Image: David HaringIn the first controlled study to test that hypothesis, Dartmouth scientists turned to two likely alcoholics, ayes-ayes and the slow loris.
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Both squirrels and aye-ayes have continually growing, long front teeth.
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Chairman, the tally of the members present is 9 ayes and 9 nays.
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Even a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers fell a few ayes short.
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When the ayes were counted, 122 out of 225 said they wanted Mr. Rajapaksa gone.
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While these four Democrats gave ayes, no Republicans were to be found in the "nay" column.
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Aye-ayes are elusive, nocturnal lemurs who are close to impossible to spot in the wild.
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The final tally, including proxies, is 15 ayes and 11 nays," a clerk said after the vote. "Mr.
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Right now, the demand 'ayes' have it, and that's a big reason why can we keep going higher.
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According to the facility, Tonks is one of only 24 aye-ayes residing in U.S. zoos right now.
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Adorable fact: "Aye-ayes are thought to be the only primate to use echolocation to find food," Cancellare said.
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They confirmed this structure existed in seven total aye-ayes, suggesting it was part of the misfit mammal's anatomy.
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The aye-ayes also have relatively longer snouts compared to other primates, and brain cases similar in shape to squirrels'.
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The final vote, which came down close to 4 in the afternoon, reflected the same breakdown of ayes and nays.
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The "Ayes" lobby entrance is behind the speaker's chair, the "Noes" lobby is at the opposite end of the chamber.
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Image: David HaringHumans may be more closely related to great apes, but according to science, our true spirit animals are aye-ayes.
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Correction 6/20/16: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to aye-ayes as monkeys, they are in fact prosimians.
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Evidently that turned some of the ayes heard by the Senate president into nays, because the proposal was defeated, 123 to 17.
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I really liked the jokes that I guessed the punch lines for right away, like PERM, NO REASON, AYES, ARSE, and so on.
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Another trait aye-ayes share with humans: when their bottle runs dry, they continue to poke at it sadly, suggesting they want more.
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So at the first vote, he said it was clear to him the "ayes" outnumbered the "nays," so he decided to move forward.
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The researchers compiled microCT scans of 46 mammal species, including aye-ayes and squirrels, either from the Morphosource online database or from specimens in museums.
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They found that aye-ayes could not only discriminate between the different concentrations of alcohol, they preferred their soda with as much booze as possible.
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But aye-ayes may not be alone for long: "We're starting to look at some of the wrist structures in bats," Dr. Hartstone-Rose said.
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The crowd voted, raising canary-colored sheets of paper for or against the definition—and with a margin of fewer than 10 votes, the Ayes won.
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Writing under the pseudonym "∞ Ayes" in The Entheogen Review in 2001, Sand argued that to look for concrete structure within the experience was to misinterpret it.
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Most insiders pegged the legislation to score 22019 yeas at the most -- 21 ayes are now the magic number for passage in the House with 225 sitting members.
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A pool of these potential candidates can be found among the appellate court judges who were nominated by Mr. Obama or President Bill Clinton and confirmed with some Republican ayes.
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According to Ayes, their presence ended up strengthening the abortion rights movement in Alabama by creating a clear and common enemy and spurring the clinic to improve its security practices.
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Target acquired, it tears at the wood with rodent-like teeth that are both continually growing, like a beaver's, and so strong that in captivity aye-ayes have been known to chew through cinder blocks.
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Aye-ayes have incredibly long, thin middle fingers, which they use in the wild to find bugs but that at a Hollywoo bash might also work for … well, you can probably see where this is going.
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Over the course of fifteen days in the case of aye-ayes and five days in the case of the slow loris, the animals were offered sugary solutions with alcohol concentrations varying from zero to five percent.
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The D.J. Ayes Cold connects bhangra music with hip-hop and R&B, while the Lebanese-American percussionist Adam Maalouf performs mostly on the pantam, an instrument created from the Trinidadian steel pan and southern India's ghatam drum.
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Current evidence suggests these animals rafted across the Mozambique Channel from Africa on logs or floating vegetation, and Seiffert thinks ancient lemurs and aye-ayes probably did the same—but not before all the other mammals, as previously thought.
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But in Madagascar, where traveler's palm is native, the seeds are brilliant blue and particularly detectable to aye-ayes, a kind of rat-cat-bat-looking lemur with an enhanced capacity to detect ultraviolet light, according to Dr. Valenta.
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But the convention delegates would have none of it as they roared their opposition, each time more loudly than the last, as Villaraigosa stumbled through calling the question three times until he arbitrarily decided the ayes had enough votes.
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According to CNN's report, the Republican ayes were: Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Todd Young of Indiana, Mike Lee of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Jerry Moran of Kansas.
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Here they are: * Republican "ayes": John McCain (Arizona), Mark Kirk (Illinois), Susan Collins (Maine) and Toomey (Pennsylvania) * Democratic "nos": Max Baucus (Montana), Mark Begich (Alaska), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota) and Mark Pryor (Arkansas) Of those eight, only two are currently senators: Collins and Toomey.
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In California, the November ballot will ask for ayes or nays on proposals to ban the sale and possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines, to impose price controls on state drug purchases, to uphold a ban on plastic grocery bags, and to end capital punishment or — in a separate initiative — to quicken the death penalty process.
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However, there is no direct evidence to suggest aye-ayes pose any legitimate threat to crops and therefore are killed based on superstition. As many as 50 aye-ayes can be found in zoological facilities worldwide.
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The aye-ayes are also similar to lemurs in their shorter back legs.
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The tellers then form up at the Table in front of the Mace facing the Speaker, and the teller with the slip reads the result to the House, for example: "The Ayes to the right, 291. The Noes to the left, 161". The Clerk then takes the slip to the Speaker, who repeats the result and adds "So the Ayes have it, the Ayes have it. Unlock." The doorkeepers then unlock the doors to the division lobbies.
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On February 25, 2015, the North Carolina Senate passed, with 32 ayes, 16 noes, and 2 absent, Senate Bill 2. On May 28, 2015, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed, with 67 ayes, 43 noes, and 10 absent, SB 2. On that same day, Governor Pat McCrory vetoed SB 2. On June 1, 2015, the North Carolina Senate voted, with 32 ayes, 16 noes, and 2 absent, in favor of overriding the governor's veto of Senate Bill 2.
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Aye-ayes are nocturnal. The aye-aye lives primarily on the east coast of Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rainforest or deciduous forest, but many live in cultivated areas due to deforestation. Rainforest aye-ayes, the most common, dwell in canopy areas, and are usually sighted above 70 meters altitude.
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The amended bill passed in the Senate on February 7, 2007 (ayes: 47, nays: 0). It passed in the House on March 16, 2007 (ayes: 83, nays: 6). It was signed into law by Governor John Hoeven (R) on April 26, 2007. The new law went into effect on August 1, 2007.
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General Francisco Zelaya y Ayes (1798 - 1848) was acting President of Honduras from 21 September 1839 to 1 January 1841.
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Prefixes are also used in Muscogee for shades of meaning of verbs that are expressed, in English, by adverbs in phrasal verbs. For example, in English, the verb to go can be changed to to go up, to go in, to go around, and other variations. In Muscogee, the same principle of shading a verb's meaning is handled by locative prefixes: Example: vyetv = to go (singular subjects only, see above); ayes = I am going; ak-ayes = I am going (in water / in a low place / under something); tak-ayes = I am going (on the ground); oh- ayes = I am going (on top of something). However, for verbs of motion, Muscogee has a large selection of verbs with a specific meaning: ossetv = to go out; ropottetv = to go through.
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On April 1, 2014, Mississippi House of Representatives passed, with 79 ayes, and 43 nays, Senate Bill 2681. On the same day, 2014, the Mississippi Senate passed, with a 37 ayes, 14 nays, and 1 absent or not voting, SB 2681. On April 3, 2014, Governor Phil Bryant signed the bill and it went into effect on July 1, 2014.
