All but three nominations were confirmed with a voice vote.
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The amendment passed by voice vote, eliciting cheers from Democrats.
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The legislation passed unanimously by voice vote, to thunderous applause.
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Passed easily by voice vote, the bill authored by Rep.
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Lawmakers approved the bill in a voice vote Monday afternoon.
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The Senate passed the bill on a voice vote Thursday.
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In a voice vote late Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Gen.
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Sometimes it's able to slip through on a voice vote.
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Two other bills passed by voice vote earlier Tuesday. Rep.
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A voice vote would allow fewer members to be present.
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Lawmakers passed the bill in a voice vote Tuesday afternoon.
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The Marijuana Tax Act was passed on a voice vote.
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He was confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote.
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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) — in a voice vote on Thursday.
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That would have allowed a simple voice vote for passage.
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Both chambers of Congress passed the measure Thursday by voice vote.
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He was confirmed by voice vote by the Republican-controlled Senate.
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The voice vote passed, but not without some 'nays' from delegates.
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It passed the House in a voice vote on December 8.
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The Senate voted to approve the pair via a voice vote.
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Even with his backing, there was a contentious floor voice vote.
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The bill, known as the PRIDE Act, passed by voice vote.
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Wilkie's nomination was advanced by the committee on a voice vote.
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The bipartisan Offshore Wind for Territories Act passed by voice vote.
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Thomas Massie (KY), the bill easily passed by a voice vote.
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On Thursday, the Senate passed the bill on a voice vote.
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The bill was passed through the House on a voice vote.
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The panel approved his nomination by voice vote earlier on Wednesday.
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The bill advanced via voice vote Wednesday afternoon in the committee.
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Lawmakers gave voice-vote approval to the measure authored by Rep.
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The House passed the bill in a voice vote Tuesday afternoon.
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The Bangladesh Parliament approved the new legislation by a voice vote Monday.
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The measure cleared the Senate in a unanimous voice vote on Friday.
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The House passed the bill on a unanimous voice vote Tuesday. Rep.
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That passed out of our committee on a unanimous bipartisan voice vote.
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House rejects amendment to strip bill of WOTUS rider by voice vote.
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The Senate also adopted a package of bipartisan amendments by voice vote.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai will speak last, then hold a voice vote.
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Workman, a former insurance executive and lawyer, was approved by voice vote.
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Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), was approved on a voice vote on Thursday.
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The Senate previously passed the measure by voice vote in early August.
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Both the amendment and overall bill were adopted unanimously by voice vote.
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The Senate passed two amendments Tuesday to the bill by voice vote.
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No Trump nominee for Circuit Court has been confirmed by voice vote.
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The measure passed the House by voice vote last year, but Sen.
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The committee approved by voice vote the nomination of Air Force Gen.
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The Senate passed a similar resolution by unanimous voice vote on Tuesday.
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Will Hurd (R-Tex.) passed by a voice vote back in May.
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The House Appropriations Committee approved by voice vote an amendment from Democratic Rep.
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The financial services and general government subcommittee advanced the bill by voice vote.
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The committee approved him by voice vote, sending him to the Senate floor.
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She was confirmed to her current position in a voice vote in 2013.
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Lawmakers voted on two amendments and approved 15 others by a voice vote.
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It passed the House, 403 to 12, and the Senate by voice vote.
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It passed in the House by a voice vote, according to CBS News.
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The bill passed a committee by voice vote without opposition, according to CNN.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved the amendment on a bipartisan voice vote.
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Both the House and Senate passed the plan by voice vote on Friday.
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He was approved by a voice vote in 2006, marking the vote uncontroversial.
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The two bills approved by voice vote earlier on Tuesday came from Reps.
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The Judiciary Committee granted Restrepo a June hearing and July voice vote approval.
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Brown determined that it did, and the bill passed overwhelmingly by voice vote.
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Tommy Hanes, and was passed by an "overwhelming" voice vote, according to Lathan.
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The measure was approved by voice vote and heads to the House floor.
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The committee held a brief voice vote on the nomination of Lt. Gen.
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The House approved the user fee bill by voice vote on July 12.
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The bill was so broadly supported that it passed on a voice vote.
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The House also passed several smaller IRS bills on Tuesday by voice vote.
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Right after a quick voice vote to strip the amendment chaos broke out. pic.twitter.
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In order to be confirmed quickly by voice vote, the Senate must be unanimous.
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The House unanimous voice vote to fund an array of federal agencies through Feb.
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It passed Tuesday by voice vote with no objections stated on the House floor.
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The House rallied behind the legislation on Friday, passing it by unanimous voice vote.
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The 19-member panel approved the nomination of Scot Marciel unanimously by voice vote.
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McIntyre, Glick, Nelson and Balash were approved by a voice vote, with only Sen.
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The bill, a narrow consensus document, passed the committee unanimously on a voice vote.
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The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act passed the Judiciary Committee on a voice vote.
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Chairmen often move significant policy and spending bills like appropriations measures by voice vote.
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The House Intelligence Committee unanimously approved the bill by voice vote in late June.
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That's what you saw footage of in 2012—the aftermath of that voice vote.
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The House's Democratic leaders announced that they would have a voice vote on Friday.
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The legislation, which is considered noncontroversial, passed the Senate on Tuesday by voice vote.
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It passed easily by a voice vote with support from members of both parties.
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The two nominees cleared the Judiciary Committee earlier this month by a voice vote.
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The panel approved the funding on a bipartisan voice vote a short time later.
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The House adopted the resolution requiring sexual harassment awareness training easily by voice vote.
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The bill has bipartisan support and passed the Judiciary Committee on a voice vote.
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The bill was passed unanimously by a voice vote in the House in October.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Bernstein on a May 2016 voice vote without dissent.
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A third bill was passed on voice vote, though there were audible no votes.
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Before passing its bill, the House adopted by voice vote an amendment from Rep.
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"We can and we will win—if we use our voice, vote, and economic power."
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Senators passed the bill by voice vote roughly a day after the legislation was introduced.
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First came the Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act, which passed by voice vote.
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He was confirmed by a voice vote in 2005 to be U.S. attorney for Maryland.
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The Senate on Wednesday approved the stopgap spending bill without wall money by voice vote.
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The House in April had passed an earlier version of the bill by voice vote.
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In most years, rules are confirmed with a perfunctory voice vote that takes little time.
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It's a "people's voice" vote for the best mobile site and apps on the Internet.
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The legislation passed by voice vote Tuesday with no objections stated on the House floor.
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The letter did not raise the idea of voting via unanimous consent or voice vote.
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The chamber plans to pass the $2 trillion bill by voice vote on Friday morning.
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For years Congress routinely reauthorized the bank by a simple voice vote, with little fanfare.
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Although no agreement was reached, the Senate did approve Northey's nomination by voice vote. Sens.
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The Senate passed the extension of the veterans' choice program by voice vote Tuesday night.
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As part of a group of military promotions, the Senate confirmed by voice vote Adm.
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But he said there will be enough members present to pass the bill on a voice vote -- and he said it would be "wrong" for a member of either party to call for a full vote on the floor, instead of allowing a voice vote.
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Both chambers aim to approve a funding extension by voice vote before Friday's government shutdown deadline.
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The House of Representatives last week passed by a voice vote an amendment authored by Rep.
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The Senate confirmed him by a unanimous voice vote within two weeks of Pierce's young presidency.
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The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) unanimously passed through both chambers by voice vote.
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Getting this bill to the point where it could be passed by voice vote wasn't easy.
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Earlier this year, legislation targeting Syrian President Bashar Assad's foreign backers was approved by voice vote.
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The Science, Space and Technology Committee approved the bill on a unanimous voice vote on Tuesday.
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The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved by voice vote its $575.7 billion defense appropriations bill.
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He was confirmed unanimously by voice vote to lead the Justice Department's Criminal Division in 2003.
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The measure, which was introduced earlier Thursday, passed the Senate by voice vote in the afternoon.
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It sailed through by voice vote at the time, but was not ultimately enacted into law.
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In Congress: The House passed by voice vote Wednesday a resolution that expresses support for NATO.
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The House Judiciary Committee passed the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2015 by a voice vote.
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It encountered no opposition during late-night floor debate and passed without fanfare by voice vote.
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Gilday was confirmed by voice vote as the Senate wrapped up work before its August recess.
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The "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," or JASTA, passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote.
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The panel approved the motion to send the transcripts by voice vote, according to Republican Rep.
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The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote; the House approved it 403 to 12.
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I'm just telling [them] what we're doing, and hopefully we could do it by voice vote.
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But after a voice vote, state party chairman Eric Bauman said that more delegates supported Min.
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The House adopted a similar amendment from Huffman by voice vote during late-night floor debate.
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The House Appropriations Committee adopted Aguilar's amendment during a panel markup last month by voice vote.
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The House additionally passed two other bills by voice vote dealing with human trafficking on Wednesday.
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The Senate approved an amended version of the House legislation in a voice vote on Monday.
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The panel sent the three-nation pact to the full House in a bipartisan voice vote.
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It passed easily by voice vote during late-night floor proceedings with no debate in opposition.
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Republicans were consequently more prepared to keep Huffman's proposal from again passing quietly by voice vote.
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Svinicki passed through a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee vote last week by voice vote.
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As part of a batch of 256 military nominations, the committee advanced by voice vote Adm.
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Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) in the House, which passed the bill by voice vote in June.
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President George Washington's six nominees were confirmed by a voice vote just two days after their nomination.
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The House passed the bill, which would cost $85033 million over 10 years, on a voice vote.
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On May 19, the panel reported her on a voice vote with minimal discussion and no controversy.
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Craft was unanimously confirmed by voice vote to be the US ambassador to Canada in August 2017.
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The House Natural Resources Committee passed the bill by voice vote with strong support from both parties.
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The House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill by voice vote the day after the hearing with Stewart.
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The House also passed legislation by voice vote on Tuesday to authorize more security assistance to Israel.
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With broad, bipartisan support and co-sponsorship, the House passed H.R. 387 by voice vote on Feb.
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Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican on the panel, said the committee approved it unanimously by voice vote.
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"The Senate confirmed him to that last role by a voice vote back in 2005," he said.
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The House passed earlier versions of the bill by voice vote in May 2012 and September 2016.
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The Appropriations Committee subpanel with responsibility for the programs passed the bill by voice vote late Monday.
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The committee reportedly approved the resolution on a voice vote after it was introduced by state Rep.
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He began his job in October 2628 after the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed him by voice vote.
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In a voice vote, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted nearly unanimously to approve Wilkie's nomination. Sen.
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In a voice vote, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted nearly unanimously to approve Wilkie's nomination. Sen.
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House leaders have been trying since last Friday to win quick, unanimous approval on a voice vote.
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The Senate passed the agreement by voice vote as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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On June 16, the panel approved him on a voice vote with little discussion and no controversy.
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The bill now goes to the House where passage on a voice vote is scheduled for Friday.
