Sentence examples for threshold for passage from inspiring English sources

Both passed overwhelmingly, the only two gun-related measures to clear the Senate's 60-vote threshold for passage.

Senate leaders also decided to rush the process: They reached a bipartisan agreement to hold nine votes in succession, each with a 60-vote threshold for passage.

But as the measures' chances faded this week, Senate leaders decided to rush the process, reaching a bipartisan agreement to hold nine votes in succession, each with a 60-vote threshold for passage.

Democrats crossed the threshold for passage just after 4 p.m. Sunday, when Representative Bart Stupak and six other anti-abortion Democrats trooped into a crowded television studio on the third floor of the Capitol to announce they had struck a deal with Mr. Obama on abortion financing restrictions and would back the measure.

The whole point of the reconciliation exercise is to subvert the filibuster in the Senate with a 50-vote threshold for passage, in theory making this the easy part of the GOP plan to end the Affordable Care Act.

On Tuesday, a similar measure in San Francisco garnered a majority of the votes but didn't reach the two-thirds threshold required for passage.

The bill fell six votes shy of the 60-vote threshold needed for passage.

A similar measure in San Francisco won majority support, but failed to reach a two-thirds vote threshold needed for passage.

Without it, he believed, 70 senators -- well above the 60-vote threshold needed for passage -- would have supported it.

About 8 out of 10 school bond measures pass, he said, partly because of schools' popularity and also because of a lower threshold required for passage.

Arizona: A poll of likely voters conducted just as ballots in the state were mailed out on Oct. 14 found recreational measure Proposition 205 falling just shy of the 50percentthresholdld necessary for passage, with 49.8percentt of respondents saying they'd vote yes and 45.3 percent opposed.