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On February 7, 2013, Mississippi Senate passed, with 50 ayes, 1 nay, and 1 vacancy, Senate Bill 2633. March 6, 2013, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed, with a 109 ayes, 6 nays, and 6 absent or not voting, 1 present, and 2 vacancies, SB 2633. On March 14, 2013, Governor Phil Bryant signed the bill and it went into effect on July 1, 2013.
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"Nomination and Election of Mayor:... There being five (5) ayes and no nays Robert Apgar is Mayor for 2020.... Nomination and Election of Deputy Mayor: There being five (5) ayes and no nays Dominic Santillo is Deputy Mayor for 2019"2019 Municipal Data Sheet, Eastampton Township. Accessed October 16, 2019. As of date accessed, Besko and Santillo are listed with incorrect term- end years.
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On June 18, 2012, the Senate confirmed Geiger's nomination by a vote of 64 ayes to 27 nays. She received her commission on June 20, 2012.
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Giant aye-ayes are believed to be very similar morphologically to the aye-aye, but 2 to 2.5 times larger, based upon jaw and incisor measurements.
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On March 28, 2011, the Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 88 ayes to 0 nays and she received her commission on March 30, 2011.
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In 2019, Zito authored House Bill 206 which changed Idaho Code to allow for nonresident adults between ages 18–21 to conceal carry without a permit. Despite resistance in both the Idaho House and the Idaho Senate, House Bill 206 passed in the House 53 Ayes to 14 Nays, passed in the Idaho Senate 28 Ayes to 7 Nays, and was signed by Idaho Governor Brad Little on April 2, 2019.
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Regular scent marking with their cheeks and neck is how aye-ayes let others know of their presence and repel intruders from their territory. Like many other prosimians, the female aye-aye is dominant to the male. They are not typically monogamous, and will often challenge each other for mates. Male aye-ayes are very assertive in this way, and sometimes even pull other males away from a female during mating.
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On February 7, 2011 her nomination was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 94 ayes and 0 nays. She received her commission on February 9, 2011.
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The Constitution of Ukraine () is the fundamental law of Ukraine. The constitution was adopted and ratified at the 5th session of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine on June 28, 1996. The constitution was passed with 315 ayes out of 450 votes possible (300 ayes minimum).Ukraine celebrating 20th anniversary of Constitution, UNIAN (28 June 2016) Constitution of Ukraine All other laws and other normative legal acts of Ukraine must conform to the constitution.
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Science Books & Films, Best Children's Science Book Award 1995, for Aye-Ayes, Bears and Condors. New York Book Association Show, Second place Cover Award, 1994, for Aye-Ayes, Bears and Condors. The WILLA Literary Award, Finalist, 2005, for E is for Enchantment, A New Mexico Alphabet.Women Writing in the West WILLA awards 2005 Retrieved July 2012 Land of Enchantment Book Award, Nominee, 2007, for E is for Enchantment, A New Mexico Alphabet.
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Skeleton A full-grown aye-aye is typically about long with a tail longer than its body. The species has an average head and body length of plus a tail of , and weighs around . Young aye-ayes typically are silver colored on their front and have a stripe down their back. However, as the aye-ayes begin to reach maturity, their bodies will be completely covered in thick fur and are typically not one solid color.
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The Twilight Cave is a walk-through exhibit containing free- flying Rodrigues fruit bats and Seba's leaf nosed bats. Nocturnal exhibits within this area are home to aye-ayes and Malagasy giant rats.
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If Plesiopithecus is an aye-aye relative, lemurs and aye-ayes would have diverged in Africa and the aye-aye ancestor would have colonized Madagascar separately from the other lemurs, which would have diversified immediately upon arrival to the island. If aye-ayes are more closely related to lemurs than Plesiopithecus, then only one colonization event occurred, with the aye-aye branching off first and then the other lemuroid families diverging several million years later following a major extinction event.
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It passed in the Senate on July 2, 2008 (ayes: 23, nays: 5). Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed the bill into law on July 22, 2008. It went into effect on January 1, 2009.
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On June 11, 2012, cloture was invoked by a vote of 60 ayes to 31 nays. On June 12, 2012, he was confirmed by voice vote and received his commission on June 27, 2012.
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Gilbert Motier de La Fayette (1380 - 22 February 1462) Seigneur of La Fayette, Pontgibaud, Ayes, Nébouzac, Saint-Romain and Montel-de-Gelat was a Marshal of France and an ancestor of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
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State of Mississippi. February 19, 2016. On March 30, 2016, the Mississippi Senate passed an amended bill, with a 32 ayes, 17 nays, and 1 absent or not voting."H. B. No. 1523: Senate Passed As Amended".
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Antonio was born in Ivrea, Italy. But he was elected senator in 2008 from ayes. He is a member of the 12th Standing Committee on Hygiene and Health, as well as of the Parliamentary Committee on Regional Questions.
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Her nomination was again reported to the floor on March 7, 2013. The Senate confirmed her nomination on May 20, 2013, by a vote of 90 ayes to 0 nays. She received her commission on May 22, 2013.
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The Ayes included 36 (82%) Republicans and 20 (54%) Democrats. The Nays comprised 8 (18%) Republicans and 17 (46%) Democrats. The Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited state or federal sex-based restrictions on voting, was ratified by sufficient states in 1920.
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Although they are known to come down to the ground on occasion, aye-ayes sleep, eat, travel and mate in the trees and are most commonly found close to the canopy where there is plenty of cover from the dense foliage. During the day, aye-ayes sleep in spherical nests in the forks of tree branches that are constructed out of leaves, branches and vines before emerging after dark to begin their hunt for food. Aye-aye are solitary animals that mark their large home range with scent. The smaller territories of females often overlap those of at least a couple of males.
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On June 11, 2015, the North Carolina House of Representatives voted, with 69 ayes, 41 noes, and 10 absent, in favor of overriding the governor's veto of Senate Bill 2 and the law went into effect as Chapter Session Law 2015-75.
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The most parsimonious explanation for this is that all lemurs are derived from a single ancestor that rafted from Africa to Madagascar during the Paleogene. Similarities in dentition between aye-ayes and several African primate fossils (Plesiopithecus and Propotto) have led to the alternate theory that the ancestors of aye-ayes colonized Madagascar separately from other lemurs. In 2008, Russell Mittermeier, Colin Groves, and others ignored addressing higher- level taxonomy by defining lemurs as monophyletic and containing five living families, including Daubentoniidae. Further evidence indicating that the aye- aye belongs in the superfamily Lemuroidea can be inferred from the presence of petrosal bullae encasing the ossicles of the ear.
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PN1729 — William H. Orrick III — The Judiciary, 112th Congress (2011–2012), Congress.gov. The next day, January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 28, 2013, by a vote of 11 ayes to 7 nays.
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Male aye-ayes tend to share their territories with other males and are even known to share the same nests (although not at the same time), and can seemingly tolerate each other until they hear the call of a female that is looking for a mate.
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Mississippi Senate. State of Mississippi. March 30, 2016. On April 1, 2016, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed the bill as amended by the Senate, with 69 ayes, 44 nays, 7 absent or not voting, and 1 voted present."H. B. No. 1523: House Passed As Amended".
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Aye-ayes have functional claws on all other digits except the hallux, including a grooming claw on the second toe. Less commonly known, a grooming claw is also found on the second pedal digit of night monkeys (Aotus), titis (Callicebus), and possibly other New World monkeys.
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Results of Executive Business Meeting – February 28, 2013, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 15, 2013, by a vote of 56 ayes to 41 nays, with three senators not voting.PN24 — William H. Orrick III — The Judiciary, 113th Congress (2013–2014), Congress.gov.
