The U.S. also has effective veto power at the OECD.
|
|
Trump saying he wants "veto power" over the media. pic.twitter.
|
|
No veto power, no secrets, no rules about emotional attachment.
|
|
Even the president's veto power is subject to congressional override.
|
|
The veto power is a sign of strength and confidence.
|
|
CLINTON: Under our Constitution, presidents have something called veto power.
|
|
Russia has veto power over any such Security Council sanctions.
|
|
But the United States has veto power on any resolution.
|
|
Nestlé has veto power over who gets the chair appointment.
|
|
HC: Under our constitution, presidents have something called veto power.
|
|
Would there be veto power if either partner felt emotionally threatened?
|
|
That effectively makes the five veto-power countries kingmakers - or queenmakers.
|
|
The Constitution denied the President any veto power over the judiciary.
|
|
In most states, governors have veto power, but not all states.
|
|
The United States used its veto power to kill the measure.
|
|
Not that I have veto power or even an equal vote.
|
|
The Brazilian government holds veto power over strategic moves at Embraer.
|
|
Such terms effectively let Lightspeed have veto power over investments at Snap.
|
|
VETO POWER Enlargement requires unanimity, meaning Macron would have power of veto.
|
|
Second, Obama's veto power would protect it from a Republican-controlled Congress.
|
|
Washington will still keep its veto power over IBRD and IFC decisions.
|
|
As of now, the British parliament does not have this veto power.
|
|
CLINTON: You know, under our Constitution, presidents have something called veto power.
|
|
We have a rule where either one of us has veto power.
|
|
The proposal potentially gives the latter two companies veto power, Nikkei said.
|
|
Do each of you get veto power over the other's art purchases?
|
|
But instead, it is just giving that veto power to a judge.
|
|
Such terms effectively let Lightspeed have veto power over investment at Snap.
|
|
Democrats chipped away at Republicans' supermajority in 2018, giving Cooper veto power.
|
|
Russia, which has veto power on the Security Council, called the proposal unacceptable.
|
|
The bank has veto power over certain company decisions such as administrative restructuring.
|
|
The United States abstained from the vote, refusing to exercise its veto power.
|
|
Powerful presidents have used the veto power to assert their control over Congress.
|
|
The U.S. is a permanent member and has veto power over the council.
|
|
Just 35% say he should have used his veto power in this case.
|
|
In addition, a special law gives Volkswagen workers veto power over plant closings.
|
|
China has also exercised its veto power with regards to resolutions on Syria.
|
|
The provision effectively gives Washington veto power over any free trade deal with China.
|
|
Congress can't legislate around the president's veto power; efforts to do so are unconstitutional.
|
|
North Korean ally China and neighboring Russia hold veto power on the Security Council.
|
|
That distinction is important because each of those five has veto power over candidates.
|
|
If Biden had the job we'd get that good old veep with veto power.
|
|
In practice, the supermajority requirement gave the oil industry veto power over the bill.
|
|
Republicans can request certain people to come testify, but Democratic side has veto power.
|
|
The Chinese do not give us veto power over those with whom they meet.
|
|
Russia, which has Security Council veto power, says Iran has not violated the resolution.
|
|
He wants the Nets to be a democracy, even if he has veto power.
|
|
Senate Republicans will hold substantial veto power over the next president's agenda whatever the outcome.
|
|
The General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, but there is no U.S. veto power there.
|
|
The bill also would give Congress veto power to block any easing of those sanctions.
|
|
In Kansas, Democrats won a seat at the table, because the governor has veto power.
|
|
If so, confining the veto power to the congressional leadership might be a preferable alternative.
|
|
Veto power, long employed by pro-democracy legislators to block pernicious bills, may be eliminated.
|
|
The U.S., which wields veto power on the council, rejected that resolution, effectively killing it.
|
|
"The NRA shouldn't have a veto power over domestic violence and sexual assault legislation," Sen.
|
|
ESPN also reported that the NFL had "veto power" over NIH projects that it funds.
|
|
The British ambassador to the United Nations, Matthew Rycroft, accused Russia of abusing its veto power.
|
|
Moreover, agency regulations eliminated under the Congressional Review Act are not exempt from president's veto power.
|
|
"He always had veto power," said Gonzalo Carrión, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights.
|
|
Winning control of the House or Senate wouldn't just give Democrats veto power over new bills.
|
|
Putin will no longer have veto power over whether America will have a human space program.
|
|
ESPN used the phrase "veto power" for the NFL's hold over NIH projects that it funds.
|
|
The government holds a "golden share" in Embraer giving it veto power over such strategic decisions.
|
|
She also stressed that she has veto power over material she doesn't want filmed or broadcast.
|
|
In each of those states, the governor has veto power over the maps the legislature produces.
|
|
Michael Gianiaris, to a board position where he could have veto power to derail the deal.
|
|
But Mr. Felder's one-man veto power may be slipping away, at least on this issue.
|
|
But in most, the state legislature runs the process, with the governor usually getting veto power.
|
|
Since both countries have veto power over UN Security Council resolutions, their buy-in is essential.
|
|
If Democrats can flip three seats, they will win back some veto power in the state.
|
|
Huawei's board secretary, Jiang Xisheng, told journalists last week that Mr. Ren had limited veto power.
|
|
Roy Cooper would have no veto power over the map if he wins reelection next year.
|
|
But then, I didn't give your niece veto power over invitations — which she has now exercised.
|
|
China also used its veto power, given to all five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
|
|
Next year, Republicans will lose their supermajority in the legislature and Cooper will regain his veto power.
|
|
The decision angered Republicans, who wanted to keep their veto power against then-president Jimmy Carter's nominees.
|
|
The FTC acts through majority vote, which means with only two commissioners, each one has veto power.
|
|
Russia and China both have veto power in the vote as permanent members of the Security Council.
|
|
One official said that as many as a dozen people in the White House have veto power.
|
|
Unlike on the Security Council, however, the U.S. does not wield veto power in the General Assembly.
|
|
It will have veto power with respect to any shareholder action or approval requiring a majority vote.
|
|
It will have veto power with respect to any shareholder action or approval requiring a majority vote.
|
|
The Obama administration abstained from the vote, refusing to use its veto power to block the resolution.
|
|
That gives them what amounts to veto power over any changes to the Bitcoin software and technology.
|
|
Any new protocol must be approved by consensus, so even one dissenting country effectively has veto power.
|
|
The president, however, still has veto power, and his critics don't have enough votes to overturn that.
|
|
Giving substantial input or even veto power to individual communities along that network undermines the entire concept.
|
|
Unlike at the Security Council, the US does not have veto power at the broader General Assembly.
|
|
Russia and China, which have veto power in the Security Council, are unlikely to support additional restrictions.
|
|
The Sami have their own Parliament and president, but both are largely symbolic, with no veto power.
|
|
It's not a way for senators to have veto power over nominees for political and ideological reasons.
|
|
"He added: "Messi has unspoken veto power over most player transfers, coach appointments or major tactical decision.
|
|
His firm has veto power over any deal, according to its loan agreements with the Kushner Companies.
|
|
The United States abstained from the Security Council vote last week, refusing to use its veto power.
|
|
Since then, individual states have clawed back much more veto power over how their troops are used.
|
|
The talks got bogged down over Yemen's insistence that it have veto power over important business decisions.
|
|
Some diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, believe there will be further opposition from veto power Russia.
|
|
Only the five permanent council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- maintain veto power.
|
|
What is that process like and do you guys have veto power if you don't want something shared?
|
|
Consider that Emanuel never lost a council vote nor exercised his veto power during his nine-year reign.
|
|
Congress should have veto power over CFPB rules and the agency should more directly answer to the president.
|
|
The Democratic victory means the party has effective veto power over legislative initiatives sought by the Trump administration.
|
|
It would effectively grant him veto power on any major decision put to the Standing Committee, they said.
|
|
Trump says the business will hire an ethics adviser and give that person veto power over future deals.
|
|
Investors in Swiss companies have veto power over executive and board compensation thanks to a referendum in 2013.
|
|
In the meantime, the UN Security Council convened on Monday, though Russia holds veto power over its resolutions.
|
|
Now, they will have a sort of veto power over moves like withdrawing from NATO or striking Iran.
|
|
For him to have veto power over Mueller's every step puts the special counsel's investigation under a cloud.
|
|
In exchange for keeping her in office, she gave the hard-line Unionists veto power over Brexit negotiations.
|
|
But the candidates have veto power over who can become a pledged delegate for them after they win.
|
|
By contrast, at the Asian infrastructure bank, China has a 28 percent voting share and no veto power.
|
|
It's as if BlackBerry had veto power over whether Apple should be allowed to sell a new iPhone.
|
|
Each community under consideration as a repository location was consulted and promised veto power should it be selected.
|
|
He has already clashed with Volkswagen's powerful workers council, which has de facto veto power over major decisions.
|
|
Gorsuch, in other words, would give the Republican-controlled Supreme Court a veto power over all federal regulations.
|
|
Trump doubled down on his veto power (complete with a camera-filled event to mark the occasion Friday).
|
|
In the near future, the Supreme Court is likely to give itself a veto power over federal regulations.
|
|
Hillary Clinton is also given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.
|
|
The Senate remains in Republican hands, and President Donald Trump holds veto power over any efforts to change direction.
|
|
The Justice Department also has no veto power, but the attorney general is supposed to be put on notice.
|
|
Russia has used its veto power as a permanent member several times to shoot down resolutions, as has China.
|
|
Chris Murphy last week, Democrats want to give the federal government veto power over firearm sales to protected terrorists.
|
|
This isn't a veto power; it's not unheard of for nominees without two blue slips to ultimately be confirmed.
|
|
Michael Gianaris, an opponent of the HQ2 deal, to a state board that has veto power over the agreement.
|
|
But at the meeting in Brussels, Luxembourg, Malta, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden called for maintaining their veto power.
|
|
For years, the U.S. has used its veto power at the U.N. Security Council to oppose efforts targeting Israel.
|
|
Even at companies where women hold impressive titles, there are layers of white men with veto power above them.
|
|
The FCC would have had veto power over its rules, and — naturally — cable companies didn't want that to happen.
|
|
But just recently, the governor of Connecticut used his line-item veto power to cut support for the humanities.
|
|
Getting to draw those new lines -- or at least having veto power over who draws those lines -- matters HUGELY.
|
|
With Democrats in control of the House and Republicans in control of the Senate, both parties have veto power.
|
|
Yes, they were circumventing the usual land-use process and essentially eliminating any veto power by the City Council.
|
|
Andrew M. Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Amazon was constructed to blunt the veto power of local politicians.
|
|
But that was no concession; it gave Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, veto power over the two-state solution.
|
|
If Texas wants a free market healthcare system, Austin should be able to decide without Washington having veto power.
|
|
Russia has regularly used its veto power as a permanent member of the council to shoot down resolutions on Syria.
|
|
They were subject to a vote of the full committee, meaning the majority had veto power over subpoenas and witnesses.
|
|
Meanwhile, CPS contended Rauner's intended action on the bill would exceed the veto power afforded governors under the Illinois Constitution.
|
|
Russia has shot down several resolutions on the conflict, using its veto power as a permanent member of the council.
|
|
Russia has played a role in that, as it used its veto power to reject several resolutions on the conflict.
|
|
Allowing someone else veto power over a woman's abortion just doesn't make sense to Amber Bell, an abortion rights advocate.
|
|
Democrats, who have veto power as the majority party, are expected to reject a number of names on the list.
|
|
Can Washington politicians and policy wonks explain why the U.S. government deserves veto power over elections everywhere else on Earth?
|
|
The superdelegate system exalts the ruling class above the voters and essentially gives the party veto power over the people.
|
|
As soon as the reporter grants the off-the-record provision, he is effectively allowing "veto power" over that material.
|
|
The darkest of days could lie ahead for America, Trump warns, and only he has veto power to stop them.
