I’ll explain what happened in the meeting today . 我会向你解释今天会上所发生的一切。 Eg : If you sit tight for a second . 若你能耐心等等。We’ll give you more good stuff . 我们会教给你更多的东西的。 3.bigger fish to fry 有更重要的事情要办。 Eg : I can’t waste my time in...
In any event, on the Senate floor on Wednesday,Flake said: “I do not believe that the claim of sexual assault is invalid because a 15-year-old girl didn’t properly report the assault to the authorities, as the president of the United States said just two days ago.” Nate Silver Sep...
What Happened Today? This amendment came to the Senate floor as the last item to be discussed prior to the bill moving forward for a vote. First, Senator Pat Toomey (PA), proposed the amendment, which needed 100% of the Senators to pass, also known as unanimous consent. Senator Richard ...
Live election results and coverage of the two Georgia Senate runoffs, and Congress's vote to certify each state’s electoral votes in the 2020 presidential contest.
Even without a senator holding the floor, filibusters have forced senators into all-night and weekend votes to advance legislation, as happened during the passage of the Affordable Care Act. "Filibusters and the prospect of filibusters shape much of the way in which the Senate does its work,...
Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President. They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the...
What happened next to the bill? To force the legislation forward, the sponsors of the bill, Rep. Graves and Rep. Spanberger, this fall used a rarely successful process called a discharge petition. They collected the minimum 218 signatures needed from House lawmakers to dislodge the bill ...
it out of committee and are, as of this writing, awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. For the most part, supporters of one bill also support the other. Some committee members, however, voted against these bills or voted for them but called for another bill to take priority: The ADPPA...
A few weeks before the United States invaded Iraq, the late Robert Byrd — God rest his soul — thundered on the Senate floor about the pitiful quality of the debate over the choice between war and peace: “Yet, this Chamber is, for the most part, silent — ominously, dreadfully silent...
Well, here’s what Clinton said on the Senate floor, speaking in opposition to a constitutional amendment that would have forbidden gay marriage, while making very clear where she stood on the issue. “I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman. ...