The President needed the votes of a solid majority of Republican House members to defeat the amendment.
The House Republican leadership pushed through the vote in the face of solid opposition by a traditional Republican constituency, the nation's retailers, from mighty Wal-Mart to local federations of mom-and-pop stores.
And Hackett gave a solid vote of support for Vinny Testaverde to return as the starting quarterback.
On January 2 a new coalition under Herman Van Rompuy of the Flemish Christian Democrats (CD&V) received a solid vote of confidence: 88 deputies voted in favour and 45 against.
The solid vote of the Judiciary Committee's 10 Democrats ended what Judge Pickering said were his hopes to cap his career with a few years on the appeals court.
His hope, and that of left-wing Israelis, is that if Mr Abbas got a solid vote of confidence proving that Palestinians, though they voted for Hamas, were not voting for Israel's destruction Mr Olmert would face irresistible pressure abroad and at home to put the withdrawal plan on hold.Mr Olmert says he will sit down with Mr Abbas "within a few weeks".
The American Postal Workers Union Thursday announced on Thursday that it had endorsed the Vermont senator's run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, giving him a solid vote of confidence as he races rival frontrunner Hillary Clinton to capture the support of major labor unions ahead of the primaries.
It can still count on the rock-solid vote of millions of people used to living in its shelter, it receives substantial support from the corporate labor structure, it's very strong in rural areas, its xenophobic and anti-liberal ideology still lingers, and its local bosses maintain ties with the drug cartels and organized crime.
The FQ-360 comes with a three-year unlimited mileage warranty, as solid a vote of confidence as you could ask.
My colleagues and I are conducting an exit poll in Miami-Dade County to test this proposition.Casey Klofstad Assistant professor of political science University of Miami Coral Gables, FloridaSIR – The fact that you are running a series of articles on the "swing states" only goes to prove that the vote of someone living in a solid red or blue state is inconsequential.
