Sentence examples for for the overrides from inspiring English sources
One, Assemblyman William L. Parment, Democrat of Jamestown, said that the decision to override was a difficult one, but that he decided to vote for the overrides in part because he thought that the Legislature's budget was fairer to the poor and put less burden on property taxes.
Nearly every Republican and a dozen Democrats appear likely to vote for the override.
Representative James T. Walsh, a Republican from the Syracuse area, voted for the expansion and said he would vote for the override.
In the Senate, a handful of anti-abortion Democrats joined with Republicans on Tuesday to reach the votes needed for the override.
But Mr. Jones, a longtime ally of Mr. Obama, called for the override vote, which passed just over a month before Mr. Obama was elected president.
But at 12 50 this morning, the Senate voted 22-12 vote for the override, falling two votes shy of the needed majority.
"At any moment, the court can step in and put a halt to all this, temporarily or permanently," said Mike Premo, the campaign manager for New Jersey United for Marriage, which is leading the push for the override.
"We're a little at a loss ourselves regarding the fact that there are a couple of Republican legislators who have been dragging their feet," said Anne Marie Moy, the spokeswoman for the Grow Missouri Coalition, which has been campaigning for the override.
Joe Fischer, an assistant athletic director at the University of Vermont, said he voted for the override because "by being able to split it up, we can maximize the small number of scholarships that we have".
