Sentence examples for reach a floor from inspiring English sources

Whether this resolution will reach a floor vote remains unclear.

Mr. Schneiderman said emergencies were the jurisdiction of the executive branch of county government, but the bill he drafted with Mr. Levy, now ineligible for emergency action, must wind through the usual process, taking a month or more to reach a floor vote.

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New sponsors from both parties have been trickling in, but 7 more are still needed to reach the magic number of 218, a definite majority that would speed the bill's progress through the legislative process and help it reach a floor vote.

Although the Washington, D.C. metro area ranks eighth in the nation in our Metro Index, partisan gridlock remains the rule on Capitol Hill, where even the broadly supported Shaheen-Portman bill on energy efficiency failed to reach a floor vote in the Senate in May.

Hence, GSK3αKI mice, in which GSK3α cannot be inhibited throughout life, may reach a floor effect where their synapses cannot be any further depressed.

Prices may have reached a floor, but this is no guarantee of an imminent bounce.

"We could be talking about months rather than days or weeks" before reaching a floor.

Of all the secretive games of Washington, none was cheesier than the Senate's honored device of the "secret hold" — the power of a lawmaker to anonymously block a bill from reaching a floor vote without stating rhyme or reason or identity.

Mr. Bloomberg and Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who is likely to run for mayor next year and who has the power to block the legislation from reaching a floor vote, have long supported the current term limits, and could face withering criticism for shifting course and undermining the will of voters.

Beta suppression deepened, and then reached a floor level as effort increased.