To ensure that tax reform gets a fair hearing, he says Republicans plan to create a "fast-track" authority so that the compromise doesn't get bogged down in committees and is assured an up or down vote on the House floor.
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Web sites like Funny or Die and College Humor operate as loosely run studios, producing material that viewers vote up and down.
So I would urge you to vote and I would ask you to vote for me and Democrats up and down the ticket.
If there are non-controversial, non-ideological nominees at the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Treasury, that are not going to be opposed either in cloture or in the process, the tradition has been that unanimous consent is provided and an up or down vote, or even a voice vote, is done on these nominees.
Also the presidential appointment process would be changed to reduce the number of appointees subject to confirmation, identify a slate of critical nominees for expedited confirmation (to preserve continuity in government when Presidents change) and require an up or down vote within 90 days on presidential appointments.
In voting, Congress engaged in a deceptive process that thwarted transparency and accountability by wrapping up the legislation into an enormous bundle of changes, rather than honestly and responsibly allowing for an up or down vote on individual major provisions.
The legislation for paid-sick leave has been at the forefront of this year's campaign for mayor, so when Ms. Quinn announced a breakthrough Thursday night assuring an up-or-down vote and certain passage it sent reverberations through the crowded field of hopefuls.
But rather than sort through and verify submissions to the site itself, TradeLeaks allows its users to post anything, depending on the wisdom of crowds to sort through those posts, comment on their legitimacy and vote them up or down.
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And they have to vote up or down or not show up to vote -- one of those three choices.
While fighting skill was critical in the arena, the spectators played an active role and could vote thumbs up or thumbs down whether a gladiator lived or died.
All I want is for them to vote up or down, and I will be fine with whatever they decide.
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Most earmarks are not even included in legislative text and are not subject to an up or down vote of Congress.
One was to amend the Senate bill by attaching spending cuts, and the other was to vote up or down on the Senate bill.
On Thursday, Republicans forced the delay with a parliamentary manoeuvre blocking the Senate Democratic leader's motion to end debate on Mr Hagel's nomination and proceed to an up-or-down vote on confirmation.
Employees suggest products, services and even processes that will improve the company, and their peers get to vote them up or down.
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For starters, I ask the Senate to pass a rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days.
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And then after that vote they have an up or down vote on the nomination in which no one opposes the nominee.
And now it deserves the same kind of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the Children's Health Insurance Program, that was used for COBRA health coverage for the unemployed, and, by the way, for both Bush tax cuts --- all of which had to pass Congress with nothing more than a simple majority.
If they jump up and down and say we're against this - Democrats and the Republicans who are against it - and yet still vote to give the president the money he's asking for, would it be far as to call the people in that position spineless or feckless?
And I believe Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote.
And I believe Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote. (Applause.) We need an up or down vote.
Mr. Carney said there will be a cloture vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan tomorrow, 726 days after her nomination, and strongly urged the Senate to support an up-or-down vote for this well-qualified nominee.
They are worthy of confirmation, and the Senate should give each of them a prompt up-or-down vote.
And I respect that because I will ultimately, with my colleagues, have to vote up or down on articles of impeachment.
But the agreement must now be approved by parliament, where Labor and two minor parties, who make up the majority in the upper house, could vote it down.
"I am deeply disappointed that even after nearly two and a half years, a minority of senators continued to block a simple up-or-down vote on her nomination, " said the president.
And the Republican leadership in the Senate is once again using every tactic and every maneuver they can to prevent the DISCLOSE Act from even coming up for an up or down vote.
Having to go through a cloture motion simply to get -- simply to get an up or down vote on a non-controversial nominee that has gone through a committee unanimously, and then ultimately gets through the Senate with one or two no votes or also gets through unanimously, is nothing more than a ridiculous abuse of the rules of the Senate.
But those leaders could not agree, and after a closed door meeting of Democrats, Reid called a news conference to demand an up or down Senate vote on the resolution being debated in the House.
Nearly two and a half years after being nominated, Ms. Halligan continues to wait for a simple up-or-down vote.
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