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We have notified our Members of the possibility that the bill may not pass by voice vote.
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Not a single Democrat said "no" when Joe Negron, the Senate president, asked for a voice vote.
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The Senate on Wednesday passed by voice vote fiscal 28500's nearly $6900 billion defense policy bill.
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On May 19, the panel approved him on a voice vote with little discussion and no controversy.
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The House also passed two noncontroversial bills by voice vote on Wednesday to protect and encourage whistleblowers.
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Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), by voice vote, after vigorous debate that did not fall along party lines.
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On May 19, the committee approved Bernstein on a voice vote after little discussion and without controversy.
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The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee agreed on voice vote Tuesday to back Robert Wilkie, currently a Pentagon undersecretary.
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The House of Representatives passed the bill via voice vote on Tuesday morning, sending it to the Senate.
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The NRA gave the approval in a unanimous voice vote among five commissioners at a meeting on Wednesday.
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IT WAS passed on a hasty voice vote, with only 31 of the Rajya Sabha's 244 members present.
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House Democrats have tried three times since last Friday to win quick, unanimous approval on a voice vote.
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By voice vote, the House on Thursday adopted the measure as part of the 2019 defense authorization bill.
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The previous two motions passed through a voice vote but Sirisena said they hadn't followed the proper procedures.
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In the following days, the bill passed in the House of Representatives on a voice vote without opposition.
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By voice vote, lawmakers advanced legislation that would authorize FAA programs at current funding levels through September 2017.
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Y.) measure, the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots (Creeper) Act, passed by a voice vote on Wednesday.
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The first three nominees passed with a voice vote, but Democrats asked for a recorded vote on Simmons.
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The package of legislation, all aimed at adding scrutiny on the Russian government, largely passed by voice vote.
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Conroy was approved by a voice vote in the House alongside several other officials, despite Wyoming Republican Rep.
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It was adopted by voice vote with support from then-chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, former Rep.
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But the Speaker won't make that move as long as a single Republican objects to a voice vote.
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The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote; the House approved it last month, 403 to 12.
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The committee adopted the amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill by a voice vote with no opposition.
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Too often, legislation that will spend a great deal of money is passed in committees by voice vote.
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The Commerce, Science and Transportation committee approved sending her nomination to the full Senate on a voice vote.
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The Senate passed the bill in March and it passed by voice vote in the House on Monday.
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The committee granted all four December 9 hearings and two Western District nominees January 28 voice vote approval.
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One week before the law was set to expire, our bill passed the House in a voice vote.
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) is suggesting the chamber pass the bill by unanimous consent or a voice vote.
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Congress could reopen the government sooner if they reach unanimous consent and approve legislation on a voice vote.
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In December, the stopgap bill passed on a voice vote, meaning that individual members' positions were not recorded.
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For context, the US House of Representatives hopes to approve the bill via voice vote on March 27th.
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The House passed the bill by a voice vote early Friday afternoon, sending it to Trump to sign.
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The Democrat-led chamber wanted a voice vote instead of a recorded vote, which would have taken longer.
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McCarthy said a voice vote could be a viable option to allow members to have their voices heard.
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It passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate 96-0, before being approved by Trump.
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The Finance Bill, passed by a voice vote, was approved by the lower house of parliament last week.
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But Republicans prevented it from passing by voice vote to avoid a repeat episode of last summer's chaos.
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In November, the panel advanced legislation by voice vote to reduce mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug offenses.
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TRACED passed with a 417-85033 vote in the House and on a voice vote in the Senate.
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The committee took a bipartisan voice vote to release the transcripts from most of its Russia investigation interviews.
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Republican Kevin McIntrye and Democrat Richard Glick were installed as FERC commissioners on a voice vote Thursday afternoon.
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On a voice vote, the panel approved the nominations of antitrust lawyer Joe Simons to chair the commission.
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Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee agreed to the amendment and it was approved on a bipartisan voice vote.
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On a voice vote, the chamber also confirmed Clarida as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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Democrats had passed a bill by voice vote and Republicans wanted a full recorded vote to register their opposition.
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The Senate confirmed Gorsuch for his current judgeship in 803 by voice vote with no one voting against him.
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Svinicki has broad, bipartisan support, and her confirmation passed through the Environment and Public Works Committee on voice vote.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Democrats will try again to pass the bill on a voice vote Thursday.
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It most recently cleared the House in May on a voice vote and is awaiting action in the Senate.
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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who sponsored the original amendment that surprisingly passed on a bipartisan voice vote, was furious.
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The panel approved by voice vote an amendment to its annual defense policy bill that would create the commission.
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The committee approved the amendment to the 2019 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill by a unanimous voice vote.
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The bill passed out of the Foreign Relations Committee by a voice vote after lawmakers merged legislation from Sens.
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He was confirmed by a voice vote Thursday as senators were leaving the capital for a month-long recess.
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The committee approved by voice vote for Dunford to be reappointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The Senate passed it by voice vote Tuesday night, following its overwhelming passage two weeks ago in the House.
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It also comes one week after the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the bill, also by voice vote.
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Earlier last week, the Senate in a bipartisan voice vote approved legislation that also funded the government through Feb.
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Often, committee members are encouraged to let a bill pass by voice vote and not by a recorded vote.
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The House Homeland Security Committee approved a stack of bills by voice vote to strengthen airport and border security.
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Thomas Massie (R-KY) took the unpopular step of blocking a voice vote that House members could conduct remotely.
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If one-fifth of members join him, the House will take a voice vote rather than a full tally.
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Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, passed by a voice vote.
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THE TOPLINE: The Senate on Wednesday passed by voice vote fiscal 2018's nearly $700 billion defense policy bill.
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Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, passed by a voice vote.
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Republican Governor Phil Scott is expected to sign the bill, which passed the Democratic-controlled Senate by a voice vote.
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He was nominated to the role in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush and was confirmed by voice vote.
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The legislation, passed by voice vote in both chambers, would fund parts of the government at current levels through Dec.
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The House has already adjourned for a week-long recess, but the legislation could be approved on a voice vote.
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In a voice vote taken on Tuesday afternoon, the majority of lawmakers in the chamber voted to accept the report.
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By voice vote, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee endorsed Chao's nomination, which now heads to the Senate floor.
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Cruz dropped his opposition, and the State Department bill also passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote on Thursday night.
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Parliament debated a motion to repeal the law for about three hours before passing it by a simple voice vote.
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The earlier bill was passed in a voice vote with senators singing Christmas carols while they waited for the vote.
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Chaos broke out after Republicans blasted Democrats for passing a stopgap spending measure to reopen the government through voice vote.
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Then chaos erupted after Republicans accused Democrats of skirting the rules to pass a stopgap spending bill by voice vote.
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Chaos broke out after Republicans blasted Democrats for passing a stopgap spending measure to reopen the government through voice vote.
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The bill cleared the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee by voice vote, though Democrats have concerns about the measure.
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The anti-vote-a-rama amendment passed on a resounding voice vote and then relieved laughter echoed through the chamber.
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When a candidate runs unopposed, Democrats typically would move to elect that person by unanimous consent or a voice vote.
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McWilliams, executive vice president and chief legal officer of Fifth Third Bank, was approved by voice vote, with only Sen.
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In a closed-door markup, the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee approved by voice vote the fiscal 2020 Pentagon spending measure.
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Some progressives have raised concerns about a bipartisan IRS reform bill that the House passed last month by voice vote.
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On Tuesday, members voted on a host of amendments, including a slate of non-controversial measures passed by voice vote.
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The Senate confirmed more than 60 nominations by voice vote on Wednesday night, the final day of the 85033th Congress.
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The bill passed the House last month on a voice vote and the White House signaled its support last November.
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Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the subcommittee's ranking member, failed in a voice vote that appeared to be along party lines.
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A congressional source told The Hill that committee members voted to hand over the transcript in a unanimous voice vote.
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Both nominations were approved by voice vote, with Milley's as part of a batch of hundreds of other military nominations.
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Turner introduced a similar amendment when the Armed Services Committee considered the bill, but it failed in a voice vote.
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The bill passed the Senate by voice vote late Tuesday, and is now on its way to President Obama's desk.
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On May 28500, the House passed the bill on a voice vote, and its prospects are good in the Senate.
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In 1991, Barr was confirmed by unanimous vote by the Judiciary Committee and later voice vote on the Senate floor.
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The Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee approved Duke's nomination in a voice vote, sending it to the full Senate. Sen.
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Cruz noted that in 2006, the Senate confirmed Gorsuch by voice vote to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Now senators have slapped him on the wrist with Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker's resolution, passed by voice vote.
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The Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution by voice vote that would give the committee permission to release the transcript.
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However, House leaders hoped the bill would pass by voice vote on Friday, without representatives having to return to Washington.
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However, House leaders hoped the bill would pass by voice vote on Friday, without representatives having to return to Washington.
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Though several Republicans appeared to oppose the funding amendment on Wednesday, the committee nevertheless adopted it on a voice vote.
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Another measure, also passed by voice vote, would urge the European Union to fully designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
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"If they can, I would hope that it'd be something the Senate could pass on a voice vote," McConnell said.
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Instead, the board of supervisors unanimously approved the ZSFG charges in a voice vote that latest less than a minute.
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This time, Democrats requested the voice vote, and either Republicans didn't realize what was happening or didn't hear the process. Rep.
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The House passed the Email Privacy Act in a voice vote yesterday, effectively sending the bill to the Senate for consideration.
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The Senate also adopted by voice vote a non-binding resolution supporting a diplomatic solution in Yemen and condemning Khashoggi's killing.
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It first passed the House by voice vote in December, and then an altered version passed the Senate unanimously in June.
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MORE, sailed through the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee earlier this month where she was approved by a voice vote.
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A voice vote in both houses could be engineered at this stage with very strong public pressure from the veterans groups.
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Unless Patterson himself decides to withdraw, or attendees rescind his invitation by voice vote, he'll deliver a sermon there as planned.
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The Senate also previously passed by voice vote a stopgap bill to fund a quarter of the government through Feb. 8.
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But the Republicans who apparently readied themselves for Huffman's amendment ensured this time that it didn't pass quietly by voice vote.
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The shutdown standoff began after the Senate passed by voice vote a bill to keep the government open through Feb. 8.
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But their efforts were stymied when the Republican National Committee ignored their request and adopted the rules by a voice vote.
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The shutdown began after the Senate passed legislation by voice vote that would have kept the government open through Feb. 85033.
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Heitkamp voted no in protest on five other nominations that were approved by voice vote off the Senate floor on Thursday.
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The Senate passed a resolution via voice vote last week holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the murder.
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The measure, passed by voice vote, now heads to President Obama's desk as the House nears a two-week holiday recess.
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The Senate Commerce Committee approved by voice vote a bill to continue the Federal Aviation Administration's authority to operate through Oct.
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They send that out to the floor for what has tended to be a voice vote, an up-or-down vote.
