Majority rules would have also opened the bill to pro-gun amendments that were likely to pass.
So how do you think a panel who is getting paid by the majority rules?
Nine members vote and the majority rules, even when, as at its last meeting, it is a majority of one.
One of his unexplored functions, suggests the Brussels-based ambassador, is to act as gatekeeper for countries unhappy with a decision made under majority rules, who wish to kick the dossier up to the more consensual European Council.
It won majority support but did not pass because it was brought up under special rules requiring a two-thirds majority.
Under the rules, the majority party called two witnesses and the minority party one.
And in a fourth government defeat, the Lords voted by a majority of three to clarify rules on the deportation of convicted asylum seekers.
But Republicans, who have 55 seats in the chamber, could attempt to change Senate rules with a simple majority.
We hope that last stat is a typo, since it rules out the vast majority of handsets at that level.
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But under Senate rules, a simple majority vote would have opened the measure to up to 30 hours of debate, which would have meant inspecting the details.
Reid has already committed to spearheading needed reforms to the Senate rules, and appears to have wisely decided against ramming through rules changes by a majority vote.
The Republicans have been given little say in drafting the plan, and the Democratic majority has taken advantage of the rules of procedure to frustrate their attempts to amend it.
The AP Stylebook is one of the premier guides for American writers and copy-editors, and its rules dictate how the vast majority of newspapers and magazines use words, phrases, grammar and punctuation.
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The argument about City regulations was about the danger of a newly united eurozone being able to outvote the UK - using qualified majority voting or QMV - under new rules which are still due to come in 2014.
France does not have majority support for an assault on tough EU rules against state aid.
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In order to get the up or down vote on Owen that Republicans want, Majority Leader Frist is threatening to change the rules of the Senate so that Democrats can't require 60 votes to move on the nomination and Republicans would need just a simple majority.
But on one interpretation of procedure the rules can be changed by a simple majority of senators at the beginning of a new Congress.
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But under IMF rules, all major decisions require a majority of 85%, making the US the only individual country that can block any decision.
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.
To the law abiding people who play by the rules, and who are the overwhelming majority in our country, I say the fightback has begun, we will protect you, if you've had your livelihood and property damaged, we will compensate you.
Again, cases of abuse in SNAP are pretty rare and the vast majority of SNAP participants and authorized retailers play by the rules using the program as intended.
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In order to be effective, a regulator must build partnerships and encourage stakeholders to take an active role in safeguarding the rules of conduct, not punish the innocent majority for the crimes of the few.
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, acknowledged the rules of the Senate would allow the Democrats to keep up the tactic for as long as they wanted, but as the chamber's chief scheduler he was not going to make their lives easy if they insisted on keeping it up.
But a majority of teens who play computer games say their parents do not have rules about how much time they spend playing games or what games they are allowed to play.
Indeed, the question presented in a majority of recent Supreme Court Takings Clause cases has involved the scope of those rules.
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Pope John Paul II changed the rules so that after roughly 12 days of fruitless votes, a simple majority was enough to elect a pope.
Players put the vast majority of the money into this program and they share responsibility for playing by the rules and protecting each other within those rules.
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