|
|
Who, you may sensibly ask, granted Tucker Carlson's target demographic veto power over the legislative will of the American people?
|
|
N.B.A. officials understood, as many other corporate executives do, that Beijing effectively holds veto power over their plans for growth.
|
|
In contrast, Mr. Lutz said, Mr. de Nysschen lacked veto power and had to answer to several higher-ranking executives.
|
|
President Trump's executive order granting local officials veto power over refugee resettlement has divided communities and left immigrants feeling unwanted.
|
|
Democratic governors in place in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will have veto power over any map drawn by a GOP legislature.
|
|
When it was time to vote on the US resolution, both Nebenzia and his Chinese counterpart exercised their veto power.
|
|
Washington has opposed any removal of sanctions against Pyongyang, however, and has veto power in the 15-member Security Council.
|
|
I have ceded responsibility of the baby's first name to my husband, with the agreement that I have veto power.
|
|
What's more, the agreements granted Egypt veto power over construction projects on the Nile River and its tributaries anywhere upstream.
|
|
But there is ample evidence in Israel's political history that the settlers do not have veto power over government policy.
|
|
Russia, one of the Security Council's permanent members, has veto power and is one of the Assad regime's staunchest backers.
|
|
But a turnover in Senate control would have another major consequence — it would give Democrats veto power over Trump's nominees.
|
|
The city, Mr. Lhota pointed out, has final veto power over the transit portion of the M.T.A.'s capital plan.
|
|
Russia has used its veto power in the UN Security Council several times to shoot down proposed resolutions on the conflict.
|
|
Even were it to pass in both houses, President Donald Trump holds veto power that, let's face it, he'd probably use.
|
|
As a player with 10 years of service, the last five with the same team, Griffey had veto power over trades.
|
|
Those appointed boards exercised veto power over many decisions made by local elected leaders, and helped those cities restructure their debts.
|
|
Cardinal Zen said this arrangement would be a fraud and the Holy See would be reluctant to use its veto power.
|
|
But it does at least suggest that Clinton's team had veto power over some of the DNC's decisions during the primary.
|
|
Other nations with veto power on the U.N. Security Council are all represented by ambassadors with decades of foreign policy experience.
|
|
Lloyd George then turned his fire on the Lords, removing its veto power over legislation with the Parliament Act of 1911.
|
|
Russia shot down at least seven UN resolutions on Syria using its veto power as a permanent member of the Council.
|
|
Russia, as a permanent Security Council member, has veto power which it has already used to block UN resolutions on Syria.
|
|
Shareholders in Swiss companies have veto power over executive and board compensation thanks to a referendum on the issue in 2013.
|
|
While Embraer is a private company, the government holds a special stock that grants it veto power over major business decisions.
|
|
The latter stipulation essentially grants the majority Democrats veto power over any witness request they deem to be out of bounds.
|
|
The next ballot will reveal whether either of the two discourage votes he has received was cast by a veto power.
|
|
The UN Security Council unanimously backed a resolution Tuesday rebuking the Jerusalem decision, forcing the US to employ its veto power.
|
|
The Obama administration abstained from the vote and declined to use its veto power on the Security Council to block it.
|
|
Russia has used its veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council at least seven times on Syrian resolutions.
|
|
The former does not apply in this case, and the latter would be impossible, given Russia's veto power in the Council.
|
|
That's right — attempting to give men veto power over women was the only meaningful effort to include men in abortion regulation.
|
|
They insisted on job guarantees, a board seat and veto power over future C.E.O.s of the combined company, the NYT reports.
|
|
The veto power of the "Big Six" is exacerbated by a lack of high-quality research and alternative centers of expertise.
|
|
Their economies dwarf all others, they both have nuclear weapons, they both have veto power in the United Nations Security Council.
|
|
Mnuchin suggested that line-item veto power would give the President the ability to thwart Democratic demands in future spending bills.
|
|
While the United States is the World Bank's largest shareholder, it does not have veto power over lending to specific countries.
|
|
The restructuring requires the approval of two-thirds of bondholders and lumps all the different classes together, reducing creditors' veto power.
|
|
But if you sense flexibility and interest in saving some money, then bring up the option and offer veto power over it.
|
|
With arranged marriage, there is a very clear procedure and a road map that everyone follows: Girls have the ultimate veto power.
|
|
Smaller states have for years used the veto power to block tax overhauls at EU level over fears of losing tax revenues.
|
|
The proposed deal with Boeing would not include Embraer's defense and executive jets business, where the Brazilian government would maintain veto power.
|
|
But their true goal has always been to give Congress, especially the House, veto power over new rules from the White House.
|
|
A tougher initial U.S. draft was weakened to win the support of China and Russia, both of which hold U.N. veto power.
|
|
After a series of dismissals of pro-democracy legislators in the past year, the camp has lost much of its veto power.
|
|
The "nonmarket" provision seems devised to give the United States veto power over any deal Canada or Mexico might seek with China.
|
|
Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) amendment, which would have given the government veto power over gun purchases by "suspected terrorists," failed 47-53.
|
|
The basic plan would give the Vatican a formal role, and possibly even veto power, in how clergy are appointed in China.
|
|
The other would have given government-appointed members effective veto power in the National Council of the Judiciary, which selects judicial candidates.
|
|
The judge said the administration's grant of a veto power is 'arbitrary and capricious as well as inherently susceptible to hidden bias.
|
|
Still, they were watered down in order to get the support of Russia and China, which have veto power in the council.
|
|
The courts essentially gutted the relevant part of the law and gave the states a veto power over new transmission line projects.
|
|
He wants to require a supermajority of justices to overturn any law and to give states veto power over a Supreme Court decision.
|
|
They planned to sell off their remaining stake last year, but WeWork's management, which had veto power over the transaction, blocked the deal.
|
|
Nazarbayev remained the lifetime chairman of the all powerful Security Council, with authority and veto power over the president and senate of Kazakhstan.
|
|
Along with China, it has previously used its veto power to block sanctions against Syria for chemical attacks and other perceived war crimes.
|
|
It was the eighth time in the six-year-old Syria conflict that Russia used its veto power to help its Syrian protégé.
|
|
There's the Foundation which has veto power for one year, but other than that they don't have any favored status in the protocol.
|
|
Several council diplomats said Morocco's traditional ally France, a permanent veto power on the council, along with Senegal opposed calling for "full functionality".
|
|
The loan terms include 18-month repayment, a 2.2x liquidation preference and effectively gives Alibaba veto power over future equity investments into Quixey.
|
|
House Democrats raised objections over the scope of the review process, which gives Congress veto power if the administration tries to ease sanctions.
|
|
The Brazilian government, which holds a "golden share" in Embraer that gives it veto power over strategic decisions, must ultimately approve any deal.
|
|
The Brazilian government's golden share in Embraer gives it veto power over strategic decisions involving military programs and any change in controlling interest.
|
|
Trump's first use of his veto power was against a congressional resolution to block his February emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
|
|
The vote sets the GOP-controlled Senate up for a possible clash with the White House, which holds veto power over the resolution.
|
|
" Russia, which has Security Council veto power, has said the tests aren't a violation since the resolution is a "call," not a "ban.
|
|
But there are flash points: The board would hold veto power over government officials if their proposals threatened to financially hurt the island.
|
|
Still, the Russians and Chinese did not feel strongly enough to exercise their veto power, which both have as permanent Security Council members.
|
|
Because the military is guaranteed 25 percent of the seats in Parliament, it has veto power over any proposed changes to the Constitution.
|
|
This is why American veto power has consistently blocked efforts to unilaterally establish a Palestinian state by way of the UN Security Council.
|
|
The military retains "significant power" in the country, including veto power over constitutional changes, and "direct control over the police," per the NYT.
|
|
Republicans have said they will honor the blue slip for district court nominees, effectively giving home-state senators veto power over a pick.
|
|
Our system gives the Senate majority leader a veto power greater than the president's because the decision is absolute and cannot be reversed.
|
|
Giving officers appointed by the president and subject to his direction formal veto power over military decisions could be problematic and precedent setting.
|
|
But her proposals were likely to meet tough resistance in the Security Council, particularly from Russia and China, which both have veto power.
|
|
Ultimately, the real controversy here has nothing to do with Pizzagate, or a senior government official wanting "veto" power over content produced by journalists.
|
|
The deal has stalled partly because the Brazilian government, which has veto power at the planemaker, has been reluctant to give it a greenlight.
|
|
McIvor said requiring consent was not the same as having veto power, a key concern that held up the federal legislation in the Senate.
|
|
And since President Donald Trump, who has veto power, is vehemently opposed to abortion, they're going to need to snag the White House, too.
|
|
The United States has repeatedly used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to protect Israel from resolutions condemning the Jewish state.
|
|
Obama has exercised the veto power of the United States at the Security Council on every other resolution relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
|
|
I trust them so much so it's more so that I get veto power if we ever come across an outfit I don't like.
|
|
In other words, the banks appear to have some veto power over the deal, as least as it regards change of control of LCH.Clearnet.
|
|
He added that the government would continue to hold a "golden share," which would give the state strong veto power in certain strategic areas.
|
|
In fact, of my 28503 predecessors as chairman of the committee, only two allowed home-state senators unilateral veto power through the blue slip.
|
|
They also have legal right to 25% of parliamentary seats, giving the military effective veto power on constitutional issues, which require a 75% majority.
|
|
China and Russia, two of North Korea's top allies, are also permanent members of that body, which gives them veto power over any initiative.
|
|
But, Mr. Murphy added, "nobody in our caucus has veto power over climate policy, whether they're the ranking member on a committee or not."
|
|
"The only person I am aware of with veto power in this country is the President," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday.
|
|
Where before the island's governor and representatives decided what to spend money on, now an unelected board would have veto power over the budget.
|
|
"Russia has violated the borders of nearby nations and pursues veto power over the economic, diplomatic, and security decisions of its neighbors," it continues.
|
|
Under the Clean Water Act, the Army Corps has primary responsibility for issuing the permit, though the EPA has veto power over the decision.
|
|
There are likely now five votes on the Supreme Court, for example, to effectively give the judiciary a veto power over all federal regulations.
|
|
Any U.S. push for the U.N. Security Council to take further action against South Sudan is likely to be resisted by veto power Russia.
|
|
Taking the veto power into consideration, it could be argued that in important ways we have a tricameral legislature, and not merely a bicameral legislature.
|
|
Rumors about how he used to run the show — including the "Trump rule," his supposed veto power over the final contestants — continued to swirl backstage.
|
|
But the city's opposition has lost most of its veto power in the 70-member legislature after Hong Kong courts expelled six pro-democracy lawmakers.
|
|
Still, the anti-rate hike crowd — Fed Chair Janet Yellen is its most important member and holds something just shy of veto power — has prevailed.
|
|
No, other presidents have either declined to use their veto power or voted in favor of Security Council resolutions related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
|
|
The European Commission, led by former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, shunned proposing a reform that could end governments' veto power on tax matters.
|
|
The Trump administration has expressed concerns with the bill, specifically the provision giving Congress veto power over the administration if it eases sanctions on Russia.
|
|
The White House objects to a provision in the Senate's sanctions bill that gives Congress veto power over any effort to ease sanctions against Russia.
|
|
Administration officials had also lobbied, however, for changes to the provision that gives Congress veto power to block the administration from easing sanctions on Russia.
|
|
The case examined the state's separation-of-power provision in the Texas Constitution and a governor's veto power under the "abuse of official capacity" statute.
|
|
Canada initially voted against it, despite being involved in its creation, citing concerns that the informed consent provisions amounted to giving Indigenous people veto power.
|
|
"Each campaign, as I understand it, is going to have — outside of family — veto power over who's in the screenshot behind the moderators," Priebus added.
|
|
If imprints were given veto power—or any editorial control—over the work done by other imprints, it could have a chilling effect for publishers.
|
|
But if Britain's next prime minister is intent on following through with Brexit, the British Parliament could repeal the law that gives Scotland veto power.
