By Andy Borowitz March 6, 2013 WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Under fire from flight attendants and others, the Transportation Safety Administration's new rules allowing air passengers to carry small knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, and other sporting goods onto airplanes got a vote of confidence today from the National Arbitrariness Association.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Under fire from flight attendants and others, the Transportation Safety Administration's new rules allowing air passengers to carry small knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, and other sporting goods onto airplanes got a vote of confidence today from the National Arbitrariness Association.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Under fire from flight attendants and others, the Transportation Safety Administration's new rules allowing air passengers to carry small knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, and other sporting goods onto airplanes got a vote of confidence today from the National Arbitrariness Association.
Getting the bill onto the floor for a vote has been the problem.
The main bipartisan bill for a thorough overhaul -- a measure that had apparently commanded majority support -- was never allowed onto the floor for a vote.
But a group of Assembly Democrats, with the tacit support of Senate Republicans, introduced articles of impeachment today, a move to force a vote onto the floor against Mr. Collins's wishes.
The reasons he faced a fight and only barely made it onto the court, by a vote of 52 to 48, Ms. Kagan wrote, were "the weakness of Justice Thomas's objective qualifications and the later charges of sexual harassment".
The new rules alter the way in which Senate Democrats -- who hold 25 of 61 seats -- can push a bill out of committee and onto the floor for a vote.
An amendment from Brown that would have required congressional approval for any future countries to sign onto TPP failed by a vote of 47 to 52.
In 2013, a bi-partisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill passed the Senate by a 68-32 margin -- a stark contrast from the McCain-Kennedy bill's failure to make it onto the floor for a vote.
