Now that Democrats are talking about some incremental changes in the filibuster rule -- like permitting bills at least to be debated, and requiring filibusters to actually take the floor and talk -- McConnell is predicting that "the fighting, the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse".
Furthermore, the Buildings Department issued an illuminated sign permit and billed the owner for the fee, which was paid.
In refusing to permit the bill to be debated or voted on, Ayatollah Khamenei took the exceptional action of circumventing the normal institutional checks on legislative power.
The vote led to the collapse of the country's coalition government, but the parties in the departing government reached an accord with the main opposition party to permit the bill to pass in exchange for early elections.
Furthermore, we examined the case for permitting balance billing.
McConnell has said time may not permit the bill's consideration before the Senate adjourns for the year, despite the overwhelming bipartisan support for the legislation.
In New York and most other states, doctors are not permitted to bill a patient if the H.M.O.
If the surgery had been for a Medicare patient, the assistant would have been permitted to bill only 16percentt of the primary surgeon's fee.
Thus, in Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U. S. 209 (1977), we held that a public-sector union, while permitted to bill nonmembers for chargeable expenses, may not require nonmembers to fund its political and ideological projects.
Tax firms should be permitted to bill the state a regulated fee for e-filing on behalf of their customers.
Their victory came on the road, in Buffalo, and was quite convincing until some second-half sleepwalking permitted the Bills to make it a game.
