Sentence examples for test votes from inspiring English sources
Earlier test votes won as many as 75 yeses.
The entering and the counting of these test votes must be done publicly, with media involvement.
Test votes are likely to come next week in the Senate.
Just a month ago, test votes suggested up to 25 coalition MPs were planning to rebel after polls showed three-quarters of Germans opposed the bill.
Through repeated test votes on the filibuster, more than forty of the forty-eight Democrats (plus James Jeffords, the Vermont independent) voted to stop Estrada's confirmation.
Congress took its first steps toward approving a trade bill designed to change the United States' relationship with China, as a House and a Senate committee each resoundingly endorsed the measure in important test votes.
On a crucial test vote on Tuesday night, Vice President Dick Cheney broke a 50-50 toe to give Republicans a victory.
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.
The Senate set a test vote for 1 am on Sunday, a middle-of-the-night roll vote that underscored the limited time available to lawmakers.