|
|
Rights offerings are typically negotiated by several hedge funds that collectively hold enough of a company's bonds to have veto power over a reorganization plan.
|
|
Also Wednesday, Russia blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the attack, using its veto power as one of the council's five permanent members.
|
|
Critics called it censorship, and worried that advocacy groups — in this case, animal rights organizations — now had veto power over art and its public display.
|
|
The Senate will most likely block any unfriendly legislation that House Democrats might advance, avoiding the need for the president to use his veto power.
|
|
The United States, a permanent Security Council member with veto power, was the sole no vote on the measure, which was enough to defeat it.
|
|
Washington (CNN)Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asserted Sunday Congress could give President Donald Trump "line-item veto" power -- something the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional.
|
|
Democrats must now wait to see if they can regain their veto power in by-elections contesting the two remaining seats made vacant by disqualifications.
|
|
Another would alter the National Council of the Judiciary, the body that approves judicial candidates, to give new government-appointed members a near veto power.
|
|
Indeed, there appear to be five votes on the Supreme Court right now to give the judiciary a veto power over all federal regulatory action.
|
|
" But the Reagan camp rejected a deal that would have given Ford veto power over some major presidential appointments and other constitutionally questionable powers. "Mr.
|
|
As Israel's strongest ally at the United Nations, the United States often has used its veto power to block Security Council resolutions critical of Israel.
|
|
If Republicans keep the presidency or either house of Congress in 2020 — if they retain veto power over federal legislation — it will continue falling behind.
|
|
As long as Mr. Christie holds veto power, Mr. Prieto said, Democrats cannot develop meaningful legislation on thorny issues without him serving as a negotiating partner.
|
|
Exercising his veto power for the first time in five years, Obama rejected legislation giving the go-ahead for construction of the pipeline in February 2015.
|
|
While Nauert had little diplomatic experience, other nations with veto power on the U.N. Security Council are represented by ambassadors with decades of foreign policy work.
|
|
Ben Cardin introduced legislation that would impose strict new congressional oversight and veto power over the Trump administration if it decided to lift sanctions on Russia.
|
|
The Democratic-controlled House and Senate passed an earlier version of a school funding formula bill in May that Rauner extensively rewrote under his veto power.
|
|
"They're essentially giving landowners veto power," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Center Biological Diversity, a left-leaning nonprofit dedicated to saving species.
|
|
It says that safeguards, such as no extraditions for political offenses and veto power over any court-approved extraditions by the chief executive, will prevent abuses.
|
|
Gianaris, who has been nominated to a three-person state board that has veto power over the agreement, flatly says the deal ought to be killed.
|
|
Brazil's government, which holds veto power over important business decisions at Embraer, a former state company, said last month that it would not block the partnership.
|
|
And with the GOP holding a majority of 23 seats, this gives Jordan and his team effective veto power over the rest of the GOP conference.
|
|
According to Reuters, it is unclear if China supports the new U.N. resolution; as a permanent member of the security council, the country has veto power.
|
|
But on our own shores, just recently, the governor of Connecticut used his line item veto power to cut support for the humanities in the state.
|
|
Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at Australia National University, expressed frustration that China was effectively wielding veto power over other countries' security cooperation.
|
|
To retake the Senate — and therefore to get veto power over all legislation and Trump's nominees — Democrats need to pick up just three seats, on net.
|
|
They are also asking Obama to expand tribal consultation — and potentially veto power — in the type of federal permitting decisions that yielded the Dakota Access pipeline.
|
|
Now with 24 seats - one held by a centrist lawmaker - and with four more of them facing legal battles - the opposition risks losing its veto power.
|
|
After the vote, Ms. Haley said she regretted that Russia had chosen to use its veto power for the eighth time to back the Syrian government.
|
|
The United Nations Security Council could refer a case to the court, but Russia has repeatedly used its veto power to shield Syria from international condemnation.
|
|
In Minneapolis, there was a legislative proposal to give the police chief veto power over board investigations in order to nip any "trouble" in the bud.
|
|
Resistance to an arms embargo has also been expressed by other members of the Security Council, including Russia, which, like the United States, has veto power.
|
|
Though the M.L.S. commissioner, Don Garber, has veto power over team names, Handler said the league was eager to support new teams in developing their names.
|
|
Presidents retain the veto power, of course, but it's all or nothing — they can't pick and choose which parts of the legislation they want to sign.
|
|
At the same time, Russia and especially Iran, whether we like it or not, are so involved in the conflict that they have effective veto power.
|
|
A Brexit could also mean that Britain's veto power on the International Football Association Board, which decides the rules of the game, could also be jeopardy.
|
|
At the time the Senate voted 52-47 in favor of a repeal, but Republicans — especially moderates — voted knowing it couldn't pass, given Obama's veto power.
|
|
The Brazilian government holds a 'golden share' in Embraer giving it veto power over strategic decisions involving military programs and any change in its controlling interest.
|
|
Relying on presidential veto power, Jackson essentially disestablished the Second Bank of the United States, which helped restart the country's money supply after the War of 1812.
|
|
Embraer's board moved on Monday to present the deal for approval to the Brazilian government, which holds veto power over important business decisions at the plane maker.
|
|
But veto power Russia said it was opposed to such a move because it did not believe it would be helpful to implementation of the peace deal.
|
|
Slovakia's president does not wield day-to-day power but has veto power over the appointments of senior prosecutors and judges, pivotal in the fight against corruption.
|
|
It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad's government.
|
|
The United Nations has for years failed to make crucial decisions in resolving the Syrian conflict as Russia repeatedly used its veto power to shoot down resolutions.
|
|
Rambler Group is a smaller rival to Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, in which Sberbank holds a so-called golden share, which gives Sberbank special veto power.
|
|
Using its veto power on the United Nations Security Council, China shielded North Korea from the most crippling sanctions, then helped it survive the watered-down penalties.
|
|
In addition, since the 85033 Lebanese coalition agreement, Hezbollah has had de facto veto power on political decisions despite being a minority stakeholder in the political process.
|
|
Since the fund was created in the 1980s, the Department of the Interior held veto power over how much island leaders could withdraw from the fund annually.
|
|
When Democrats take control, in numbers that preclude Republican veto power, they pass thoughtful, ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the clean energy transition.
|
|
The Embraer deal has stalled since July partly because the Brazilian government, which has veto power over any significant business decisions, has been reluctant to approve it.
|
|
A tougher initial U.S. draft resolution was weakened to win the support of China and Russia, both of which hold veto power on the U.N. Security Council.
|
|
The White House had hedged for weeks, as the legislation worked its way through Congress, over whether the president would sign it or use his veto power.
|
|
She had vetoed a similarly worded but legally binding resolution on June 1 in a vote at the Security Council, where the United States wields veto power.
|
|
The United States refrained from using its veto power, as it had done many times before to shield Israel, and abstained in the 14-to-0 vote.
|
|
The U.S. holds veto power in the 15-member council and remains opposed to any sanctions relief, however, making the China-Russia resolution unlikely to go through.
|
|
But with the Supreme Court poised to give judges a veto power over these agencies' actions, the courts could in effect strike down any regulation they dislike.
|
|
But for others — including some local government officials freshly armed with the new veto power — the tax breaks are a pragmatic choice in an increasingly competitive world.
|
|
The new committee will include representatives from Netanyahu's office, the Defense Ministry and the Finance Ministry — with each of the representatives having veto power on deals with China.
|
|
In the end, Mr. President, the reason nothing has gotten down here is because the gun lobby has a veto power over any legislation on guns before Congress.
|
|
" But Jia still holds veto power over certain decisions, and he will continue to shape the technology in Faraday Future's vehicles as its "chief product and user officer.
|
|
Pachter said Margot Robbie, who played Harding, had veto power when it came to the sale of the film and that the "Suicide Squad" star vetoed the offer.
|
|
This effectively gives one chamber of Congress veto power over any new significant public health and safety protection, no matter how non-controversial or sensible it may be.
|
|
Shannon also told the committee the administration would use its veto power in the Security Council to block any sale of Russian Su-30 fighter aircraft to Iran.
|
|
Some judges, and those close to them, see that veto power as a potential weak point should Beijing lean on the Hong Kong government to exert greater control.
|
|
A proposal that would give the government veto power over gun purchases by a wide array of suspects failed, but a bipartisan group of senators led by Sen.
|
|
Haley may have trouble getting other Security Council members -- especially Russia and China, which each hold veto power -- to sign onto the draft sanctions as they're currently written.
|
|
After the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 2010, President Barack Obama faced a rejectionist opposition bent on thwarting his every action and possessing considerable veto power.
|
|
And they are rightly concerned with how to bring Republicans around on these issues — after all, Republicans still have veto power in most states and the federal government.
|
|
Rambler Group is a smaller rival to Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, in which Sberbank holds a so-called golden share, which gives Sberbank special veto power.
|
|
"A nuclear fuel bank, administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with U.S. veto power could prevent misuse and end any pathway to a nuclear weapon," he said.
|
|
It was the 11th time Russia had used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to shield Syria from international action since the civil war began.
|
|
"The actions taken... do not constitute events requiring any need of notification and are not susceptible to triggering the use of any veto power," the document, dated Aug.
|
|
Even a majority vote would have been largely symbolic, as the three Western powers that carried out the attack hold veto power and would certainly have blocked it.
|
|
The rigidly doctrinaire Freedom Caucus essentially has veto power over White House initiatives, while moderates will jump ship if Mr. Trump concedes too much to right-wing purists.
|
|
The Brazilian government holds a so-called golden share in Embraer, giving it veto power over strategic decisions involving military programs and any change in its controlling interest.
|
|
The big picture: Ever since Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece had used its veto power to block the country's admission to NATO and the European Union.
|
|
"If Democrats win one statewide race in what looks like it could be a wave year, they can assure themselves at least of veto power" in 2021, Daley says.
|
|
That's because Russia -- an ally to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government -- has used its veto power five times regarding the conflict, while China vetoed four of the five.
|
|
So Congressmen have veto power if the topic changes at the last minute or if they try to tee them up against a conservative guest of a lower stature.
|
|
Because the United States is so dominant in the international realm, controlling so much of the world's resources, it effectively has veto power over whether an agreement can work.
|
|
Right now, most corporate employees exist in a matrix management structure, reporting to different people and having lots of different managers who have veto power over what they do.
|
|
In an attempt to break the deadlock, the EU executive commission proposed last month to gradually remove the veto power that states wield on the overhaul of tax rules.
|
|
Voters in 36 states also are electing governors who will hold office during the redistricting process - and in some key states, they yield veto power over the congressional maps.
|
|
The Senate passed a bill last month to slap new sanctions on Russia and give Congress veto power over the administration if it tries to ease sanctions on Moscow.
|
|
It's less likely that Democrats will also win back the Senate, but if so, they'll have veto power over every one of Trump's judicial and executive nominees until 2020.
|
|
She describes in "Moby-Dick" how, overwhelmed by the dizzying prospect of selecting a sperm donor, she delegated the task to two trusted friends (although she maintained veto power).
|
|
" The firm says that even though institutional investors are the clients who pay for the research, the bill would give management "veto power," an "unprecedented effort to stifle recommendations.
|
|
The UN Security Council, of which both the US and China have veto power, voted last fall to impose a new round of sanctions on the North Korean economy.
|
|
By abstaining rather then using its veto power, the US, Israel's staunchest ally for years, allowed the UN to pass its first condemnatory resolution against Israeli settlements since 1979.
|
|
A Democratic win could be a trifecta for the party: A Great Plains governor's mansion, veto power in the next round of redistricting and potential pickups in House races.
|
|
But the main sticking point is who would really be in charge — whether the military council would enjoy veto power, and therefore effective control, over a civilian prime minister.
|
|
The attorney general's ability to "exercise veto power in our decision-making is an indication of why the court needs true independence" from the Justice Department, Ms. Tabaddor said.
|
|
But by giving this role to the Northern Ireland assembly as a whole, and not to unionists and nationalists voting separately, it has denied the DUP a veto power.
