiness to back a short extension, traders are increasingly worried that, if the deal is voted down for a third time in parliament, a host of possibilities open up, none of which are positive for the pound in the short term.
|
|
Two more states, Nevada and Maine, should have been on this list—but, after NPV advanced through the legislature, Nevada's Democratic governor Steve Sisolak unexpectedly vetoed it, and, although it passed the state Senate, Maine House Democrats voted down NPV after bizarrely voting to advance it days prior.
|
|
Here's the latest: Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Parliament with an alternative blueprint for Britain's withdrawal from the E.U. Infuriating some lawmakers, it looked a lot like her initial plan, which was voted down last week in one of the most resounding parliamentary defeats in British history.
|
|
Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) local 13-2001 in the refinery and laboratory voted down the three-year extension because it included a 6-month expansion of the current four-year period that starting workers must wait before their pay reaches parity with veteran hourly employees, the sources said.
|
|
LIVERPOOL, England, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Britain's Labour will vote on a motion on Tuesday that says the party should oppose a "no deal" Brexit and keep the idea of a second referendum on the table if talks with the European Union fail or any deal is voted down in parliament.
|
|
May's Brexit deal with the EU has already been voted down by lawmakers twice, with many MPs (mainly Brexiteers and the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party) disliking the Irish "backstop" part of the deal — which is aimed at preventing a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
|
|
No moral imperative is motivating the Koch's hardline on the Obamacare repeal-and-replace; they didn't want the American Health Care Act or "Trumpcare" voted down out of concern for the criminogenic effects of causing 24 million people (according to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate) to lose health insurance.
|
|
This vote also comes on the heels of a failed solar power state ballot amendment voted down in the 2016 general election in November, which environmentalists said would put control of solar power leasing options entirely in the hands of Florida's power companies (potentially making it more expensive to install).
|
|
The two dozen or so hardline members of Parliament on the right of the party, collectively called the European Research Group, who frequently voted down the deal under May and attacked her negotiating position, are also likely to toe the party line and vote in favor of the new agreement.
|
|
Ms. Cobb, 69, is now considering a question looming over many homeowners: After two devastating floods, does she want the option to sell her home to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, something that the town's leaders voted down in 1999, fearing it would lead to the end of their community?
|
|
The opposition Labour Party has said it will table a motion of no confidence in the government if May's deal is voted down — and that could happen this week Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is committed to leaving the EU, says he is willing to lead the country through the crisis.
|
|
More turmoil on the Brexit front is likely, after British Prime Minister Theresa May's government was found in contempt of parliament and then a group of her own Conservative Party lawmakers won a challenge to hand more power to the House of Commons if her deal to leave the EU is voted down.
|
|
In less than 12 hours after the House of Representatives announced Wednesday night that it was voting to pass the American Health Care Act—a bill meant to replace the Affordable Care Act—Democrats and protesters organized a demonstration in front of the Capitol building Thursday to demand it be voted down.
|
|
Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas), who co-sponsored the legislation in 2015, voted down the bill in committee Thursday.
|
|
Brian SchatzBrian Emanuel Schatz'Medicare for All' complicates Democrats' pitch to retake Senate Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid Booker, Durbin and Leahy introduce bill to ban death penalty MORE (D-Hawaii) sponsored an amendment to end certain tax incentives that benefit fossil fuel companies, which the Senate voted down.
|
|
Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, told reporters that Republicans voted down a motion to release six additional transcripts not included in the batch of 53, which detail testimony of agency heads and Rep.
|
|
While the DNC voted down holding an official climate debate, Sunrise activists secured support for the idea from a majority of the Democratic presidential candidates, building the case for CNN (and MSNBC, which is hosting a town hall September 2400 and 22020) to take a chance on holding a climate change forum.
|
|