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George Wood was nominated for a full term as Judge of the Court of Appeals on the second vote (88 ayes, 20 noes) after William Rockwell had been rejected in the first vote. Joseph Mullin was nominated for the short term by acclamation."The Whig State Convention". New-York Daily Times.
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Mechano is a giant robot that first appeared in Strange Tales #86 and was created by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayes. Mechano is a 30 ft. robot that was built by Mr. Hopkins and his young assistant Tommy Briggs that was brought to life by a malfunctioning transformer.Strange Tales #86.
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Following the style of the British Parliament, a motion is moved to "divide the House" in order to vote. Members in the chamber vote on the proposition with their feet by exiting the hall through a door, the right-hand side of which is marked 'ayes' and the left-hand side 'noes'.
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The Speaker then says "To the contrary say 'No'", and MPs opposing the motion will say "No". Following this, the Speaker assesses the number of votes and says, "I think the Ayes (or Noes) have it".S.O. 62. At this point, an MP may challenge the Speaker's decision by claiming a division.
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Once the bill was again being considered, Johnson added his amendment, but Vestal moved that the bill be returned to his committee. Vestal's motion failed, 24 ayes to 67 noes. Lengthy procedural wrangling followed over whether that vote could be objected to because there was no quorum present. Once that was resolved, the House passed the bill again.
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Text of H.R. 3195 The substitute was renamed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA). H.R. 3195 subsequently passed by wide margins in the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, and passed the House of Representatives on June 25, 2008, by a vote of 402 Ayes, 17 Nays, 15 Present/Not Voting.
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IV, Part I, § 1(6)(B). and may not amend it unless the amending legislation furthers the purposes of such measure and at least three- fourths of the members of each house of the Legislature, by a roll call of ayes and nays, vote to amend such measure.Ariz. Const. Art. IV, Part I, § 1(6)(C).
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In March, 2016, the Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution condemning BDS. In the House, the resolution passed with 86 ayes, five nays, and nine abstentions. In the Senate it passed by acclamation. The resolution was welcomed by the pro-Israeli groups Proclaiming Justice to The Nations and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.
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The bill was passed by the Senate (yeas 40 nays 0) on February 20, 2008 and moved on for review by the House Judiciary committee. The House voted in favor of the bill on March 27, 2008 (ayes: 122, nays: 1). On April 14, 2008, it was sent to Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D) for executive approval.
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On November 17, 2016, organizers announced the 2017 event will occur on April 22, 2017 and will feature performances by Talib Kweli, The Pharcyde, BackYard Band, Kanyatta Hill of Culture, Empresarios, Pinky Killacorn & Visto, Reesa Renee, and DJ Ayes Cold. The Festival's second event occurred on April 22, 2017 and once again it was a weed-free event.
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On June 14, 2018, the Chamber of Deputies gave preliminary approval to the law with 129 votes in favor, 125 against and 1 abstention. The proposal divided both the legislators of Cambiemos and the Justicialist Party. However, on 9 August 2018 the bill was rejected by the Senate with 31 ayes, 38 nays and 2 abstentions.
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Female home ranges never overlap, though a male's home range often overlaps that of several females. The male aye-ayes live in large areas up to , while females have smaller living spaces that goes up to . It is difficult for the males to defend a singular female because of the large home range. They are seen exhibiting polygyny because of this.
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Some say that the appearance of an aye-aye in a village predicts the death of a villager, and the only way to prevent this is to kill it. The Sakalava people go so far as to claim aye-ayes sneak into houses through the thatched roofs and murder the sleeping occupants by using their middle finger to puncture the victim's aorta.
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One amendment was made to the bill, House Amendment 8, and amendment made in order as an original bill for the purpose of amendment pursuant to the rule. This amendment was voted on and passed the same day. The bill came to a final vote on February 24, 1999. The bill passed with 415 Ayes, 2 Nays, and 16 present/ not voting.
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The Statute was finally brought to the Congress where it passed on 17 February 1981 with 301 ayes, 3 abstentions and no negative votes, being finally ratified by the Senate on 17 March. As a result, executive procedures were initiated so as to establish the new autonomous community and hold the first Parliament election, which was finally set for 20 October 1981.
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H.R. 2015 was introduced and sponsored by Rep John Kasich [R-OH] with no cosponsors. On 25 June 1997, H.R. 2015 passed House Vote Roll #241 mainly among partisan lines, 270 ayes and 162 nays, with most Democrats in the House of Representatives in opposition. On the same day, the bill passed in the Senate, with a substitute amendment, by unanimous consent.
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On February 13, 2008, Representative Chip Huggins (R) introduced House Bill 4687 to the South Carolina State Legislature. If enacted, this legislation would make Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A Schedule I controlled substances in that state. On April 10, 2008, the bill passed in the House (ayes: 101, nays: 4). The bill later died with the dissolution of the 2007–2008 legislative session.
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The Cabinet of Beata Szydło formed the 17th government of Poland, until 11 December 2017. Governing during the 8th legislature of the Sejm and the 9th legislature of the Senate, it was led by Beata Szydło. On 7 April 2017 the government survived a motion of no confidence entered by the opposition, which was rejected with 174 ayes, 238 nays and four abstentions.
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The proposal for a referendum on the withdrawal agreement was first put to Parliament on 14 March 2019 in an amendment (tabled by Sarah Wollaston) to the motion to request the first extension to the Article 50 deadline, where it was rejected by 85–334, with the Labour Party (and all but 43 of its MPs) abstaining. On 27 March and 1 April 2019, a series of indicative votes was held, both times including a referendum on the withdrawal agreement among the proposals. All proposals failed, with those for such a referendum receiving in the first round 268 Ayes, 295 Noes and 71 abstentions (a majority of 27) and in the second round 280 Ayes, 292 Noes and 62 abstentions (a majority of 12). In both rounds, it was the proposal second-closest to receiving an affirmative majority.
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Opened in March 2015, In with the Lemurs is a walk-through exhibit housing a group of ring-tailed lemurs. It also has a family of aye-ayes living in the indoor section as well as white-tailed antsangys and lesser hedgehog tenrecs. The exhibit is designed to resemble a shrub forest in Madagascar, featuring plant life such as loquat and Chusan palm trees.
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Two days after the Anson result, Lee assumed full responsibility for the two election setbacks and resigned as prime minister to PAP chairman Toh Chin Chye, only for Toh to reject it. On 21 July 1961, Lee then moved a motion of confidence in his own government five days after the Anson by-election. The motion was agreed to with 27 "Ayes", 8 "Noes" and 16 abstentions.
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In order to impeach the president, they must be suspected of treason to the state or other crimes.Impeachment – nice word meaning nothing, UNIAN (12 December 2017) A majority in the Verkhovna Rada (226 ayes) must support a procedure of impeachment for it to begin. A temporary investigative commission is established by the parliament for the impeachment investigation. The commission's final conclusions are considered at a parliamentary meeting.
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After the previous question has been moved, the presiding officer calls for a vote on the legislation, and after counting votes, announces whether the ayes or noes have it, and the motion carries or is defeated. Note that "yay" and "nay" are archaic modes of voting expression that are no longer used in parliamentary parlance. It is commonplace for students to move a recess following voting.
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She argued for an outright ban in her home state of Delaware. Schedule I classification was introduced there three months after the teenager's death in the form of "Brett’s law". Since then Kathy Chidester has campaigned more widely to see bans introduced in other states. Adams's amended bill restricting the sale to minors passed unanimously in the Assembly on January 29, 2008 (Ayes: 76, Nays: 0).
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Senate committee approves Watson appointment to U.S. District Court, Honolulu Star-Advertiser (February 14, 2013). Watson's appointment was confirmed by a vote of 94 ayes to 0 nays on April 18, 2013.Senate Roll Call: Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation Derrick Kahala Watson, of Hawaii, to be U.S. District Judge, Secretary of the United States Senate. He received his commission on April 23, 2013.
