Sentence examples for floor majority from inspiring English sources

"Oh, to be foreign minister in a normal government, with a floor majority, and an interesting, authoritative prime minister with a routine lead in all the polls and a 44% primary vote; to be foreign minister with five years in the job stretching ahead.

In "Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate," Gregory Wawro and Eric Schickler write that "the majority tolerated rules allowing considerable leeway for obstruction so long as filibusters were not pushed to the extreme of killing priority bills favored by a clear floor majority".

After promising to bring the compromise to the floor, majority leader Mitch McConnell opted not to set up a normal cloture vote, choosing instead to use a procedural maneuver known as a "motion to table", in which lawmakers were essentially voting to discard the bill.

On the Senate floor, Majority Leader Reid referenced his past resistance to recess commissions before asking: "But what alternative do we have?

We always want to beat the blue team because they're always on the floor the majority of the time".

But since July 2013, political detainees have been kept on the third floor, the majority of them in about a dozen cells that each contain between 23 and 28 prisoners.

But we suspect that once the bill got to the floor, a majority of the Senate's 62 members would recognize that same-sex marriage is a fundamental civil right.

Knowing Murthy's nomination would go down if brought to the floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev).