By bringing up the two nominees on the floor for a vote, Mr. Lott essentially challenged Mr. Inhofe to block the consideration with prolonged debate, a filibuster, or fold.
Last year, Thomas J. Bliley Jr., a Virginia Republican who was then the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, sided with AT&T in the fight and blocked the bill from consideration.
It passed the House, but Democrats blocked the bill from consideration in the Senate, saying it left too much discretion to employers.
Three Republicans -- Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Michael D. Crapo of Wyoming and Richard C. Shelby of Alabama -- joined with Democrats in blocking the measures from consideration.
McCain, highest-ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, visited the Senate press gallery to celebrate blocking the bill's consideration, calling it a "blatant and cynical attempt to galvanize the Hispanic vote".
Unfortunately for Jackson, the House blocked consideration of the resolution on procedural grounds, reports the Washington Post.
However, the persistent Cold War blocked serious consideration of the communists' entry into a governing coalition at the national level.
WASHINGTON — The Senate blocked consideration of the Green New Deal on Tuesday, ending a Republican effort to hitch Democratic presidential candidates to the climate plan and paint Democrats as out-of-touch socialists and fantasists.
According to the constraint condition (59), we divide the whole scene into 3 × 5 (X-axis × Y-axis) blocks with the consideration of small overlaps between blocks.
The Senate last week blocked consideration of the larger bill, which included a 5.6 percent surtax on income over $1 million.