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The proposal for Schedule I classification was dropped and replaced instead with restrictions on the sale to minors. Section 379 to be added to the penal code – "Every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give Salvia divinorum or salvinorin A, or any substance or material containing Salvia divinorum or salvinorin A, to any person who is less than 18 years of age, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment." The amended bill was passed out from the Assembly Committee on Appropriations to 'Consent Calendar' with a recommendation 'Do Pass' (Ayes 16, Noes 0) on January 24, 2008, having passed the Assembly Committee on Public Safety (Ayes 7, Noes 0) the previous week.Adams 2008.
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When bishop Guillemin met him in Paris in 1858, the emperor, urged by his wife Eugénie, offered a personal grant of 500,000 francs. In 1873, a bill was passed in the National Assembly of France with 491 ayes against 100 nays, allocating another 75,000 francs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be used on the cathedral. The cathedral was finished in 1888 after 25 years of construction.
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On 13 October 1884, the following resolution was not adopted: # That the initial meridian should have a character of absolute neutrality. It should be chosen exclusively so as to secure to science and to international commerce all possible advantages, and especially should cut no great continent—neither Europe nor America. (Ayes, 3; noes, 21.) Twenty-one countries voted against the proposal, while three (France, Brazil, San Domingo) voted in favor.
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Representatives Philip Gunn, William Tracy Arnold, C. Scott Bounds, Lester Carpenter, J. Andrew Gipson, William Shirley, Randy Boyd, and Dan Eubanks officially introduced House Bill 1523, titled "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act". On February 19, 2016, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed the bill, with 80 ayes, 39 nays, and 3 absent or not voting."H. B. No. 1523: House Passed As Amended". Mississippi House of Representatives.
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How Did They Vote? Updates by E-Mail of Congressional Ayes and Nays, The New York Times, 2005-01-27, accessed 2010-01-03. The utility of the data that Tauberer made available on his site (and later became available on other sites) was part of the inspiration for Congressman Mike Honda's legislation to provide new sources of legislative data;An API for Federal Legislation? Congress Wants Your Opinion, Wired.
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After the first vote was indecisive, Villaraigosa called for a second vote, which was again met with an equal volume of "ayes" and "nos". A woman standing to his left said, "You've got to rule, and then you've got to let them do what they're gonna do." Villaraigosa called a third vote with the same result. Villaraigosa then declared the amendment passed, causing an eruption of boos on the floor.
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Aye-ayes are commonly thought to be bad omens by some of the Malagasy people, although other legends consider them a good omen. When spotted, they are killed on sight and hung up so that the evil spirit will be carried away by travelers. The aye-aye is often viewed as a harbinger of evil and killed on sight. Others believe, if one points its narrowest finger at someone, they are marked for death.
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A clear majority, either way, will prompt the response "I think the Ayes/Noes have it" (this can be forced to a division by continued cries either way). If the result is at all in doubt a division will be called and the Speaker will say "Division. Clear the Lobby". This refers not to the division lobbies used for voting but the Members' Lobby beyond the chamber which is cleared by the doorkeepers.
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These will usually be government and opposition whips. In the example we have looked at: "Tellers for the Ayes Mr. Dave Watts and Mr. Steve McCabe; tellers for the Noes Mr. Nick Hurd and Mr. John Baron". If no teller has come forward (or only one) the Speaker declares the result for the other side. One teller from each side goes to the end of each division lobby and they count MPs as they emerge.
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He has led nine of SLA's ten summer youth missions to East Africa. He is currently a member of Communion Partners, an Episcopalian group which opposed the 77th General Episcopal Convention's decision to authorize the blessing of same-sex marriages in 2012. The measure to allow the blessing of same-sex unions was approved by the bi-cameral General Convention. In the House of Bishops, it received 111 "ayes", 41 "nays" votes and 3 abstentions.
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All prosimians possess two laterally flattened toilet claws, used for grooming. These are found on the second toe in lemurs and lorises, and the second and third in tarsiers. Aye-ayes have functional claws on all other digits except the hallux, including a toilet claw on the second toe. Clawlike nails are however also found in the small-bodied callitrichids, a group of New World monkeys, though none of them have a toilet claw.
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Ferrera, the youngest of six children, was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera, were originally from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and emigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s. Her mother worked as the director of the housekeeping staff for one of the Hilton Hotels, and stressed the importance of higher education. When she was 7, her parents divorced and her father returned to Honduras.
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In parliamentary procedure, a division of the assembly, division of the house, or simply division is a method of taking a vote that physically counts members voting. Historically, and often still today, members are literally divided into physically separate groups. This was the method used in the Roman Senate (vote per secessionem), and occasionally in Athenian democracy. Westminster system parliament chambers have separate division lobbies for the "Ayes" and "Noes" to facilitate physical division.
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The bill passed 220-215. The Democrats cried foul, and Bill Thomas, the Republican chairman of the Ways and Means committee, challenged the result in a gesture to satisfy the concerns of the minority. He subsequently voted to table his own challenge; the tally to table was 210 ayes, 193 noes. The Senate's consideration of the conference report was somewhat less heated, as cloture on it was invoked by a vote of 70-29.
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Obama renominated Davila on January 5, 2011.Presidential Nomination no. PN21-112, Edward J. Davila, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, vice Marilyn Hall Patel, retired, January 05, 2011 (112th Congress) That nomination was approved by the Judiciary Committee on February 3, and he was confirmed by the Senate on February 14 by a vote of 93 ayes to 0 nays. He received his commission on March 3, 2011.
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On June 7, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Morgan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana that had been vacated by Judge Thomas Porteous's impeachment. On November 10, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported her nomination to the floor of the Senate by a voice vote. On March 28, 2012, her nomination was confirmed by a vote of 96 ayes to 1 nay. She received her commission on March 30, 2012.
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"An Ordinance establishing that the Borough of Longport Municipal Elections Shall Be held on the same day as the November General Elections and Extending the Terms of Office for the Existing Mayor and Commissioners... All AYES - none opposed" The change allows the borough to save the costs associated with conducting the May municipal election.LoBiondo, Nanette. "Longport to hold Saturday commission meeting for summer residents", The Current of Ventnor, Margate & Longport, July 20, 2016. Accessed May 19, 2017.
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The votes were tallied and handed back to the Speaker, who declared the results as 50 votes for 18 years, 38 votes for 20 years, and 33 votes for an 18/20 split. As no option acquired the 61-vote majority needed, the option with the lowest number of votes (18/20 split) was dropped, and the members voted again as per a normal personal vote, using the Ayes lobby for 18 years and Noes lobby for 20 years.
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The referendum was held in July 1947, and the ayes for Pakistan won by a razor-thin margin. There were allegations of rigging and bogus votes, but that was only to be expected, whichever side won. Sylhet was gifted to East Pakistan with Karimganj being divided and handed over to India/Assam reason stated to let India have proper connectivity with Tripura. The Kushiyara River was made the river border between India & East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
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The three means of voting in the Senate are voice, division, and "the yeas and nays" (recorded votes or roll-call votes).Walter J. Oleszek, Voting in the Senate: Forms and Requirements, Congressional Research Service (May 19, 2008). On a voice vote, the presiding officer first asks those in favor to say "aye," and then opposed to say "no." The presiding officer then announces who appeared to win the vote ("The ayes [noes] appear to have it.").
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On his release he said, "I genuinely thought I was answering him." "Aye" is also a common word in parliamentary procedure, where the phrase "the ayes have it" means that a motion has passed. In the House of Commons of the British Parliament, MPs vote orally by saying "aye" or "no" to indicate they approve or disapprove of the measure or piece of legislation. (In the House of Lords, by contrast, members say "content" or "not content" when voting).