|
|
If Mr. Trump wants to stop Mr. Mueller even sooner, he can instruct Mr. Rosenstein to exercise veto power over the special counsel at every step of the way.
|
|
But the democratic lawmakers held enough seats in the legislature to frustrate the city's pro-Beijing administration with filibustering and veto power over bills introduced by pro-Beijing lawmakers.
|
|
As with the Soviet Union, today's Russia will use its veto power on the United Nations Security Council to frustrate that body from taking action against rogue international behavior.
|
|
Republicans can apply pressure by recommending their own set of witnesses and subpoenas to offer, but Democrats -- as in past impeachments -- have veto power and can drive the timetable.
|
|
Under recent committee chairpeople, this had been treated as an informal veto power, one that McConnell's Republicans had used to great effect in the minority in the Obama years.
|
|
The government maintains a so-called golden share in Embraer, a former state enterprise, that gives it veto power over strategic decisions, including Boeing's push for a tie-up.
|
|
Last week, the State Senate majority leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, nominated a critic of the deal, Senator Michael Gianaris, to a state board that had veto power over it.
|
|
North Korea relies on China and Russia, which have veto power on the United Nations Security Council, to serve as a buffer against American efforts to impose more sanctions.
|
|
But she too would offer appetizing targets for the Republican hit men: The other day she said a young transgender student would have veto power over her Secretary of Education.
|
|
Cara wants her mom to tell her the next time she posts about her, and the 903-year-old would like veto power over any photo before it goes up.
|
|
If such a scenario played out, Scotland and Northern Ireland would need to agree on Wales and England assuming the permanent membership of the U.N. Security Council and veto power.
|
|
Rangel defended the law, saying the agriculture ministry would still rely on the analysis of environmental agency Ibama and Anvisa, both of which would retain veto power over new products.
|
|
Corker and other senators want to include congressional review over North Korean sanctions, similar to the provision in the current bill that gives Congress veto power over easing Russia sanctions.
|
|
The deal has already been approved by Brazil's government, which holds veto power over important business decisions at Embraer, which was a state company until its privatization in the 1990s.
|
|
The Trump administration has pushed for changes to the Senate's Russia sanctions bill, particularly over the provision that gives Congress veto power if the White House eases sanctions on Russia.
|
|
The 15-member Security Council has long-threatened to impose an arms embargo, but veto power Russia, backed by council member Angola, has been reluctant to support such an action.
|
|
It would be less expensive, less disruptive in the short term, and perhaps more appealing to the centrist Senate Democrats who will have effective veto power over any healthcare legislation.
|
|
The board will be advised by representatives from 171 countries, including the US (and its major allies), which will wield veto power over any formal advice given to the board.
|
|
Diplomats say Washington is closely consulting with Japan, South Korea, Britain and France on its discussions with China, while Beijing is keeping in close contact with fellow veto power Russia.
|
|
At the World Bank, the U.S. has 220006 percent of voting power and a de facto veto, and the U.S. does not hold a similar veto power in the AfDB.
|
|
But the new legislation would add another party to the discussion: the legislature, which would essentially be given veto power over Kaul and likely keep the state in the suit.
|
|
Mr. Putin cannot dictate terms any more than the Americans can, but he is now one of several leaders with effective veto power over any cease-fire or peace deal.
|
|
In an interview with the network during his election campaign last year, Mr. Trudeau pledged that First Nations would "absolutely" have veto power over natural resource projects in their territories.
|
|
Many experts are skeptical that a president can change much in Iran, as long as the supreme leader has veto power over all policies and control over the security forces.
|
|
It should stop adding small, insignificant countries that bring more burden than defense — not to mention giving states like Montenegro the same veto power the U.S. has in the alliance.
|
|
During litigation questioning the EPA's authority to retroactively rescind a permit, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the EPA used "magical thinking" in attempting to justify its post-permit veto power.
|
|
But no one dismisses Democrats' opportunity to gain the two seats they need for control, which would give them veto power over White House appointments to the Cabinet and courts.
|
|
The two companies said in December that they were discussing "a potential combination," but the Brazilian government, which holds veto power over strategic moves at Embraer, needs to give its blessing.
|
|
It is this law which has given Thyssenkrupp's workers a near veto power to stop radical job cuts and even to block the appointment of shareholder-friendly candidates to the board.
|
|
The last time they tried to pass such a resolution in 2011, President Obama vetoed it, making it the only time Obama exercised the US veto power at the Security Council.
|
|
In 2019, Disney will not only have veto power over its partners at Hulu, it'll also be better positioned to argue with NBCUniversal about giving any of its content to Netflix.
|
|
The big picture: Spain effectively has veto power over future relations between the bloc and British overseas territories, and wants the future of Gibraltar to be managed between Madrid and London.
|
|
While the House probe has not given complete veto power to Mueller to block key witnesses -- like Manafort, Kushner and Trump Jr. -- at least one Republican leader of the probe, Rep.
|
|
Infrastructure, meanwhile, has no momentum with conservatives in the House or the Senate—and the Freedom Caucus, which essentially has veto power in the House, is far from excited about it.
|
|
The two jet manufacturers said in December they were discussing "a potential combination," but the Brazilian government, which holds veto power over strategic moves at Embraer, needs to approve the deal.
|
|
However, the deal has not been signed by the two parties because the TMC demands immunity from prosecution for the violence against protesters and a veto power during the transitional period.
|
|
The majority of council members are opposed, the sources said, though they added that Morocco has some diplomatic support from veto power France, Rabat's traditional ally, and African council member Senegal.
|
|
He will certainly not allow unfettered access to the country, demanding to know at least five days in advance where international nuclear teams will inspect and veto power for any inspections.
|
|
UNGA votes on Israel are nothing new -- because of US veto power at the United Nations Security Council, the General Assembly has been a popular forum for passing anti-Israel resolutions.
|
|
Both leaders represent countries that have permanent seats on the Security Council, which includes veto power, and their absence suggests no major action is expected on either North Korea or Iran.
|
|
The backdrop: Ever since Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Athens had used its veto power to block the country's admission to NATO and the European Union, per BBC News.
|
|
Pruitt said EPA veto power is unnecessary because the National Environmental Policy Act already requires federal agencies to consider environmental effects from proposed projects, and offers a process for public comment.
|
|
But Syria's key backer, Russia, holds veto power, and could use its permanent seat on the council to defend Bashar al-Assad's interests, as it has done on 10 previous occasions.
|
|
Starr did not have to report to the attorney general or anyone else at the Justice Department, and the attorney general didn't have veto power over Starr's investigative and prosecutorial decisions.
|
|
In addition to killing the filibuster of Supreme Court nominees, Mr. McConnell ended the "blue slip" practice, a tradition that effectively gave senators veto power over nominees from their home state.
|
|
US presidents can mostly just react to legislation through their veto power, though admittedly the threat of a veto could serve as a downstream constraint that legislators take into account upstream.
|
|
Another transformative feature of the 1995 agreement was to alter the balance of power by giving Israel and the Palestinians veto power over each other's water projects in the West Bank.
|
|
Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp failed on Monday to win enough seats to regain some veto power in the city's 70-seat legislature in a closely fought and pivotal by-election.
|
|
Trump urged Congress to give him the veto power during an event late last week when signing a $2628 trillion spending bill that included a number of provisions he didn't like.
|
|
And since both countries have veto power on the UN Security Council, they could ruin any political legitimacy for the war that the US may aim to gain through that body.
|
|
The royal signature is required before almost all executive appointments and pieces of legislation can go through — in other words, the king of Thailand has veto power on most major matters.
|
|
On Monday, the United States, using its veto power as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, blocked a Council resolution demanding that the Trump administration rescind its decision.
|
|
The US is the only country to have veto power over major decisions at both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, giving it tremendous power over global cash flows.
|
|
Russia used its veto power at the UN Security Council Wednesday to block a draft resolution demanding that the Syrian government cooperate with a probe into the April 4 chemical weapons attack.
|
|
Lower Saxony, which has a veto power on VW's supervisory board and holds a fifth of VW's voting rights, currently sees no legal basis to claim damages, Weil told Welt am Sonntag.
|
|
The plan is expected to sail through Hong Kong's legislature in the first half of next year as opposition lawmakers have lost their veto power after a series of controversial court cases.
|
|
Strom Thurmond gave senators a week to lodge an objection, giving them a sort of veto power but preventing them from holding onto blue slips as a way to block a nominee.
|
|
Critics, including major political parties, had denounced the constitution before the vote, saying it would stifle democracy by giving unelected lawmakers, including those appointed by the military, veto power over elected governments.
|
|
But Grassley has said that process, which is not a formal rule, was not intended to give senators veto power, and has moved Trump nominees forward without both blue slips in hand.
|
|
The two companies announced they were discussing a potential combination in December, but no agreement has been reached that would satisfy the Brazilian government, which holds veto power over Embraer's strategic moves.
|
|
Suu Kyi has little, if any, control over the security forces under a military-drafted constitution that also bars her from the presidency and gives the military veto power over political reform.
|
|
The resolution was passed in the 15-member Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, instead abstaining.
|
|
The deal would maintain the government's so-called golden share in Embraer, a former state enterprise, giving it veto power over certain strategic decisions, including Boeing's current push for a tie-up.
|
|
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Tuesday pushed back plans to end individual member states' veto power on the introduction of a proposed tax on digital revenues by five years to 2025.
|
|
A group of House Democrats on Thursday wrote to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressing concern about possible "veto power" that the NFL exercised over a study on a brain disease.
|
|
The veto power of congressional extremists and the imperative for members seeking advancement to always toe the party line, has led to legislating by the lowest common denominator – usually nothing at all.
|
|
Mr. Pincus said his voting control at Zynga had not given him veto power over outside offers to acquire the company, though it did give him the ability to replace board members.
|
|
Mr. McConnell made it clear from the beginning of the Trump administration that he had no intention of allowing Democrats veto power over nominees to the appellate courts by withholding blue slips.
|
|
It was never really about process, it's about state government doing something they don't want it to do (pricing carbon) in a state where they believe they ought to have veto power.
|
|
It was the eighth time in the six-year-old Syria conflict that Russia, one of the five permanent Security Council members, had used its veto power to shield the Syrian government.
|
|
He sketches some options—extra votes for degree holders, a council of epistocrats with veto power, a qualifying exam for voters—but he doesn't spend much time considering what could go wrong.
|
|
"Egypt's proposal is an effort to maintain a self-claimed colonial era-based water allocation and veto power on any project in the Nile system," the Foreign Ministry said in an Oct.
|
|
"Egypt's proposal is an effort to maintain a self-claimed colonial era-based water allocation and veto power on any project in the Nile system," the Foreign Ministry said in an Oct.
|
|
China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council with veto power over whether the issue will be brought before the ICC, has been reticent about condemning Myanmar's government during the crisis.
|
|
Russia, a key ally of Mr. Assad, has made clear that it will use its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to block Syria's referral to the International Criminal Court.
|
|
The line-item veto has been something presidents have wanted apparently since at least Ulysses S. Grant, and many governors do have line-item veto power for appropriations bills in their states.
|
|
Pakistan is largely shielded by its alliance with China, which has used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to protect it, while propping up Pakistan's sputtering, increasingly isolated economy.
|
|
"China already has shown it can have a veto power over European Union policy," said Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, on the margins of the off-record gathering he convened.
|
|
Without its veto power, Russia would not have been able to block the referral of the crimes in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC), or the opening of desperately needed humanitarian corridors.
|
|
Even today, Flint is under the scrutiny of a "transition advisory board" that has veto power over any local decision, and that has frequently overstepped its professed limited mandate to assure fiscal restraint.
|
|
Batista said the bank viewed the company's new plan positively, though the structure of the current reorganization does not give the BNDES veto power based on its shareholder agreement, which expires in 2019.