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Christopher Krebs was confirmed Tuesday evening to a top Homeland Security cybersecurity and critical infrastructure post by a Senate voice vote.
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Pelosi said House leaders were planning to fast-track the rescue plan by passing it via a voice vote on Friday.
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The repeal came down to a voice vote Thursday after six hours of heated debate in Parliament, The Associated Press reports.
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Members approved the RECLAIM Act on a voice vote with limited opposition, sending the measure to the floor with bipartisan support.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the nomination of Eric Fanning as secretary of the Army on Thursday by voice vote.
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Obama's Cabinet (by voice vote), one more the next day, and nearly all within 2 weeks - Updated at 2:25 p.m.
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The legislation passed unanimously in the Senate earlier this year, and the House followed suit with a voice vote this month.
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The House Ways and Means Committee advanced the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on a voice vote on Tuesday, indicating broad support.
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Members of the committee approved the legislation by a voice vote, with the addition of a single amendment offered by Rep.
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The bill passed on a voice vote without opposition and now heads to the House floor for the full chamber to vote.
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The confirmation process was one of the smoothest in decades, with all but one nominee confirmed by unanimous consent or voice vote.
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Most of the 21 nominees were confirmed by voice vote, as opposed to more time-intensive, senator-by-senator roll call votes.
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The amendment was attached to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) following a voice vote adding it to the bill on Thursday.
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The bill passed the Senate in May on a rare voice vote, but the White House has repeatedly threatened to veto it.
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If the Cruz window closes, there will be only Trump—and a bipartisan elite content to elect Hillary Clinton by voice vote.
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The Finance Bill, passed by a voice vote, will next go to the upper house, which is widely expected to pass it.
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The Senate Commerce Committee signed off by voice vote on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act with minor alterations to the bill.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee adopted, by voice vote, an amendment to a fiscal 2017 spending bill that would lift the travel ban.
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The House passed the legislation in a voice vote Monday evening, after it cleared the House Homeland Security Committee earlier this month.
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The House Armed Services Committee approved by voice vote an amendment to its annual defense policy bill that would create the commission.
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The House, which added the NATO resolution to its schedule this week, approved the item via voice vote, according to multiple reports.
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Harry Harris by a voice vote Thursday, filling a key diplomatic post that had remained vacant since the current administration took office.
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The panel passed the bill by voice vote, without a recorded tally, though Democrats objected to numerous provisions contained in the measure.
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Maloney allowed Pitts's amendment to pass by voice vote, saying that he had no objection to simply stating adherence to the Constitution.
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The brief House floor action Tuesday night appeared routine: a bill to rename a federal courthouse passed by voice vote without fanfare.
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Also Tuesday, the House passed a bill by voice vote to sanction people responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Syria through 2021.
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In addition, some lawmakers are worried about the optics of voting on the biggest recovery package in American history via voice vote.
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But passing the rescue package by voice vote is another viable option and being discussed with the GOP conference, the source added.
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Voice vote: Bring up the bill for a vote, the chair says it passes based on who say "yay" in the chamber.
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Since the bill was assured to pass easily they planned for a handful of members to pass it via a voice vote.
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With that, Womack held another voice vote, effectively declared the Never Trump fight dead, and moved on to passing the party's platform.
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If there are no objections, the bill will pass (by either UC or unrecorded voice vote) at the end of the day.
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The upper chamber confirmed by voice vote Batory's nomination, in addition to that of Adam Sullivan for assistant secretary of governmental affairs.
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The bills, which passed the committee by voice vote, make changes aimed at improving the IRS's taxpayer services, cybersecurity, enforcement and appeals.
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The president's concession paved the way for the House and the Senate to both pass a stopgap spending bill by voice vote.
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But following Tuesday's voice vote in the committee, the bill is not expected to receive consideration by the full House of Representatives.
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One was Haley who won approval of the Foreign Relations Committee on a voice vote, although two Democrats recorded "no" votes against her.
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The administration typically does not weigh in when the House votes to suspend the rules and take a voice vote on uncontroversial legislation.
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With no discussion and on a voice vote, the committee sent the bond measures to the full city council, which meets on Wednesday.
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The Senate sent the stopgap bill to Trump by voice vote Friday after the House approved it by a lopsided 382-30 margin.
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The voice vote a day before all but assures the full Senate will confirm Brown to the post after the Memorial Day recess.
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On Wednesday night, it was passed on a voice vote by the City Council's "committee of the whole," which includes the entire council.
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On Tuesday, the House passed four amendments via voice vote which would limit the Justice Department from using funds towards facilitating asset forfeiture.
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The Senate passed the agreement by voice vote as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual defense policy bill.
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The House has to vote in order to adjourn, which is usually a routine matter agreed to by voice vote or unanimous consent.
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The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a final version of the legislation amended by Wicker in a voice vote Wednesday morning.
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The bill, which swiftly passed the House by voice vote last year, also would provide additional law-enforcement resources for employee screenings. Rep.
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Redl, who was unanimously approved by a voice vote earlier this month in the Senate Commerce Committee, was nominated by Trump in May.
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On Wednesday, she just needs a simple majority to be nominated, and the vote will either be by voice vote or secret ballot.
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When the chairman called for a voice vote on whether to have a roll call vote, he ruled that the "no" votes prevailed.
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It could pass on a voice vote but some members want to make a statement by potentially asking for an in-person vote.
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The House had passed the bill by a voice vote, which was its original plan that would have allowed members to stay home.
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Taking refuge on a side bench and surrounded by police, Jayasuriya called for a voice vote on the no-confidence motion in Rajapaksa.
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In the meeting, Pelosi made a motion that the change in title be approved by House Democrats by a voice vote, sources said.
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The House passed a measure by voice vote in July that would establish a temporary payment for these services in 2019 and 2020.
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When I was Senate majority leader in 22011, I led the Senate's passage of the plan, called Pepfar, on an overwhelming voice vote.
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the legislation by voice vote on Wednesday, sending the measure to the full Senate.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed me as Ambassador on a bipartisan voice vote, and I assumed the role in Brussels on July 9, 2018.
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House leaders had called for a voice vote on Wednesday, and advocates of reinstating the death penalty drowned out those opposing the measure.
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Redl, who was unanimously approved by a voice vote earlier this month in the Senate Commerce Committee, was nominated by Trump in May.
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Washington (CNN)A bill that would create a national emergency network for missing adults passed the House in a voice vote Tuesday night.
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By a voice vote, the Senate confirmed Lee to the post, where she will fill a vacant Democratic seat on the five-member commission.
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By the time the actual voting rolled around, all his opponents dropped out, and the DNC elected Dean in a voice vote without opposition.
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The House passed the legislation Friday by voice vote, about four months after the measure cleared the Senate despite vehement objections from Saudi Arabia.
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The voice vote, which lays the groundwork for a spate of legislative initiatives during this session of parliament, was welcomed widely by Jewish groups.
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The House Judiciary Committee passed the bipartisan bill, known as the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, on a voice vote.
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The committee also approved a version of the bill last year by voice vote, but it never reached the full House for a vote.
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The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill by voice vote without opposition after the House earlier approved it by a tally of 382-30.
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The Senate panel approved the legislation by a voice vote after adopting an amendment offered by Schatz that made small changes to bill's language.
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For a leader who is often wrong, but seldom in doubt, the specter of a voice vote defeat was not part of the agenda.
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Kethledge was confirmed by the Senate, also by voice vote, in June 2008, almost two years to the day after he was initially nominated.
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Party leaders put an end to that challenge with a controversial voice vote that provoked shouts and chants from angry delegates on the floor.
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Lawmakers approved Spencer in a voice vote, sending his nomination for Navy secretary to the full Senate, according to a statement from the committee.
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The bill, passed by voice vote in the lower chamber, advanced as the program was set to expire at the end of the month.
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Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved Christopher Kreb's nomination on Monday by a voice vote, according to a committee aide.
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Earlier Friday, the legislation cleared the House by unanimous consent and the Senate by voice vote, an anticlimactic end to the weeks-long drama.
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The measure, which cleared easily by voice vote, would restrict U.S. imports on archaeological material from Syria since the start of its civil war.
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Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved Christopher Krebs's nomination on Monday by a voice vote, according to a committee aide.
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In fact, this year, nine of the 28500 spending bills approved by the House Appropriations Committee were passed by voice vote at full committee.
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Lawmakers approved the Elder Abuse Prevention and Protection Act of 2017 by voice vote, sending it to President Trump's desk for a final signature.
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Harris, who previously served as the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday in a voice vote.
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After the presidential nominating vote, the convention by voice vote nominated Indiana Governor Mike Pence, 57, Trump's choice for his vice presidential running mate.
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She wanted every vote to be on the record, meaning each politician would voice a "yea" or "nay" rather than a simple voice vote.
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A voice vote would not require all sitting members to return to Washington, our Post colleagues Mike DeBonis, Paul Kane and John Wagner report.
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Almost exactly a year ago, Huffman's amendment passed quietly by voice vote without any opposition during late night floor debate on the Interior bill.
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Last week, the House approved two amendments by voice vote that were included in the House-passed financial services and general government spending bill.
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HOUSE PASSES BILL EXEMPTING SMALL BIZ FROM NET NEUTRALITY RULES: The House passed the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act by unanimous voice vote today.
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The contentious voice vote drew a chorus of boos from critics who both opposed the policy and questioned the veracity of the unverifiable tally.
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Passage of the measure, by voice vote, came a day after a man drove a truck into a school bus in New York City.
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"With this legislation, innovation can flourish without the heavy hand of government," Ohio Republican Bob Latta said on the House floor before the voice vote.
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On May 173, 2006, President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to the 10th Circuit, and was confirmed in the Senate by unanimous voice vote. 3.
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Ryan ran unopposed for the top leadership post and was nominated in a unanimous voice vote during a closed-door meeting in the Longworth Building.
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The House of Representatives passed the bill on a voice vote, without a roll call, weeks after the same measure was approved by the Senate.
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The bill's authors believe they have the votes to override Obama's veto; the legislation passed unanimously by voice vote in both the House and Senate.
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On Monday, the RNC ignored an outcry from angry delegates at the Republican National Convention, moving to adopt the convention's rules by a voice vote.
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Many Democrats objected to the bill when the Appropriations Committee considered it earlier this month, but it still passed the committee on a voice vote.
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His nomination was advanced in a voice vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee after a deal was struck with the Bush administration regarding stalled nominees.
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"Whoa," Lee wrote on Twitter following a voice vote that pushed through her amendment to sunset the 28503 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
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During the last Congress, the House passed similar legislation, the SELF DRIVE Act, by voice vote, but it never got a vote in the Senate.
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The confirmation came a day after Gilday's confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee and hours after the committee advanced Gilday by voice vote.
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But the relatively noncontroversial bill, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent, was able to breeze through the House a second time by voice vote.
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Deputies from Rajapaksa's party rejected the voice vote as illegal, saying it wasn't scheduled and that the pro-China former strongman would remain in office.
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The Senate averted a procedural vote scheduled for Monday evening by approving by voice vote a 77-day extension of three USA Freedom Act provisions.
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The bill now heads to the House, which will push to pass it by voice vote Friday morning as most representatives are out of Washington.
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The bill now heads to the House, which will push to pass it by voice vote Friday morning because most representatives are out of Washington.
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His nomination was advanced unanimously by the Senate Commerce Committee, and he was confirmed by a voice vote in the full Senate in early January.
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The former governor was expected to get bipartisan support after a smooth confirmation process, including clearing the Senate Agriculture Committee on a voice vote. Sen.
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The House Administration Committee passed the measure by voice vote, amending the Members' Congressional Handbook to define bulletproof vests for members as a "reimbursable" expense.
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Lawmakers approved the resolution by a voice vote a day after passing a sanctions package that included measures targeting Iran for its ballistic missile development.
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The fourth bill, which would prevent the IRS from rehiring former employees that had previously been fired for misconduct, was also passed by voice vote.
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The stopgap spending bill, passed by voice vote in the Senate, averted the government shutdown that would have happened if a bill hadn't passed by midnight.
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The bill, which was seen as an uncontroversial measure because of its broad bipartisan support, passed by voice vote because a recorded vote was not requested.
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The House of Representatives this week passed a resolution by voice vote calling on the Russian government to provide evidence of wrongdoing or else release Whelan.
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The platform, approved Monday by a voice vote of delegates, singles out the healthcare provider by name for the first time in history, Planned Parenthood says.
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A few weeks later, Huffman offered a similar amendment to an Interior Department spending bill that passed quietly by voice vote during late-night floor debate.
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But following a voice vote Thursday night, senators are packing their bags and getting out of town -- and they won't be back until after Labor Day.
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Fowler then moved to suspend the rules and vote by a voice vote, paving the way for DNC members to swiftly and overwhelmingly adopt the reforms.
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Hundreds of amendments have been filed, but senators have had a roll call vote on three while approving more than a dozen more by voice vote.
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Under the bill, which passed by a voice vote, people would be able to donate to the Capitol Police Memorial Fund to help Bailey and Griner.
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Mechanism of action: H.R. 22019 was ordered favorably reported to the House floor by voice vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on 1/7/2016.
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In 2006, he was confirmed to the appeals court by a voice vote after unanimously passing through the Judiciary Committee with praises from the late Sen.
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The Senate approved Dunford by voice vote Wednesday night, hours after the Senate Armed Services Committee did the same and a day after his confirmation hearing.
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The chamber approved Jon Huntsman's nomination by a voice vote as part of a slate of Trump picks, before wrapping up their work for the week.
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The bill went on to pass the full House by voice vote with many of our colleagues coming to the House Floor to declare their support.
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Lawmakers said the measure, approved by voice vote, would offer insights into how to best address any unique factors that drive female veterans to commit suicide.
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The measure, passed by voice vote, extends the authorization of FAA programs through July 15 and the ability to collect aviation taxes through March 31, 2017.
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CLEVELAND — The Republican National Committee ignored an outcry from angry delegates on the GOP convention's first day and adopted the convention's rules by a voice vote.
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Some GOP lawmakers, primarily from Southern states, objected to the amendment's inclusion after it passed quietly by voice vote and threatened to oppose the entire measure.
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Sanders supporters were angry over a voice vote that adopted a set of temporary convention rules as the permanent rules, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
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It has broad support, and passed by a unanimous voice vote, according to those speaking for the chairman and ranking member of the Senate's energy committee.
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The outcome of the bill was all but assured; it passed on a voice vote Friday, two days after the Senate unanimously approved of the legislation.
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Following the voice vote, the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" will go to the House of Representatives, which approved its own version last month.
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After each amendment is discussed, the committee has a voice vote, but the procedure set ahead of time allows members to request a roll call vote.
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The Senate approved Dunford by voice vote Wednesday night, hours after the Senate Armed Services Committee did the same and a day after his confirmation hearing.
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President Trump's nominee to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), David Redl, was approved by the Senate with a voice vote on Tuesday evening.
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The chamber approved Jon Huntsman's nomination by a voice vote as part of a slate of Trump picks, before wrapping up their work for the week.
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Lawmakers in the lower chamber will instead take its pieces one at a time, and have already passed the Syria piece by voice vote this month.
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Thune's bill was originally introduced in the last legislative session, where it passed a Senate voice vote in March but failed to get traction in the House.
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A Democrat-introduced amendment to strip the minibus bill of the WOTUS provision failed by voice vote, and Democrats did not ask for a roll call vote.
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The measure initially passed the lower chamber in a voice vote on Thursday, but Republicans called foul when their request for a roll call was not granted.
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The Senate and the House in short order passed a stopgap spending bill by voice vote, and the president signed it into law without any public ceremony.
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The bill, passed by voice vote, would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to post a notice on its website to warn veterans of predatory practices.
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Scott Miller was confirmed by voice vote Thursday night as part of a batch of military nominations the Senate confirmed before heading home for a weeklong recess.
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As of Thursday morning, the Senate had taken a roll call vote on only three, while approving slightly more than a dozen others by a voice vote.
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Senators took a procedural vote to move forward on the conference proposal, which passed 84-3, and then immediately took a voice vote to pass the motion.
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The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act, which passed the House in January, was approved by a voice vote as the chamber wrapped up its work for the week.
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The House canceled roll call votes this week, so it will need to pass the extension by voice vote at some point in the next four days.
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The House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved the bills with minor amendments and without any dissent or debate, advancing them by a voice vote. Rep.
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Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat, which was approved earlier in the week by voice vote, broadened the provision to expand its reach to crack cocaine as well.
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Pelosi on Wednesday signaled to her caucus that she prefers to pass the legislation quickly by unanimous consent, or UC; another option discussed was a voice vote.
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Lawmakers ultimately passed the bill by voice vote any way, but a quorum, or 216 members, needed to be present to move forward due to his concerns.
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And, to their credit, Schumer and Mnuchin got it done -- with a 96-0 vote in the Senate and successful voice vote in the House today. 4.
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It passed the committee on a voice vote in 2017, only to have Paul D. Ryan, then the speaker, unilaterally strip it from a larger spending bill.
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It's also likely to pass the House by a wide margin, and lawmakers are talking about whether it could be done through unanimous consent or voice vote.
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While Liu was confirmed as US attorney for DC by voice vote in September 2017, her nomination as associate attorney general faced opposition from Utah GOP Sen.
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The Republican-led House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved the measure by a voice vote, setting it up for consideration by the full House next week.
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The House passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on a voice vote Tuesday, in a show of the broad bipartisan support for the measure.
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For Rosenworcel, a Democrat, the unanimous Senate voice vote in favor of her nomination sends her back to an agency where she served under former President Barack Obama.
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House members on Tuesday afternoon also passed by voice vote two other Hong Kong-related measures: a resolution supportive of the protesters and the PROTECT Hong Kong Act.
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The House on Tuesday passed a resolution by voice vote calling on the Russian government to provide evidence of wrongdoing or else release former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
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In October of that year, Bush nominated him for the job, and he was confirmed less than a month later via an uncontested voice vote in the Senate.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Age: 45 Current position: Federal trial court judge, U.S. District Court in Washington, appointed by Obama in 2013, confirmed by the Senate on voice vote.
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Craft was unanimously confirmed by voice vote as US Ambassador to Canada in August 2017, but her nomination to UN ambassador will probably be a bit more contentious.
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In a bizarre sequence over the weekend, Florida senators appeared to approve a two-year moratorium on the sale of AR-15-style weapons in a voice vote.
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By a unanimous voice vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed "The Cyber Diplomacy Act," which would establish the Office of Cyberspace and the Digital Economy at State.
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The panel passed the bill by voice vote after an intense debate over whether Gulf states should get special treatment for the drilling that occurs off their shores.
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Asking for a recorded vote instead of the customary voice vote, a handful of delegates raised their hands to support Hoff, while the overwhelming majority rejected her amendment.
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The amendment was adopted by voice vote after committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) argued the committee shouldn't waste time debating issues the bill has no affect on.
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A bipartisan bill to improve career and technical education has yet to be taken up by the Senate, despite passing the House by unanimous voice vote in June.
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A voice vote allows members of the committee to avoid responsibility and accountability by claiming that they would have voted one way or another if given the chance.
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Craft, who was formally nominated for the U.N. post last month, has served as U.S. ambassador to Canada since she was confirmed by voice vote in August 2017.
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The funds are part of the Financial Services fiscal 2020 budget, and were approved by voice vote by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.
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At the very least Congress should adopt as part of the fiscal 2018 budget the Leahy amendment, which the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on a bipartisan voice vote.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment by voice vote to the fiscal 2017 spending bill for financial services and general government that would lift the travel ban.
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The U.S. House unanimously passed legislation in September 2017 by voice vote to speed the adoption of self-driving cars, but it stalled in the Senate last year.
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The Senate passed a stopgap bill late last year by a voice vote, but it was rejected by the White House because it didn't include extra border money.
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Thomas Massie of Kentucky -- could prevent the House from approving the $2 trillion bill by voice vote, forcing them instead to cast a roll-call vote in person.
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It had been approved by a voice vote, and opponents quickly insisted on reconsidering it, this time with a roll call to formally record how each senator voted.
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By the time the actual DNC election rolled around two weeks later, all of Dean's opponents had dropped out, and he won in a voice vote without opposition.
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A House of Representatives committee, in an unrecorded voice vote, advanced the bill on Thursday, as about 100 people gathered at the legislature to demonstrate against the proposals.
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Leadership wants to pass the bill without having to bring all members back to Washington, D.C., meaning they could either pass it by consent or a voice vote.
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A bid by the Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, to have the resolution approved by voice vote after the House's action was thwarted by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
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The House unanimously passed a bill by voice vote on Tuesday condemning Chinese interference in Hong Kong's affairs and supporting the rights of pro-democracy protestors to demonstrate.
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Senate Republicans forced cloture votes on 168 of Obama's nominees in 2015 and 85033, even though 62 of those nominees were later confirmed unanimously or by voice vote.
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The legislation revamping a century-old law that made abortion punishable by up to 10 years in prison was passed by a voice vote in the state legislature.
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McConnell's comments came after MSNBC pundits and The Washington Post's Dana Milbank criticized the Kentucky Republican for obstructing Democrats from passing an election-security bill by voice vote.
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At around 10pm, the meeting was already running overtime and state party chairwoman Roberta Lange conducted a voice vote to conclude the convention and then left the hotel.
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After the voice vote closed the convention on Saturday, a number of Sanders supporters refused to give up, remaining behind until security and police forced them to leave.
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The House of Commons, on a sparsely attended voice vote, gave unanimous approval to send an organ donor bill to committee, where a final version would be created.
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GOP leadership aides say any confirmations that happen on Inauguration Day will need to be done by voice vote, a reflection of the non-controversial nature of the choices.
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During Republican and Democratic internal elections in the Senate on Wednesday morning, McConnell and Schumer were both reelected to their roles by "acclamation" — essentially a no-drama voice vote.
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The House backed by voice vote the Taylor Force Act, named after a 29-year-old American military veteran fatally stabbed by a Palestinian while visiting Israel last year.
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The House also passed by voice vote a bill that would sanction the government of Syria, and supporters including Russia and Iran, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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And when Curiel was finally confirmed as a federal judge by the U.S. Senate in 2012, it was by way of a voice vote with no recorded Republican opposition.
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Approved by a simple voice vote, the measure slaps new sanctions through 2021 on people who have financial relationships with the Syrian government or businesses controlled by the regime.
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When Congress goes home, it would stay in session on a theoretically long quorum call and this would be brought up in both empty chambers in a voice vote.
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McConnell's office noted that Republicans have all signed off on the CR, and it could pass either by unanimous consent or by a voice vote if Democrats sign on.
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The Senate passed a measure by voice vote in December that would have prevented the shutdown, only to see Trump reverse course from his communicated support for the bill.
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Senators passed the legislation by voice vote, which represented the final item on the Senate's to-do list as they wrap up their work for the year this week.
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Some of the rebels say they fear the RNC and Trump campaign will unilaterally eliminate the state-by-state roll call vote and instead call for a voice vote.
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Approved by a simple voice vote, the measure slaps new sanctions through 2021 on people who have financial relationships with the Syrian government or businesses controlled by the administration.
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Velázquez's bill has passed the House Financial Services Committee by a unanimous 58 to 0 vote and was passed, in a voice vote, by the full House in May.
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The measure, passed by voice vote, would codify the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "Operation Angel Watch" program that determines whether countries should be notified of sex offenders' travel.
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" "The best message that we could send — and I'm glad that [we are] able to send it by voice vote form this body — is that they will be paid.
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The measure, easily approved on a voice vote, expands the State Department's current program offering cash rewards for information on people committing international organized crimes to include human trafficking.
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On Wednesday, an amendment was passed by voice vote that would prohibit all transfers of detainees out of Guantanamo, which would be the strongest transfer prohibition yet if enacted.
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"Our goal is to get our caucus all of the information that they need and to get to unanimous consent or voice vote by tomorrow, certainly by Friday," Rep.
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Under the bill, which was approved by a unanimous voice vote, carmakers can add hundreds of thousands of self-driving cars to America's road in the next few years.
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Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), offered the amendments to the House's Interior and environment spending bill this week, and the House approved them on a voice vote on Wednesday night.
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The DNC reform, adopted by voice vote on Saturday at the party's summer meeting in Chicago, would prevent superdelegates from voting during the first ballot of the nominating process.
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Under the measure, passed by voice vote, federal agencies would be limited to placing employees on paid leave for up to 85033 days in a year, after finding wrongdoing.
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Although only one lawmaker objected when the Lee language was added by voice vote to the defense bill, several Republican lawmakers have expressed their displeasure since that vote. Rep.
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" The non-binding resolution approved by voice vote was a rebuke to President Donald Trump who for more than 18 months has frequently called reporters "the enemy of the people.
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Parliament had passed a no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa and his government with the backing of 122 of the 225 lawmakers in a voice vote, followed by a signed document.
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It passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and voice vote in the House (typically taken when a measure faces no significant opposition), and was signed by President Donald Trump.
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An unprecedented shouting match pitted pro- and anti-Trump delegates against one another after the Republican National Committee ultimately ignored the request and adopted the rules by a voice vote.
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The Senate late Wednesday confirmed by voice vote a pair of commissioners to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), giving the agency a quorum for the first time since last March.
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During floor debate on another spending package this week, the House adopted a similar amendment from Cohen and Raskin that applies to the Justice and Commerce departments by voice vote.
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The Cyber Diplomacy Act passed the House in a voice vote Wednesday afternoon, nearly five months after Tillerson notified Congress of his plans to shutter the Office of Cybersecurity Coordinator.
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Before approving the bill by voice vote, lawmakers expressed agreement that modern-day former presidents don't need financial assistance from the government if they already earn salaries in the millions.
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But several senators leaving a closed-door GOP lunch predicted it would pass easily by a voice vote, meaning only a few senators will need to be on the floor.
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The legislation, which passed the House Commerce consumer protection subcommittee by voice vote, would exempt that yearly allotment from safety standards and would also preempt state laws concerning driverless cars.
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The House simply met for brief pro forma sessions where no business was conducted, until a longer-term adjournment resolution was adopted by voice vote less than a week later.
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In its first day back from August recess, the House approved by voice vote a motion to go to conference with the Senate on the $21625 billion defense appropriations bill.
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In its first day back from August recess, the House approved by voice vote a motion to go to conference with the Senate on the $675 billion defense appropriations bill.
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" The non-binding resolution approved by voice vote was a rebuke to President Donald Trump who for more than 18 months has frequently called reporters "the enemy of the people.
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A voice vote is preferred by some because it would allow critical lawmakers to shout their disapproval on the floor and then tell their constituents they voted against the stimulus.
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The Cyber Diplomacy Act passed the House in a voice vote Wednesday afternoon, nearly five months after Tillerson notified Congress of his plans to shutter the Office of Cybersecurity Coordinator.
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The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to speed up Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of medical devices and drugs to be used on the battlefield.
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Before approving the bill by voice vote, lawmakers expressed agreement that modern-day former presidents don't need financial assistance from the government if they already earn salaries in the millions.
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The Republican-led measure, which has just three co-sponsors so far but will likely pick up more, passed on a voice vote, but not before some concerns were raised.
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The Senate passed by voice vote the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which authorizes the level of defense spending and sets policies controlling how the money is spent.
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Fortunately, while a key House committee voted against the latest decriminalization bill back in February, the full House managed to resurrect it last week in a voice vote of 193-104.
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Craft was unanimously confirmed by voice vote to be the US ambassador to Canada in August 2017, but her nomination to UN ambassador was bound to be a bit more contentious.
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The subcommittee approved the sweeping proposal by voice vote Wednesday, but the full House of Representatives will not take up the bill until it reconvenes in September after the summer recess.
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The measure, passed by voice vote, addresses the pay gap for at least 1,85033 Secret Service agents who effectively worked overtime hours for free this year after maxing out their pay.
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In a last-minute voice vote on December 7, a provision was added to the $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act that bars federal agencies from using Kaspersky anti-virus software.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday approved by voice vote Perdue to helm the agency, sending his nomination to the Senate floor as Trump inches closer toward filling out his Cabinet.
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The Senate Commerce Committee signed off, in a voice vote, on the DIGIT Act, which establishes the federal group to deal with the rise of connected devices from appliances to cars.
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The "Self Drive Act" was unanimously approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in July, before Congress left for August recess, and passed the full House on a voice vote.
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But the conference took a voice vote Tuesday and agreed the partial term the leaders served in 2012 should not count against the rule that restricts leaders to serving three terms.
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The legislation, which passed the House Commerce consumer protection subcommittee by voice vote, would exempt that yearly allotment from safety standards and would also pre-empt state laws concerning driverless cars.
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A bipartisan amendment sponsored by members ranging from the conservative House Freedom Caucus to liberal progressives was adopted by a voice vote to prevent the Justice Department from implementing Sessions's directive.
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Following the voice vote by senators, the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" now goes to the House of Representatives, which approved its own version of the measure last month.
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By voice vote, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would provide more than $100 billion over five years for the program, which insures nearly nine million children.
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The House will try to pass the bill on Friday as a voice vote, which would prevent having to bring every member back to D.C. Here are seven things to know.
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Thomas Massie of Kentucky is viewed as the most likely member to try to force the recorded vote, after indicating publicly his reservations for letting the bill pass by voice vote.
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Massie wrote on Twitter that he would indeed insist on a formal, recorded vote on the coronavirus relief bill instead of allowing it to go ahead quickly on a voice vote.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday by voice vote approved Perdue to helm the agency, sending his nomination to the Senate floor as Trump inches closer toward filling out his Cabinet.
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The full committee took a voice vote to move forward the energy and water appropriations bill, which would dole out $6900 billion for the Department of Energy and the Army Corps.
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On Thursday, his committee advanced legislation with a bipartisan voice vote that would slap more sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program, which is not covered in the nuclear deal.
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Passed by a simple voice vote, the bill known as the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act authorizes more than $500 million for programs across the federal government.
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We also offered other successful amendments, nearly all of which passed by voice vote, on every appropriations bill to mandate that the federal government can only purchase Energy Star light bulbs.
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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, passed by a voice vote, is expected to be approved by the upper house next week as the main opposition Congress party has pledged its support.
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Voice vote passage came as Congress waged year-end battles over Republican tax cuts and a potential government shutdown but has been diverted to also address allegations against some of its own.
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"Ambassadorships, for example, that normally just clear on a voice vote, many of them have you know, made us take a lot of time in the Senate," McConnell said at the time.
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It is also in the committee's interest to have a voice vote to provide an impression of unanimity in the committee as the bill heads to the House floor for a vote.
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The House passed legislation by voice vote on Monday intended to increase cybersecurity at the Small Business Administration (SBA) and separately approved a bill to help small businesses defend against cyber attacks.
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Will Ainsworth (R), who presides over the Senate, approving the motion to remove the exception on a voice vote instead of going to a roll call vote that the Democrats had wanted.
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Before the full Senate, the bill passed 32-16 on its second reading (and by voice vote on its third), with Republicans and Democrats voting in the majority and the minority. Sen.
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The voice vote had been planned as a way to pass the bipartisan bill without having to call too many members back to DC, endangering them with travel during a global pandemic.
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Since several House members have tested positive for coronavirus, leading lawmakers are pushing for a voice vote, which would avoid forcing all members to return to Washington for a roll call vote.
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On Friday, many members of the House expressed their frustration at being called back to Washington to vote on the massive stimulus relief bill after plans for a voice vote fell through.
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"We have notified our Members of the possibility that the bill may not pass by voice vote," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) press office wrote in a statement on Thursday.
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"We have notified our Members of the possibility that the bill may not pass by voice vote," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) press office wrote in a statement on Thursday.
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In a voice vote, the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security approved a fiscal 2018 spending bill that provides $7.2 billion for the TSA — a nearly $160 million decrease from current levels.
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By voice vote, the Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development approved a fiscal 22019 spending bill that includes $550 million for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program.
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Moreover, it seems he did not have to work that hard, as Kelly was approved unanimously on a voice vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee and then confirmed unanimously by the Senate.
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In a voice vote, the Senate approved the nominations of Republican Chris Giancarlo to serve as CFTC chairman, as well as Republican Brian Quintenz and Democrat Rostin "Russ" Behnam to serve as commissioners.
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Several of President Barack Obama's nominees were confirmed in a voice vote on Inauguration Day and most of the rest of them soon followed, noted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's spokesman Don Stewart.
