The closest it got to passage was in 2007, when the House approved a measure that had its transgender discrimination provision stripped out.
Should it cross that very high hurdle, 51 votes would be needed to get to final passage.
When I get to a passage of their book that is not quite clear to me, I ask, O.K., what problem are they in the course of considering and what are the stakes as they see them, and then I proceed, having stabilized, at least to my own satisfaction, their intention and thereby stabilized their text.
The nearer we get to actual passage, the more intense the pressure on Congress will be.
"If you have the nasal device, and you can't get to the nasal passages, then you are up a creek," Rice said.
They cannot get to the safe passage that has been opened".
Most travellers get to experience the passage from a comfy cruise ship with an icebreaker hull (still not exactly a picnic), but if you're in a smaller working yacht, as I was, it's a whole different kettle of krill.
So I want to share a few of mine and try to account for why these passages get to me.
During the speech, when he got to the passage about Liverpool, Eric Heffer, Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, stood up to walk out.
My irritation at the lack of novelistic development gave way to delight when I got to the passage in which Ornella pulls all her carefully stacked-up back issues out of the storage space and dumps them on the floor: The turn of tomorrow has come, and it has gone.