|
|
United Nations (CNN)For years, UN countries seeking to stop Russia from assisting the Assad regime militarily in Syria have been blocked by Moscow's veto power as a permanent UN Security Council member.
|
|
Wisconsin's lame-duck Republican-majority legislature called a rare post-election session this week to consider the proposals before Governor-elect Tony Evers takes office in January and can exercise his veto power.
|
|
The Obama administration received widespread backlash for refusing to use its veto power to strike down the resolution, breaking from a longstanding policy of shielding the Middle East ally from U.N. reproaches. Sen.
|
|
Volkswagen has struggled to slim down in the past after the company's works council, which has veto power over major restructuring moves, blocked efforts to sell motorbike brand Ducati and transmissions maker Renk.
|
|
When the aiders and abettors of conflicts, such as Russia, also hold veto power in the same international body trying to hold them accountable, the United States, and its interests, will always lose.
|
|
As a result pro-democracy lawmakers were unable to regain veto power in the city's legislature, a development which could clear the way for the government to introduce its controversial anti-sedition legislation.
|
|
He said the antidoping system relied on checks and balances, including WADA's veto power — such as that exercised in Ms. Mattek-Sands's case — and the athlete's right to appeal to the sports court.
|
|
Federal law through the Clean Water Act essentially gives states veto power over large projects that cut through their rivers and streams if they believe those projects would negatively impact their water quality.
|
|
Despite his majority there, he is still a handful of votes short of a super majority, and opposition party senators have committed to use their veto power over constitutional change to good effect.
|
|
Some of my Democratic colleagues are attempting to rewrite history, falsely claiming that the blue slip courtesy is meant to give a single home-state senator veto power over the president's judicial nominations.
|
|
If I had asked Trump, after the fact, whether I could put some of that material "on the record," it would have been his right to say no, to exercise his veto power.
|
|
More recently, Russia has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council repeatedly to block action against Syria, its ally, based on the monitoring group's reporting on chemical weapons use there.
|
|
Points of tension: The government insisted on a number of concessions, including job guarantees, a seat on the new company's board as well as veto power over appointments of a future chief executive.
|
|
The agreement needs approval from the Brazilian government because it holds a so-called "golden share" in Embraer that gives it veto power over strategic decisions and any change in its controlling interest.
|
|
South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, has declared that there must never be another war on the Korean Peninsula, and suggested he has a veto power over any American decision to use force.
|
|
In a nutshell, Oregon Republicans are exploiting an arcane constitutional provision in order to exert veto power over legislation developed by the Democratic majority, on behalf of an almost entirely white, rural minority.
|
|
Still, even the possibility of a compromise has alarmed some church leaders, who are concerned if the Pope would have real veto power over Beijing's nominations -- or would simply "rubber-stamp" such submissions.
|
|
He also said the EU should take away from EU governments the veto power on tax matters that has so far prevented the introduction of a digital tax in the bloc last year.
|
|
Public opinion may be a factorWith Congress bitterly divided along partisan lines, it&aposs clear the majority of senators — Republicans — will have veto power over any congressional effort to check Trump&aposs actions.
|
|
In his semi-annual report to Congress — the subject of this week's hearings — Mulvaney proposed sweeping legislative changes that would weaken the bureau, including giving Congress pre-emptive veto power over new rules.
|
|
As Agape's lawyers at Nexsen Pruet argued in their appellate brief, there's a bit of a split among the other circuits on whether the Justice Department has absolute veto power over FCA settlements.
|
|
The Brazilian government, which holds veto power over strategic moves at Embraer, would support a partnership in commercial aviation with Boeing but would block any takeover attempt, a senior government official told Reuters.
|
|
Without Republican votes, that means virtually every Democratic Senator will have veto power over legislation, including the Senate's most conservative Dems — think Manchin, Alabama's Doug Jones, Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema, or Colorado's John Hickenlooper.
|
|
While the modification may seem minor, it followed years of confrontations between Macedonia and Greece, a NATO member that had used its veto power to keep its northern neighbor from joining the alliance.
|
|
Yemen: President Trump vetoed a bipartisan resolution that would have forced an end to U.S. military involvement in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, only the second time he has used his veto power.
|
|
Russia has consistently used its veto power in the Security Council to block U.N. action against Assad, and it did so again Wednesday when it blocked a U.S.-led draft resolution condemning the attack.
|
|
Last week, the European Union announced its draft guidelines for negotiating Brexit with the U.K. One controversial provision was that Spain would have veto power over any Brexit deal as it applies to Gibraltar.
|
|
The president's veto power means that for most policies to become law, the party that supports them must control the House and the White House and have more than 60 votes in the Senate.
|
|
Resolution delayed The resolution was held up Wednesday by Russia, which declined to ratify it -- it looked as if the permanent member's veto power would have torpedoed the attempt to hold North Korea accountable.
|
|
The Trump administration pushed for weakening the provisions in the bill giving Congress veto power if the administration eased Russia sanctions, but that provision is included in the agreement with just a clarifying change.
|
|
BNDES Participações SA, the investment arm of Brazil's state development bank BNDES, exercised its veto power over the plan by JBS to move its international division headquarters abroad, the company said in a statement.
|
|
The EU listing process did not include the bloc's 28 member states in a bid to avoid dooming the process from its outset, as each EU nation wields a veto power on tax issues.
|
|
Russia has also used its veto power six times over the past year to block UN Security Council resolutions and prevent the regime from being held accountable for its continuous use of chemical weapons.
|
|
Third, Washington must rally diplomatic support to stop Russia and China from again using their veto power on the UN Security Council to prevent the expansion of humanitarian aid delivery through the Turkish border.
|
|
Picking one this year would give the party a prominent voice to counter the White House going into the 2020 presidential campaign, and veto power in the next round of redistricting of congressional seats.
|
|
Russia used its veto power Friday to block a stopgap measure at the United Nations Security Council that would have temporarily preserved the panel investigating who is using chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict.
|
|
It was circulated after American diplomats held extensive discussions about the language with China and Russia, suggesting that the two will back the measure or at least not block it with their veto power.
|
|
Having what amounts to veto power over candidates for the bench as well as those for United States attorney and federal marshal is a nice perquisite and can help build political support back home.
|
|
But it's too early to tell if Northam's caution will affect turnout in pipeline-affected countries, and there is some rationale for his approach: If elected, he won't have veto power over the pipelines.
|
|
It was the eighth time in the six-year-old Syrian civil war that Russia, one of the five permanent Security Council members, had used its veto power to shield the government in Damascus.
|
|
The June accord was passed when Salvini himself was in government as minister of the interior, it said, and noted that parliament has a veto power on approval of revisions to the ESM treaty.
|
|
Russia and China, which both wield veto power on the Security Council, were key votes in imposing the sanctions in recent years under the "maximum pressure" campaign championed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
|
|
If the democrats fail to recapture the fourth seat, they will lose veto power over most bills in the legislature, which could effectively become a rubber-stamp parliament not unlike Beijing's National People's Congress.
|
|
No amendment can be passed — certainly none that would weaken the power of the military — unless the military acquiesces: According to conventional wisdom, the Constitution itself gives the military veto power over any amendments.
|
|
Earlier this month, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the leader of the Senate Democratic majority, recommended Mr. Gianaris to sit on a little-known state board that could have granted him veto power over the plan.
|
|
The statement from Gillibrand is potentially significant because she could try to block Berman's nomination through the "blue slip" process by which senators have traditionally held veto power over nominees in their home state.
|
|
Most Americans are probably unaware that before the CPSC was allowed to talk about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7's recent explosions, the CPSC had to give Samsung veto power over any statement it made.
|
|
Russia, which has veto power in the council, has been in a tug-of-war with Ukraine since Moscow&aposs 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its support for separatist rebels in the east.
|
|
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the former bloc's republics agreed - by signing the Alma-Ata Protocol - to transfer the Soviet Union U.N. membership to Russia, which included the U.N. Security Council veto power.
|
|
We follow rules, we keep each other apprised of any development in our dating lives, and we have veto power if, for whatever reason, we are uncomfortable with what each other is doing…or who.
|
|
Although the Clean Water Act wasn't meant to give states de facto veto power over energy projects, the law was written and passed by Congress, and it's ultimately up to Congress to address any shortcomings.
|
|
The bill, which is expected to be taken up at some point before the Senate leaves for recess, rebukes Trump by giving Congress newfound veto power over any administration attempt to remove sanctions on Moscow.
|
|
UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (Reuters) - Iran should not face new United Nations Security Council sanctions over recent ballistic missile tests because they do not violate a U.N. resolution, council veto-power Russia said on Monday.
|
|
Their ejection robs the pro-democracy movement of its majority in the portion of Hong Kong's legislature that's democratically elected (some seats are appointed), and its ability to wield veto power over some key legislation.
|
|
The effort is not likely to bear fruit, as Democrats have rejected the idea of outing the anonymous figure, citing safety concerns, and they have veto power over any GOP subpoena requests for witness testimony.
|
|
Worth noting: It's the first time Germany has used its veto power in such a way, and that could have a "snowball effect" across Europe, Larissa Brunner, an analyst with Oxford Analytica, told Caixin Global.
|
|
Democrats won only two of four seats contested in the 70-seat Legislative Council and failed to regain their veto power in Sunday's vote, which was triggered when Beijing forced the disqualification of six lawmakers.
|
|
Ackerman McQueen has said it cannot comply with the July 8 subpoena without giving the NRA veto power over what it hands over, James said in the lawsuit, which was first reported by Bloomberg News.
|
|
In his 31-page ruling, Messitte said the agencies are likely to succeed in showing that the executive order is unlawful because it gives state and local governments veto power over the resettlement of refugees.
|
|
He also threatened to use his line-item veto power to slash more than $850 million in the budget passed by the Legislature, arguing that it did not provide enough revenue to cover projected spending.
|
|
Last year's elections shook the foundation of state politics and paved the way for the nomination of Senator Michael Gianaris — now a prominent Amazon opponent — to a state board with veto power over the deal.
|
|
Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, plan to introduce legislation that would impose strict new congressional oversight and veto power over the Trump administration if it decided to lift sanctions on Russia.
|
|
KDB said a veto power on strategic decisions it held as part of an agreement with GM expired last October, leaving South Korea with few legal options if GM wants to pull out of the country.
|
|
Relinquishing the right to exercise the veto power of a golden share would also reduce the ability of politicians to meddle in companies that for decades provided cronies with lucrative jobs, lawyers and bankers have said.
|
|
And with Florida's congressional redistricting coming up in 2020, when the governor elected this year will have veto power, the reverberations of the 2018 election could be felt in Washington for the next decade and longer.
|
|
Under the preliminary deal with GM, the state-run Korean bank regains the veto power that allows it to block the carmaker's sale of more than 20 percent of its assets, a KDB official has said.
|
|
The government, which holds about 10 percent of Embraer shares through public-sector funds, still has veto power over its military programs and any takeover attempts due to a golden share in the former state enterprise.
|
|
HONG KONG, March 12 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp failed on Monday to win enough seats to regain some veto power in the city's 70-seat legislature in a closely fought and pivotal by-election.
|
|
The old Cold War enemies have blamed each other in several UN Security Council meetings on Syria, during which Russia has used its veto power as a permanent member to shoot down resolutions on the conflict.
|
|
Germany wants regulators to take a global view of markets, take into account rivals backed by state financial and political support and give veto power to the European Council — that is the leaders of member states.
|
|
Though the Majlis approved these two bills, the Guardian Council — a 12-member body appointed by Iran's Supreme Leader that has veto power over legislation it regards as contrary to the regime's Islamist ideology — rejected them.
|
|
There's undoubtedly a segment of the country that would be happy to have a return to normalcy after Trump, even if that meant Congress remained gridlocked thanks to a Republican Senate minority with effective veto power.
|
|
Changes to the bonus scheme for the current year's pay come amid increasing scrutiny of executive pay, including a "Fat Cat" referendum in 0.94543 giving shareholders a veto power over management and board pay in Switzerland.