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Indeed, when Mr Gorsuch, who is 49, was nominated to the Colorado-based Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals by George W. Bush in 2006, he sailed through the Senate by a voice vote.
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The Senate passed the measure by voice vote in May, but the administration has argued it would complicate diplomatic relations with a key ally in the region and warned against moving it forward.
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The rules panel also included a procedural trick to strip language that was approved by voice vote during committee markup of the bill to prevent the Pentagon from paying for a border wall.
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The reform, adopted by voice vote at the DNC's summer meeting in Chicago, will bar superdelegates — lawmakers, former presidents and other party dignitaries — from voting during the first ballot of the nominating process.
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The voice vote ended a confirmation process that had been delayed for months by a Republican senator who wanted assurances that detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would not be sent to his state.
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He was the last Supreme Court justice nominated by a Democratic president — Grover Cleveland — and approved by a Republican-controlled Senate, a step taken in 1895, and on a voice vote, no less.
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The legislation passed the House Ways and Means Committee last month by voice vote, and Hoyer said several weeks ago that he expected to bring the measure to the House floor in May.
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The House in April passed by voice vote a bill aimed at making targeted improvements to the IRS in areas including taxpayer services, taxpayer rights during the enforcement process, and identity theft protection.
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While Mulvaney ended up not offering a counter-amendment early Thursday morning, he and other Republicans ensured that Huffman's proposal didn't pass by voice vote and result in a situation like last summer.
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The Energy and Commerce Committee also passed Wednesday, by voice vote, a bipartisan bill meant to encourage development of advanced nuclear energy technologies through reforms to Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards and other measures.
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On a voice vote, the R.N.C.'s rules committee turned back a bid to switch the rules of the convention from those used by the House of Representatives to Robert's Rules of Order.
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One of the amendments allowed a vote by GOP leaders, and later adopted by voice vote, would require installation of lactation stations for breastfeeding mothers in the Capitol and adjacent House office buildings.
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The legislation was expected to pass by voice vote, a move that would allow the House to avoid compelling all of its members to return to Washington for a recorded roll call vote.
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The Senate confirmed him by a voice vote less than two weeks later, after a perfunctory 90-minute hearing during which the nominee smoked cigarettes and doodled while senators praised his legal skills.
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Trump nominated him to permanently return as US attorney in June 2017 — two years after his confirmation under Obama — and he was confirmed in August by a unanimous voice vote in the US Senate.
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The bill passed through committee through a voice vote with no objections and is now expected to be voted on by the rest of the House later this month before advancing to the Senate.
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The Senate confirmed Christopher Krebs in a voice vote Tuesday to serve at the helm of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) roughly four months after Trump nominated him to the post.
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The Senate approved an amended version of the bill to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program for 15 months on Wednesday evening, and the House passed it by voice vote Thursday.
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Other amendments passed by voice vote include those related to geothermal energy, water treatment, ethane storage, a dam project, energy development on tribal lands and updating terms for minority groups in the federal code.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee had approved his nomination by a voice vote on Thursday, waiving the panel's rule that there has to be seven days between a confirmation hearing and the committee vote.
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Passage of the bill by a voice vote means it now heads to the Senate, where its future is uncertain but could be helped by momentum from the "Me Too" movement highlighting sexual harassment.
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In the same session, less than an hour later, according to the newspaper, the legislature considered a GOP-backed bill to declare porn a public health risk, which it passed by a voice vote.
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The bill, which was approved unanimously by a voice vote, also lengthens the amount of time for which transition services can be provided by the federal government to 180 days after the president's inauguration.
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Last time, when they changed the rules via voice vote, it gave the Ron Paul bros a lot of ammo to fire at Romney, and some people think it cost him the last election.
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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Wednesday night, with the stimulus bill now headed for the House, which will push to pass it by voice vote Friday morning.
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It's unclear when the House will vote, but leaders in both parties are trying to avoid requiring all members to return to Washington, D.C., by passing the bill by unanimous consent or voice vote.
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Despite months of partisan animosity on the House intelligence panel during its own look into Russian election meddling, it appeared Thursday that lawmakers approved the transmission of Stone's transcript with a unanimous voice vote.
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Either way, the resolution to reopen the government passed on a voice vote, and most Democratic representatives promptly exited the chamber, heading to the airport to fly back home to their districts for the weekend.
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The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act advanced through the House on Tuesday after a voice vote, which the law's backers said they hoped would get the Senate to act soon on a companion bill.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the measure by unanimous voice vote and members said they expected it would be approved by the full Senate within weeks, and signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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Roll Call reports that on July 11, the House stealthily decided via voice vote to support an amendment to the 2020 defense authorization bill that would require the Department of Justice look into weaponized ticks.
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Critics of the bill, approved Thursday by the Senate in a voice vote, are backed by civil rights groups who say the legislation would limit the behavior for which lawmakers can actually be held accountable.
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The bill, called the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act, will likely receive a recorded vote Wednesday instead of a voice vote this evening, according to an aide to one of the bill's authors.
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When Senate Republicans attempted to include Delrahim in a mass of nominees confirmed by voice vote before the August recess, Elizabeth Warren blocked the maneuver, seeking a larger debate around the nominee—and antitrust policy.
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They were also frustrated by an en bloc group of Democratic amendments, which were rebuffed by voice vote but didn't receive a roll call vote because McCaul said Thompson didn't ask for one in time.
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As meerkats move from dirt patch to dirt patch, hunting for food, they communicate with one another through shouts and calls, using a kind of voice vote to decide when it's time to move on.
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Massie hinted to local radio station 55 KRC radio Thursday morning that he might object to a voice vote in the House — and confirmed that he would do so via a Twitter thread on Friday.
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Because you know, the Senate passed on a bipartisan basis by a voice vote, which basically means 100 percent of the Senators got behind a bipartisan deal that included much less funding for border security.
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By unanimous voice vote, the Senate approved a bill introduced by Cruz, a leading contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, to name the plaza in Washington after Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel peace prize winner.
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The House Judiciary Committee passed by a voice vote the CASE Act (Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act), which is intended to provide a low-cost alternative to copyright infringement litigation in federal court.
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In a voice vote, lawmakers passed the motion to proceed on Kavanaugh's confirmation, meaning there would be no Saturday session -- though the future of Kavanaugh's nomination now lies in the hands of an FBI investigation.
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UKRAINE PORTFOLIO As you know, I was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan voice vote as Ambassador to the EU on June 28, 2018, and I assumed that role in Brussels on July 9, 2018.
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When, Womack returned to the stage and ran the voice vote for a second time -- and again declared "In the opinion of the chair the aye's have it" hyphen several delegates did manage to lodge objections.
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In a voice vote, the Senate approved the nominations of Republican Chris Giancarlo to serve as CFTC chairman, as well as Republicans Dawn Stump and Brian Quintenz and Democrat Rostin "Russ" Behnam to serve as commissioners.
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Chaos broke out on the floor last Thursday after Republicans slammed Democrats for passing a stopgap spending measure to reopen the government through a voice vote, arguing their request for a roll call vote was ignored.
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Williams drew controversy for submitting the amendment, which passed by voice vote during late-night floor debate, because he is the chairman of a car dealership known as the Roger Williams Auto Mall in Weatherford, Texas.
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The bill, passed by voice vote, requires manufactures to follow the Consumer Product Safety Commission's standards and testing procedures in making sure liquid nicotine products are difficult for children under the age of five to open.
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The Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security approved by voice vote a fiscal 2628 spending bill that provides $28500 billion for the TSA, $6900 million above current levels and $2628 million more than President Obama's budget request.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 5493 by a voice vote on Thursday, sending the nearly $700 billion defense policy bill to President Donald Trump's desk for his signature.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that if they are unable to pass the bill by voice vote, then they would have a roll call vote on final passage on Friday, according to three sources on the call.
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Many members are scrambling Friday to return to Washington to vote on the bill since it remains a possibility that the bill may not pass by a voice vote, which allows fewer members to be present.
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Portman, for his part, stressed that he wants to keep his legislation non-partisan as he tries to get it through the upper chamber, after it passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a voice vote.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee swiftly approved Republican President Donald Trump's nominees for commerce and transportation secretaries by voice vote on Tuesday, signaling that they will face little resistance to approval by the full Senate.
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Passage of the measure, which came by voice vote, comes two days after a shooting at a Texas church by a gunman who had a record of mental illness while he served in the Air Force.
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The Senate agreed by a voice vote Wednesday evening to go a joint House-Senate conference committee on a wide-ranging appropriations bill that includes $1.1 billion in unpaid-for funding to combat the Zika virus.
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After a swift meeting, the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development advanced a spending bill by voice vote to provide $17.8 billion in discretionary funding for the DOT in the fiscal year 85033.
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The update to the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed by voice vote after the president and Democratic lawmakers reached a deal last week to pass the landmark trade deal after months of intense negotiations.
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Before the Senate became a setting for nearly nonstop partisan warfare, senators routinely approved most lower-level nominees by voice vote, rarely insisting on the full slate of procedural steps when the outcome was a given.
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Of the more than 6900 Cabinet or Cabinet-level appointees needing Senate approval in Obama's first days, just six of Obama's selections received recorded roll call votes, the rest receiving a ceremonial, rubber stamp voice vote.
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The bill was called up and passed on a voice vote rather than a roll call vote — in which each individual's yea or nay is entered into the congressional record — to the apparent surprise of House Republicans.
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ELEVEN years ago, Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, sailed through the Senate by a voice vote when George W. Bush appointed him to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Brendan Carr, a Republican who is general counsel at the FCC and Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, were both confirmed by voice vote, bringing the five-member FCC to full strength and giving Republicans a 3-2 majority.
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President Trump finally has a top science official in place after veteran meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier was confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote Wednesday to head the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
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Washington (CNN)Defying a veto threat from the Obama administration, the House of Representatives Friday passed by voice vote a bill that would allow terror victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001 to sue Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. Senators Jim Risch, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio, a senior member of the panel, want to pass the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" by unanimous voice vote.
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The passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act came by voice vote, two weeks after the House passed the bill and a decade after lawmakers first started working on the measure.
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When the Senate confirmed David Norquist by voice vote, it not only demonstrated his overwhelming popularity on Capitol Hill but also, at long last, emplaced the top level of the Pentagon's leadership after a half-year hiatus.
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In the unlikely event a deal is reached by Monday, the pro forma session could be used to pass it by unanimous consent or voice vote, something that would only require one senator to be in attendance.
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Brendan Carr, a sitting Republican commissioner, was reconfirmed to a new term and Democratic nominee Geoffrey Starks was confirmed after a months-long delay in a voice vote Wednesday night, on the last day of the session.
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Last week, when the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, called for Mr. Grenell to move ahead by unanimous consent, which requires a voice vote, Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, declined to advance the nomination.
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Hoekstra, a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote in 2017 to his current post as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, where he has won praise from Trump.
