Democrats will move as fast as possible to bring the bill to the floor for a final vote.
Mr. Klein supports Mr. Cuomo's efforts on abortion but can't bring the bill to the floor without Mr. Skelos's assent.
He congratulated the committee on its work and urged the Senate to bring the bill to the floor at its earliest possible opportunity.
House leaders have said they will not bring the bill to the floor unless they are confident they have the votes to pass.
In the wake of China's latest belligerence, the Senate should follow suit, if its leadership will bring the bill up for a vote.
Several Republicans who supported Thursday's procedural vote to bring the bill to the floor indicated their support doesn't stretch to passing the legislation itself.
And like with gay marriage, it would also need a green light from Senate Majority Dean Skelos to bring the bill to the floor.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last night he will try to find a way to bring the bill back to the floor in a few weeks.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta met with key senators on both sides of the aisle Wednesday after Republicans blocked Democratic efforts to bring the bill to the Senate floor.
Yesterday, in a closed door meeting, the House Democratic caucus voted nearly unanimously not to bring the bill in its current form to the House floor.
McCain added that a group of conservative House Democrats, known as the Blue Dogs, would press for what is known as a discharge petition to bring the bill to the floor again for a vote.
"If there's a right way to limit access to guns for those who are violent or those who have mental health issues, then I think we should proceed" and bring the bill to the floor, Mr. Heller said in a brief interview.
Appearing with Daschle, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, blasted the House leadership's move to bring up the bill, though he conceded the GOP had enough votes lined up to get it passed there.
These members of Congress made clear that if House leadership would only bring up the bill for a vote it would pass the House and be sent to the president to become law.
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, tried to bring up the bill after leaders of the Senate and the White House were unable to reach agreement, saying the only way to proceed was to "hear out the other ideas" in a floor debate.
All this is now cancelled, and the government is seeking to bring forward the Defamation Bill instead.
The Senate Finance Committee is trying to bring the total costs of the bill down to a trillion dollars or less, and I understand the White House supports that goal, as well.
The aide said the speaker said at the meeting that he intends to bring a bill to the House floor next week that will ensure continuing government funding past March 27, when a current temporary funding measure expires.
Then, with the row over public sector pension cuts gaining in intensity, the bill to bring forward the increase of the state pension age to 66 and its equalisation between men and women debuts in the Commons.
Make that the core bill you bring to the floor in both the House and Senate, with no limits on debate.
The government is looking to bring the Land Acquisition Bill, 2011 in Parliament when it resumes proceedings Monday after a month-long break.
Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, from the stimulus bill as long as Republicans allow Democrats to bring it up in the Defense Appropriations bill.
Westminster is consulting on whether to allow gay couples in England and Wales to marry, while in Scotland the SNP government has announced plans to bring forward a bill on the issue.
It is far from clear whether Mr Reid can muster the 60-vote supermajority he needs simply to bring such a bill to the Senate floor, let alone to pass it.
If it passes successfully through the Assembly, the bill will bring changes introduced at Westminster which have marked the biggest overhaul of the benefits system since the 1940s, into effect in Northern Ireland.
The issue was raised again during business questions on 2 February 2012, as Labour MP Hugh Bayley urged the government to commit to bring forward its own bill on the subject.
After 14 years in limbo, a controversial landmark legislation called the Reproductive Health bill could bring major changes in the country of almost 96 million people.
"We feel very strongly that the decision to bring this Bill before Parliament has been made without adequate debate or consultation with either the membership of the Conservative Party or with the country at large, " said the letter, published on the Conservative Grassroots website.
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"This was the most difficult bill to bring from conception to birth that I can imagine being involved with, " one of the bill's primary co-sponsors, Republican Sen.
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