|
|
The accord, which Vatican sources said could be signed in Beijing as soon as next week, would give the Vatican a say in the naming of bishops and give the pope final veto power over candidates.
|
|
Deterred by the president's veto power, the GOP-controlled Congress appears reluctant to take more concrete action checking Trump's authority, even as many lawmakers contend the widening trade conflicts will harm both American companies and consumers.
|
|
In 2016, the pan-democratic camp won 29 seats - more than enough to wield veto power - but then lost six when these candidates were disqualified after China's national parliament ruled their oaths of office were invalid.
|
|
In 2011, he erupted over the French-led bombing campaign in Libya, blaming Mr. Medvedev for yielding to American pressure and failing to use Russia's veto power at the United Nations Security Council to stop it.
|
|
The conflict is not unique to this state, although it is more acute in places with partisan splits like New York, where Democrats control the city and Republicans have had a veto power in the Senate.
|
|
It only makes sense in the context of white supremacy: the notion that rural white Americans are more authentically American than other groups and deserve outsized representation in its politics and veto power over its legislation.
|
|
Although the military has pulled back from some political institutions in recent years, under the junta-drafted 2008 Constitution it retains control of several critical ministries and, in effect, veto power in Parliament, among other prerogatives.
|
|
Based on the language and intention of the False Claims statute, as well as precedent from the 25th and 26th Circuits, the 53th Circuit ruled the Justice Department has absolute veto power over qui tam settlements.
|
|
But that support seemed to have been drowned out this month, when Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader, selected Senator Michael Gianaris, the deal's most vocal opponent, for a state board with potential veto power.
|
|
On Friday, Mr. Cuomo accused the Senate of "governmental malpractice" in its approach to the plan, particularly the proposed appointment of a prominent Amazon critic, State Senator Michael Gianaris, to a board with potential veto power.
|
|
The Republican Party — which has openly acknowledged their desire to suppress college students' votes — has effectively blocked the bill in the Senate and will probably kill any similar bill in states where it has veto power.
|
|
The polls were triggered when six pro-democracy lawmakers were ousted from public office over invalid oaths of office in a move that critics said was politically motivated - a move that cost them their veto power.
|
|
"Our economists believe that the President's veto power and the lack of political consensus regarding appropriate trade policy reduce the likelihood that either Democrats or Republicans enact legislation that will resolve the ongoing trade tensions," Kostin wrote.
|
|
Suu Kyi has little if any control over the security forces under a military-drafted constitution that bars her from the presidency and gives the military control of the security services and veto power over political reform.
|
|
The structure of the current plan, which leaves JBS SA in Brazil as the overriding corporate structure to oversee its beef business, does not fall under the veto power of the BNDES, the company's No. 2 shareholder.
|
|
What they're not saying: Kupor neglects to mention that these provisions don't just give the preferred shareholder a vote or a seat at the table; rather, they give the VC unilateral veto power over all such actions.
|
|
Russia has a long record of vetoing resolutions pushed by the US. Last week, it used its veto power to block an attempt to condemn the killing of dozens of people in a suspected Syrian chemical attack.
|
|
Corker argued there were senators who want to make changes to the bill, and specifically he's mentioned giving Congress veto power over removing North Korean sanctions, known as congressional review, just as the legislation allows for Russia.
|
|
The legislation, which cleared the Senate 98-2, would hit Russia with new sanctions for its meddling in the 2016 US election and give Congress veto power if the Trump administration tries to ease sanctions on Russia.
|
|
By using the National Emergencies Act to boost the figure to $8 billion, Trump is effectively rewriting the new law, just as Clinton, by using the line item veto power, was effectively rewriting the budget in 1997.
|
|
"We continue to work to find common ground, but as I told the President, we can't get a bill if he and the GOP give the gun lobby veto power," Murphy tweeted after his call with Trump.
|
|
If forced to vote, however, the GOP will likely fall in line behind Trump (who has veto power) and Pai, and the resolution will likely bring back painful memories of a similar vote from this past spring.
|
|
Drummond also once repped GV on the board of Uber, by far GV's most lucrative investment, has been referred to as GV's chairman and has at times had de facto veto power over deals, per multiple sources.
|
|
FPM, the largest Christian party, has been seeking a third of the cabinet's expected seats, according to political sources, a share that would effectively afford it a veto power which it also enjoyed under the previous government.
|
|
In December 2018, Khamenei appointed Sadegh as the chairman of the Expediency Council, which adjudicates disputes between Iran's parliament and the Guardian Council, a 12-member body that has veto power over bills passed by the parliament.
|
|
"We're still in the stage of hope, of trying to figure out a way to preserve the work that's been done ... but we are realistic and know the president always has that bully pulpit" and veto power.
|
|
Shortly after the embassy announcement in December, Haley had exercised the US veto power at the UN to sink a Security Council resolution critical of the White House's unilateral move to recognize the city as Israel's capital.
|
|
He even suggested that the Senate Democrats had engaged in a form of "government corruption" by nominating a vocal opponent of the deal, Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, to a board with possible veto power over it.
|
|
The opposition, however, still has a chance to claw back that veto power when the by-elections are held for the remaining two seats vacated by the disqualifications - though no date for those contests has been set.
|
|
These sources say the terms effectively gave Lightspeed veto power over investment at Snap and made Snap unattractive for other investors who might not be able to take as large a stake in the company as they'd like.
|
|
Negotiating changes to the Russia bill The biggest dispute with the bill between the Senate and the White House is over the provision that gives Congress veto power if the Trump administration tries to ease sanctions on Russia.
|
|
The bill is one of the first major pieces of legislation that was sent to Trump's desk, and it represents a rebuke of the President by giving Congress new veto power to block him from removing Russia sanctions.
|
|
Engel pointed out years later, when Bush was looking to build consensus in the UN Security Council in 1991 for action against Iraq during the First Gulf War, China didn't use its veto power against the United States.
|
|
While Spain does not have unilateral veto power, it is likely that other members of the European Union would be hesitant to sign onto the Brexit deal if Spain does not support it, according to the Financial Times.
|
|
However, to suggest that a regional or non-regional shareholder should have veto power over and above other members is in stark contradiction to the collective vision and spirit of the founding fathers of the African Development Bank.
|
|
Yet within Facebook's engineering department, the push has been hampered by a multi-layered hiring process that gives a small committee of high-ranking engineers veto power over promising candidates, frustrating recruiters and hindering progress on diversity goals.
|
|
As the largest shareholder of the 22019-member World Bank, the United States is the only country that possesses veto power, assuring a strong voice for U.S. economic, national security, and diplomatic interests and priorities at the institution.
|
|
But in announcing that he would not close the state government, Mr. Murphy left himself with two options: he could sign the budget as it is or use his line-item veto power to remove specific spending provisions.
|
|
China could also do things like more aggressively expand its territorial claims and defense installations in the South China Sea or block all US-backed activity at the UN through its veto power on the UN Security Council.
|
|
And while they claim they didn't really see the backlash coming, I like my friend Bobby McKenna's take on this: Every start-up needs a vice president of common sense, with complete veto power over any controversial ideas.
|
|
Mr. de Blasio's relationship with the teachers' union has led some to suggest that Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and former president of the city union, will have veto power over the choice.
|
|
Even when Mr. Obama was in power, the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ended its veto power over changes in election procedures in a range of mostly Southern states.
|
|
The Russians used their veto power at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to block a Western-backed resolution condemning the Khan Sheikhoun attack and demanding cooperation from the Syrian government in determining who had been responsible.
|
|
Mr. Abbott's veto could be reversed next week when a federal judge in Maryland is expected to rule on whether Mr. Trump exceeded his authority with the executive order that gave local governments veto power over refugee resettlement.
|
|
The 2016 Republican platform instructs Congress to divest "certain federally controlled public lands" to the states, without specifying which lands, and to amend the Antiquities Act, giving Congress and the states veto power over designation of national monuments.
|
|
"Officials want to have veto power over cross-border deals to ensure they are in line with national economic and strategic goals," Yanmei Xie, a China policy analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, wrote in a recent note.
|
|
One proposed law, already approved by Parliament and awaiting President Andrzej Duda's signature, would reconfigure the National Council of the Judiciary, which chooses those eligible to become judges, so that government-appointed members would essentially have veto power.
|
|
The selection of a vocal Amazon opponent to a crucial state board with potential veto power over the deal riled those inside Amazon — and inside of the governor's mansion — according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
|
|
After days of protests, President Andrzej Duda vetoed two controversial bills Monday that would have allowed the Law and Justice party to replace all Supreme Court justices and have veto power in the selection of other judicial candidates.
|
|
Hong Kong's democratic opposition failed to win back a crucial legislative council seat in an election on Sunday that would have restored some of its veto power at a time when the China-ruled city's freedoms are under strain.
|
|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A final United Nations memo on Britain, Germany, Sweden and Jordan's withdrawals of police from a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan without telling the world body, left out draft language questioning Britain's Security Council veto power.
|
|
" And UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Tobias Ellwood, tweeted Wednesday that Russia's use of its veto power at the UN Security Council "will not prevent individuals committing potential crimes against humanity from being held to account.
|
|
Russia has veto power in the council and it&aposs been in a tug-of-war with Ukraine since Moscow&aposs annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in early 2014 followed by its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
|
|
Idemitsu said in August that the earlier share sale had diluted the founding family's stake in the company to about 26 percent, from more than a third previously, eliminating the family's veto power over a buyout of Showa Shell.
|
|
To complicate matters, Italy is now in the midst of a constitutional crisis following the controversial use by the president last weekend of his veto power to prevent the Five-Star Movement and the League from forming a government.
|
|
The United States, with its voting share of about 16 percent, in effect has veto power, giving it outsize influence over decisions like what projects and countries the institutions fund as well as the conditions attached to the funding.
|
|
A bipartisan group of 88 senators voted to approve a nonbinding resolution that would be a first move toward giving Congress veto power over future tariffs imposed for reasons of national security, such as the steel and aluminum tariffs.
|
|
China also does not hold formal veto power in the AIIB as it recognizes that the basis of its power is ensuring its trading partners become more informally economically dependent on them, rather than formal control over AIIB affairs.
|
|
" Mnuchin later said on Fox News Sunday, "I think they should give the president a line-item veto," to which the show's host, Chris Wallace, noted that line-item veto power has "been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
|
|
Under the terms of the trust, Ms. Gorelick will review all new deals for Ms. Trump's brand, and flag any potential conflicts of interest to Ms. Trump, who can exercise veto power or recuse herself from White House business.
|
|
Russia, which has supported Assad with airstrikes since September 2015, has used its veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council six times to shoot down UN resolutions on the conflict, while China has vetoed five of those six.
|
|
So if a party wins even one of those three — the governorship, state House, or state Senate — they'll avoid the disaster of a shutout, and guarantee themselves a seat at the table (or at least effective veto power) for redistricting.
|
|
The newly reinvigorated and unified pro-democratic camp will be targeting marginal seats in an attempt to wrest back veto power in the legislature, and pro-Beijing lawmakers have already warned that the controversies over the bill could cost them seats.
|
|
The city's opposition had also squandered an earlier chance to regain their veto power, garnering only two of four seats in a March by-election and leaving them one seat short of blocking most bills in the 70-seat chamber.
|
|
Angola said last week it had proposed that the U.N. Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, but veto-power Russia has said it was opposed to such a move as it did not believe it would be helpful.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thomas Shannon, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said on Tuesday the United States would use its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block any sale of Su-30 fighter aircraft to Iran.
|
|
Veto-power Russia said last month it was opposed to an arms embargo on South Sudan or blacklisting Kiir and Machar as such moves were not helpful to the implementation of a peace deal agreed by the pair in August.
|
|
Russia, which has supported Assad with airstrikes since September 2015, has used its veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council six times to shoot down UN resolutions on the conflict, while China has vetoed five of those six.
