Sentence examples for test vote from inspiring English sources

Senate Republicans lost a crucial test vote over President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.

A test vote clearing the way for debate on the spending bill easily cleared the House on Wednesday.

Democratic leaders said they planned to bring the tax repeal measure to the floor next week for a test vote.

Mr. Daschle today set up that test vote for Wednesday and said the Senate would probably resume debate on a separate energy bill until then.

On a crucial test vote on Tuesday night, Vice President Dick Cheney broke a 50-50 toe to give Republicans a victory.

Those potentially vulnerable lawmakers provide another consideration for leaders weighing whether to set an early test vote on what for some is a politically sensitive subject back home.

Mr. Reid and other Democratic leaders said that the unveiling of the bill, hatched in his office, had given them political momentum going into the first test vote.

The most recent effort, a bill sponsored by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, failed to pass a procedural test vote last week in the Senate.

Senators showed that they remained closely divided on the bill, deciding 50 to 47 to drop the Democratic version of the bill on a closely watched test vote.

In a test vote last July, the Senate rejected, 87 to 12, a nonbinding measure to end normal trading relations with China.

Cigna and Aetna advanced at least 3.9percentt as legislation calling for sweeping overhaul of the health care system survived a crucial test vote.