Sentence examples for floor for debate from inspiring English sources

These resolutions did not make it to the floor for debate and so posed little threat.

The cots persuaded Republicans to allow the bill to move to the floor for debate.

Democrats are likely to bring the patent bill to the floor for debate on Wednesday.

Just getting a bill to the floor for debate can require days of tactical gamesmanship between the party leaders.

Republican aides said they expected a spending measure to be brought to the House floor for debate later this month.

House Speaker Thomas Foley, who would oppose it, nevertheless pledges to bring the amendment to the House floor for debate.

The bill that the majority leader, Harry Reid, hopes to bring to the floor soon for debate is an improvement in many respects from the Senate Finance Committee's bill, which had previously been considered a possible template for what the Senate was likely to approve.

That could conceivably force the measure to the floor for a debate and vote.

If the committee does not take action in that 14-day span, the measure can be called up on the House floor for a debate and vote.

Mr. Reid, Democrat of Nevada, scheduled the vote next week to see if the measure still had the 60 votes needed to move it to the Senate floor for final debate.

To bring the bill to the floor for formal debate, the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, needed the votes of all 60 members of his caucus: 58 Democrats, including Mr. Nelson, and 2 independents.