While the filibuster is likely to continue as a part of Senate life because both parties fear being in the minority, there should be no right to filibuster legislation before it is even brought up for consideration.
All of the stockholders acquiesced, with the result 'that it was understood that we would come forward and make these presents or gifts to the employees that were to be slated for it.' The matter had theretofore never been discussed among the old stockholders; and this was the first time it had been brought up for consideration.
Yes, it is very unlikely the legislation would also make it through the Democratically controlled Senate or even brought up for consideration in the relevant committees.
Expanding North Carolina's state Supreme Court has not been brought up for consideration at all, the state House deputy majority leader and state Senate deputy president pro tempore told The Huffington Post.
The NSA defined a "concern" as a "worried feeling or state of anxiety about NSA programs rather than bringing up for discussion or consideration a matter of interest or importance".
The Senate made several unsuccessful attempts to pass a bill to resolve their status; the House hasn't brought up any for consideration.
But it takes two-thirds of the Senate just to bring up the budget for consideration, and Senator Steve Ogden, the Bryan Republican who heads the Finance Committee, has said he doesn't have the votes for a bare-bones plan.
Senator Steve Ogden, Republican of Bryan and chairman of the Finance Committee, was trying to pull together the 21 votes needed to bring up the budget for consideration by the full Senate, and all indications were that he'd been making headway.
Some of his fellow Senate Republicans, including Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who is the lead Senate sponsor of the House bill, have been pressing him to bring up the measure for consideration.
A bill that would settle hundreds of thousands of lawsuits over asbestos exposure by creating a trust fund to compensate victims suffered a procedural defeat in the Senate when Republican backers of the measure failed to muster the 60 votes necessary to bring it up for consideration.
