Reid told reporters he hoped to get a bipartisan deal before the procedural vote on Thursday.
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The renewable electricity mandate was omitted after the Senate blocked the bill on a procedural vote last week.
However, a procedural vote is still scheduled in the Senate for Jan. 24.
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The bill passed a procedural vote late on Tuesday evening, and a vote on the bill itself is expected shortly.
The bill must now return to the House for a largely procedural vote, likely next week, but the celebration began Wednesday.
The procedural vote that would have allowed the Senate to waive the budget rules and move forward on the amendment failed.
The Senate took a procedural vote that fell seven votes short of the 60 needed to cut off a filibuster on the measure.
Several Republicans who supported Thursday's procedural vote to bring the bill to the floor indicated their support doesn't stretch to passing the legislation itself.
Reid acknowledged the bill would not survive the procedural vote.
Mr Brennan would require a simple majority in the 100-member chamber to be confirmed as the new CIA director, but must first pass a procedural vote needing 60 votes.
Cox's letter called the compromise by Manchin and Toomey "misguided" and added that Thursday's procedural vote would be included in its assessment of legislators that serves as political ammunition in election campaigns.
He was referring to a procedural vote on Thursday in which Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal that called for eliminating some tax loopholes as part of a package with spending cuts.
Campaign finance reform was derailed in the House on Thursday when lawmakers shelved consideration of the Shays-Meehan bill -- similar to the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate -- through a procedural vote.
We believe that the test vote in the Senate last night, the procedural vote, demonstrates the broad bipartisan support that the agreement enjoys not just in the Senate but with the American people and that we believe that what the Senate will pass, we hope today, will be the framework for what is taken up and agreed quickly by the House of Representatives.
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.
Unlike Halligan, Srinivasan has not even had a committee vote, the procedural first step to getting final floor confirmation.
Libya has used a procedural ruse to force a vote without any substantial discussion of the scientific, technical or economic issues.
The call for a ban, proposed by Monaco, was put to an immediate vote using a procedural ploy and rejected with 68 votes against, 20 in favour and 30 abstentions.
Reid did, however, make a procedural move that could allow a vote on a compromise, which several senators from auto-producing states were feverishly trying to craft.
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Reid did, however, make a procedural move that could allow a vote on a compromise, which several senators from auto-producing states are feverishly trying to craft.
But Democrats, who have been unable to bring up more substantive gun measures, tied the Senate up in procedural pretzels until they got the vote on the nonbinding measure.
Both sides agreed Republicans have the leverage to bring such a bill to a vote using one of several procedural tactics, including inserting it as an amendment to another piece of legislation.
Certainly players will vote for the option, as a procedural matter that the Saints kicked off, if only to have that piece of ammunition available.
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"You have to wonder whether the bill that we will go to shortly is a serious exercise, " said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, shortly before the vote, as he a noted a procedural technicality could scuttle the bill even if the Senate did approve it.
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There is talk of trying to persuade the Irish to hold another vote, or of introducing the new arrangements via procedural reforms short of formal treaty change.
The Democratic senators vowed at a news conference Thursday to use "all of our procedural and parliamentary options" beginning with a challenge to the usually routine vote to adjourn for the Easter-Passover recess.
It is an ironic moment: for five years, Democrats have been mouthing off in support of McCain's reform bill while knowing that procedural roadblocks thrown up by Republicans would keep it from coming to a vote.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
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