|
|
"Complete independence and separation between the three branches, however, are not attained, or intended," Taft wrote, laying out numerous instances of overlapping powers, from the veto power to impeachment and removal to pardons to holding up appropriations or presidential appointments.
|
|
They are an important signal to Congress of what the administration wants in spending bills, and given that Trump is an infamously mercurial actor with veto power, you can bet that congressional power brokers will take that message very, very seriously.
|
|
The administration officials, who were career civil servants, expressed concerns during the meeting about the congressional review provisions in the bill, which would give Congress veto power if the White House tries to loosen sanctions on Russia, according to the staffers.
|
|
Veto power rests only with the President, and Clinton only got one vote on the committee.. Schweizer even admitted that Schweizer even admitted that no evidence existed that she or the Clinton Foundation influenced the decision in any significant way.
|
|
The prince's veto power makes the monarchy one of the few in Europe with political authority, although Liechtensteiners have the right to hold a referendum to revoke their confidence in the prince should at least 1,500 citizens support the idea.
|
|
Atlantia's co-investors in Abertis, ACS and Hochtief, over the past year have exercised at least twice their veto power to block internal moves aimed at achieving synergies following their joint takeover of the Spanish builder, Il Sole 300 Ore reported.
|
|
To the relief of New York City officials, the budget did not include Mr. Cuomo's proposal to give a state agency veto power over individual affordable housing projects paid for with federal tax-exempt bonds the state gives to municipalities.
|
|
Veto Power Impedes Peace Efforts: Eliminating "the scourge of war" is one of the original goals of the United Nations, and the Security Council is the arm of the organization with the mandate, and the tools, to prevent and end conflict.
|
|
And on Thursday, Gorsuch proved that he truly is his mother's son, handing down an opinion in which he threatens to give Republicans on the Supreme Court veto power over countless federal regulations—and potentially render the EPA an impotent husk.
|
|
Pressure on Russia International calls are growing louder for a political solution to end the war -- something that has evaded the Security Council for years, with Russia using its veto power as one of five permanent members to block resolutions.
|
|
Earlier this year, Security Council veto power Russia said it was opposed to an arms embargo because Moscow did not believe it would be helpful to the implementation of a peace deal agreed to by Kiir and Machar last August.
|
|
And while Congress does not have similar veto power, it was able to strike down last month an arbitration rule from the bureau that would have allowed millions of Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against Wall Street firms.
|
|
If a report by the panel, due next Thursday, finds Mr. Assad's side responsible, the Russians have indicated they will use their veto power in the United Nations Security Council to terminate the mandate of the panel leading the investigation.
|
|
While he would be "less likely" to grant a hearing to a district court nominee who didn't have support of their home-state senators, he would no longer allow a home-state senator to "wield veto power" over appellate nominees.
|
|
They want to remain a separate institution, keeping their arms while wielding political power as a bloc in Parliament, where they can use "veto power" to stall, block, and thwart legislation to cripple the government — another lesson learned from Hezbollah.
|
|
But any action in the Security Council is likely to be blocked by Russia and China, permanent members with veto power, that have consistently impeded efforts to punish Myanmar as they have sought to cultivate relations with the country's military leaders.
|
|
The company would not agree to come to New York City, Mr. de Blasio said, unless it could be assured it would not have to go through the lengthy process of approvals that would give the City Council veto power.
|
|
Whether it be a portion of the Texas electorate or state and federal redistricting, the major cities could soon have veto power over the wishes of the rural areas of the state, similar to that of Chicago or New York City.
|
|
The 74-year old Zhengfei Ren officially owns just 1.14% of privately held Huawei, but retains absolute authority, according to insiders at the firm, where he holds veto power and where his speeches are regularly circulated to all staff for study.
|
|
It remains to be seen, however, how much interest funds will show as they probably would want majority control or at the very least a 33.4 percent stake that would give them veto power over board decisions, a financial source said.
|
|
" He said that if the press were required to obtain a certificate of compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act every time an advertisement made "mere mention" of elected officials, the government would effectively be granted a "veto power over publication.
|
|
DEMS FRET OVER NFL INFLUENCE ON RESEARCH A group of House Democrats on Thursday wrote to the National Institutes of Health expressing concern about possible "veto power" that the National Football League exercised over a study on a brain disease.
|
|
Under the preliminary deal with GM, the Korean state-run bank regains a veto power that allows it to block the carmaker's sale of more than 20 percent of its assets, a KDB official said, declining to give further details.
|
|
The upper stratum of the Washington lobbying community often exercises de facto veto power over the legislative process, dominating congressional policymaking, funneling campaign money to both parties and offering lucrative employment to retiring and defeated members of the House and Senate.
|
|
The by-election marked the first time the democratic camp has lost its long standing veto power via the ballot box, raising fresh questions over the future of the struggle for democracy and autonomy in the freest city in greater China.
|
|
The Republican-controlled House has passed a trio of bills that would give Congress effective veto power over future regulations advanced by the Federal Communications Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and a host of other federal government agencies.
|
|
"I hope this will be the last budget to be approved via long and complicated negotiations with Brussels," Salvini said in an interview with newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, adding that he hoped EU veto power on state finances would soon be shelved.
|
|
Michael Flynn and Keith Kellogg, two close advisers to Trump, had not been invited but joined the group in progress anyway, with Flynn bearing instructions from Trump's son-in-law and consigliore, Jared Kushner, to exercise veto power over all national security decisions.
|
|
The Commission, led by Luxembourg's former prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, declined to use a neglected rule that would allow tax reforms to be adopted by a majority, a move that could have effectively ended the veto power when competition is distorted.
|
|
Federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge on Friday to deny a request from President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, that would give his attorneys veto power over what materials seized from Cohen by the FBI could be used by prosecutors.
|
|
To do that, Bickerton's biggest weapon is a trademark — one that some experts deem overly broad and open to challenges — that effectively gives Boise State veto power over anyone looking to add a splash of color to anything but its end zones.
|
|
"At least 10 years will be guaranteed," Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon said in a radio interview, adding that one key condition of the deal will be Korea Development Bank, which owns 17 percent of GM Korea, regaining veto power over asset sales.
|
|
Gandhi vowed to implement a long-delayed law on tribal rights if the party is voted into power, and accused the BJP of diluting the Forest Rights Act (2006) and an earlier law that gave indigenous communities veto power over protected land.
|
|
The back story: The bill was one of the first pieces of major legislation Congress sent Trump, and it served as a slap on the wrist: lawmakers gave themselves a new veto power to block the President from removing sanctions on Russia.
|
|
On Sunday, Mr. McConnell — whose only original idea was announcing after President Obama's inauguration in 2009 that the Republicans' sole agenda would be opposing Mr. Obama — said that the National Rifle Association should have veto power over the next Supreme Court appointment.
|
|
The Republican-controlled House has passed a trio of bills that would give Congress effective veto power over future regulations advanced by the Federal Communications Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and a host of other federal government agencies.
|
|
The board is led by an appointee of the governor, but gives veto power to the Assembly speaker and the Senate leader, through their representatives, said E.J. McMahon, research director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a research organization in Albany.
|
|
Russia has prevented any real action against Assad at the UN Security Council, where it has used its veto power to impede efforts to hold Assad accountable for his actions, including ending an extended investigation into the regime's potential use of chemical weapons.
|
|
"It's still a long shot, but you only get one chance to make a lot of noise about the demise of the filibuster and to try to preserve a mechanism that gives the minority some degree of veto power," Mr. Hasen said.
|
|
" The paralysis in Kabul so concerned Washington that President Barack Obama chided both leaders in a videoconference call in March, telling Abdullah, "The political agreement that you signed with President Ghani, as far as we know, did not give you veto power.
|
|
Worse still, even if Democrats take back Congress this year and the White House in 2020, they'll have to get every new progressive policy past an unfriendly, far-right high court that will wield de facto veto power over the other two branches of government.
|
|
Its representative said at the two-day meeting&aposs opening that the Security Council was the only place to discuss such issues and that an adoption of the proposal would undermine the U.N. Russia has veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council.
|
|
Democrats' weakening of the filibuster against nominees in 2013 and a recent Republican decision to limit the veto power of home-state senators over judicial candidates have left few avenues to impede Mr. Trump and his Senate allies in their determination to fill judicial openings.
|
|
But getting North Korean officials in front of the ICC requires a referral by the UN Security Council — which is highly unlikely to come about, given the veto power granted to the isolated state's traditional allies China and Russia, as permanent members of the council.
|
|
Miller, who also leads the NIRH Action Fund, adds that changes in the Governor's races in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, and New Mexico could be "game-changing" because even if the legislatures remain hostile to abortion rights, a governor's veto power could hold the line.
|
|
While there have been concerns that the group of anti-establishment forces could extend the political paralysis in Hong Kong with their veto power, HSBC's co-head of Asian economic research Fred Neumann said there may be a silver lining to the election result.
|
|
The U.N. resolution passed in the 15-member Security Council because the United States, under the administration of former President Barack Obama, did not wield its veto power and instead abstained, breaking with its long-standing tradition of diplomatically shielding Israel at the international body.
|
|
The strategy, more about politics than advancing the battle lines, appears to be designed to pressure rebels to ally themselves with extremists, eroding the rebels' legitimacy; give Russia veto power over any high-level diplomacy; and exhaust Syrian civilians who might otherwise support the opposition.
|
|
The bills include measures to codify work requirements for some Medicaid recipients and allowing the legislature veto power over whether to join or withdraw from various types of litigation, including a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate Obamacare to which Wisconsin is a party.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter's lead sponsors said on Friday.
|
|
The bills also looked to reduce the number of early voting days and gives the Legislature veto power over whether to join or withdraw from various types of litigation, including a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate Obamacare to which Wisconsin is a party.
|
|
As the parties attempted to finalize the terms, Cohen wanted assurances he would have influence on financial matters, veto power on certain spending issues and, after combing through the team's finances, a reduced sale price, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.
|
|
By virtue of Russia's veto power on the U.N. Security Council and its geostrategic location next to Europe, the Korean Peninsula, and the Middle East, attempts by the West to confront international security challenges are more difficult to resolve without Russian buy-in or support.
|
|
But to get the support of Russia and China, which have veto power in the council, the sanctions were watered down from the Trump administration's original goal of banning all oil imports and freezing international assets of the North Korean government and its leader.
|
|
Here are some major 2018 races we're watching in those states expected to gain (or lose) Electoral College votes after 2020: Key governors races: (all would have veto power over their state's redrawn district lines) Oregon (+20143 vote) has a close race between Democratic Gov.
|
|
The whistleblower is on a list of witnesses Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee want to see testify this week and submitted to Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) this weekend, though Schiff has veto power over those requests and shut that notion down late Saturday.
|
|
Finally, even if the Trump administration did manage to get eight other countries to support such a measure, a permanent member veto would be likely, as Russia, China, Britain, and France — all of whom have veto power — all supported Friday's measure, which passed 14-0.
|
|
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp failed on Monday to regain some veto power in the city's legislature in a pivotal by-election, struggling to draw what they hoped would be protest votes against creeping control from Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
|
|
He said the president had done so to undermine an accusation by Senator Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, that the administration had effectively put the United Nations in charge of the American military by giving the secretary general veto power over airstrikes against Serbs in Bosnia.
|
|
Though the real reason for the about face is known only in the secretive halls of the royal palace, consider this: Saudi Arabia has held the mantle as the world leader in oil for decades, and has largely enjoyed veto power on all things concerning oil.
|
|
The pluralistic structure of old-school nominations — especially in the Democratic side, where a rule stipulating that nominees had to win two-thirds of delegates held up for 100 years — protected the veto power of the states that became the Confederacy and the Jim Crow South.
|
|
But many governors have veto power over state legislative maps -- which means winning governor's races in 2018 would give Democrats some ability to block the Republican map-making process that allowed them to lock in their gains after the 2010 election for the rest of the decade.
|
|
But a day later, the same resolution was resurrected by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela, and the United States made the historic decision not to use its veto power on the Council to block one-sided anti-Israel resolutions and allowed this one to pass.