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The House passed two additional bills on Wednesday by voice vote to impose sanctions on individuals and foreign governments that provide financial, recruitment or arms support to Hezbollah or are responsible for using civilians as human shields.
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At the Democratic National Convention in 2012, a voice vote was taken on whether to reinstate a reference in the party platform to Jerusalem as an "undivided city" that is and will remain the capital of Israel.
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Parliament passed the no-confidence motion against recently appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government on Wednesday, with the backing of 122 lawmakers from the 225-member legislature in a voice vote followed by a signed document.
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A U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday approved by voice vote a bill to combat robocalls by requiring phone companies to provide consumers with technology that allows them to identify and block unwanted calls.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas) and current Ranking Member Maxine Watters (D-Calif.) and was approved by voice vote on the House floor.
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A voice vote is a procedural move that would avoid a recorded roll call vote, which would have forced members now dispersed throughout the country to travel back to Washington to get the stimulus across the finish line.
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On a conference call with Democratic members on Thursday, Pelosi said that if they are unable to pass the bill by voice vote, they will have a roll call vote Friday, according to three sources on the call.
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When it was clear that reform was going to win, the biggest opponents called for passing the superdelegate reforms through a voice vote so as to send a message of unity and avoid a divisive paper-ballot count.
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In a unanimous voice vote, the Senate Commerce Committee passed a measure that gives states and sex-trafficking victims a means to sue social media networks, advertisers and others that fail to keep exploitative material off their platforms.
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It's no laughing matter, though ... Massie's opposition to the bill is forcing members of Congress to return to Washington for a potential roll call and in-person vote on the bill, instead of passing it via voice vote.
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As the Republican National Convention's presiding officer, it was Womack's job to decide whether more delegates supported or opposed the party's rules package in a voice vote, where delegates shout either "aye" or "nay" to signify their position.
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When Mr. Obama nominated Mr. Shaub for the agency's top job and its only politically appointed post four years later, Congress approved him by voice vote, a rare sign of shared confidence from an otherwise sharply divided Congress.
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The Senate confirmed Harris's nomination in a voice vote late on Thursday, and he is expected to take up his post in Seoul, which has been vacant since U.S. President Donald Trump's January 2017 inauguration, in early July.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee approved a revised North American free trade agreement by voice vote on Tuesday, sending the bill implementing legislation to the full House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday.
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The Safeguard Our Elections and Combat Unlawful Interference in Our Democracy Act, or the SECURE Our Democracy Act, was approved by voice vote after an hour of back-and-forth between committee members regarding the scope of the bill.
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The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved legislation by voice vote that would reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for four years, after adopting a pair of controversial amendments regarding pilot training hours and trucker meal and rest breaks.
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By a voice vote the Senate approved the stop-gap measure, sending it to the House of Representatives for passage before a midnight Friday deadline when existing funding expires for several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security.
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By voice vote on Wednesday, the Rules Committee, the gatekeeper for bills moving through the House, sent the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) to the full House for debate and a likely vote on Thursday.
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The Senate unanimously approved a $2 trillion economic relief package late Wednesday and the stimulus bill now heads to the House, which will push to pass it by voice vote Friday morning as most representatives are out of Washington.
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With few representatives in Washington this week as the outbreak tears across the country, House leaders hoped to approve the legislation quickly Friday by voice vote — which simply decides whether shouted yeas or nays from members present are louder.
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He argued that the way it was carried out — with a voice vote, rather than by roll call — made it illegitimate, though he failed to mention that outbursts in Parliament, including from Rajapaksa's own supporters, prevented an orderly vote.
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The resolution, which was approved by voice vote and was met with loud cheers, recognized that the city had flourished at the cost of those enslaved and apologized on behalf of the city for its role in the trade.
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Lawmakers approved legislation by voice vote that would require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to assess each of Cuba's 10 international airports and brief Congress about it, as well as disclose all federal air marshal agreements with foreign partners.
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A spending measure including $5 billion in funding passed in the House on Thursday but does not have the necessary 60 votes to pass in the Senate, which had earlier passed the short-term funding bill by voice vote.
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The Hong Kong legislation, which was passed last week in the House by a voice vote, would require the administration to deliver annual reports assessing whether the territory is autonomous enough from Beijing to justify its special trading status.
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As part of the wrap up before recessing for the holidays, the Senate approved by voice vote Lisa Hershman to be chief management officer, Dana Deasy to be chief information officer and Robert Sander to be Navy general counsel.
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So it's perhaps not surprising that when Bush appointed to him to the 10th Circuit — which covers much of the Mountain West, including Gorsuch's home state of Colorado — at the age of 38, he was easily confirmed by voice vote.
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By a voice vote, the Senate passed the temporary funding bill for about one-quarter of government operations, which the House of Representatives is expected to try to pass this week before a midnight Friday deadline when existing funds expire.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping proposal by voice vote to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar states from imposing driverless car rules.
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On the convention's first day, drama ensued on the convention floor as delegates who wanted to force a roll call vote so they could "vote their conscience" against Trump were denied with a voice vote approving the convention's rules package.
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Following Senate passage of the legislation last Thursday by a vote of 85-8, House Democratic leaders had hoped to win quick, unanimous approval of the bill on a voice vote and send it to Trump for his expected signature.
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The legislation, approved by a voice vote at a brief business meeting Tuesday morning, would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to offer tools, guidelines and other resources for small businesses to safeguard their systems against cyber threats.
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A voice vote in the convention's rules committee that could have opened the door to candidates who wanted to challenge him was so overwhelmingly in his favor that the presiding officer did not need to call for an official count.
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The Post's headline reads that Wilkie "built his career serving polarizing figures" yet makes no mention of his previous confirmation by voice vote in the Senate, meaning that just last year, Senators found no issues in his past even worth debating.
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By a voice vote, the Senate passed the temporary funding bill for about one-quarter of government operations, which the House of Representatives is expected to try to pass this week before a midnight Friday deadline when existing funds expire.
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"Our goal is to get our caucus all of the information that they need and to get to unanimous consent or voice vote by tomorrow, certainly by Friday," Clark, the vice chairwoman of the House Democratic Caucus, told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.
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Now that the Senate has approved this deal, it must still clear the House, where Democrats have been discussing passing the bill by voice vote — both to expedite the bill's passage and to protect members by keeping them at home.
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Winning over the caucus is important because any member -- Republican or Democrat -- could object and demand House members return to Washington to vote in person if lawmakers don't cooperate and allow the vote to occur by unanimous consent or voice vote.
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The report released by McGovern that outlines lawmakers' options concluded that "by far the best option is to use the existing House rules and current practices," specifically by unanimous consent or voice vote, which don't require all members to be present.
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The new law, passed by a voice vote in the state legislature in Sydney on Thursday, allows abortion procedures to be performed up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, after which two doctors must sign off on the procedure, according to Reuters.
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The single voice vote for the two nominees marked a stark contrast from Monday's 11-10 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations committee to advance the nomination of former Exxon Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state.
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"The committee believes restricting export of these technologies may negatively impact use of such products for national security purposes," the House version of the 85033 defense spending bill read, which was forwarded to the full committee by voice vote last week.
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The legislation — which was approved by voice vote — would require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to update its risk assessment for airport security and conduct an assessment of airport access control points and perimeter security at aviation hubs throughout the country.
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Both Risch and Schatz cheered the unanimous passage of the bill in a voice vote late Thursday, citing the massive Equifax data breach earlier this month as the most recent reminder of stark cyber threats to businesses and other organizations.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee approved a revised North American free trade agreement by voice vote on Tuesday, sending the bill implementing legislation to the full House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday.
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Mr. Trump and Senate Republicans are emphasizing that Mr. Gorsuch was confirmed to his current position on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 2006 by a voice vote, meaning that no senator raised an objection.
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It was conducted in a way that offered some cover for Republicans: As George Washington University's Sarah Binder noted, the vote was a "voice vote," ensuring that individual Republicans were not put on the record against Trump on the issue.
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Usually, every vote in the House is initially brought up on a voice vote, but typically, someone will request a recorded vote where members can say yea or nay on a bill, showing exactly who is voting for or against a certain proposal.
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The endorsement by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, by a voice vote shown on its website, cleared the way for a full Senate vote on Carson's appointment as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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It also backed by unanimous voice vote the "Taiwan Assurance Act of 2019," which supports Taiwan and urges it to increase its defense spending, noting Washington should conduct "regular sales and defense articles" to Taiwan and backing Taiwan's participation in international organizations.
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The amendment bill was passed in the upper house of the parliament late on Thursday with a voice vote as the entire opposition walked out after the government rejected its demand for the bill to be referred to a parliamentary committee for deliberation.
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Historically, when the Senate received unanimously passed bills from the House, the Senate majority leader would frequently bypass assigning it to a Senate committee and put it directly on the Senate floor for passage by voice vote; assuming it wasn't a contentious issue.
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Lawmakers applauded when the amendment was added by voice vote to the defense spending bill, highlighting the frustration many members of Congress feel about the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was initially approved to authorize the response to the Sept.
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Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE to be Trump's running mate in an overwhelming voice vote.
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Thursday's rollercoaster ride represented a dramatic turnaround from Wednesday night, when the Senate passed its seven-week continuing resolution by a voice vote, senators were singing Christmas carols on the floor and GOP leadership appeared confident that Trump would sign the stopgap.
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The secretary before that, Eric ShinsekiEric Ken ShinsekiBill HR 85033 is a good step to helping curb veteran suicide Senate confirms Trump's VA pick despite opposition from some Dems Trump VA pick boosts hopes for reform MORE, was confirmed by voice vote.
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On a conference call with Democratic members Thursday, Pelosi said that if they are unable to pass the bill by voice vote Friday, then they would have a roll call vote Friday on final passage, according to three sources on the call.
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Massie, a libertarian-minded Republican who often breaks from his party leadership, is viewed as the most likely member to try to force the vote after indicating publicly his reservations at the idea of letting the bill pass by a voice vote.
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Ultimately, however House leadership was able to deny Massie a sufficient second in support of a roll call vote when he made a request for it, shutting down the demand and allowing the House to approve the package by voice vote instead.
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The bill, which quickly passed by voice vote after senators were corralled back to the chambers, was expected to pass the House on Thursday and be sent to President Trump before the midnight Friday deadline, when funding would lapse for nine federal departments.
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That threatened to upend a plan by House leaders to hold a voice vote on the package, sparing most lawmakers a potentially dangerous trip back to Washington as public health officials have advised people to shelter in place and avoid large gatherings.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee approved Patrick Shanahan to be deputy Defense secretary by voice vote on Wednesday despite a contentious confirmation hearing in which Chairman John McCainJohn Sidney McCain3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Fighter pilot vs.
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The language banning Pentagon funds for wall construction was adopted by a voice vote in the Armed Services Committee last month, with the chairman saying it should pass to avoid wasting time on issues that the defense bill has no effect on. Rep.
