It is a vote to pay the bills of spending previously agreed upon by Congress.
It seems only fair that if people want to vote to pay more council tax (residential-property tax) in return for better services, their wishes should not be overruled by the government.
The bill introduced in the Wisconsin state legislature that would strip state employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, require members to vote to organize every year, allow members to avoid paying dues and put pay raises to a public vote, represents the opening salvo of the final battle in the war against unions in America.
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The Government could have defaulted on the prom notes, claiming them to be illegal due to the lack of a Dail vote or claiming inability to pay or claiming it was their democratic mandate given the parties election promises.
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Even that would make little difference unless ways can be found to persuade institutional shareholders to vote for pay packages that serve their long-term interests.
Any understanding of the fact that a vote by Congress to increase our ability to borrow was simply a vote to allow the United States of America to pay the bills that it incurred in the past?
Today, the House is set to vote on a proposal to tie Congressional pay to an approved Congressional budget.
Mr Kaplan concludes by advising against laws that would force shareholders to vote on executive pay.
The UK is also introducing reforms to give shareholders a binding vote on pay in October, as well as measures to make remuneration packages more transparent.
This week Mr Geithner said the government intends to give them one, by backing efforts in Congress that would require companies to submit their pay policies to an annual vote.
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And, in fact, I think there was an independent musicians that created a song called God Save the Internet just to try to make more awareness about this issue, so people could mobilize their voting folks to really pay attention to the issue and vote in their favor.
While Democrats wanted more government spending, they were unwilling to vote for broad-based middle class tax increases to pay for it.
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He believes board members who aren't seen as punishing top bosses for poor results may spur shareholders to vote down executive-pay plans.
It is a vote to meet our obligations and pay our bills.
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Most of us have extremely little awareness of the laws that govern us and yet we vote and pay for those to be enacted.
Another 6, 500 civil servants at the Department for Constitutional Affairs will vote over the next few weeks on a pay offer said by the union to be worth up to 2.8%, while 4, 500 workers in the Prison Service are expected to vote in the New Year on their pay offer, which union leaders say is worth 1%.
But even if he does manage to bump up the Greens' vote in France and make Mr Jospin pay more heed to them, is he really a man to do business with?
Tomorrow WPP, the media giant, is expected to lose a vote on its pay policies.
So the fact that they're splitting the vote ... he ought to pay them both to stay in for a little bit longer.
Stocks faltered ahead of the U.S. House of Representatives' bailout vote Friday as Wall Street continues to pay the price for the slowing economy.
Blinded by the enormous returns their shares were earning in the stockmarket bubble, they allowed too many corporate managers to vote themselves huge and unjustifiable pay packages.
And sure enough, soon after Mr. Romney folded, so did House Republicans, who will vote to extend the cheap loans and pay for it out of ObamaCare funds.
One possibly incidental effect of this is that any deputy will know that a vote to bring down the government will also be a vote for a pay cut.
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City Council members have begun serious discussions about bucking Speaker Christine Quinn and forcing legislation she opposes a bill to require employers to provide workers with sick pay to the floor for a vote, an unprecedented maneuver.
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The stimulus row apart, the Republicans can claim to have behaved reasonably well, confirming Mr Obama's appointments without much fuss, though they did try, unsuccessfully, to vote down his new treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, for failing to pay his taxes on time.
Investors in Dutch companies have had a binding vote since 2004 on material changes to executive pay policies.
So, where does this leave investors in deciding how to cast their Say on Pay vote?
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