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3 Continuing, "Mr Okuk said the Government should show sympathy to efforts at self-determination by colonially-dominated and colonised peoples. He said he did not think the Government was giving an accurate picture of the problems in Irian Jaya." Once he assumed Leadership of the Opposition, he set about immediately to bring down the current Somare government. He moved a total of four Motions of No Confidence in the Government within 20 months. The first only three months after he became Leader, 24 August 1978 (failing with 35 ayes and 68 nays). On 7 November 1978, the People's Progress Party, with Julius Chan as their Parliamentary Leader, broke away from the coalition. The Opposition requested the resignation of the government since they lacked a majority, and when they declined, the Opposition moved the second No Confidence Motion (NCM) on 16 November 1978. Okuk moved an amendment to name Chan as alternative Prime Minister instead of himself, but the vote failed (with a vote of 45 ayes, and 63 nays) when the United Party crossed the floor of Parliament to join the government.
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However, the native Calusa people fiercely resisted the incursion, and he was seriously wounded in a skirmish. The colonization attempt was abandoned, and its leader died from his wounds soon after returning to Cuba. Ponce de León was interred in Puerto Rico, and his tomb is located inside of the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan. According to John J. Browne Ayes, 30% of the modern population of Puerto Rico descend from Juan Ponce de León and his wife.
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Hemet High School was first founded in 1894 and has been moved to different campus sites in the past. The school has been operating at its present campus site since 1972. Hemet High is accredited by the WASC, NATEF, and AYES Accrediting Commissions for Schools. The campus began construction expansion again, including the addition of two new academic buildings, a theater, and several shade structures, completed during the summer of 2012 (first being used in the 2012-2013 school year).
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The speaker of the assembly J. Shivashanmugam Pillai used his casting vote to defeat the motion. A second motion to defer the scheme and refer it to a committee of experts was moved by K.R Viswanatham. This motion passed with 138 ayes against 137 noes.Table XVI, A Review of Madras Legislative Assembly (1952–57) The Scheme was stayedThe word "stay" in the motion was interpreted by Rajaji and C. Subramaniam as "keep the status quo" as on the day of the vote.
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Lieutenant Ayers was a British Army Provost officer, military police responsible for military discipline among British troops in Portugal and Spain. He was one of three provosts on duty in a small deserted Portuguese village. Their equipment was new, and their faces burned red, indicating that they had newly arrived on the Peninsula. After some verbal sparring with Captain Sharpe, Lieutenant Ayes and the two other Provosts went to examine Sharpe's men, and he caught Private Batten with a stolen chicken.
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On November 3, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported her nomination to the Senate floor in a party-line 10–8 vote. On March 28, 2012, Du's nomination was confirmed by a vote of 59 ayes to 39 nays. The vote broke mostly along party lines, with six Republican senators joining all Democrats in voting to confirm Du. She received her commission two days later. Du became the first Asian Pacific American to serve as an Article III judge in Nevada.
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Digby found some difficulty obtaining a noted speaker to support the motion: Norman Angell, Bertrand Russell, Beverley Nichols and John Strachey were all unable to attend. Finally, philosopher C. E. M. Joad agreed to come and support the motion. Joad and David Maurice Graham of Balliol, the Union's Librarian at the time and the original drafter of the motion, argued in favour at the debate. The teller for the Ayes was Max Beloff and that for the Noes was R. G. Thomas.
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The chapbook Equilibrium was published by Bull City Press after the manuscript won the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. The book draws on religious themes and language to explore being both Black and a woman. I Can't Talk About The Trees Without The Blood, Clark's first full length collection, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018. Clark's poem "The Ayes Have It", a response to the murder of Trayvon Martin was adapted into a short film by Savanah Leaf.
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Folia Primatol. 77, 446–464 (2006). Alternatively, it may have closer ties to the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) within the lemuroid (lemur) radiation. The cranial and dental morphology of Plesiopithecus resemble what is predicted of an aye-aye ancestor, with an arched cranial vault suggesting klinorhynchy (a marked angle between the palate and the basicranium, or the lower region of the braincase) similar to that of aye-ayes, significantly enlarged canines and/or incisors, reduced molars and premolars, a high muzzle, and anteriorly placed orbits.
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The aye-aye was thought to be extinct in 1933, but was rediscovered in 1957. Nine individuals were transported to Nosy Mangabe, an island near Maroantsetra off eastern Madagascar, in 1966. Recent research shows the aye-aye is more widespread than was previously thought, but its conservation status was changed to Endangered in 2014. This is for three main reasons: the aye-aye is considered evil, the forests of Madagascar are being destroyed, and the farmers will kill aye-ayes to protect their crops and for poaching.
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A party vote was called for, and the first reading had 111 ayes (National, Labour, ACT, Māori, Progressive, and United Future) and 11 noes (Green and the two independents). In the second reading, Cosgrove was critical of the secrecy around the bill. He claimed that a draft of the bill had been given to Christchurch City Council's solicitor, instructing him that it not be shared with elected members. He stated that submitters to the select committee had less than 24 hours to prepare their submissions.
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Poway's greatest change started in the 1950s when water came to the valley. On January 29, 1954, an election was held on the formation of the Poway Municipal Water District, which passed with an overwhelming majority of 210 ayes to 32 nays. At the second election on March 25, 1954, the citizens voted to annex to the San Diego County Water Authority. At a third election held April 22, 1954, the citizens voted to incur bonded debt of $600,000 to build a water system.
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By the end of July, public opinion started to turn against the scheme and at least four public petitions were tabled in the Legislative Assembly about the scheme.Table XVII, A Review of Madras Legislative Assembly (1952–57) On 29 July 1953, M.V Krishna Rao, the minister for education moved a motion for considering the new scheme. After a discussion, Communist leader K. P Gopalan moved a motion to drop the scheme. The house was deadlocked with 138 ayes to 138 noes on dropping the scheme.
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The adapiforms are early primates which are known only from the fossil record, and it is unclear whether they form a monophyletic or a paraphyletic grouping. They are usually grouped under Strepsirrhini—including lemurs, aye-ayes and lorisoids—and as such would not be ancestral to Haplorrhini, which includes tarsiers and simians.Callum Ross, Richard F. Kay, Anthropoid origins: new visions, Springer, 2004, , p. 100 Simians are usually called "anthropoid": while this term can be confusing, the paper uses it, as does associated publicity material.
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Statement of The Honorable Patrick Leahy, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (February 2, 2012). The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Watford's nomination on December 13, 2011. On February 2, 2012, the Judiciary Committee reported Watford's nomination to the floor of the Senate by a vote of ten ayes to six nays. At the hearing, Senator Patrick Leahy noted that Watford had support "from across the political spectrum," including support from a number of prominent conservative legal figures, including Orin Kerr and Eugene Volokh.
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She begins to suspect that Smith knew much more than he let on. When she next sleeps, Neith encounters another new narrative in Hunter's memories. In it, an entity identifies itself as "Gnomon, occasionally called the Eschatogenesist, or sometimes the Desperation Protocol," "the Ten Thousand Ayes, and sometimes the Endlessly Rising Canon," among other names. It claims to be a being living in a far future where Earth has been forgotten and most people "exist across bodies, [...] their thoughts distributed between a large number of individual brains" by a form of instantaneous communication.
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Jeremy Corbyn, then the Leader of the Opposition, tabled a motion of no confidence in Her Majesty's Government on 15 January 2019, after the House of Commons rejected Theresa May's draft agreement on Brexit. Ian Blackford, the Westminster leader of the SNP supported the decision. The motion failed, the ayes having 306 and the noes 325. Nigel Dodds, Westminster leader of the DUP, which had a confidence and supply agreement with the government, expressed the opinion that it was in the national interest for his party to support the government in the motion.
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At the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina The conservation of this species has been aided by captive breeding, primarily at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina. This center has been influential in keeping, researching and breeding aye-ayes and other lemurs. They have sent multiple teams to capture lemurs in Madagascar and have since created captive breeding groups for their lemurs. Specifically, they were responsible for the first aye-aye born into captivity and studied how he and the other aye-aye infants born at the center develop through infancy.