|
|
But now, with incoming Democratic governors set to have veto power over the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census, a handful of states are confronting either court challenges to the existing districts or new, more equitable rules for drawing the next decade of legislative boundaries.
|
|
That could lead to Beijing rebuffing US calls that it do more to rein in North Korea, using its veto power at the UN Security Council to block any American-backed initiatives, and flatly refusing to engage in formal talks over climate change or trade-related issues.
|
|
In April, the US delegation to the United Nations successfully used the threat of its veto power on the UN Security Council to demand significant changes to a resolution on sexual violence, because the resolution contained language about "sexual and reproductive health," sources confirmed to CNN.
|
|
State Senator Leroy Comrie, a Queens Democrat who recently replaced Mr. Gianaris as the nominee to the obscure but powerful Public Authorities Control Board (it would have had veto power over the Amazon deal), issued a statement on Friday that stressed his willingness to work with Amazon.
|
|
Salvini has called for the sanctions to be lifted before, but on Monday he ratcheted up his demands – saying he wanted them gone by the end of the year, and that he could be prepared to use Italy's veto power in the European Union to achieve this.
|
|
At the same time, some supporters of Israel think that having the strong backing of the United States could help neutralize the issue on the international agenda, with Washington's veto power at the UN Security Council tacitly keeping European and other countries less inclined to act against Israel.
|
|
" The Foreign Ministry in China, the North's only major ally and its protector in the U.N. Security Council, where Beijing wields veto power, expressed "regret that, disregarding the opposition from the international community, the (North) side obstinately insisted in carrying out a launch by using ballistic missile technologies.
|
|
CFIUS, led by the U.S. Treasury and with representatives from eight other agencies, including the departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security, now has veto power over acquisitions from foreign private and state-controlled firms if it finds that a deal would threaten U.S. national security or critical infrastructure.
|
|
Considering just how important the Pennsylvania gerrymander has been for Republicans' control of the House — and considering that a Democratic governor and then a Democrat-controlled Supreme Court will have veto power of the new map — it seems all but certain that the new map will help Democrats.
|
|
Russia sanctions Congressional negotiators reached a deal over the weekend to hit Russia with fresh sanctions and give the legislative branch new veto power to block any easing of those sanctions -- an agreement that could send a new bill to Trump's desk before the end of the month.
|
|
Walker did not say what he would do with the bills that were passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature in a lame duck session, but said that he is considering vetoing aspects of the bill and asking government lawyers to determine the extent of his veto power.
|
|
And because Southern Democrats wielded disproportionate power in Congress—the 34 senators representing those 17 racially segregated states essentially had veto power on any legislation they didn't want—the only way any of this legislation could pass was if Republicans agreed not to attach any anti-discrimination provisions.
|
|
At the same time, they are also trying to beat back a property tax cap for the city — supported by Republicans in the State Senate — and to thwart a proposal that would give the state veto power over housing projects in the city that use tax-exempt federal bonds.
|
|
The first formal impeachment effort against a president came in 1843 when a House member introduced a resolution calling for an inquiry against President John Tyler for "arbitrary, despotic and corrupt abuse of the veto power" after he rejected two tariff bills favored by his own Whig Party.
|
|
On Monday, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, had to resort to America's veto power to block a United Nations Security Council resolution, drafted by Egypt, that demanded Mr. Trump to rescind his decision on Jerusalem, and his plans to move the American Embassy there.
|
|
The main reason it passed is because the US declined to exercise its veto power at the council to shoot it down, as it often does; the Obama administration did so in order to demonstrate its frustration with Israel's refusal to stop building new settlements or expanding existing ones.
|
|
The 86-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong, recently rebuked by the Vatican after he said it had "sold out" China's faithful, said sources told him that under the framework agreement the pope would have the final veto power over bishops who are effectively chosen by the Chinese government.
|
|
The Hong Kong government said it would seek to put draft laws to its legislature by early February to implement the plan, but the bill is expected to be voted through without strong resistance after a series of controversial court cases stripped the opposition pro-democracy camp of its veto power.
|
|
The strike eventually earned women veto power for all future wars; according to the Global Non-Violent Action Database, this is considered the first feminist rebellion in the US. Similarly, in 2006, in the Colombian town of Periera, the partners of gang members protested violence by refusing to have sex.
|
|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would call for a truce in northwestern Syria "to avoid a further deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation," though diplomats said on Thursday that such a move is likely to face opposition from veto-power Russia.
|
|
Not only could they take back a Great Plains state governorship — winning veto power in the next round of redistricting — but they could also pick up a pair of House seats, making Kansas as pivotal to the battle for control of the House as more traditional, and more liberal, battleground states.
|
|
At a time when Mr. de Blasio is battling neighborhood resistance to his plan for 90 new homeless shelters, City Council members from Staten Island to the Bronx — who have veto power over such projects — have expressed reservations if not outright hostility to the idea of constructing jails in their backyards.
|
|
It is the first time in his two years in office that Trump has used his presidential veto power to block legislation and comes after a dozen Senate Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke Trump's use of his national emergency power to bypass Congress and fund construction of a border wall.
|
|
"Following a successful 2017 in which we helped elect Ralph Northam to be Virginia's first Democratic governor with veto power over redistricting since 1991, we are gearing up and excited for the important tasks in front of us in 2018 and beyond," said executive director Kelly Ward, referring to Gov.
|
|
"Russia's failure to resolve the chemical weapons issue in Syria calls into question its relevance to the resolution to the overall crisis," said Tillerson, who called on Russia to stop using its veto power to block United Nations Security Council actions related to the Assad regime's use of such weapons.
|
|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations officials have questioned if Britain is worthy of being a veto-power on the Security Council after the country withdrew police officers from a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan during recent violence without consulting the world body, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
|
|
Its insistence on a number of concessions, including job guarantees, a seat on the new company's board as well as veto power over appointments of a future chief executive, appeared to be only the tip of the iceberg should a deal go through, according to the people with knowledge of Fiat's position.
|
|
Furthermore, the legislation referenced would block bedrock conservation statutes and judicial review while allowing state gubernatorial veto power over federal land management decisions on public lands—an unprecedented shift in management authority to the states that is reminiscent of other efforts to force our public lands into state and, likely, private control.
|
|
In the event of no consensus, he said the European Commission would begin working on a proposal for an EU digital tax from next summer and would seek to take away from EU governments the veto power on tax matters that prevented the introduction of a digital levy in the bloc last year.
|
|
"We are concerned about the potential implications of outside entities attempting to exercise 'veto power' or other influence over the selection of NIH research applicants, and we therefore seek to better understand the role the NFL has played in the allocation and administration of its $30 million 'unrestricted' donation," the lawmakers write.
|
|
While most of its 15 members would agree with the United States and France about a likely violation of resolution 22311, Russia and China, which have veto power, made clear during negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal they did not agree with continuing the U.N. restrictions on Tehran's missile program and arms trade.
|
|
The political deal would need to be followed by a compromise on technical issues before becoming operational, but the unusually short period to reach a consensus would represent a rare example of EU cohesion on tax matters, where usually states block or slow down talks for years, exploiting their veto power on tax issues.
|
|
The JCPOA was built to respond to Iranian violations, even if Russia and China were no longer aligned with the United States and the EU. It was not designed to withstand a hawkish or isolationist America using its veto power outside of the terms of the deal or against the objections of its European partners.
|
|
Known as "Big Luther" thanks to his 6-foot-9-inch (2.1-meter) frame, Strange has a close alliance with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is under fire from Trump for failing to push his agenda through Congress and refusing to eliminate a filibuster that gives Democrats veto power over many key bills.
|
|
But of the five permanent members of the Security Council, which have the final say because of their veto power, only Britain openly championed the idea of a woman — "all things being equal," the British ambassador Matthew Rycroft repeatedly said — until a man whom the British liked scored highest on the first informal poll.
|
|
Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Utah) sponsored the national monument amendment, which would give states and Congress veto power over the president's ability to protect land from development.
|
|
" Ann E. Marimow and Maria Sachetti report: "'Giving states and local governments the power to consent to the resettlement of refugees — which is to say veto power to determine whether refugees will be received in their midst — flies in the face of clear Congressional intent,' [District Judge Peter] Messitte wrote in a 21-page decision.
|
|
Last December, as genocide raged in Aleppo, President Obama decided to use his last weeks in office not to protect Arab children being murdered with mustard gas but to assail the Jewish state at the U.N., breaking America's long-standing tradition of using its veto power to protect Israel from unfair attacks in the Security Council.
|
|
Because most governors have veto power over redistricting maps made by state lawmakers, Democratic governors have spent the year arguing that this year is their only chance at installing a check on Republican-dominated legislatures and preventing maps that would give the GOP a major advantage in the battle for control of Congress for another decade.
|
|
But the talks, which moved into high gear late last year, are advancing at a politically fraught time in Brazil, and the Brazilian government — which owns a so-called golden share that gives it veto power over any change in ownership at Embraer — could derail a deal the two companies are said to be racing to complete.
|
|
Instead, Mr. Priebus interpreted that as a license to forge an alliance with Mr. Kushner, though the first son-in-law has felt free to use his veto power over the chief of staff, including by siding with others to keep Mr. Priebus from promoting his preferred choices for his deputy, according to four West Wing aides.
|
|
As one of the body's five permanent members, the U.S. wields veto power over any resolution, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE is almost certain to shoot the measure down.
|
|
Yet, on paper, this structure beats one in which the dominant country has unbridled veto power, a situation that now rankles other members of the I.M.F. and the World Bank For its lending through the Asian infrastructure bank, China has indicated it will choose only projects that meet the highest standards in terms of corporate governance, environmental impact and commercial integrity.
|
|
The militant stance by Hamas leaders poses a problem not only for Israel and the United States, but also for Mr. Abbas, who has vowed not to let Gaza morph into a Lebanon-like situation, where, like Hezbollah, Hamas's heavily armed fighters wield the ultimate veto power over an enfeebled civilian government that bears responsibility for the difficult work of delivering public services.
|
|
All of which prompted Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyWhite House denies exploring payroll tax cut to offset worsening economy Schumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord GOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation MORE (R-Iowa) to clarify that the blue slip does not give senators such a veto power.
|
|
The Sanders left wing won't have veto power, but Biden might not want to tap someone who exacerbates tensions — that might apply to Minnesota Senator and unsuccessful presidential aspirant Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharDemocratic senators ask IRS to extend tax filing deadline amid coronavirus outbreak Biden now has a route to the Oval Office — if he navigates the challenges Sanders's path narrows as losses mount MORE.
|
|
" Surrogates were told to point out that Russia "used its veto power six times over the past year to block UN Security Council resolutions" that would have held Syria accountable for using chemical weapons and that, "Most egregiously, Russia took away the world's ability to attribute the chemical weapons attacks in Syria by vetoing the renewal of the UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism -- an impartial, independent technical body mandated to investigate responsibility for chemical weapons use in Syria.
|
|
Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 22019 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D) will oppose David Stras, President Trump's nominee to serve on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, putting to test the Senate tradition of giving home-state senators veto power over judicial nominees.
|
|
Last month, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: 'No mistake' Trump warned Russian diplomat about election tampering Trump admin hits Iranian shipping network, airline with new sanctions The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - An unusual day: Impeachment plus a trade deal MORE announced that the U.S. would not recognize Israeli settlements as illegal under international law, a rebuke of the Obama administration's decision to refrain from using veto power on U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 that called the settlements illegal.
|
|
In order to get the support of Russia and China, which have veto power in the council, the sanctions were watered down from the Trump administration's original goal of banning all oil imports and freezing international assets of the North Korean government and its leader, Kim Jong Un. Palpably frustrated members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee commended the latest U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang, but repeatedly pressed Billingslea and acting Assistant Secretary of State Susan Thornton on how they plan to ensure China enforces them and how the U.S. will punish Beijing if it does not.
|
|