Dick Durbin, backed by a strong bipartisan majority, added a provision to the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill to reform debit card swipe fees, which have long been fixed by Mastercard and Visa and hidden from consumers, who get stuck paying the resulting higher prices.
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At the time, the vast majority of cases concerned the provision of ballot access to black voters in Southern states.
But if those who want a little sun to shine into the crannies of these secretive groups could get around Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader who opposed the provision, they couldn't maneuver around Tom DeLay, the House Republican whip who has close ties to three such outfits.
In a recent case, a majority of the Justices applied a provision of the Voting Rights Act to reject part of a Texas redistricting plan that was found to hurt Hispanic voters.
They also voted by a majority of five to add a provision that referendums would only be binding if turnout topped 40%, and by 33 votes to clarify Foreign Secretary William Hague's flagship "sovereignty clause".
Reassembling for their lame-duck session last month, the first thing the Republicans did was scrap this provision so that the majority leader, Tom DeLay, could stay on even if he were to be indicted in a Texan money-politics scandal.
We will be taking it up -- or the Senate is committed to taking up, Majority Leader Reid has said, each provision of the American Jobs Act.
No stable majority is in sight and there is no provision for dissolving parliament.
Obama also supports a renewal of the assault weapons ban, though that provision has been virtually abandoned by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.
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Opponents led by the influential National Rifle Association, oppose any ban on weapons, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated that such a provision faced an uphill struggle.
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Referring to Leeds, Ofsted said that "while the overall effectiveness of a majority of the local authority's inspected and regulated services and provision are good or better, there are significant weaknesses in areas of social care provision".
But Matthew is keen to point out that, while he was relieved to leave the private sector to work in "well-paid quality provision where standards are usually consistently high", the vast majority of his former colleagues were "in it for the love of the job".
This provision becomes effective only when enough other states to make up a majority of the Electoral College adopt similar legislation.
The redevelopment of the site, which includes provision of 771 parking spaces, will involve the demolition of the majority of the existing buildings in Lowfield Street.
According to provision 7.130 of the "Rules of the Council, " a majority of the 51-member council has the power to discharge a bill from committee for consideration by the full body.
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