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On March 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Kaplan to serve as a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, to the seat vacated by Judge Christine Odell Cook Miller. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on her nomination on May 8, 2013, and reported her nomination to the floor by voice vote on June 6, 2013. Her nomination was confirmed on September 17, 2013, by a vote of 64 ayes to 35 nays. She took the oath of office from Chief Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith on November 6, 2013.
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Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Virginia State Library 1978 p. 476 Despite Randolph's speech in favor of secession, the first secession vote failed (Randolph among the ayes, McFarland and Johnson among the nays). Randolph's brother Thomas Jefferson Randolph was one of the Albemarle County delegates.Leonard p. 474 A special delegation, composed of G.W. Randolph, William B. Preston and Alexander H.H. Stuart, traveled to Washington, D.C. where they met newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln on April 12, 1861, the same day that South Carolina artillery militia fired at Fort Sumter.
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His research focuses on public finance, and he has published three major international studies into government budgeting, including Controlling Public Expenditure (2003), The Reality of Budgetary Reform (2010), and The Global Financial Crisis and its Budget Impacts (2015). He has also published many monographs on Australian public finance, including Managing Public Expenditure (2000) and From Accounting to Accountability (2001). He has worked on major comparative government projects; including the Future of Governance publications (2000–2003); and Comparing Westminster (2009). He has published a major study of an Australian parliament, entitled The Ayes Have It (2011).
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Concerned by the progression of the impeachment trial, Long attempted to shut down the session. Pro-Long Speaker John B. Fournet called for a vote to adjourn. Despite a majority of representatives opposing adjournment, the electronic voting board showed 68 ayes and 13 nays. This sparked confusion and the anti-Long representatives began chanting that the voting machine had been rigged. Some of them ran for the speaker's chair to call for a new vote, but met resistance from their pro-Long colleagues,Hair (1996), pp. 179–180.
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His nomination was reported to the floor of the Senate on May 16, 2013, by a unanimous vote of 18 ayes to 0 nays. A final vote on his nomination took place on May 23, 2013, where he was confirmed 97–0. He took the oath of office before Chief Judge Merrick Garland in June. At his formal swearing-in ceremony in September, administered by retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, he took the oath on the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita and became the first federal appellate judge of South Asian descent.
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This resolution was passed with 54 ayes out of 57 parliament members present. On 28 December 2015, Japan and South Korea have agreed to finally and irreversibly settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War II, in their first such deal since 1965. Japan had made an apology and will pay 1bn yen ($8.3m, £5.6m) to fund victims. The announcement came after Japan's foreign minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Seoul for discussions with his counterpart Yun Byung-se, following moves to speed up talks.
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On September 19, 2012, Barack Obama nominated Dorsey to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Larry R. Hicks, who took senior status effective December 13, 2012. On January 2, 2013, her nomination was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate. On January 3, 2013, she was renominated to the same office. Her nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16, 2013, by a vote of 10 ayes to 8 nays, the vote divided on a straight party line. Her nomination was confirmed on July 9, 2013, by a vote of 54 ayes to 41 nays. She received her commission on July 9, 2013. In March 2012, she allegedly made a $2,500 donation to Senator Harry Reid's campaign, a donation that was returned to her a month later because Reid was considering her for a district attorney nomination. The following day, his partner Kemp made a $100,000 donation to a PAC, and another partner gave $50,000 to the same PAC two weeks later. In February 2019, she ruled in favor of Brock Lesnar against Mark Hunt after Lesnar won a 2017 fight but failed to pass the drug test.
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On May 9, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Haikala to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, to the seat vacated by Judge Inge Prytz Johnson, who took senior status on October 24, 2012. She received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013, and her nomination was reported to the floor of the Senate on July 18, 2013, by voice vote. The Senate confirmed her nomination on October 14, 2013, by a vote of 90 ayes to 0 nays. She received her commission on October 16, 2013.
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The aye-aye is an omnivore and commonly eats seeds, fruits, nectar and fungi, but also insect larvae and honey. Aye-ayes tap on the trunks and branches of trees at a rate of up to eight times per second, and listen to the echo produced to find hollow chambers. Studies have suggested that the acoustic properties associated with the foraging cavity have no effect on excavation behavior. Once a chamber is found, they chew a hole into the wood and get grubs out of that hole with their highly adapted narrow and bony middle fingers.
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In January 2011, Ben Nelson, at that time a United States Senator from Nebraska, recommended Gerrard to fill a judicial seat on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska that would be vacated later that year by Judge Richard G. Kopf. On May 4, 2011, President Barack Obama formally nominated Gerrard to replace Kopf on the federal bench. The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported Gerrard's nomination to the Senate floor on October 13, 2011. The Senate confirmed Gerrard's nomination on January 23, 2012, by a vote of 74 ayes to 16 nays.
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On February 16, 2012, President Obama nominated Grimm to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He would replace Judge Benson Everett Legg who has announced that he is taking senior status effective June 8, 2012. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on May 9, 2012 and reported his nomination to the floor on June 7, 2012. The Senate confirmed his nomination on December 3, 2012, by a vote by 92 ayes to 1 nay, Senator Blunt casting the sole no vote.
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Herbert continued his campaign after the publication of the book, with significant success. In 1935, he was elected to the House of Commons as an Independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University, and in his maiden speech vowed to introduce a private bill to reform divorce law. This Bill was eventually introduced in 1936, and became law as the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937, a process described in his book The Ayes Have It. It was reported in 1939 that a film of the book was planned for the following year,The Times, p.12, 1 December 1938 but it never appeared.
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When the Ayes and Noes are tied, the Speaker must use the casting vote. By convention the casting vote is issued in accordance with the constitutional convention known as Speaker Denison's rule, rather than in line with the Speaker's personal opinion in the matter. The principle is always to vote in favour of further debate, or, where it has been previously decided to have no further debate or in some specific instances, to vote in favour of the status quo. For example, the Speaker would vote against a closure motion, or the final passage of a bill, or an amendment.
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In September, Reuters reported "Berlin's senate said doctors could legally circumcise infant boys for religious reasons in its region, given certain conditions." On 12 December 2012, following a series of hearings and consultations, the Bundestag adopted the proposed law explicitly permitting non-therapeutic circumcision to be performed under certain conditions; it is now §1631(d) in the German Civil Code. The vote tally was 434 ayes, 100 noes, and 46 abstentions. Following approval by the Bundesrat and signing by the Bundespräsident, the new law became effective on 28 December 2012 a day after its publication in the Federal Gazette.
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On June 28, 1798, a committee appointed to consider President Adams' recommendations to Congress reported a bill further to protect the commerce of the United States which was received and read the first and second time. On July 2, 1798, the bill was amended and engrossed and the next day was read the third time, passed and sent to the Senate for concurrence. On July 3, 1798, the Senate received the bill from the House and read it the first and second time. On July 6, 1798, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 18 ayes and 4 nays.
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In September 2002, Boasberg became an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where he served in the Civil and Criminal Divisions and the Domestic Violence Branch until his appointment to the federal bench in 2011. During the 111th Congress, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton recommended Boasberg to fill a judicial vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. On June 17, 2010, President Barack Obama formally nominated Boasberg to the District Court for the District of Columbia. Boasberg was confirmed on March 14, 2011 by a vote of 96 ayes to 0 nays.
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On May 6, 2013, President Obama nominated Bruce to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, to the seat vacated by Judge Michael Patrick McCuskey, who took senior status on June 30, 2013. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013, and his nomination was reported to the floor of the Senate on July 18, 2013, by voice vote. The Senate confirmed his nomination on October 7, 2013, by a vote of 96 ayes to 0 nays. He received his commission on October 8, 2013.
