The bill was approved by the committee by a 29-21 roll call vote that broke down on party lines.
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John Cornyn objected to a voice vote, demanding a roll-call vote instead.
Michigan's Democrats still remember 1983, when two Democratic state senators were thrown out of office after a roll-call vote on the state income tax.
Hillary Clinton interrupted a roll call vote to ask that he be nominated by acclamation, a carefully choreographed maneuver designed to unite the party after the bitter primary battle between Obama and Clinton.
We saw today a very civil procedure where you have an election and a change in majority, an election of the speaker that took place in just a few minutes' time with a roll-call vote.
Ms. BOEGERS: If the Obama campaign fails to have a true roll-call vote where the pledged delegates get to vote for the candidate that they were selected and elected to represent, I think people will come out of the convention un-unified, and so the ball is really in the Obama campaign's court.
Setting out details about local referendums on council tax, he said taxpayers would have the right to call a vote if "excessive" increases were proposed.
Yesterday, the Senate failed to call a vote on the DREAM Act, an amendment that would have let students who are illegal immigrants become citizens in exchange for government or military service.
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They are trying to get their message across that they are ready for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call a vote on opening up the U.S. coast to offshore oil and gas development.
Mr. Mahmood said that in Pakistan's largest province of Punjab, where Mr. Sharif's brother ran the provincial government in recent years, many polling staff, who are mostly teachers in government schools, were too scared to call the vote in favor of PTI.
Mr Bouchard is expected to call a vote next spring, and Daniel Johnson, the uninspiring leader of the Quebec Liberals, has made it clear to his federalist allies elsewhere that he will need a unity package to offer, if he is to have any hope of success.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans, a procedural move that allows him to call a new vote, likely on Feb. 25.
Now the question has been formally agreed legal moves begin to call the referendum vote.
These must be passed before the government will call a national vote on the issue.
On the other hand, the Latin Americans insisted that the sanctuary was important to them and they were entitled to call for a vote - which, of course, they were.
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Among the influential institutions pushing his ouster in recent weeks has been the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, although the labor union did not call for shareholders to vote against any Citi directors.
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Answer the call of history, and vote yes for health insurance reform for America.
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The player representatives for each team held a conference call Thursday night where a vote was expected to take place to approve the deal.
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Now she doesn't call on other members to vote for him for majority leader, which he's running for, but it is seen as a strong endorsement of him.
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Some fans - unhappy with how the club is being run - will collect signatures for a petition to call a meeting and a vote of no confidence in the chairman.
Now, next week, members of Congress are going to have a chance to vote on what we call the Buffett Rule.
They get to vote on what we call the Buffett Rule.
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Meanwhile in the House, Republicans have staged a revolt and are demanding that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi call the House into session to vote on its version of the energy bill.
It will take an affirmative vote by 51 senators to call any of them.
The extraordinary nomination began with the otherwise routine act of the roll call, in which delegates cast their vote for presidential nominee.
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