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But many members of a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee subcommittee expressed strong support at a hearing for the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," or JASTA, which the Senate passed in May by unanimous voice vote despite President Barack Obama's veto threat.
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But the issue has remained a low public priority and one actively suppressed by party leaders as when, in one visible moment, the chair of the Democratic convention refused to recognize a voice vote against recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2012.
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The approval, by a simple voice vote, sends the legislation to the Senate, where lawmakers were expected to approve the measure and forward it to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature before Congress leaves for a seven-week summer break on Friday.
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The lower chamber passed legislation by voice vote on Tuesday that would require the General Services Administration (GSA) to issue regulations clarifying that federal workers should be reimbursed for using transportation services Uber and Lyft and any similar technology that emerges in the future.
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Additionally, the Ways and Means Committee advanced by voice vote legislation that would allow same-sex married couples to amend their filing status on tax returns outside of the statute of limitations, and that would remove gender-specific references to marriage in the tax code.
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So earlier this week, House leaders had announced that they would be taking a "voice vote," which works a lot like it sounds: If more people vocalize their support for the bill on the House floor than those who do not, the legislation passes.
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"Members are further advised that due to the limited flight options, Members participating in self-quarantine, and several states mandating stay-at-home orders, we expect the bill to pass by voice vote on Friday," Hoyer announced in a notice to members Wednesday evening.
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The Senate confirmed by unanimous voice vote: David Malpass as Undersecretary for International Affairs; David Kautter as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy; Brent McIntosh as General Counsel; Christopher Campbell as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions and Andrew Maloney as Deputy Undersecretary for Legislative Affairs.
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The House is expected to approve it by voice vote on Friday, avoiding the need to force hundreds of lawmakers to jeopardize their own health and travel from homes around the county as tens of millions of Americans are required to shelter in place.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Thomas Massie enraged President Donald Trump and leaders of Congress by trying to delay a planned Friday voice vote on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue plan, drawing calls from the White House to throw him out of the Republican Party.
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To put this in perspective, Arne Duncan, the former secretary of education under President Barack Obama, was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate, meaning he had enough support from both sides of the aisle that it didn't even warrant a recorded vote.
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The Ways and Means Committee also approved by voice vote a bipartisan bill to clarify a requirement for the Social Security Administration to mail annual statements to most working-age adults, while maintaining an option for workers to opt to receive the statements electronically.
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Walsh was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2017 to serve as assistant secretary of commerce for global markets and director general of the US and Foreign Commercial Service, a position she began last August, after being confirmed by the Senate by a voice vote.
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Senate Republicans saw the president effectively force a shutdown of parts of the government over his demands for $85033 billion in funding for his wall on the Mexican border, after the Senate has passed a bill without extra border funding by voice vote to keep it open.
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Lawmakers agreed by voice vote to back the bill, which would direct the Transportation Security Administration to establish a plan to enhance passenger and airline safety at Last Point of Departure (LPD) airports, or foreign airports with nonstop flights to the U.S. View the discussion thread.
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The convention leaders declared the rules as accepted on a voice vote in a dramatic finale, as the convention hall erupted in a chorus of boos and competing "Trump" chants, with some of the anti-Trump delegates standing on chairs as they yelled about the process.
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Both UC and voice vote would require just a handful of lawmakers to be on the House floor, avoiding the need for all 430 members to fly back to Washington at a time when several of them have tested positive for COVID-19 or are showing symptoms.
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He was seated on the United States Court of Appeals for the 22004th Circuit on July 20, 2006, as part of a negotiated four-judge package approved on a perfunctory voice vote in a mostly empty chamber late on a Thursday in the middle of summer.
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On Tuesday, the chamber passed by voice vote a measure that would prohibit the IRS from using funds to target taxpayers for exercising First Amendment rights and a resolution that urges the agency to make paper copies of the tax-filing instruction book available for free.
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But in the end, the bill's authors -- John Cornyn of Texas, the second ranking Senate Republican, and Chuck Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Senate Democrat -- were able to pass the bill on a voice vote, a rare feat in the divided chamber, especially for a controversial issue.
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Fanning was confirmed by unanimous voice vote, eight months following his nomination, after Senator Pat Roberts said Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work told him that it was now too late for the administration to transfer prisoners from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Roberts' home state, Kansas.
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The committee also approved by voice vote three bipartisan bills that would require certain high-deductible health plans to cover the cost of inhalers, allow the use of tax-advantaged accounts to purchase over-the-counter medications and menstrual-care products and expand accessibility to health savings accounts.
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A Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, installed him when the Senate was out of session, and though there was some politics in-between (some Southerners worried Warren was too liberal, some liberals that he was too conservative) he was eventually confirmed with a unanimous voice vote in the Republican Senate.
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And the only legal way of doing that would be to introduce a new bill in both houses and pass it by voice vote — so no one has to face the apathetic public with what looks like a vote for Saudi Arabia — and have the president sign it.
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The U.S. attorney for Maryland is a George W. Bush appointee who was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate in 28503 and was one of only three Bush-appointed U.S. attorneys — out of 22019 nationwide — kept on by the Obama administration, according to The Washington Post.
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Bobby RushBobby Lee RushCongress mobilizes on cyber threats to electric grid CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries The Hill's Morning Report - Harris, Warren rise and Biden tumbles after debates MORE (D-Ill.) to the Ethics Committee, which was quickly adopted by voice vote.
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A voice vote means the legislation is approved if the majority of lawmakers who are present vocalize their support for it — a test of House protocol during a time when most lawmakers in the lower chamber are working remotely to protect themselves and their staffers from the disease.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to ensure that her caucus is in line because they need full cooperation to bring the bill to the floor so it can be approved by either voice vote or unanimous consent -- so members don't have to return to Washington and vote in person.
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A lot of House members were furious about having to return to Washington, arguing that the bill could have been approved by voice vote to avoid asking lawmakers to move around and get on planes -- the very thing leaders across the country are asking citizens not to do.
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CNN has previously reported that members of both parties are furious with Massie for potentially thwarting a voice vote on the bill, since it puts them in the position to choose between traveling back to DC and risking their health or skipping the vote on the historic stimulus package.
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The exclusion was adopted by voice vote as part of a package of legislation the Senate passed a short time later, 20-18, to raise the minimum legal age for buying all guns in Florida to 21 and impose a three-day waiting period for any gun purchase.
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Mike Conaway, who has been serving as the de facto chair of the intelligence panel's Russia probe, wouldn't discuss any specifics on the panel's agenda with reporters following the session except to say the committee had approved its last pending business of the year with a voice vote.
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Rep. Mike ConawayKenneth (Mike) Michael ConawayTexas faces turbulent political moment Democratic Party official: Texas is 'biggest battleground state in the country' Another Texas congressman planning to retire MORE (R-Texas) told reporters that lawmakers approved of the release in a bipartisan voice vote in a closed-door meeting.
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Most legislation in the Senate is moved by the unanimous consent process, where a bill is passed out of a committee and brought to the floor to ask for "unanimous consent" for passage or a voice vote — meaning not the standard aye or nay recorded vote we imagine.
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The remaining four nominees were approved by voice vote: Mark Wesley Menezes to be undersecretary at Energy, Paul Dabbar to be undersecretary for science at Energy; Brenda Burman to the Bureau of Reclamation at Interior; and Susan Combs to be assistant secretary of policy management and budget at Interior.
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ET. "If the minority would be willing to move all their amendments in block and accept a no-vote on a voice vote, and if the majority would accept the Barton-Blackburn-Hudson amendment, we could end this and I will buy Waffle House for everyone in the committee," Barton said.
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The new funding package would add two things to the stopgap measure that cleared the Senate by voice vote Wednesday night: $2628 billion for President Trump's wall on the Mexican border and another $28503 million for border security; and $22019 billion in emergency disaster aid for wildfires, hurricane damage and flooding.
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There is a remote possibility that a deal could come together sooner, and in the unlikely event a deal is reached by Monday, the pro forma session could be used to pass it by unanimous consent or voice vote, something that would only require one senator to be in attendance.
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Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles at the time, froze like a deer in the headlights at the last Democratic National Convention (DNC) as he presided over what he presumed would be an uncontroversial voice vote to amend the party's platform to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
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By garnering member support for the amendment passed Thursday night by a voice vote to the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill for FY18, the industry attempts to avoid what it dreads most, an honest public hearing on the risk of MLM companies operating as illegal pyramid schemes.
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If, by a margin so small that in a voice vote you would have no idea who won, Brexit happens; or if, by a trick of an antique electoral system designed to give country people more power than city people, a Donald Trump is elected, then pluralist constitutional democracy is finished.
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WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Thomas Massie enraged President Donald Trump on Friday as he has leaders of Congress worried he will delay a planned Friday voice vote on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue plan, drawing calls from the White House to throw him out of the Republican Party.
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The remaining four nominees were approved by voice vote: Mark Wesley Menezes to be undersecretary at Energy, Paul Dabbar to be undersecretary for science at Energy; Brenda Burman to the Bureau of Reclamation at Interior; and Susan Combs to be assistant secretary of policy management and budget at Interior. Sen.
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J.) and Johnny IsaksonJohnny IsaksonRepublicans, Democrats offer support after John Lewis cancer diagnosis The right whale is facing extinction — we must act now The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday MORE (R-Ga.), advanced through committee this month and passed by voice vote.
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While critics argued that such a broad rule would impair free speech while representing clients and impinge on the freedom to reject potential clients, no lawyers signed up to speak against the revised rule, which was passed Monday afternoon by a voice vote at the A.B.A.'s annual meeting in San Francisco.
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This is certainly not the first time he has tried to block legislation; in May 2019, Massie objected to a $19 billion emergency relief bill for states hit by hurricanes, floods, and wildfires going through on a voice vote — calling for a full vote of the House and delaying that bill's passage.
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Steve Womack, who was serving as convention chair, put the rules for the convention to a voice vote, and amid a chorus of boos and cheers from anti-Trump supporters declared those in favor of the motion had prevailed, while apparently ignoring objections from several state delegations on the cacophonous floor of the convention.
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A similar kerfuffle over a voice vote versus a roll call—this on the question of Israel/Palestine—ruffled the smooth functioning of the Democratic Convention last time, and some business about a rules insurgency by supporters of Ron Paul at the Republican gathering, too, but in 2012 these hiccups didn't get saturation coverage.
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"You're rewriting the bill now to take out a provision that was in the bill that ensured that no funding authorized in the bill will pay for President Trump's wasteful border wall and the bipartisan language you're removing was debated, amended and accepted by the Armed Services Committee on a voice vote," said Rep.
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Y.) and John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas), passed through the Senate by unanimous consent and the House by a voice vote.
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In addition, the Senate panel by voice vote favorably reported the civilian nominations for David Trachtenberg to be principal deputy undersecretary for policy, Owen West to be assistant secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict, Ryan McCarthy to be Army undersecretary, and Charles Stimson to be the Department of the Navy general counsel.
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