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The original 2012 party platform caused controversy after it was written, because the typical invocations and references to God and God-given rights were omitted, and language affirming the role of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was removed. On Wednesday, September 5, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland introduced an amendment on the floor of the convention to reinsert language invoking God and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa put the amendment to a voice vote requiring a two-thirds majority for passage. After the first vote was indecisive, Villaraigosa called for a second vote, which was again met with an equal volume of "ayes" and "nos".
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On 7–8 April 2018 the Aubervilliers Congress elected Olivier Faure as new first secretary of the party; Faure announced the party would be in opposition to Macron and Philippe. Because of financial problems, the party was forced to sell its historical seat in Rue de Solférino and moved into a smaller one in Rue Molière, on Ivry-sur-Seine. Following the Benalla affair, the Socialist Party entered a motion of no confidence against the government, together with the French Communist Party and La France Insoumise. The motions obtained 63 ayes and failed to reach the quorum of 289 votes required in the National Assembly.
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The bill was defeated in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house) by a 113-98 vote, but was passed in a joint session (425 Ayes and 296 Nos), as the Lok Sabha (lower house) has more seats. It was only the third time that a bill was passed by a joint session of both houses of Parliament. The Act defined what constituted a "terrorist act" and who a "terrorist" was, and granted special powers to the investigating authorities described under the Act. In order to ensure that discretionary powers granted to the investigating agencies were not misused and human rights violations were not committed, specific safeguards were built into the Act.
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The House of Lords votes on the Parliament Act 1911 In the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), at the close of debate, the presiding officer of the chamber—the Speaker of the House of Commons or the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords—"puts the motion" by asking members to call out their votes, typically saying "As many as are of that opinion, say 'aye'". The supporters of the measure shout "aye". The Speaker then says, "Of the contrary, 'no'" and the opponents of the measure shout "no". The Speaker then makes a determination of which side has won ("I think the Ayes [or Noes] have it.").
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When a division is to be held, bells ring throughout the parliament building for four minutes, during which time senators must go to the chamber. At the end of that period the doors are locked and a vote is taken, by identifying and counting senators according to the side of the chamber on which they sit (ayes to the right of the chair, noes to the left). The whole procedure takes around eight minutes. Senators with commitments that keep them from the chamber may make arrangements in advance to be 'paired' with a senator of the opposite political party, so that their absence does not affect the outcome of the vote.
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On November 2, 2011, President Obama nominated Hurwitz to be a United States Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit. On January 26, 2012, he received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and on March 1, 2012, his nomination was reported to the floor of the Senate by a vote of 13 ayes to 5 nays. All ten Democratic Senators voted aye along with Republican Senators Tom Coburn, Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl, while Republican Senators John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee and Jeff Sessions voted no. On June 7, 2012, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Hurwitz's nomination.
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In addition, exiled opposition figures tended to gather in states whose governments shared their political affiliation and to use these states as launching pads for efforts to topple their own governments. For the remainder of the century, Honduras's neighbors would constantly interfere in its internal politics. After the fifteen-month interim presidency of Francisco Zelaya y Ayes (1839–40), conservative General Ferrera became independent Honduras's first elected president. Ferrera's two-year term (1841–42) was followed by a five-year period in which he alternately named himself president or allowed the congress to name an interim president while he maintained control of the country by holding the post then known as minister of war.
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Introduced in the House by Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY10) on November 17, 2009 as H.R. 4098, the Secure Federal File Sharing Act was referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and placed on the Union Calendar on March 11, 2010. On March 23, 2010, Representative Towns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill by a roll call vote (House Vote #183 in 2010), which occurred following forty minutes of debate. The results of the vote yielded 408 Ayes, 13 Nays, and 8 Present/Not Voting. The bill was introduced into the Senate on March 25, 2010 and referred to that chamber's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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Powell yielded the floor to Bayard, who then began to speak. At some point later, Powell made a motion to adjourn, but Bayard apparently had not yielded to him for that motion. When this was pointed out, Powell told Bayard to sit down so he could make the motion, assuming that Bayard would retain control of the floor if the motion failed, as it did, 4–33. The presiding officer, Samuel C. Pomeroy of Kansas, immediately called the question of concurring in the report of the conference committee and declared that the ayes had it, and Trumbull immediately moved that the Senate move on to other business, which motion was agreed to.
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The revised Coat of Arms of Nepal with the new political map The Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment 2077) Act seeks to give legal status to a new map of Nepal to be used in the country's national emblem by amending Schedule 3 (Coat of Arms) in the Constitution of Nepal. The Council of Ministers of Nepal had announced the new map on 20 May 2020 and two days later it was placed in the Parliament. On 13 June 2020, the motion was put forth for voting in the lower house of Nepal's Parliament by the government of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Voting was unanimous with ayes being 258 with no nays.
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Marsupials are taxonomically identified as members of mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, first described as a family under the order Pollicata by German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in his 1811 work Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium. However, James Rennie, author of The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs (1838), pointed out that the placement of five different groups of mammals – monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, aye-ayes and marsupials (with the exception of kangaroos, that were placed under the order Salientia) – under a single order (Pollicata) did not appear to have a strong justification. In 1816, French zoologist George Cuvier classified all marsupials under the order Marsupialia. In 1997, researcher J. A. W. Kirsch and others accorded infraclass rank to Marsupialia.
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He participated in the battles in San Salvador, Las Charcas, and also stood out in the battles of The Holy Spirit and in the battles of San Pedro Perulapán —conducted in Salvadoran territory—, occurred on 6 April and 25 September 1839, respectively. At 13 November of this year, he defeated the forces of General Francisco Zelaya y Ayes on the battle in El Sitio of La Soledad, on outskirts of Tegucigalpa, and he was later defeated by the same General on 31 January 1840 in Los Llanos, in Potrero. After the liberal defeat of 1840, Cabañas and Gen. Morazán moved from Guatemala and went into exile in Panamá, then he traveled to Costa Rica.
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A highly charged exchange between Lim and Minister Shanmugam broke out thereafter, with the Minister rebutting to say he was "prepared to stand up here and say as the Law and Home Affairs Minister that there is no intention to oust judicial review". Shanmugam described Lim's use of the phrase "global policeman" as "rhetorical flourish", and further accused Lim of making speeches that "made for a good reading on her website" but were purely "theatrics with no substance, calculated to mislead". Lim rose to ask that a division be recorded at the second and third readings of the Bill. The bill to amend the act was ultimately passed with 77 ayes, 10 noes and 2 abstentions after a 4-hour debate.
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The committee is charged with investigating a vote during House consideration of the fiscal year 2008 appropriations bill for Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration. Republicans charged Democrats with improperly changing the result of a vote on the bill, which would have required a provision to explicitly deny federal benefits to illegal immigrants. Toward the end of the vote, several members sought to change their votes, and Democrats gaveled the vote to a close with a vote tally of 214–214, meaning the motion failed. However, because of three Republican vote changes, the final vote showed 215–213, meaning the motion was approved. Several Democratic lawmakers changed their votes, giving a final tally of 212 ayes and 216 noes, killing the motion.
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Ring-tailed lemurs at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Opened originally as the Primate & Cat Building in 1975, the Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building houses one of the largest collections of primate species in North America, including western lowland gorillas, New World monkeys, aye-ayes, and several species of lemur. However, the building does not house the Zoo's entire primate population; numerous primate species can also be found in the RainForest. In 1985, the Cleveland Aquarium permanently closed and donated its collection of exotic fishes and invertebrates to the Metroparks Zoo. A section of the Primate & Cat building was renovated to accommodate the new Aquatics section, which currently features 35 salt- and freshwater exhibits include piranhas, a giant Pacific octopus, electric eels, fish and hundreds of living coral.
