The measure will come to a vote on Friday, and House leaders predicted that it would pass.
In office, Quinn leads 50 other council members and largely controls what proposals come to a vote.
So I hope you'll support my proposal to make all congressional earmarks public before they come to a vote.
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He said he had been repeatedly assured that the Sandy aid package would come to a vote before Thursday.
But a verdict on perhaps the most contentious proposal to assure that immigrants in the country illegally are treated the same regardless of sexual orientation is not expected to come to a vote until next week or the week after.
In exchange for supporting Livingston for the job, he got a larger budget for the whip's office, greater control over what issues come to a vote on the House floor and more responsibility for dealing with the party's friends in corporate America.
As you are aware, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2013 - the final text of which was agreed upon recently by House of Representatives and Senate Conferees, and will soon come to a vote before both bodies - contains a provision prohibiting the use of federal funds to transfer terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to facilities inside the United States.
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We could not get the Republicans to let this come up to a vote for months.
Even though many measures are legally questionable and may never come to a floor vote, the special committees are providing more public attention to sovereignty issues that were sidetracked in previous years.
This obstructionism was made necessary for the simple reason that, had the Reich nomination ever come to such a vote, it would have easily passed with bipartisan support.
Like all but one of the main actors, he has come to realise that a vote is not in his interests.
But in austerity Britain, with real incomes falling, pensions imploding and the prospect of more woe to come, a vote along those lines could spell electoral (or selectoral) doom.
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And if the House Republicans refuse to vote for the Senate bill, or even allow it to come up for a vote, taxes will go up in 11 days.
The Senate bill is expected to come up for a vote next week, as well.
It is tentatively scheduled to come up for a vote on April 6, with virtually assured passage.
They refused to even allow it to come up for a vote.
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The speaker refused to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote despite sponsorship of the majority of council members.
The speaker refused to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote despite sponsorship of the overwhelming majority of council members.
Mr. Skelos, in a deal with Mr. Cuomo and Democrats with whom he shares power, allowed the gun laws to come up for a vote.
Circuit, but Democrats in the Senate, sensing a victory in the approaching 1992 election, refused to let him come up for a vote.
But virtually every campaign-finance decision involving free speech, like Monday's ruling against the Arizona Clean Elections Act, has come down to a 5-4 vote along ideological lines.
While the last minute and intensive negotiations led to success in the upper chamber of Congress, the battle is far from over as it remains to be seen whether the House of Representatives will approve the bi-partisan agreement or, for that matter, whether the bill will be permitted to even come to the House floor for a vote.
Having come to power through a party convention rather than a popular vote, he is under pressure to confirm his mandate in a general election.
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Why not come back and permit us to have a vote on this surge?
To come into force it needs a vote by both houses of Parliament.
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Now, the deal will come down to regulatory approval and a shareholder vote both are customary and we expect both to clear with relatively little trouble.
Should the Assembly vote Monday to pass the resolution and send it to the chamber's ethics committee, the committee's recommended sanctions would then come back to the Assembly for a full vote.
But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
Although Republicans hope to attract more young voters and minorities, and to come closer to matching the Democrats' vote-tech edge, the GOP has a long way to go and relatively little time.
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Miami-Dade County will also have to put it to a vote, which may come next week.
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