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The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, opened on July 2, 1872, operated between Baltimore and Washington, where it initially erected a temporary wooden-framed station building. On April 1, 1872, by a vote of 115 ayes and 55 nays the House of Representatives passed a bill that allowed the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad) to build a depot on the lot at the corner of 6th Street NW and B Street NW, just north of the Armory. The bill had been filibustered for some time by opponents. On May 21, 1872, An Act to confirm the Action of the Board of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington, designating a Depot Site for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, and for other Purposes was ratified.
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If more than one Member objects, then the division bells are rung throughout the Parliamentary estate. When not less than four minutes have elapsed since the question was first put, the Speaker orders that the doors to the Chamber be locked, and directs that the Ayes proceed to the right side of the Chamber, and that the Noes proceed to the left. Members then take seats on the appropriate side of the Chamber, rather than entering a lobby, and then the Speaker appoints tellers for each side, unless fewer than five Members are seated on one side, in which case the Speaker calls off the division and declares the result for the side with the greater number of Members. If the division is still on, the tellers count and record the names of the Members.
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Before this the bill had been approved by the union cabinet on 10 July 2019. The bill was passed by a voice vote in the Lok Sabha on 5 August 2019, amidst commotion in the house following the revocation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir's special status by the Parliament on the same day. The bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Thawarchand Gehlot on 20 November 2019, upon which it was passed without any amendments on 26 November 2019 following a motion to refer it to a select committee that failed by 77 noes against 55 ayes. The bill received presidential assent on 5 December 2019, following which the Ministry of Law and Justice published it in the Gazette of India as Act No. 40 of 2019.
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However, the day after this had been announced, Croke, in his capacity as Speaker, arose from his chair and informed the House of a meeting he had been called to with Elizabeth, in which she told of her desire to "defend her people from all oppressions" after having seen evidence of abuses. The committee of the House was adopted, and a motion was passed asking for an address by the Speaker expressing their gratitude, which Croke duly delivered. On a bill for "resorting to Church" (to compel attendance) which received 105 "ayes" and 106 "nays", Sir Edward Hobbie, who was of the former, claimed the Speaker's vote. It was debated whether he had a voice, and Croke, after hearing the arguments of Sir Walter Raleigh (who opposed Croke's intervention) amongst others, decided that he did not.
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A personal vote is used mainly for conscience issues, and follows similar procedures to other Westminster systems. In the event of a personal vote, the division bells are rung for seven minutes, and after the bells stops, members are instructed to move to one of two lobbies, "Ayes" or "Noes", to have their vote recorded as such. Once all the votes are tallied, the results are handed to the speaker who declares the result. An unusual division occurred on 30 August 2012, simulating an exhaustive ballot for a three-way conscience vote on New Zealand's legal drinking age. All members were directed to the Noes lobby, where the Clerk of the House recorded each member's vote (either for keeping the age at 18, raising the age to 20, or raising the off-licence age to 20 while keeping the on-licence age at 18) as they passed back into the main debating chamber.
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Legislative Assembly of Ontario In February 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a resolution in 229-51 vote condemning the BDS movement that read: The motion was supported by the Liberals and the Conservatives and opposed by the New Democratic Party and Bloc Québécois. It was welcomed by Jewish groups but decried by the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations which said that it went against the freedom of speech. On December 1, 2016, a non-binding motion was passed in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with 49 ayes and 5 nays that "calls on the legislature to stand against any movement that promotes hate, prejudice and racism" and "reject the 'differential treatment' of Israel by the BDS movement". The motion was supported by the two largest parties, the governing centrist Ontario Liberal Party and the opposition centre-right Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, with only the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party opposed.
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Van Voris, pp. 151-152. During a second vote in the Senate on February 10, 1919, the women’s suffrage amendment lost by one vote.Van Voris, p. 153. However, during the 1918 election, suffrage supporters were elected to Congress through targeted efforts by leaders in the movement. The suffrage question came up again before the House on May 21, 1919, and this time it passed by a vote of 304 ayes and 89 nays. The amendment then moved to the Senate, where it passed the needed 2/3 majority by only two votes on June 4. Mary Garrett Hay wrote that “CCC danced all over the place and then settled down to THINK.” Van Voris, pp. 154-155. Catt led the battle for ratification of the 19th Amendment, which required the approval of 36 state legislatures (3/4 of the then 48 states.) She urged friends of the amendment not to allow it to come to a vote in their state unless they were sure it would pass.
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The vote was then carried into the Senate. Again President Wilson made an appeal, but on September 30, 1918, the amendment fell two votes short of the two-thirds necessary for passage, 53-31 (Republicans 27-10 for, Democrats 26-21 for). On February 10, 1919, it was again voted upon, and then it was lost by only one vote, 54-30 (Republicans 30-12 for, Democrats 24-18 for). There was considerable anxiety among politicians of both parties to have the amendment passed and made effective before the general elections of 1920, so the President called a special session of Congress, and a bill, introducing the amendment, was brought before the House again. On May 21, 1919, it was passed, 304 to 89, (Republicans 200-19 for, Democrats 102-69 for, Union Labor 1-0 for, Prohibitionist 1-0 for), 42 votes more than necessary being obtained. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays (Republicans 36-8 for, Democrats 20-17 for).
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Gilbert Burnet, one of Shaftesbury's friends, recorded what then happened: > Lord Grey and Lord Norris were named to be the tellers: Lord Norris, being a > man subject to vapours, was not at all times attentive to what he was doing: > so, a very fat lord coming in, Lord Grey counted him as ten, as a jest at > first: but seeing Lord Norris had not observed it, he went on with this > misreckoning of ten: so it was reported that they that were for the Bill > were in the majority, though indeed it went for the other side: and by this > means the Bill passed.Quoted in J. E. Powell, Great Parliamentary Occasions > 1966: The Queen Anne Press. p. 65. The clerk recorded in the minutes of the Lords that the "ayes" had fifty-seven and the "nays" had fifty-five, a total of 112, but the same minutes also state that only 107 Lords had attended that sitting. The King arrived shortly thereafter and gave Royal Assent before proroguing Parliament.
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The next day, Menendez said that "substantive" rather than personal or "political" concerns about Shwartz's nomination, questioning her "breadth of knowledge of constitutional law." Menendez's opposition effectively derailed her nomination at the time. On January 13, 2012, after meeting again with Shwartz and having what he characterized as an "in-depth discussion," Menendez announced that he would support Shwartz's nomination and return his blue slip, paving the way for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on Shwartz. The Times reported that in response to Menendez's obstruction, the White House had been declining to nominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Shipp, a Menendez choice, to a vacancy on the District Court for the District of New Jersey. On February 15, 2012, Shwartz received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On March 8, 2012, the Judiciary Committee reported her nomination to the floor of the Senate by a vote of 10 ayes to 6 nays. Shipp's nomination was confirmed on July 23, 2012. On January 2, 2013, Shwartz's nomination was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate.
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After the 2006 parliamentary election, Moroz was elected the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 6 July 2006 (238 ayes, 226 needed for election) with support of the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party and Communist factions. The Socialist Party of Ukraine received 2.86% of the national vote in the 2007 parliamentary election, falling 0.14% below the election threshold, denying them the right of representation and removing Moroz as a member of Ukraine's Parliament. The Socialist Party chose the party leader Oleksandr Moroz as their presidential candidate for the 2010 presidential election, whose first-round ballot was scheduled to be held on 17 January 2010. 268 out of 422 party congress delegates registered supported the Moroz's nomination. During the election, Moroz received 0,38% of the votes. ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (January 25, 2010) Public opinion polls did not rate the Socialist Party or its leader Moroz as they were undecided as to their participation in the presidential election. In 2005, Moroz received 5.8% of the national vote. An opinion polls conducted by FOM-Ukraine in April 2009 showed Moroz with less than 1% support, with most analysts not considering Moroz as a serious contender as he would not win sufficient number of votes in the first-round presidential ballot, scheduled for 17 January 2010.
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